Overturned Tower

From waking up to writing yesterday, the 16-hour, 25,000-word crazy explosion made the cat fall asleep after finishing writing, and just woke up at noon... I hope my schedule is fine.jpg

In fact, the explosive update is not for participating in the 515 explosive update event, mainly because this volume is the main line volume, and there will be a lot of chapters.

If you follow the previous normal update rhythm, you will already be on the 20th after writing this volume, and if you take another day off, it will drop to the 21st, which will be the end of the month. When the next volume is finished, I may accidentally move it to the end of the month... This is also because of an obsessive-compulsive disorder of "I want to finish each volume in the middle of the month".

Because of the convenience of the unit drama model, I plan to experiment with a writing method that combines the main storyline and the branch storyline in this book.

Counting the "caged bird" as the prologue, this book has a total of seven main volumes, connecting a complete story related to the truth of the world. And the "Purple Ink" in the second volume is a typical branch volume, which is not directly related to the truth-and I only wrote the outline of the main volume, leaving more flexibility for temporary while ensuring the integrity of the story structure idea.

The side volumes can be filled at any time by inspiration...then the book will be quite flexible. At the longest, it may take two years to write more than 20 volumes, and at the shortest, it only takes seven months to complete the book, which is very flexible. If you use this structure, you can follow the main line of the established outline if you have no inspiration, and you can keep writing the script if you have inspiration and mood.

Of course, if the grades are good, you can write more.

Hurry up and help the cat to promote it (speaking earnestly)

This can be considered to have absorbed the experience of the book "Expert in Conquering Demons" written by my friend "Expert Wanting to Touch" Tea, so as to prevent being stuck and unable to write when there is no inspiration.

The structure of this volume is also related to the volume "The Faceless Man" by the demon expert. The original inspiration for this volume was originally generated when I was discussing narrative tricks with the authors of Tea and Tingri.

A fairly classic narrative trick in online articles is the return of the Lord of Mysteries-Blood Moon mode. Because at the beginning, Xiao Ke's wish was to go home, and when he looked up and saw the blood moon, it would give people a feeling of "has traveled to a different world". It's not until later that it's really Earth's moon, only drenched in blood—and that's when the lament of "I can't go home" is all the more moving.

There is no lie-like content in it, but splicing and revealing part of the information forms a kind of montage-like misleading.

This volume is a typical narration, and it is a flashback narration.

In the beginning, the scene of Morgan being seriously injured in the alley was used as the first beat, and the sudden bad day gave a misleading sense of crisis.

Although the time and content of the letter sent by Morgana did not match the length or content of the letter received by Russell, and it was stated that "the rain will not fall on that man", but the two plots are connected at the same time. One chapter, it will give people a misleading—

When readers read this, at most they feel that it is a bit strange, but logic can be formed along another direction. Because the atmosphere has arrived, and the atmosphere drives the reader to read intensely.

According to the feedback from Chapter 69, this experiment was a success. After some more research, the cat has mastered a new technique.

Another inspiration for this volume, just like the title of the volume, comes from Liu Wenyang's short sci-fi story "A Day in Prison". As I said in my testimonials, Mr. Liu is one of my favorite Chinese science fiction writers. Although the idea of ​​"One Day Prisoner" is not a novelty nowadays, it was simply amazing when I read it when I was a child. Shocked!

Another inspiration for the third volume is the work "Clock House Incident" by Ayatsuji pedestrians.

When people are banned in the museum, all the clocks in the museum need to be replaced, which will make people's sense of time confused-I think this technique is second to none in the new works of Ayatsuji Yuto . And I soon realized that Sky Island was a huge secret room:

Unlike the Internet era on Earth, the connection between different sky islands in this world is completely severed.

There is no common currency, no banking, no GPS, and all technology-based real-time communication methods in the sky islands are completely cut off. The only way to achieve synchronous dialogue across geographies is to enter the dream world; in addition, even the elves can only Go to other empty islands to hold meetings; people's understanding of other empty islands is basically limited to the electronic newspapers brought by "tourists" and "what friends from other islands say", and even "newspapers" do not exist— There are very few paper books and newspapers in this world, and most of them come from the remnants of the earth age.

