Summary at the End of the Volume (Volume 2 Will Be Officially Updated Tomorrow)
This chapter is the summary of this volume. I have already announced it in advance. If you don't want to read it and want to read the next chapter directly, you can skip it directly. The premise is that there is a next chapter)
As I said, since it is the summary of this volume, I will talk a lot. I may talk a lot, but most of them are just the author's ramblings.
After all, it does not affect the main plot, and there is no question of whether it is watery or not. If you think it is watery, just click on the next chapter to skip it, and it will not make the overall plot disconnected. Tomato calculates the specific money according to the reading time. Even if I waste 1 million words, as long as you don't want to read it, I can't make this money.
As for the money you can make after reading these words... This chapter really doesn't make much money. I have also calculated that 24,000 words are only one cent. The main reason is that I am bored after writing for so long.
First, it is a summary of the first volume as a whole.
I divide the summary into several parts. The first part is about the character setting. In the character setting chapter, I will focus on answering the journey of each character, the readers' evaluation of them, and the original intention of the design, and why it is designed in this way.
[Summary at the end of Volume 1 - Character Setting]
What I want to write about in Volume 1 is a journey of growth.
Brave Fearless is a heavy newbie, Bai Lu is a light newbie, and Leng Qingying is a powerful "newbie"
Brave Fearless grew from a pure newbie who couldn't even learn skills, couldn't read the health bar, and could only be scolded by Bai Lu as an idiot at the beginning to a warrior who could stand on his own. His growth span is the largest.
Bai Lu learned to break away from her brother, make her own decisions, and seize the opportunity. Her route is mainly independent, and she also changed from a player who only knew how to throw skills to a truly knowledgeable sage (witch)
Leng Qingying is a high-level player in the early stage. She can be regarded as a transitional candidate to support two newbies in the early stage. Otherwise, Lu Cang would have to drag three newbies on the road, which can be regarded as a hellish start.
Leng Qingying can be regarded as the second guide of the Fearless Warrior. Compared with the unreachable peak like Lu Cang, Leng Qingying is a relatively normal strong man, which also gives the Fearless Warrior a benchmark for comparison and allows the Fearless Warrior to compare how much he has improved.
While being a guide, Leng Qingying also climbed higher peaks by herself.
At the same time, Leng Qingying is also a projection of Lu Cang's previous life. As an assassin, Leng Qingying will occasionally reproduce the shadow of Lu Cang's growth in the first and second lives.
Different characters also have their own unique positions in fighting and playing their roles.
And I try to distinguish various positions.
Regardless of Lu Cang, the main C output is naturally the Fearless Warrior and Leng Qingying, who are representatives of frontal combat and explosive output respectively.
The sub-C is Bai Lu and Xiu Mi.
And if we further subdivide it, Xiu Mi's more responsibilities are exploration, search, reconnaissance, ultra-long-range strikes, critical strikes, and long-range support.
I hope that Xiu Mi's role is not just a DPS. In fact, the DPS of the team is enough.
I hope that she will not play a role in frontal combat, but a role like Usopp in One Piece, which can reverse the situation at a critical moment.
Of course, there are also reconnaissance effects. Detection skills will be a crucial link, which determines whether hidden enemies can be found and dangers that cannot be seen normally can be seen.
And with the emergence of superior races, there will be more and more enemies that cannot be seen directly and attacked directly, and the importance of Xiumi will be more and more reflected.
In addition to output, I think her role in the team is also "eyes"
In the design, there will be "people" joining the guild in the future. As for other situations, I will not spoil too much.
When designing at that time, I designed some defects for everyone in the guild.
Of course, this was also disliked by many readers.
For example, some people scolded the brave for being fearless and timid, some scolded Bai Lu for being uneducated, some scolded Leng Qingying for chasing the protagonist's teammates, and the protagonist pulled her into the team, and some thought that Xiumi was unwilling to join the protagonist's guild and had a grudge against the protagonist.
In fact, as an author, I knew that these might make some readers dislike me when I wrote it.
And it can actually be changed, but in the end I still wrote it this way.
I hope these characters have their own unique characteristics, and I don’t want to be the kind of perfect character template, the character who only flatters the protagonist and purely praises 666.
