Leave Request and One-Year Summary

I finished updating two chapters today, come and ask for a day off...

I came to Shanghai in the past two days to participate in a starting point activity, which is a little bit of gold... I originally brought a notebook with me to squeeze in time to write, but I deliberately wanted to take two days off to take a rest - in fact, I could choose any activity. Those who don't go only agree to go out for a walk and take the opportunity to change their minds.

At least I finished writing the red feather line in this paragraph before, so I didn’t get stuck in any place where I couldn’t get up or down...

This book was published on December 26 last year, and it is 21 days shy of its one-year anniversary today. It is the only book I have written that has spanned the past year except Asking. It is currently the second longest book, and is probably the longest. Will be the longest book.

It’s said that it’s less than two million words a year, so it seems that it’s not too slow to say it’s slow, it’s okay...

In short, writing a book for a long time becomes very tiring, just like a marathon. It is easy at first, but then I sit there writing every day, and there is no weekend or anything. The more I write, the more tired I become, the more I write, the stiffer my brain becomes, and it is physically and mentally overwhelming. Now that I'm older, the period of weakness is earlier than before... What a tragedy.

And the structure of this book is longer than the others, so I can't finish it like the other books. It's better to rest more, go out for a walk, and change into a better state, so that I can provide more exciting content.

So I took two days off on the 67th.

And it is very likely that the number of leave requests will increase in the future. I would like to apologize to everyone in advance.

Let’s not argue about the monthly ticket. I’ve already asked for leave and there’s no point asking for it. I’ll try to see if I can get an extra ticket when it’s doubled at the end of the month. If I can’t, forget it.

Oh, by the way, on the 8th, there will be a night makeup episode about filling the gap. It has almost three chapters of text content. If you are interested, you can follow it. I think the night makeup and love in the episode are particularly cute.

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Also, since it’s almost an anniversary, let’s make a brief summary.

The summary was written intermittently over the past few days, but don’t blame me for finding the time to write this...cough...

I don’t know if I can feel it from a reader’s perspective, but from a writing perspective, this book should be considered the book where my style has changed the most…even more so than the style of the previous Qiuqiu single heroine.

After all, Qiuqiu still takes emotions as the theme. No matter what the main line of every previous book is, the theme is emotional drama. But this one is not...

Before the book started, I said that this book would reduce the proportion of emotional scenes. Many brothers later said that they couldn't feel it. They felt that there were still a lot of emotional scenes, but the nature was really different. Because this book does not have emotional drama as the core and does not serve to promote the plot. It mainly uses the protagonist's own experiences to promote the story, with emotions as an additive.

In other words, removing these emotional scenes will basically not affect the main plot (whether it will look good after removing it is another matter). This is the goal I want to achieve this time, and it basically went according to plan and was very successful. It can even be hidden from the senses of many readers.

Of course, there are also keen readers who have noticed the difference. I am glad that the better version can satisfy you more, but I can only say sorry for not being able to meet expectations if I think it is not as good as before.

After all, as a writer, you still have to try different writing methods and break through bottlenecks before you get too old and lose your enthusiasm. Regardless of success or failure, you can tell yourself that you have worked hard, instead of resting on your laurels.

In the end, this book became my best one, and the readers recognized and encouraged this change. It was considered a successful attempt, thank you all.

Especially in the early and mid-term, when the Jianghu flavor was the best, I was very surprised. As I said before, I originally thought that the old-school Jianghu atmosphere was very outdated and might not have any achievements, but everyone liked it very much... and countless people didn't want to see women at all, and came just for the Jianghu stories, but when it came to women, they found it annoying. I don’t want to read it, this is the first time in my many years of writing career (I have done so before but not this much).

Of course, the main theme of the harem is still that there is iron-bloodedness and tenderness to make a complete Jianghu... In the end, some of these brothers gave up, and some were even scolded and left. I could only cover my face and cry, laughing.

It's a pity that the story of Jianghu will not be too long, and it will soon move towards the world and fantasy. Although it is an inevitable process according to the plot, there are still many brothers who are reluctant to let go and want to see what it was like before.

I'm scratching my head, it's okay. I might write a low-level book if I have the chance in the future. I'll consider it when the time comes.

Speaking of this, some brothers who always like to say "it doesn't have the same taste as the previous books" don't know if they understand that they are written just so that they don't have the same taste as the previous books, so you... usually don't think that everyone else's books have the same taste. Some people pursue a different taste in each book, but they feel that it is different from the previous taste. Why bother...

As for not liking the taste of this book and feeling it is not as good as before, that is normal. It is normal for each person to prefer which book he prefers. But the kind of "I don't like it, it's bad" is still accepted. You are no longer a child.

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Of course, if we talk about the specific content, the writing is indeed not without problems. There are often some criticisms, some of which are indeed reasonable, and some of which are unreasonable. I reply to some of them, but not to most of them. I really don’t have the energy to be as explosive as before.

Among them, the bigger rhythm is still the part about Lao Xia's death.

