Chapter 89 Summary and leave
It's time for the much-anticipated summary of each volume, uh, probably only I am looking forward to it.
Actually, this time is quite embarrassing, write a few more chapters, by December 31st, then you can merge the testimonials on the shelf and save trouble.
Of course, this also has benefits, it will be on the shelves on January 1st, and the first part will end on December 31st, how dare I ask for leave?
Therefore, everything has advantages and disadvantages.
Speaking of the first part itself, because the mystery itself is very heavy, and the long night continues this tone, it will not only appear repetitive, but also have no buffer and room for adjustment.
So, I wanted to challenge a protagonist who was completely different from before and break through my own limitations.
Based on these two points, I have said before that I plan to write a psychotic protagonist, on the one hand, it is a new experience for me, and on the other hand, it can also bring joy to the darker background and dilute the sadness of the underwater current.
I'm not a mentally ill person, laughs, I can't really simulate mental thinking, this is the biggest obstacle before I can really create, after repeated thinking, I came up with a way, that is, to give up most of my mental activities and use actions and words to shape characters.
I no longer preset what kind of personality this person is, what his preferences are, what his minor shortcomings are, where his character arc is, but give his background, his past experiences, and then, when he encounters different things, start from the background, experience, and character state, and launch different reactions.
As I wrote like this, I realized that Shang Jianyao was such a person.
This may not mean much to friends who read novels, because no matter what method is used, in the final analysis, it is all about shaping the characters, and there is no distinction between high and low, but for the writer, this new feeling is particularly wonderful.
This is not to praise myself for writing well, this does not exist, there must be various problems when trying a technique for the first time, but it is very rewarding to develop and test it little by little.
This writing method is not without shortcomings and drawbacks, at least I have found several now:
First, without psychological activity, there is no most powerful weapon to create a sense of substitution, which is quite troublesome for a web novel, and without a sense of substitution, many plots cannot be unfolded.
Second, the initial shaping of the character will be very long, I was probably in Shuiwei Town, when Shang Jianyao separated the beef for the little girl little by little, I felt that the character's feet really stood on the ground.
third, it is impossible to rely on psychological activities to quickly label a new character, deepen the impression, and create an image.
Combined with the fact that I used a writing style similar to travelogues and road movies in the first film, it was difficult to build up too much tension in the progress of the entire story, and I couldn't quickly establish some supporting characters, so that even though there were many ups and downs, the plot seemed slow.
This writing method also has its own advantages:
When there is a lack of mental activity, the characters rely more on interaction, and once there is more interaction, the characters that appear frequently will naturally become vivid and full.
In the first part, they are mainly members of the old tune group.
I can boast a little about this, but well, there are still too few plots at present, and the arcs of the characters must not be brought out yet, I just hope to do a good job in the future.
After talking about the characters, let's talk about the overall structure of the first part.
Because I wanted to first present such a big environment, the reflection of the old world, the grayness of the new world, and the absurdity of their combination, first create a big look, and lay out the atmosphere and tone, so I adopted a writing style similar to travelogues and road movies, and did not set up explosive and climax content, but focused on experience.
In addition, the feeling of upgrading is also diluted, which causes the plot tension of the entire first part to be very weak, after all, two powerful weapons are missing.
By the way, the name of the first part is "Prelude", and the preface is:
"At the moment of death, the solemn first note of an anonymous song will sound. Life is just a series of preludes to this song."
When many friends saw this, they thought they would die, but in fact they weren't, I was writing about a "civilized" life.
In the last two chapters, one song is one of the series of preludes to the death of the old era, which is nostalgia and mourning for the past civilization, and the other song is the prelude to the new world, which is a sincere expectation of it.
In the long night of civilization, there are still many embers.
Maybe one day, a certain ember will burn the plains again and illuminate the world. This is closer to the moral of Liszt's "Prelude", people and civilization will eventually die, but we will make the prelude as long as possible, as magnificent as possible, and as brilliant as possible.
If in the process of reading the first part, when you hear the song "Reminiscing about the Past", you will have feelings for the old world, and the word civilization will flash in your mind, then I think what I want to express has already come out, enough.
After saying this, let's talk about the problems in the first part:
First, it is too tiring to read in the second half, which is not a problem with words, but with rhythm. Maybe I'm used to playing games, always getting a bunch of side lines and then going to the main line, so when I first set it up like this, I didn't think there was a problem at all, but after I really started writing, I realized that once I was given the task of going out to Qifeng Town to send chips, it would make readers look forward to it.
Playing games by yourself and designing "games" for others are really different, lol.
Second, in the area of urban ruins, I hope to set off the atmosphere of the wasteland through the description of our commonplace scenes and things, and lay the groundwork for the nostalgia and mourning of the old world. This is indeed something I didn't design well and handled it well.
The first part is mainly about outlining the outline and trying some new ways of writing, that's pretty much it.
However, because the second part will be very short, only about 20 sheets, it is a more important turning point, so I will only take a day and a half off, and the update will resume at noon the day after tomorrow, that is, at 12:30 noon on the 31st.
You don't have to worry about the length being too short, it is expected that the third, fourth, fifth and seventh parts will all be long, about 200 chapters.
The second part is called "Unfinished"
In fact, there is still a lot to say, but leave it to the testimonials, otherwise there would be so much to say.
Anyway, thank you all.
(End of this chapter)