I think a character should be three-dimensional and full, she can’t be just one-sided, can’t have only advantages, only lovable places.
They should have some flaws.
In fact, when I was writing the plot of the first encounter with Leng Qingying.
I kept thinking about whether to write it this way.
Lu Cang’s initiative to invite Leng Qingying to join the guild is a bit lowering.
Especially after she chased the fearless hero, the protagonist invited her to join the guild.
In fact, according to the popular model of online literature, it should be that a certain event happened, which made Leng Qingying want to join the protagonist’s guild, or even beg to join the protagonist’s guild. The protagonist took her in because he considered her useful, rather than the protagonist actively inviting her.
And she shouldn’t appear as an "enemy" camp at the beginning.
In fact, if we follow the rules of the general public in online literature, I think it is a bit morbid. For example, if she is a woman, she must be taken in, and if she offends someone, she must be killed. The way to death is not just talk, online literature does have such logic in it.
But I still designed it this way.
I didn't want to destroy Leng Qingying's own character in the end, so there was a plot where the protagonist took the initiative to invite Leng Qingying to join the guild.
I think this did not cause much character collapse for the protagonist.
But if Leng Qingying asked Lu Cang to let her join the guild, then it would be a real character collapse.
Leng Qingying is a person with a complex and tangled personality, but she is decisive in action. What she thinks in her mind and what she actually says, and what she plays and what she really thinks in her heart are all different.
It is difficult to write this well. Writing a complex and contradictory character is much more difficult than creating a simple character.
But why write such a complex character? The answer is just: I want to write.
As for what kind of person Leng Qingying is outside the game, I will slowly enrich her when I have the opportunity in the future.
At the same time, I don't want Lu Cang to be a petty person.
Not a person who ignores the overall situation because of a little quarrel or a little trivial matter.
[Those who achieve great things should have enough mind and scheming, and not get angry because of a little trivial matter. Lu Cang's most possessed character should be calm.
A person with real leadership qualities knows how to turn enemies into friends and how to use people. There are many leaders in history who have used famous enemy generals. As a person who has been reborn for the fourth time, Lu Cang naturally has to have the corresponding courage. (Key point)]
When writing this book, I had already decided to let some characters have some shortcomings, and at the same time, I also planned to let them gradually overcome these shortcomings and form a process of growth in character.
Among them, the fearless brave is the most obvious example, and his character growth path is very clear.
There are also many people who say that Xiumi is an alien race and has hatred between the human race. It should not be included in the guild, which is unreasonable.
I think I have written the motivation very clearly and strongly.
First of all, the culture of the orcs: respecting the strong, and the greatest worship of strength.
Xiumi's personality: he doesn't want to care about the affairs of the orcs, and he is very indifferent and casual about the development of the orcs. As long as the orcs are not completely destroyed, the weak should be eliminated, and being eliminated is what they deserve.
In terms of interests: both sides are win-win, otherwise it is a lose-lose situation.
It is also said that the protagonist goes to help Xiumi to fight the dungeon...
How can we fight the dungeon without Xiumi? Her ability is necessary! Wouldn't the whole team be wiped out without Xiumi to fight the Devouring Shadow? The team does not have the ability to attack from a distance.
Hatred is not everything. The characters in the book are all adults, and we can see the exchange of interests.
And if Xiumi does not join the guild, will the relationship between the orcs and humans become very stiff?
The human race is so powerful, and the development momentum of the human race is so strong. Does Xiumi have to sacrifice his own interests and not join the guild, and also establish a terrible enemy for the orcs? Isn't that pure stupidity?
Some situations, after I foresaw them, I still decided to arrange them this way. I will not arrange the characters purely according to the readers' temporary preferences. I have my own considerations.
Of course, not all situations can be predicted. Some situations are really expected by me, such as a certain reader who is very disgusted with Xiumi adding a meow at the end of a sentence.
Different characters, different readers have different opinions.
As an author, I need to say one thing:
Every character has readers who like it, and every character also has readers who don't like it. Unless I don't write any characters, when I write this character, it is destined to be imperfect.
Even in the real world, there is no character who has never been criticized.
No matter how great a great man is, we can only say that those who criticize them are evil-minded, but can we say that they have never been evaluated, criticized or accused?
I think there must be.