I didn't understand it at the time. From the beginning to the end, the character was portrayed as "because he doesn't take the people of the world seriously, he will eventually die at the hands of the people of the world", and he is a selfish and incompetent monarch, the source of chaos. The whole book basically has nothing good to say about him. All the supporting characters are scolding him, his daughter is scolding him, and the protagonist is against him. Apart from being able to fight, he has no other style to speak of. Even his speech is in the style of a middle school student. He is completely written as a big naughty child. This is a villain who messes up the country. The protagonist said to his face, "You will die at the hands of the people." The attitudes of the author and the protagonist are very clear...

For some reason, such a person would be regarded as a positive character with full style and must die in a blatant manner. I have never written about the guardian god character who collapsed... Even the one who couldn't bear it anymore and started an uprising was scolded for not following the example of the mantis.

I was angry at the time. I felt that I wrote "one" clearly, but they insisted that I wrote "two" with a broken horizontal line. Isn't this weird? Thinking about it afterwards, it may be the author's fault that such a big controversy could be caused.

The villain should not be given an overly complex spectrum. For example, he is not bad to Changhe Wanzhuang and is a fellow villager. This makes the villain not anti-hero enough and the emotions do not match, which subconsciously brings positive halo and expectations to readers. This is also the disadvantage of being too literary. I always think that the strong should be complex and three-dimensional, but in fact, emotional feedback may be more important. In addition, "Yu Tianxia" was backfired and caused a sharp drop in practice. Maybe the concept is relatively vague and not intuitive, which also led to the feeling of Gojo Satoru, who died too quickly. Then I wrote slowly, which led to the foreshadowing in the early stage being forgotten. This can only be blamed on my slowness.

Thinking about it this way, I feel relieved. I do have more problems.

Of course, I don’t admit that I patched up the story later. I did lay a lot of groundwork in the beginning, and it can’t even be called groundwork. It should be called throughout the whole book… The so-called “patch” is just summarizing the previous text and emphasizing it again…

For example, the problem that the heroine’s combat power rises too fast has been mentioned by many people before and after, and basically every heroine has been criticized… I think this should not really be my problem, maybe it’s a bit of a misunderstanding—because the times have changed, everyone has upgraded faster than their predecessors, that’s a must.

In the era of great contention, gods and demons have revived, dragons and snakes have landed, and both the frequency of fighting and the creation of good fortune are concentrated now, far exceeding the previous peaceful times. If they are still at the same speed as their predecessors in the past, it can only prove that they are a group of idiots, not the hero and heroine. Even Changhe’s cultivation speed is most affected by this factor, not the Book of Heaven, which he actually avoids.

For example, in terms of the understanding of higher cultivation, Zhuque and Xuanwu only knew that there was Yu in the early years, but they didn't know why. They started to explode after searching Xuewu's soul; now there are more gods and demons, and the important characters can basically know about it. This is a strong contrast between the past and the present. The era was divided before, but it is not divided now. So not only the heroine, but also Cui Yuanyong, Han Wubing, Situ Xiao and even Chi Li will be faster than their predecessors, because that is in line with the rhythm of the times. The Tianbang will also generally break Yu, which is also the rhythm of the times.

It's not that everyone will become stronger if the protagonist is strong, but because the protagonist is in the time of change of the times, but the focus is not on others. First of all, it is assumed that everyone is striving to improve instead of going offline.

More specifically to individuals, is there no self-consistent logic and sufficient foreshadowing? Yes, in fact, everyone knows about them, so I won't list them one by one. But people often say that "everyone finds reasons to improve"... Please, as long as you want a character to have a role later, which book doesn't find reasons to improve and the speed is much faster than the predecessors... This doesn't need to be explained, others can just give a reason, I tried my best to make it reasonable, from the world situation to the individual, all the foreshadowing process is given, and this is still said all the time, every time the perspective changes to a female protagonist, I say a round, it's really a bit unbearable.

Do you want the kind of work where the protagonist moves forward alone, and suddenly looking back, all the people who used to date are far away and can't keep up, and have been offline and disappeared since then, this is the most reasonable, right? I'm so happy to want this, how much difficulty is reduced...

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I won't say more, I can't stop talking once I start.

I won't talk about other minor disputes, they are all my problems, I apologize to everyone, I didn't consider it carefully or my writing skills were not good enough, and I didn't meet your expectations.

In general, I haven't deviated from my original intention so far. Although there are controversies, this book is actually less controversial than the previous ones... Many brothers also told me that they particularly like this male protagonist and think that Changhe is heroic and brave, but also smart, which suits their taste. I am very pleased that everyone likes it, and I am generally satisfied with it.

As for the follow-up, it depends on how it is written later. For example, although there is no criticism of the content after the gods and demons appeared in the world, I feel that it is a bit weak. It is not written with flavor and can't be excited. When I look back at some places, MD grammatical errors have emerged... This is not good. I hope it will be better after a break.

Everyone says that it is slow. Looking at the intermittent constipation, I know that 10,000 words a day will be more coherent and those things that I have forgotten will disappear, but I really can't do it...

There is really no way. I am an old man with a weak state. I really can't maintain my state. I am very weak. Please forgive me.

Whenever I have such a moment, I doubt how many more years I can write. My physical condition is too poor... I really envy those tough guys who are older than me but can still read 10,000 pages a day. They are so damn strong...

Well, let me summarize it here first. It seems that I can write a lot less in the postscript of this book. I will be lazy and say that half of the content can be found in the one-year summary~