When it was time for another work to finish, I wrote a total of 198 chapters, which were about 620,000 words. On average, each chapter was more than 3,000 words. However, I did not specifically pursue the control of the number of words. Sometimes I posted it at 2,500 and sometimes I spent 3,500 and 600.

The volume of this work is called "Fate", and the beginning of the volume is "This is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment". At the end, as mysterious, the order of these two sentences is reversed and placed at the end - "This is the winter of disappointment, this is the spring of hope". The expression of the theme and overall atmosphere of this work may be more accurate. It is a state of spiraling forward in disappointment and hope, while different orders reflect different key points.

But I don’t want to repeat the same writing style too much, especially with such obvious repetitions, otherwise how can I show my ability? (Big shh.

Therefore, the end of the process is to end "Winter is gone, spring is here", so that the sense of light will be stronger. In the same chapter, other examples are used to set off the mixed despair in hope, so that the previous empty goal of "Investigating the source of heartless diseases and the cause of the destruction of the old world" can be relatively better established.

This is very important for the whole book and for the tension of the subsequent plot.

Let’s talk about the title of the volume, “Fate” is taken from Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C minor”. The focus is not on fate, but fate itself. Although this is more or less reflected, friends who usually like classical music or have read my arcane should be able to directly associate the meaning of “stopping the throat of fate” from this name and its source.

This film clearly focuses on the investigation of the "cause of the destruction of the old world", and is a journey to a new place. Because the investigation will never have too much exciting gains at the beginning, it is difficult to tighten the plot tension and make good hooks with suspense techniques. Therefore, the story structure is closer to the travelogue and the form is relatively loose.

In order to disperse the form and the mind, the main line I gave is the theme of "people and destiny", including what a person is, including the shouts, questions, regrets and unwillingness made by different people when fate comes to knock on the door.

On this dark line, the writing method I used is "echo structure". Well, I named it myself, and I don't know what this is called in the formal writing class.

In short, for the same or similar problem, at different stages, from different angles, sounds are made from different people again and again, forming echoes.

Finally, Shang Jianyao superimposed these echoes together, made his own voice, and completed the landing of the character he was the one.

In the entire "Fate" volume, the refugees in the Wild Grass City, Han Wanghuo, and Gnava are a relatively obvious group of echoes, and the silently dead servants in the "Underground Ark" are an echo of the slaughter of the residents of Black Rat Town in the first part. These two groups of echoes together almost express the dark line I want.

In fact, in Tarnan, I also made a small "echo structure", which revolves around the sentence "Dreams everywhere, why be serious", so that it keeps saying it from Zhou Guanzhu and Shang Jianyao, forming a funny and funny echo. Finally, I give the sadness behind Zhou Guanzhu's words, so that the smile is the tears behind the face and the comedy is the tragedy behind the tragedy.

In that period, I felt quite good, and all the sadness was surging in peace and darkness, laughing.

In addition, the entire dark line and all the echoes are also to serve the shaping of characters. After all, it is impossible to write Shang Jianyao's psychological activities. How to put him into practice and write him in full is very, well, in Sichuan dialect, it is very brain-pounding. This way 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 way to write travel notes.

As for travel notes, you must change the map, and you have to change the place after dozens of chapters. This will result in the characters you have finally created disappearing in a blink of an eye, or you will not have time to create more and more sensible characters on different maps.

Without a good preparation, if you want to have a knife, you can't force it or feel it. It's better not to have a knife, so the echo is not so full and powerful.

Of course, there are other reasons for this, because the echoes come from different people, not the protagonist themselves, which cannot make the readers' emotions superimpose similarities, resulting in the feelings naturally ejaculate after a plot, and even the content is forgotten.

I have written about other issues in the previous monthly summary. I will not elaborate on what kind of characters are substituted, what team actions and too many interactions seem to be cumbersome. These are all solved by constantly adjusting the writing style and entry points. I believe that everyone who pursues them all the way should be able to understand them.

New stories and new ways of writing always have all kinds of problems. Constantly finding and solving them, it is both pain, happiness, and harvest for me. It’s good, laughter.

The fourth part is also a long story, and this time it is no longer a travelogue writing style. After the company's interlude, it is basically mainly "the original city", and many previous characters will appear again.

Well, the volume is called "The Emperor", taken from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.

Because I just finished writing a long article of about two hundred chapters, and then another new volume with a similar length, I need to relax and improve the corresponding detailed outline, so as to be conventional, I took three and a half days off.

If it was three and a half days, it should have resumed updates on the 29th, which is 12:30 noon on Thursday, but that morning, my wife happened to have a prenatal examination, so I had to go to maternal and child class with me, so... let's just make this summary a chapter. Three and a half days from now on now, and the updates on the 29th, that is, 7:00 pm on Thursday.
Chapter completed!