This is the case in reality, saints, not to mention the characters in novels.
I will refer to most of the readers' suggestions, but rarely disrupt my own design because of this, at most I will make some minor adjustments.
What I have to do is to write the story I want to tell according to my own ideas, and as for how it will turn out after it is written, it will be judged by future generations.
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[Summary at the end of the first volume - plot chapter]
This chapter mainly talks about some things about the plot, what references are there for the plot, why there is such a plot, why I want to design it this way, and responds to some readers' comments on certain plots.
1. References to the plot - Many people say that I referred to Full-time X-Hand, but I actually think that I referred more to One Piece, the third volume of Guimi, and the early period of Daogui, and mainly referred to the layout structure. (If there is a copyright issue, I will delete this sentence immediately)
The common point of these is that the plot design is driven by location, from one island to another, from one region to another, it is a kind of travel story.
The most fundamental reason for choosing this kind of plot layout design is that the main theme of this novel is online games, a sub-fantasy epic.
Epics are naturally inseparable from adventure journeys, so I think it is more appropriate to use this kind of journey-style structure.
But as to whether it is the most suitable, it is hard to judge. Maybe there are more interesting ways to write it, but that is another story.
In addition, of course, I also referred to the books I wrote, but the plot is different from the books I wrote. It can only be regarded as the misappropriation of the settings designed before. In fact, it is not misappropriation. In fact, many settings have undergone tremendous changes.
As for the most mentioned full-time, I think it is only similar in the feeling of skills and weapons.
The real difference between it and full-time is still very big in the plot. Those who have read it should know that what I wrote is completely different from him. If you have to say that the few similarities in the plot are that the early BOSS is a cat demon, but in fact, the process of fighting and the things that happen in the dungeon are completely different.
As for the book full-time x hand.
Forget it if you haven't read it. It's not that I don't recommend it, but it doesn't feel good to promote the book of platform B on platform A.
2. The core keywords of this volume are: growth, journey, transformation, and the journey of finding partners.
The title of the volume is also: Journey that has not grown up
The roads I have walked along the way, the battles I have experienced, the people and things I have encountered, the names gradually become legends and myths, circulated in the streets and alleys,
Being praised by people, it is also in line with the main theme of travel.
Gaining new partners and adventure stories during the journey is also the romance of adventure.
This is a fantasy epic adventure that I like very much.
The main tone is definitely based on the Western fantasy style. I don’t like to mix elements too complicatedly, otherwise it will look out of place. The random fusion of the east and the west will only make the work look bad.
It’s like wearing a bright red wedding dress at a Western wedding, which will only make people feel different and eye-catching.
But I still try to slightly integrate some Chinese elements in the tone of the Western fantasy adventure epic.
For example, the character Xin Baiyue, from the name, you can see that she is not a Western name. In addition, there are also races such as Qifeng and Qiweifengxuewu, which actually use some Eastern elements, but I will be very careful when using them, and I will not suddenly change the overall style completely.
I think writing novels is to do what you do in what occasion, so in terms of intelligent machines, I have always been cautious in dealing with them.
Although there are precedents of works that combine science and magic, these two styles are still two strongly conflicting styles after all, and this is a part that I am very careful about.
Of course, some readers may say, didn’t others write xxx in that way and achieved results?
My answer is that others are others, I am me, and each author has his own writing rules, and there are too many books that have not achieved results in random fusion... You can’t remember them all.
The first volume ends with arriving in the imperial capital to solve the Sky-breaking Plan, the disaster of Lotvis City, becoming a demigod, and being awarded and crowned. So far, the protagonist’s team has rarely separated.
The total number of people in the guild will not be too large, because everyone has to grow up, and growth consumes a lot of space. The number of words I update every day and the main story of the work are also limited, and the side lines can only be told in conjunction with the main line.
If there are too many side lines, if every side line is written, there will be no space to write the main line.
Moreover, when the number of members in the guild increases, it is easy for some people to fall behind, and their strength is seriously inconsistent with the overall level of the team. It is like an actor. In the end, there are still a few main Cs in the C, and the others are just like vases, pure paddling, or can only play a small role once in dozens of chapters.
I don’t like this situation.
Since it appears in the team, it should naturally play its indispensable core role, or solve the important pain points and shortcomings of the team.
