Chapter 708

Friends of this conception, see you on the 24th 【20:00】.

On the 25th, the previous class of the sect will graduate, and we will gather to take pictures and eat (today is invited, this should be able to pass smoothly), and then plan to return home on the 27th or 28th (this may affect the update).

Then the author is reducing the complexity of the plot structure to try to ensure the rhythm and serialization. The balance here is still being sought, but it seems to have some effect at present.

Simple and clear things can make everyone read more comfortably, while deep and solid things will extend the life of a book. The latter must be done, which is basically the source of my writing confidence, but there is no need to rush to do it in every short plot. It can be put on the long line, which is much friendlier to serialization.

Chatting:

A few days ago, I suddenly realized a writing habit, that is, I always stutter in language sense when I write.

For a completely unimportant aside and narrative, I may have thought about the content in three or five minutes, but when writing, I always spend a lot of time deliberating on the length and structure of the sentence, constantly changing the word order.

If you ask what the purpose is, I don't know. Maybe it's just for a comfortable feeling of reading, wanting to achieve a certain taste (is it a faint sense of pretending? Not entirely).

For example, when I came back from a long vacation, the beginning of the chapter 【On the Five Clouds Building】:

"On the morning of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Seeing Pei Ye walked out of the side door of the Great Ming Palace. He greedily and deeply breathed in the cold air of this winter, like a person who had been stuffed into a jar for a month. Then he walked a few steps quickly, jumped lightly like an antelope, and crashed into the green curtain of the carriage. The carriage body swayed slightly, and after a moment, it drove forward.

The river opens in the seventh nine, and the swallows come in the eighth nine. Spring hasn't arrived yet, but the smell has already escaped in some quiet places—the fragrance of willow buds after being close, the faint fishy smell of water by the river, the feces and fallen feathers of birds. Yue Muzhou, who was blind before, told Seeing Pei Ye that in fact, the smell in the air in every season is different. Seeing Pei Ye's five senses were not sensitive at that time, so he felt it was quite magical."

The first paragraph, a simple narrative, a metaphor of a jar and an antelope, this is the whole content. I thought of these contents in the first three minutes, but because the update was not particularly urgent at the time, I spent nearly forty minutes constantly adjusting this paragraph, wanting to pursue a certain texture. However, in the end, I didn't see any effect.

I think this should be a relatively common problem, but among the few authors I asked simply, everyone had no such feeling.

I think this is one of the main reasons why I am the slowest coder among the daily four authors.

However, Ji Yueren said that my style is very recognizable, which may be related to this. I am a little surprised and happy, because many times I feel that my words are lacking in carving, the texture is relatively shallow, and in the rush to update, the author inevitably gives birth to a sense of frustration, feeling that it is the hurriedly piled ingredients that are served.

The author himself has always liked sentences with high information content and distinct artistic style. A few days ago, I read 200,000 words of "Mania," and in the past two days, I read the opening of "Steel, Gunpowder and Spellcaster." I admire them very much. Everyone can also go and see them (I don't know the author, I recommend it without permission orz).

However, in the output speed of serialization, many things have to be abandoned, perhaps character excavation, perhaps plot depth, perhaps word carving, and having to fill in a lot of routine work. Finding a balance in this is probably unavoidable for web novel authors.

I think I am a very natural web novel author. I can personally experience many refreshing feelings and like to write them, but at the same time, I hope to be refreshing with layers and aftertaste.

I don't know if I can do it. In short, I will always pursue doing a good job, and if I really can't do a good job, I will try my best to make everyone happy.