Hello everyone, this is Timid Orange who has been writing for four months after "Resurrection".
"" was published on the 25th of last year, which was close to the time when the third volume was completed. Unknowingly, it has been written for a year. As of the 25th of this year, the word count should be about 160W.
Compared with other authors, this amount of updates should be a bit handicapped, especially after March, there are always a few days every month (referring to broken updates), but looking at my own working status, I think at least in terms of writing attitude
Didn't let myself down.
Well, the author's current mental state is pretty good, and he's no worse than when he finished writing "Resurrection".
Let me talk about my decision first. Before writing the fourth volume, I finally decided to revise the beginning.
The reason why I didn't revise it before is because there is no need to revise online articles. It's either a big taboo or it just doesn't make sense. If you have time to revise, it's better to resume the update one day earlier. It's better to revise the beginning of 2W words than to update 2000 words. The second reason is because,
Although there has been a lot of criticism in the past, the reason why this book was so popular has nothing to do with what they said: "The beginning was too rubbish, and people ran away without it being put on the shelves."
The second point may be a bit counter-intuitive, but the data is not deceiving.
Let’s talk about the data that is the most difficult to talk about. I have never talked about it before and I can’t understand it myself.
The current collection of this book is more than 80,000 (the last 10,000 was stolen by Mr. Bai Yinmeng), and the highest VIP subscription for the first chapter is more than 6,000.
What is the concept?
First of all, it shows that not so many readers abandoned the book, and the appeal of the first volume is adequate for new authors.
The problem lies next.
According to the average conversion rate of the starting point works, if the high order is more than 6,000, there should be 1,000 follow-up orders, and an average order of about 3,000 (that is, a high-quality badge). If I can write a high-quality product in one year, a newbie like me
The author must be laughing in his dreams.
But in fact, my current subscription for new chapters is only 300, and my average subscription is only 1,600.
According to the growth pattern of a normal author, the first volume must be the weakest in writing, and the third volume and the second volume must be better than the first volume.
But my data only started to drop in the second volume, and the third volume also dropped more severely.
I don't know what the problem is either.
He should be the author with the lowest reading rate among all Qidian readers (crying).
But why do I still need to edit the beginning now? I simply want to reduce the number of new swearing messages that pop up in the future.
Because for an author who can't find motivation in data, if he wants to persevere, in addition to self-psychological construction, he needs the support of several big bosses and the comments of more readers. I am a person with serious mental internal friction, and sometimes I make mistakes.
When I come back in the evening and turn on my computer to start coding, I’ll be stuck in front of the screen for half an hour even if I delete the comment or reply after a few clicks.
The modifications are mainly in the first volume, mainly involving the actions, dialogues, descriptions, details of being bullied, etc. of the characters who were criticized more fiercely. It will not affect the plot. Readers who have read to the back do not need to read it back (plan to re-read it)
except).
Everything you do is in the service of "persistence".
Back to the summary of Volume 3.
"Symphony No. 3 in D minor" is the one that best reflects Nietzsche's philosophy among Mahler's works. It embodies Mahler's top understanding of the "Superman" spirit in "The Birth of Tragedy" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
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The main idea of this work will not be pasted on Baidu Encyclopedia. My personal understanding is this: under the guise of "depicting nature", it describes the world starting from empty chaos, first going through a breakthrough from nothing, and then
A process in which low-level plants transform into high-level animals and higher-level humans, and finally sublimate into angels and the revelation of love.
Or in a nutshell: "Rise higher".
Therefore, no music work has such a "esoteric simulator" as Ma San at its core. The life of the leader of Ma San is incomplete if you have not heard of it ().
When initially setting up the power system of this book, the main climbing structure of the Huita was set as six doors, which was inspired by the structure of the six movements of Mahler's "Third Symphony", and Mahler's
The originally planned seventh movement was deleted and placed in the "Fourth Symphony", which also corresponds to the seventh level of the dome door that cannot be opened by mortal creatures.
In the whole book, the particularity of this volume is self-evident, and the naming of "Summer Noon Dream" destined that the plot of the entire volume from the first chapter to the last chapter will all be presented in the form of a dream.
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If I want to write about a dream, I have never written about it. I tried to summarize some key words at first: such as the sense of time and space that seems to be from another world, the dreamlike atmosphere, and the intermittent twitching.