In fact, this situation has already appeared in the previous period, for example, Xiumi’s performance is seriously not as good as Leng Qingying and Brave Fearless.
Even Bailu almost fell behind, but fortunately, the Destruction God and Seven Star Magic pulled Bailu back.
Guser’s demigod battle and Xiumi’s demigod promotion have pulled Xiumi’s strength back.
As for Zuya, this is the only tank in the team, but there is no lack of performance.
Therefore, if the guild has a large number of members, either in the future, the growth of the secondary characters alone can take up three or four chapters, or the growth is not visible at all, or the combat power is unbalanced, and there are always people falling behind.
After all, the growth of the characters cannot be said to be whoosh, without anything happening, without any space or performance, and they grow up.
The next volume will also be a complete road to godhood.
This is not a spoiler, after all, I have always talked about becoming a god, um...
When I write books, the plot basically begins after the godhood, and I gradually tend to be more inclined to game and rules.
The title of the next volume should be announced after the next chapter is opened.
Then in other aspects, I will try to design the plot to be more interesting, and write out the feeling of the world of great contention. The deconstruction of the second volume will be quite different from the first volume, but it is still the same, and I will not talk about things that involve spoilers.
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[Summary of Volume 1 - About data]
1. Book completion data:
This book is a relatively new attempt after all. It is also my first time to write a group portrait article. The early stage is really lame, and it is not until Chapter 8 that the key main line is officially entered.
In fact, the adventure starts at Chapter 78. At Chapter 28, it is 100,000 words, which means that the official journey is about 250,000 words before it officially starts.
This also caused my early data to be a bit horrible. When I first debuted, it was 12% completed. Later it slowly rose, and now the 100,000 completed has exceeded 30%.
2. Book rating data:
The rating finally rose a bit, which also let me know that this book is not bad.
There are always book reviews saying that they are brushed. I can only say... Where can I brush it? There are so many readers here. As long as there is a channel that can really work, I will believe you.
Before the first volume was finished, I never encouraged readers to give me ratings or good reviews.
I don’t know the situation of Jinfan and above, because I am not a Jinfan myself, but I know that it is impossible for ordinary authors to brush the score.
Then let’s talk about the subject matter:
I want to try group portraits for two consecutive books, but if I write group portraits, there is a pain point that it is easy to heat up slowly, and many readers will be lost before entering the main line.
So the early data is always unsatisfactory. Fortunately, I still kept all the readers by telling stories later. All the readers who can see this have recognized the story I wrote.
I wanted to mention an old work, the one about artifacts, but after thinking about it, I realized that mentioning it would be a cruel spoiler for readers who haven't read that book, so I won't mention other books in this book.
3. In-text values:
Another annoying part of writing online game articles is adjusting values.
When fighting monsters, you always have to calculate. Although you don't need to calculate very accurately, the approximate damage should be calculated roughly, at least not too far off.
Then there are all kinds of equipment, skill, attribute effects, etc., will they be triggered, and what effects are missing and useless.
Writing a battle may seem simple to others, but I spend a lot of time calculating every action and every skill in the back, whether it can be triggered, whether it can be used, and whether there is anything missing? Is the damage enough? How long does it take to kill the BOSS? How long does the death dormancy take? How long does the fearless attack take? What about the serious mode? What is the current situation of Zuya's damage reduction?
Adjusting it back and forth like a game planner, sometimes it's really annoying and I want to fill it all in one hundred trillion in one go, it's annoying to adjust it.
Of course, I can only say this as a joke. In the end, I still have to calculate it. When it is almost done, it will be put up.
Sometimes I will see some inconsistent values. Sometimes I think about a value for a long time and finally calculate it. As a result, I change the front but not the back, which eventually leads to confusion of the front and back values. Generally, in this case, I will adjust it back after seeing the comments pointing out the problem.
However, in this way, readers who follow the book quickly are the victims.
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[Summary of the first volume - about the key readers who keep me going]
Also, I would like to thank Brother Shanji1 for the high reward, Rongrongrong, and all the big guys on the reward list.
The rewards did make me happy for a while, but I was also a bit stressed...
