When the film was over, a total of 198 chapters were written, almost 620,000 words, and each chapter was more than 3,000 words on average, but I didn't deliberately pursue controlling the number of words.
The volume of this part is called "Destiny", and the preface is "This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment", and when it originally ended, like a mystery, the order of these two sentences was reversed and placed at the end - "This is the winter of disappointment, this is the spring of hope", which may be more accurate in the expression of this theme and overall atmosphere, which is a state of spiraling forward in disappointment and hope, and different orders reflect different emphasis.
But I don't really want to repeat the same way of writing, especially such obvious repetition, otherwise how can I show my ability? (Shhh.)
Therefore, in the end, the ending is "winter is over, spring is coming", which will have a stronger sense of light, and use other examples in the same chapter to set off the mixed despair in hope, which can relatively better set up the previous relatively empty "investigating the source of unintentional disease and the cause of the destruction of the old world".
This is very important for the whole book and for the tension of the subsequent plot.
Speaking of the title of the volume, "Destiny" is taken from Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C minor", the focus is not on fate, but on fate itself, although this is more or less reflected, but friends who usually like classical music, or have seen my arcane, should be able to directly associate the meaning of "holding the throat of fate" from this name and its origin.
This Ming main line is an investigation into the "cause of the destruction of the old world", a continuous journey to a new place, and because the investigation of this kind of thing will not always have too exciting gains at the beginning, it is difficult to tie up the tension of the plot, and it is difficult to hook it up with suspenseful techniques, so the story structure is closer to a travelogue, and the form is relatively loose.
In order to keep the mind from distracting, the dark thread I gave is the theme of "people and fate", including what people are, including the shouts, questions, regrets, and unwillingness made by different people when fate knocks on the door.
On this dark line, the writing method I use is "echo structure", well, I named it myself, and I don't know what it is called in formal writing classes.
In short, the same or similar problems, at different stages, from different angles, from different mouths, make sounds again and again, forming echoes.
And finally, Shang Jianyao superimposes these echoes together and makes his own voice to complete the landing of his character.
In the entire "Destiny" volume, the refugees of Wild Grass City, Han Wanghuo, and Gnava are a relatively obvious set of echoes, and the silent servants in "The Boat Underground" are an echo of the tragic massacre of the residents of Black Rat Town in the first part.
In fact, in Tarnan, I also made a small "echo structure", which revolves around the sentence "Dreams everywhere, why be serious", so that it continues to come out of the mouths of Zhou Guanzhu and Shang Jianyao, forming a funny and funny echo, and finally, giving the sadness behind Zhou Guanzhu's words, achieving the effect of tears under the smile and tragedy behind the comedy.
In that section, I felt quite good, all the sadness was rushing in the calm and darkness, laughing.
After all, you can't write about Shang Jianyao's psychological activities, how to put him into practice and write full, it's very, uh, in Sichuan dialect, it's very brain-hitting. This method of making the last echo and giving his own answer is a way.
After talking about what you want to express and what you actually express, let's talk about the problem.
The biggest problem is the problem of travelogue writing.
Travelogues, you definitely have to change the map, and you have to change a place every few dozen chapters, which causes the characters that were finally created to disappear in the blink of an eye, or there is no time to create more and more sensible characters on different maps.
Without a good foreshadowing, if you want to use a knife, you can't use your strength, and if you can't feel it, it's better not to have a knife, so the response is not so full and powerful.
Of course, there is another reason for this, because the echoes come from different people, not the protagonist himself, which cannot make the reader's emotions superimposed on each other, resulting in a plot after a plot, the feelings are naturally released, and even the content is forgotten to a certain extent.
I have written about other issues in the previous monthly summary, what characters are substituted, what team actions are so much interaction that it seems cumbersome, I will not go into detail one by one, these are all solved by constantly adjusting the writing method and entry points, I believe everyone who has chased down all the way should be able to understand.
New stories, new ways of writing, there are always all kinds of problems, constantly finding and solving them, for me it is both pain, happiness, or gain, very good, laughs.
The fourth part is also a long story, this time it is no longer a travelogue writing, the company's interlude is basically based on "The First City", and many previous characters will also appear again.
Well, the title of the volume is "The Emperor", which is taken from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
Because I had just finished writing a long story of almost 200 chapters, and then a new volume of similar length, I needed to relax and improve the corresponding outline, so according to the usual practice, I took three and a half days off.
After three and a half days, the update should have resumed on the 29th, that is, at 12:30 noon on Thursday, but that morning happened to be my daughter-in-law's prenatal check-up, and I had to go to the maternity and baby class with me, so ...... Let's count this summary as a chapter, three and a half days from now, the 29th, that is, Thursday at 7 pm to resume the update.
Bow and thank everyone.
(End of this chapter)