Because of this, Sky Island itself constitutes a huge enclosed space. Almost all puzzles that can be used in Chamber of Secrets and Blizzard Mountain Mode can be used with slight modifications, just like the modification of time.

"The Clockwork Hall" is my favorite work in the Zaiguan series. The "Demon Conqueror", "One Day Prisoner" and "The Clockwork Hall Incident" that I recommended above are all very good works. You can watch them if you have time.

Then it's cat self-criticism time:

One mistake I made in this volume was explaining Kamalthe's abilities unnecessarily.

Generally speaking, the story structure of this volume is the magical girl Madoka style-it comes from the last week of a time loop. The core contrast of the story lies in the gap between the people in the "first week" and the "last week". In other words, this is actually a story about "growth" and "change".

He actually has nothing to do with Kamalthy's abilities at all, I just need him to create a tense atmosphere and invulnerable enemies. However, the ability to be too complex distracts the reader's attention. Condensed part of the readers' expectations on "how to defeat such a powerful enemy". But in fact, the audience doesn't care what the specific ability of Witch's Night is, and it doesn't need explanation. Because what the magical girl is fighting against is her own destiny and despair itself—this kind of wrong attention and misdirection originally comes from the refinement of Kamalthe's ability.

According to Robert McKee's theory, the relative complexity of the characters must be appropriate to the type. The reader's attention should be focused on one point, which can reduce the reader's comprehension pressure, so that the reader can understand the turning point of every detail and the change of the core of the characters more clearly.

But overall, something is gained. In the three volumes so far, I have deliberately used three different architectural methods, and I have not used the fantasy creation mode I am familiar with. It is to absorb the nutrition of new themes...and gain a lot.

The mistake I made in the first volume was to "create a sci-fi atmosphere" in order to deliberately distinguish my own fantasy creation mode. But too many settings and atmospheres are unnecessary. When I focus on describing the atmosphere, I actually ignore the tension of the plot itself. This led to the part of shaping the atmosphere and worldview in the middle of the first volume, and the plot advances too slowly.

In the second volume, I tried to improve this error and added a part of the plot. But a new problem has emerged—that is, redundant plot.

The plot that is really needed in the first half of "Purple Ink" is to go to hibernation with the inferior, learn about the life experience of the inferior, come back to see the bird of paradise, date the delphinium, and enter the dream world is the core plot of the second volume. And the pre-plot used a full seventeen chapters. If you work harder, this number can actually be reduced by half. The other problem, however, is the needless fighting: too much ink is spent on the part that shows off the newfound abilities of Paradise Bird. This leads to a weakening of the emotional tension in the climax.

As for the third volume, I absorbed the problems of the first two volumes and made corrections. The daily plot of the third volume has obvious specialization, because my initial idea was to interweave the growth and changes of "Xia", "Russell" and "Morgan" using daily life. This idea was no problem at the beginning .

However, there were some problems with the connection of the plot of the mercenary line drawn by the two mercenaries, which made the part of the transition from Russell to the godfather become unfamiliar, and made unnecessary complications when it came to the plot of Kamalthe . But when I try to describe Kamalthe's ability in detail, readers' attention will inevitably be directed to "discussing the ability itself", which actually deviates from the theme of this volume, and this attention The offset is exactly my own writing problem.

However, just like Xia, Russell and Morgan... If I want to express something in each volume, then the content of this volume is "don't be afraid to fail".

How many failures can a man take before he gets knocked down?

Probably once. It could also be many times.

But every failure is not meaningless~www.wuxiahere.com~Because people can draw strength from failure. There is a vast difference in intensity between someone who gets knocked down by one failure and someone who gets knocked down by the tenth.

I also learned new nutrients from failure.

After that, Mao will also share with you my sources of inspiration, creative ideas, and lessons learned at the end of each volume.

I hope it will be useful to everyone.

I have a day off today, although I feel that I may not be able to rest this day...

Brother Meng, remember to read more, don't raise the cat to death. You can also promote the cat book.

If the grades are good, cats can also write more. Although this book itself is an experimental work, it is always full of challenges because it is an experimental work.

So here's the preview of the title of the fourth volume:

【silence】

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