My original thought was that this reader would earn a cent, and that reader would earn a dime. I only earned a few cents when one person read my book, so I didn't feel that I was valued. Even if they said that what I wrote was a joke, I would just let them scold me. I didn't feel any psychological pressure. This was all the strength I had to write this book. If you scold me, I can only say that I have learned from the lesson and continue to improve. I can't become stronger instantly like I started the second stage.
But this time, the reward was 700 or 800 yuan. I felt that high hopes were placed on me, which was quite stressful. If I didn't write well, I would fail to live up to the high hopes. The second and third days after receiving hundreds of yuan in rewards were particularly heavy.
There is a difference between being scolded by passers-by and being scolded by my parents. I don't know if you can understand. (Of course, they didn't actually scold me)
Damn, 800 yuan, in fact, each reader gave me 3~4 cents on average, let's count it as 4 cents, one person is equivalent to 20,000 readers.
A reward of 800 yuan can make an author remember it for so long, you should also know how little money the author makes. In the anchor industry, I don’t know if the big brother who gave 800 yuan in rewards can remember it for more than one day. I am talking about the middle-level anchors. After all, I am also a middle-level author. If I am like this, those low-level authors are even worse.
Rewards do not account for a high proportion of my income. The artifact book accounts for about 10%. If the readers are a little richer, the proportion may be higher. So generally speaking, I can basically find out the slightly larger rewards immediately.
Of course, I said so much about rewards, not to ask you to give more rewards, but just to talk about it directly when I remember it, and also to add words. After all, if there is no reward, I can also add a chapter myself.
Anyway, I can skip this chapter directly, and it will not affect the plot. I have not said anything for a long time. One volume has 940,000 words. If I change to the artifact book, the second volume has been completed and the third volume has been opened.
I am probably like this, I am more casual, I am too lazy to pretend, and I don't care to play the victim. When I don't make money, I really don't make money.
When I make money, I really make money, and I don't ask for anything to eat. I am not as miserable as when I first started my book.
Up to now, my income is not as low as it was when I first started writing the book. You don’t have to worry about the discontinuation of updates for this book. The author usually discontinues updates because the book is not profitable. If it is profitable, it is impossible to discontinue updates. Of course, it is possible to take a day off occasionally.
For example, I have to take a day off after finishing this volume. (The final remarks of this volume were written in advance, so today is just a pure rest.)
Sometimes you have to relax your body and mind, otherwise you will feel the pain of typing every day. You wake up today and type, and then you go to bed, and then you wake up and have to type again.
It’s quite painful to have new work refreshed every day when you wake up, especially when you don’t always have a lot of ideas when writing a book. It’s even more painful when you encounter a writer’s block.
Oh, there is no double-day off. Normal work has double-day off to recover blood, but there is no double-day off for typing.
This chapter is a summary at the end of the volume, which is considered a day off.
By the way, I will improve the overall conception of the next volume. In fact, I thought of a relatively rough outline of the content of the second volume a long time ago.
For example, soon after the start of the first volume, I had already thought of going to Lotvis, and I had also thought of various routes during the period.
The design of the second volume is the same, and the overall design is almost the same.
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[Summary of the first volume - about various comments and replies]
Then let's talk about comments and book reviews.
I often read various comments, and some book reviews are very instructive. Leng Qingying's question has indeed been emphasized countless times, which is a very controversial point in the early stage.
The second is the currency aspect. The scale of the game I designed is a global game. Maybe everyone has different perceptions.
In my perception, as long as it is world-class and involves hundreds of millions of assets, it is not a big deal at all.
For companies with a value of trillions, it is normal to be willing to spend hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions in order to expand the future market scale and grab the market.
After all, the setting is 10 billion people, and nearly 90% of people participate in the game.
This level of market, compared with the situation in reality, a little calculation can roughly know the magnitude.
90% of the 10 billion population are all involved. This market is so huge that it is more terrifying than all the industries in our real world. However, this setting leads to a problem, that is, everyone's perception is different.
Some people may think that this number is a bit too big, and they just throw away 20 million casually, like throwing stones on the water.
It seems to be 20 million, but for large companies, it is actually compared with other people's assets of trillions or tens of trillions.
I can use 20 million to interfere with the progress of another opponent with trillions of assets. Will I do it?
