Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
End of Volume Author's Note
Facts have proven that perhaps writing with a stockpile is not really suitable for online novels.
The mode of writing and updating daily makes it easier for the author to adapt to the rhythm of the story.
In this way, subconsciously, the author will deliberately add some explosive points and rhythm points to the daily updates, so it doesn't seem so watered down.
Including the later stage of Volume Two, because it entered the climax plot stage, the author updated three chapters every day in order to make everyone enjoy reading it.
With this kind of serialization mode, the author can directly feel what content the readers see every day and what their feelings are, making the writing more comfortable.
The author personally believes that the overall integrity of Volume Two, "The Heartbroken," is relatively high. I wonder what you all think and whether you are satisfied.
For me personally, I am quite satisfied with the entire Volume Two, except for certain plots involving the character Ji Lin.
I not only wrote the story I wanted to tell, but also expressed the emotions I wanted to express.
The character Ji Lin was initially set in the outline as someone who was both righteous and evil, both an enemy and a friend, and someone who sympathized with the protagonist.
Of course, the setting is good. If such a character is written well, everyone will like it.
But in fact, this kind of character full of contradictions and changes in his mental journey is very difficult to write, and it also touches the boundary of the author's ability.
I felt like I couldn't write him well.
I couldn't write such a contradictory and transformative character well.
So, I suggested to the editor, why not remove this character? Or just label him, don't make him so complicated, just make him a pure villain.
This is what the editor told me.
This is also what I want to share with you today.
The editor said to me:
This is not the first book in your life, nor is it the last book in your life.
Writing novels is actually writing about the author himself.
If you are confused, the characters in your writing will be confused; if you hesitate, the characters in your writing will also hesitate.
So.
If you want to write a protagonist who goes against the current in the face of difficulties, mysteries, and predicaments, without fear of hardship.
Then you yourself should not choose to escape or give up when facing writing problems.
You have to learn how to write this character well, and practice how to write this plot well. This is being responsible for your work and responsible for your readers.
I think these words are very correct.
Just as I assured everyone at the beginning, this book, no matter how the results are, is destined to have a beginning and an end, become more and more exciting, and tell a complete story.
Therefore, I tried to write this character well, to break through, to improve, and to do my best to write this story well.
Now, the final conclusion.
Although there are still some flaws in the portrayal of this character, I am also very happy to see many readers' comments. They recognized this character and this plot.
Many readers even praised me for writing this volume of the plot well, and they still wanted to read more.
The negative reviews at the end of the chapter are getting fewer and fewer, and the positive reviews are gradually increasing.
The recognition of readers is naturally the author's greatest joy and motivation.
I am also very happy.
In the case that the first volume did not perform very well and I was not very adapted to the rhythm of Qidian, so many, and even more and more readers persisted in reading the second volume.
It is my honor to have so many people like to read the stories I write.
I feel that life is also like this.
In this world, there are no trees that grow up overnight, and there is no road to the sky in one step.
Even if society is very impetuous, and the online literature environment is also very impetuous.
But there are always some things that are worth our while to calm down and do, to slowly work hard and step by step upward.
Until now.
About this book.
I still have the same original intention.
I want to seriously tell a good story. No matter what the results are, no matter what the reaction is, I will seriously finish telling it.
Previously, many people questioned the author saying that having a complete outline and ending of 2 million words was nonsense.
But with the recovery of these foreshadowings spanning hundreds of thousands of words in Volume Two, it seems that there is also a bit more credibility.
How can an author lie about his own work?
How can an author not be responsible for his own work?
If you ask me which part of this book will be the best.
Then I will definitely say it is the ending.
For a work that has a complete outline before writing, its most exciting part must be at the end. This is a process of gradually advancing upward in a ladder.
Finally, two questions that everyone cares about.
The character cards that I promised everyone before have been submitted to the background for review, and they should be released soon.
As for the reader group...
Actually, the author is not ready yet. I always feel that I have not written enough to satisfy everyone, and I am afraid to face everyone directly.
Then let's set it at the end of Volume Three. At that time, I will definitely establish a book friend group so that everyone can communicate and whip the author as much as they want.
The current ending Volume Two, as a volume that connects the past and the future, transitions the protagonist from the mysteries, confusion, and passivity of Volume One to a Volume Three with more definite goals and more active actions.
This is the growth of the protagonist, and also the growth of the author.
So.
I hope that in the days to come, the author will be able to write stories that are more recognized and loved by everyone.
Volume Three, "Thousand-Year Stake," stay tuned!
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Cough cough, since I posted a single chapter, the humble author who has never dared to ask everyone for monthly tickets has also mustered the courage to beg for a monthly ticket, dear readers!