A letter to book friends in the New Year
Haha, Qidian has organized another event, saying that if I write this letter, I can have some kind of easter egg stamp, some benefits or something, so I’ll do it too. , it just so happens that the New Year is approaching, so I want to chat with you about something.
In 2023, one month after finishing the previous book "Weird Fairies", "Xuan Xia" was released.
Actually, at the beginning, I didn’t think about what story I wanted to write. I only had a young hunter in my mind who shot an old magician at the beginning, but I didn’t know how to start the story. I wrote many different outlines, but the results were all the same. Not satisfied.
At that time, due to the problem of the plot direction in the later period of "The Strange Fairy" (because it was almost blocked, the direction was changed drastically, the plot slightly collapsed), I was still a little unconfident at that time, how to write it None of them were right. In addition, I wrote a few intros at the beginning that kept getting rejected, which made me feel a little bad. I didn’t want to write this story for a while.
Things actually turned around one afternoon.
I went to work as usual that day, chatting with my colleagues. I don’t remember exactly how I started the conversation. I just remember that my colleague mentioned that he couldn’t remember where he had read a novel before, which was very interesting. The protagonist wants to do bad things and be evil all day long, but in the end all he does is good things, and others praise him as a saint.
An idea flashed in my mind.
What if it’s the other way around?
What if there is a person who wants to save the world and save people all his life, but all he does is evil?
Yes, in this story, the first character that came into my mind was Long Dabei.
So a story surrounding Long Dabei quickly took shape in my mind - but such a character is destined to be tragic and painful, and he cannot be the protagonist of an online novel, so I decided, Make him the protagonist's elder.
I have loved watching martial arts since I was a child. Before I went to kindergarten, I started looking at Jin Yong on the bookcase at home (yes, my parents are also martial arts fans). I myself yearn for the martial arts atmosphere of "knights".
But at the same time, it is now also an important angle to discuss such issues as "a chivalrous person using force to break the ban" and "a chivalrous person regardless of ordinary people's life and death".
I wonder, can I write a protagonist who, as a modern person, experiences some things in the world and gradually figures out what he wants to do and how he should do it?
Thus, Fu Qingzhou's role also took shape.
At this time, a protagonist, a story that is destined to die but will leave a legacy to the protagonist, finally began to take shape in my writing, and I had an outline that satisfied me.
But soon, new setbacks came.
Everyone already knows this. The internal investment was not enough, and the direct submission was not signed. It took more than 200,000 words to finally sign the contract. Of course, by this point I was so confident in my story that none of that mattered anymore.
Where does this confidence come from?
From your support.
I have been praised and praised by others for my two previous books, but it is rare to see someone so devoted to discussing the plot and characters in the book review area.
Yes, I think readers’ greatest recognition of the author is to treat these plots as real existences and to seriously think about the behavioral motivations and identity purposes of those characters... This means that the characters I depict World, it's finally getting real.
In the book club group, everyone says that I am a "spiritual mentor". I seem to have a thorough understanding of everything and have a lot of social experience. I am always calm. But in fact, those days I read As I discussed the plot and characters with you, I had the urge to cry several times.
Later, more and more people began to read this book, and more and more people joined the book club and became good friends who talked about everything because of this book. My enthusiasm for creation also burned to an unprecedented level.
No more sensational words, let’s be practical.
During the Chinese New Year (February 10th to February 17th), there will be a minimum of three updates every day. If there are no special circumstances on the first day of the new year, there will be five updates.
During this period, if there is a reward from the leader or above, you can directly write a side story, and the friends who give the reward will designate your favorite characters. The guarantee of the side story is 20,000 words (don’t specify Long Dabei, Qing Songzi, and Ning Baimei) , their stories are closely related to the main plot and will be written in the book later).
I will write this extra as fast as possible.
As a middle-aged man who is burdened with family affairs, has to make money to support his family, and doesn’t have much time... This sincerity is not bad, hahahaha.
Not much to say, we still need to continue writing and saving manuscripts (if we don’t save manuscripts, we won’t be able to do so much during the Chinese New Year, hahaha), so let’s just write this letter here.
Finally, I wish you all peace and health in the new year, and that no matter what difficulties you encounter, you can overcome the difficulties and move forward!
(End of this chapter)