The protagonist became famous in the professional competition two months before the opening of the third zone, in November. After playing the professional competition, he had not had time to cash in his reputation, so he did not have much savings.
There is also the problem of expensive silver equipment in the early stage.
You can refer to ancient glass. When glass was not popular in ancient times, was it a very valuable item?
But how much does a glass product cost now?
It's a very simple truth that things are valuable because they are rare. When there are only dozens of silver equipment in the whole server, it is not surprising that one piece is sold for tens of thousands of gold coins.
By the middle and late stages, silver equipment has become popular, and it is normal to spend more than ten gold coins for one piece.
Of course... Readers who raise these questions in the book review will probably not see this place, and will not see the doubts I answered.
What I mainly want to express is that before doing some data design, I still thought about it a little bit. Although sometimes the thinking may not be very correct or rigorous, at least I think it conforms to a certain logic.
For the example I just gave, if it is the other way around.
In the early stage, the first silver equipment is only sold for 100 gold coins. Isn’t it a bit too cheap?
In a world-class game, people who spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars are too stingy. The degree of wealth of rich people is even more outrageous than what you can see in some novels.
Almost people all over the world are playing it, and they still can't afford hundreds of thousands or millions... It really looks down on rich people.
In addition, there are book reviews about artifacts. The book "Guild" does have the term "artifact". The existence of Ruga and Xin Qianhuan also indirectly reveals this point.
But I won’t reveal the details, as this will be part of the key content of the second volume, and what I say now will be a spoiler.
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[Summary of Volume 1 - Thoughts on the opening of the book]
Then let me talk about my thoughts on the opening of the book.
For this book, I hope to design some characters that can accompany the protagonist for a very long time, rather than the protagonist rising alone.
I have written too many books where the protagonist is purely invincible. If I am willing to write a single-player story, I can write the early data very well, and I am not bragging.
This book can also be regarded as a kind of relaxation, because I want to write it myself.
The industry of writing books is always out of one’s control. In order to make money, you always have to follow some big trends, just like the popular subject three some time ago. In fact, I don’t understand why it is so popular... But no matter whether it is good or bad, as long as there is traffic, various platforms and media will go to get it.
It is the same in the novel industry. We always have to write popular things. After all, traffic is really money for us.
But in this big flow, I occasionally want to write something I want to write. That's the idea.
So a group portrait guild online game that basically no one has written was born, which can be regarded as filling the gap in the market.
After all, I have seen online games with various professions and various plug-ins, but I have never seen guild group portraits. (I looked at the category of group portraits. There are hundreds of thousands of books on Tomato, and there are only 120 books with the group portrait label. I counted them one by one. When I found this label, I found that I could scroll to the bottom at once, so I counted them... It means that no one really writes group portraits)
I looked at online games related to guild roles again. I didn't see any writing in the category of virtual reality online games.
Guilds are obviously such an important thing in online games.
I also want to read such a novel, but there is really no one.
I just happen to be an author, so I will write it myself.
It can be considered as mixed with personal opinions, but which author does not write a little bit of his own personal opinions when writing a book?
As for bursting updates.
The saying circulating in our author circle is that bursting updates on Tomato is the most useless.
It is the least obvious for the increase in income. In fact, it is almost the same reason. The purpose of my bursting updates is just to speed up the cycle.
If a book does not perform well, I will write faster. If the performance is good, I will also write faster.
But now I am gradually unable to write. The more I write a book in the later stage, the more time it takes. In the early stage, it may take an hour to write 2,000 words. It takes a long time to write the current 2,000 words.
So the update of the second volume is probably just stabilizing. It is difficult to burst updates. I don’t mind hoarding books... As long as I remember to come back and read.
The idea of the next book is still an online game.
It is a pure protagonist upgrade, the most traditional ordinary online game, without any special features. (I said the same thing when the last book was finished. After all, it was too tiring to always practice some strange ideas, but I finally decided to write something different.)
The other is the kind of classroom-type text, that is, a class where everyone has different abilities. This type is also rare in Tomato, and can be understood as similar to Assassination Classroom (if you have read this, you probably have a better understanding of what I am describing)
There are about a dozen classmates, each with different characteristics. In terms of roles, perhaps characters like Xin Baiyue, Dixi, and even Izpalut will grow from zero as classmates.
