Summary of Volume 4
The Dog Emperor is finally dead, and the fattening book friends can start slaughtering him! (Waving the flag and shouting)
I have to say that as a new author, writing a novel with more than one million words is far more difficult than imagined.
Before starting the book, I thought I had accumulated a lot of material and inspiration.
However, after I started writing, I found that these things were almost exhausted at three to four hundred thousand words. From now on, the test will be patience, perseverance, experience, and long-form structure ability...
And how to weave a story with ups and downs when the mind is blank and there is no creative impulse.
I am very grateful to the book friends who have continued to support me and insist on seeing the current situation even when my updates are intermittent and ineffective.
In the past two years, I have struggled with writing books, and I have struggled with real life.
Experienced the identity transformation from a working employee, to a social idler preparing for exams at home, to a graduate student.
During this period there were ups and downs, and many ups and downs.
Constantly being taught how to be a human being by reality.
Because of your support, I have been able to keep writing until now.
Although due to the problem of interruption in the past, the current back-orders are terrible - if I can write a book with a high order of 14,000, and the back-order fluctuates around 100, I guess there is no one except me in the whole starting point. .
But I will still tell the story completely, try to fill in all the pitfalls, and give myself and the book friends who have been following it a satisfactory explanation.
In the process of writing the fourth volume, I am also constantly reflecting on the problems that arise in my writing.
In addition to changing the outline due to the influence of some book reviews, the thing I regret most currently is that in the first and second volumes, due to my immature writing skills and lack of experience, I did not pave the way for the social background and did not set up enough conflicts.
It is obviously a world where ghosts are rampant and people are in dire straits.
But the protagonist’s yamen is peaceful and happy. Although there are constant ghosts in the county, the overall customs are simple and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
Except for bosses like Tang Hui and Kong Xuan Sanren, there are not even any daily villains.
In the past, book friends have been complaining about the issue of "the imperial court does not provide resources to low-level monks", but they have not written in depth -
In fact, you can spend more pen and ink on the emperor's indifference, bureaucratic corruption, and aristocratic families. The monopoly of resources by wealthy families squeezed the advancement space of lower-level monks, causing them to take desperate measures to absorb Yin Qi for cultivation.
You can even set up a few villains like Zhu Yanchao in the early stage - when the protagonist is not strong in the early stage, killing such villains can create a passionate climax plot; but in the later stage , fighting this kind of villain is just like destroying the minions, there is nothing more exciting about it.
It is precisely because the emotional preparation in the early stage was a little poor. Now that I am writing about rebellion and killing the emperor, it is a bit difficult to get myself into the kind of writing state where my whole being is on fire.
However, despite the inherent shortcomings of the entire book, I personally feel that there is still some improvement after reading the fourth volume alone.
After reading a bunch of books by great masters, I now write about fighting and grand scenes. I finally have a little bit of a sense of the picture, and I won't lose my subscription as soon as I write about the battles like the first and second volumes.
The title of the fourth volume "Flying Dragon in the Sky" should not require much explanation. It probably refers to the period when the protagonist's career has developed to its peak.
The next volume, which should probably also be the last volume, is titled "The Dragon Has Regrets" (don't worry, it won't be BE, after all, the title of the volume does not necessarily refer to the protagonist, right?).
Take a day off tomorrow, sort out the follow-up details, and start working hard to fill in the holes (you can remind me which holes have not been filled in to prevent omissions).
Set a small goal for the next volume: strive for daily updates.
Now I am in graduate school, I am very busy with homework, and it is very difficult to do my homework (crying). I often code until midnight, and it is difficult to update under normal circumstances.
But if the situation is good, I will try to write more.
Thank you for your support!