The sense of detachment, the hidden rational personality, the rising artistic passion, and the sudden awakening from the dream like the bursting of a bubble.
So the first thing I thought about was whether I should make some specializations in the structural design and chapter naming.
Thinking about this, my obsession with "structure" deepened in this volume. In order to express unreal dreams, I gave up the realistic "writing structure" and instead adopted the artistic "formal structure".
"The plot is roughly distributed according to the length ratio of "Mahler's Third Symphony": the longest first movement is the first part, and the second to sixth movements are the second part. The number of chapters in the two parts is roughly the same, and the ending is appropriately done.
of freedom extended.
If the additions in the final chapter are counted as two numbers, in terms of quantitative ratio, they are 54:10:10:12:12:14, which basically meets my previous idea of "musical structure".
Directly using the naming method of first movement/second movement + number + subtitle, it should not be used again in the future, and it can be regarded as a different attempt.
The second attempt was to adjust the main narrative method.
In the past, the music line and the mystery line were intertwined and advanced. Although the music and mystery finally merged together, the events were actually separate. For example, the "Giant" volume troubles first completed the flash mob and then fought the phantom man. "
The "Resurrection" volume first writes about Fanning's exploration of the ruins, and then writes about Kaplan's completion of the premiere.
Generally speaking, it is a linear narrative structure, with music leading to one section, and mystery leading to another section, alternating with each other.
This volume has a "wheel-shaped" narrative structure, with clues pouring in from all directions toward the center, just like the crowds of sleep phenomena in a dream.
By the end, everything collides and the musical performance is a mixture of everything.
In previous concerts, I just wrote how the music would be performed, and at most added some psychological activities of the audience or performers. But for this concert, just the lines I listed in my outline were:
The musical description of the "Third Symphony" itself; the recycling of the entire foreshadowing of the "Meat Sacrifice" ceremony; Fan Ning's inner interpretation of the dream; Fan Ning was finally promoted to the Seeker; the foreshadowing of the cracking scene - Joan and "Miss Scarlet Girl"
The confrontation between "Mother of the Eyes", "The Lost One", and the later lines of "The Disintegration Field"; foreshadowing on the mobile phone - the containment competition between the Special Patrol Office and Fan Ning; foreshadowing of the Fox Lily - solving the suppression of Pogorelic
Threat; Master Lucter, the ending of Luna and Miss Nightingale: the historical projection of the Southland
In this way, every few hundred to a thousand words, I would pull a string to detonate one, and I would not engage in boring fights and injections. All of them were to substantively promote the results, and then end it quickly, as soon as the feelings came.
The climax is like a bubble bursting immediately. Don't leave too much room for words at the end. Don't let the reader release all their emotions. There must be a sense of loss when they wake up from the dream.
I think so, but maybe I just let it go, so my subscriptions keep dropping.
However, after all, I wrote it down endlessly, which is also a challenge for myself.
The last special attempt is that the key words in the preface are repeated frequently throughout the plot.
"Love is a question, and those who desire it always answer with violence and idyll."
Right, the keywords mentioned above are probably what everyone has come up with immediately.
In the past, like the first and second volumes, the main theme was often revealed later in the plot, but this time when Fan Ning embarked on his business journey, the proposition was directly raised.
The reason for doing this is also based on the development method of musical works: presenting the theme and motivation as early as possible at the beginning, and then developing and exploring it in subsequent repetitions, transformations, modulations or counterpoints.
There is no Nietzsche in this old industrial world. People here do not know "Dionysus" and "Apollin" like Fanning. Of course, they have their own vocabulary, calling the former "violence" and the latter "idyllic".
When different desirers lead to different endings, when the "Dionysian spirit" symbolizing "violence" and the "Apollinian spirit" symbolizing "idyllic" are perfectly integrated in Fan Ning's works, "Love is a question" will
At the end of the volume, answers and echoes were obtained.
"Love is a Question" also contains a bit of my own rebellious spirit.
Although the promise is still valid, I am actually not very willing to label a novel as "no heroine", "single heroine" or "harem novel". The relationship between men and women is regarded as the core attribute of a work. This
Secondly, the most important thing is that the relationship between men and women has been completely objectified into a flat thing like "accept one, accept a few or not accept at all", which is like choosing two pounds of pork or three ducks at the vegetable market.