But this kind of writing is obviously more difficult, and it is likely to be postponed to the fourth book.
I personally want to become popular and make a lot of money, so I also said that I want to upgrade to Golden Fan.
It's too early to say these, after all, this book is only the first volume.
This year, I expect to finish two to three books. As for this one... according to my expected pace, it should be a relatively long one. There will definitely be three volumes. The first volume has already had so many words. Even if the second and third volumes have fewer words, it is estimated that it will exceed two million words.
After this book is finished, the second book will be more relaxed and bright. It is expected to end at more than one million words, so it is estimated to be 1~2 books. Otherwise, if I update 10,000 words a day, 365 days will not be enough to write four or five million.
The overall structure of this book is there. It is the same as my previous habits. The events at the far end are roughly determined, and the details at the near end are gradually added. Each character will also have his own corresponding growth path.
As for the gods.
I won't spoil it for the time being.
Occasionally I see some people mention my old works.
Indeed, some characters have the same names as in the old works.
But this book does exist independently. You don't need to read any previous works, and not reading other works will not have any impact on reading this book.
The characters only have the same names.
If I have to say the purpose of doing this, it is probably to establish a character universe of my own.
A certain character is the God of Luck in a certain work, and the Emperor of Man in another work, but in other works, he may appear as the final villain opposite to the protagonist.
All the characters that have appeared in previous works may appear as late-stage characters or early-stage characters in other works.
There are countless versions of her in different works, and this is probably my ambition to do this.
In the previous book, when designing a certain artifact, I already had this idea.
As for which one it is, I won’t spoil it myself, so that if someone wants to read it, the author will spoil it. This author is quite unethical.
At that time, the idea was to write the fourth volume and write it according to this idea.
But I felt that it was too narrow to reflect this idea in just one book, and it was already in the late stage at that time, and it would be finished soon.
So it evolved into a multi-book writing method.
Maybe in the next book, Bai Lu, Brave and Fearless, Leng Qingying, Zu Ya, Xiu Mi and others will appear, which may be a helper on the growth path of a certain character, or as a BOSS at a certain stage.
For example, the Witch of the End who destroys everything is actually quite interesting as the final BOSS.
Of course, I am just saying this, after all, this book has just finished the first volume, and it is still early to the end of the whole book, not to mention the big BOSS of the next book.
In the next book, the protagonists of the previous book may also participate in the new world map, or they may still exist as a member of the protagonist group from beginning to end, or they may just show up in the later stage.
Most of these characters will have their own "anchor point"
For example, Xin Baiyue is likely to appear with Xin Jueyue (it is possible that only one of them appears)
For example, Yakatikto is likely to be related to luck (it is possible that it is not related to luck)
Xiumi is likely to be related to Luluwei (but it is possible that Xiumi is a believer of other gods)
But at the same time, I will guarantee that the plot line is completely different, and what will happen is unexpected enough, and it is likely to be interesting.
At the same time, I also guarantee that each work is absolutely independent as long as it does not indicate that there is a second part, a third part, or a connection between the upper and lower parts.
You can read it without the world view of any other work, no matter which book you read first.
Of course, the protagonist is still called Lu Cang as always (probably).
The two books I have written are all novel and magnificent in plot, but for the next book, I want to practice my basic skills.
Write the most traditional and ordinary stories, ordinary pretentious and face-slapping stories. Only by writing ordinary stories well can I have better creativity in the future.
And good ideas also need time to settle and conceive. It just so happens that the long time of writing traditional routines can also allow me to carefully think about the innovative story of the next book.
The only pity is the Lord's book. If that book is written at the rhythm of 100,000 words, the story should not be much worse than the current one.
But at that time, the grades were poor, and I was confused, so I didn't control the rhythm. It can be understood that the content that should have been 500,000 to 600,000 words was directly lost to 100,000 to 200,000 words.
And this book belongs to the one that did not change any ideas even though the grades were poor, and wrote step by step according to the rhythm I expected.
The summary is here, it is a bit long, but after all, it is also a summary at the end of a million words, so it is normal to have more.
(By the time I got to this point in the book on artifacts, I had already gone through two end-of-volume summaries and one mid-volume summary)