Anyway, writing this is a waste of time, isn’t it?
In this volume, I want to present the love that modern European literati, poets and artists saw, thought, experienced and understood, a kind of love that is obsessed with physical attraction but pays more attention to spirituality, a mixture of holiness and joy, restraint and
Passion, morality and anti-morality. The concept of love in the steam age is why there is such a southern country. The deep love and passion in midsummer are as hot as fire, but "courtly love" or "elegant love" has always been sung and praised.
As for Fan Ning's self-analysis and inner introspection, it can only show a bit of the temperament of modern European artists. It can only be said that he has done his best. The subconscious analysis of dreams in the final chapter is only briefly explained due to space reasons and mainly to serve the plot.
The most important identity correspondence, in fact, throughout the third volume, I buried details of all sizes, including scenery, dialogue, text, small actions, and small plots.
I won’t go into details about the female characters. To give two examples of male characters, the two men Fan Ning befriended on the first night in the South, Trois and Massenegou, were actually two types of self-competition in Fan Ning’s original subconscious mind.
As for the concept of love, which one is dominated by "Apollinian philosophy" and which one is dominated by "Dionysian philosophy", you can try to analyze it.
In short, this "summer noon dream" reflects Fan Ning's depressed emotions in reality. If anyone has discovered any details, they may secretly find it "interesting".
Let me summarize it here.
Thanks to the harbinger of the Silver Alliance, the treasure box that the boss smashed down when I was doubting my life directly stabilized my Taoist heart. Not only did it stabilize after the third volume, but I also had the confidence to finish the fourth volume.
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And thanks——
The first alliance and half of the silver alliance were moved and smiled
I don’t have a good name for the alliance leader.
Leader ErlcRyuu
Leader of the Divination Cauldron
Leader book friend 20170616231840471
The operation students who are working silently behind the scenes——
Lotus Crotch Yan Yan
Youyue Liuli Luna
In addition, I would like to thank the friends in the "Old Symphony Orchestra" book club, as well as the familiar people who often have thick lines in the book review area (maybe they don't match up, and the digital ID is a bit blind, so I can add more!)——
Hanshao Immortal Emperor
bold orange
Boshan
What a rich imagination
Kelsey
Senior Broken Feather
The sea is water
rock
love warrior wilde
deep crimson
If you don’t love the country, you will love mathematics.
The first outstanding ink artist
Principal Trombone of the Wehrmacht Band of the Theolian Wehrmacht Plankov
The most proud in the world
Give me peace of mind, take care of my safety
Fengyun Juejian
Stay Up Late Ultraman
It just doesn't work
Don’t brag or praise Nana Jun
The small basket has not yet become a pole
amarcord
Gödel
dove of white night
Flowing fire warms winter
Han Shisan
Book friend 20230401224701171
Wind-Scarred Grilled Fish
ASKXDR
Geo dumplings
Book Friends 20220811192831390
Qi Chen
Umontius
Jiangjiu
There are always authors out there trying to fish
Ashyx
Nanling Tomb Ghost
korakarin
Cisse Lun'er
student antelope
Yuan Baozhen
bark
The confused person in the sea of books
Book Friends 20200823222506854
Travel in the floating world
Jiu Shan Xuan Qing Xiang Yao Jueze Taoist
Billions of years of famine
Deacon Xingyun
September
reincarnation paradise
ZimuTheFool
Haibo Wave
xha
St is booming
James silly
Guanzhi Sanren
It’s even harder for everyone to chase (bow)
Dividing line
I can still write.
Let’s talk about the next update.
This time, in addition to adjusting the status and refining the concept, there is also another draft revision, but I will tentatively leave it to seven days. Today is the 8K final chapter + 4K summary on the 12th, and I will rest on the 13th-19th. The update will be on the 20th in late
Start (I’ve been doing pigeons a lot lately anyway, haven’t I).
By the way, I thought it would be easy to guess what the next volume is about, but I feel like no one guessed it in the right direction.
The fourth volume, titled "Kingdom of Heaven", is based on Mahler's untitled "Symphony No. 4 in G major". According to the outline design, Fan Ning will enter the abnormal zone in this volume.