Game of the World Tree - Chapter 989

989. Final Remarks

I can’t help but write a postscript for the book

, so I’ll start with the postscript.

After two years of writing, “Game of the World Tree” is finally finished. To be honest, I’m a little reluctant to let it go.

In the past two years, a lot of things have happened in reality. During the period of writing this book, I graduated, got a job, and got married.

I always feel that life is constantly moving forward.

As for the ending of this book… it’s quite standard. After all, I still haven’t gotten rid of the influence of the old book and wrote an open-ended one.

Regarding the truth of the world, this is also the ending I thought of before I started writing the book, but… I hesitated for a while in the middle of the book, whether to rewrite the ending. After all, ideas are ideas. When you really write a book, your inspiration and ideas are changing. At that time, I always felt that it was not good to turn fantasy into science fiction at the end.

But in the end, I couldn’t help it.

However, seriously speaking, I still feel that the ending is not handled well now, and it failed to achieve the most desired result. The reason, well… I will talk about it later.

Let me talk about the results first. The current average subscription of this book is 1.1w, which is ten times that of the first book when it was finished, and it is still rising slowly. For me who has only been in my writing career for three years, it is already an extremely surprising result.

The success of World Tree is inseparable from everyone’s support. As a rare female protagonist in a male-oriented novel on Qidian (?), it is already very rare.

Thank you very much!

Well, thank you all for the end.

Now, let’s start to criticize.

Although World Tree has achieved good results, the three-million-word story also made me see many problems.

1. Rhythm disorder.

The most serious point of the whole book is that the rhythm is wrong, especially the foreshadowing of the main line and the ending of each plot.

The main line of World Tree is too procrastinated, and the foreshadowing is too far apart. After the foreshadowing, it did not advance layer by layer and continuously enhance the reader’s expectations. Instead, it kept playing dumb and dragging the rhythm, which eventually led to quite a number of readers losing interest in the main line.

In this case, the problem of the ending is particularly serious, so that it seems a bit disconnected from the whole book.

This is a very fatal problem. If this book is not a gamer flow, it is estimated that this alone is enough to flop.

At the same time, the ending of each plot also has different degrees of anticlimactic problems, resulting in a climax, but not enough excitement.

I reflected on the reasons for these problems, and there are three main reasons:

one is that I lack writing experience and did not make plans in advance;

one is that when I was writing, I did not make the details appropriate. I wrote too much when I should have skipped, and too little when I should have written in detail. Sometimes I even wrote nonsense…

The last one is that I am impatient and it is easy to have a tiger start but a snake end.

Of course, when it comes to the ending, there are also repeated hesitations when I was writing, changing my mind halfway, and finally turning back…

These shortcomings must be corrected. For me, the most effective way should be to conceive the content distribution and cool point settings of the plot in advance, and to stick to my original intention, continue to create, constantly exercise, constantly think, and accumulate experience.

Second, the characterization of the characters failed.

In my opinion, the characterization of the characters in this book is quite unsuccessful.

Especially the protagonist, the protagonist of the whole book has hardly formed his own distinctive personality. Leaving aside the player element, the characterization of the protagonist is quite weak and has not stood up from beginning to end.

It can be said that if it were not for the player, this book would have almost no appeal.

In fact, it is not just the protagonist, the characterization of the characters in the whole book has problems, not clear enough, templated, many dialogues and practices do not match the role identity, and so on.

I have mentioned these problems in my previous remarks at the end of the book.

After reflection, I think the biggest reason is that I did not set up the characters in advance and did not lay a good foundation. Although there was a main line when writing, I wrote whatever I thought of when it came to the characters, and I did not have my own in-depth thinking, so I failed to make the characters come alive.

This is something I will try my best to avoid in my next book.

Character portrayal does not mean that it should be written in a cumbersome and detailed manner, but it requires the use of appropriate language, actions, appearance and expressions, as well as plots related to the characters to make the other party come alive.

Sometimes, as long as the design is exquisite, one or two sentences are enough to make the character stand out and make everyone impressed.

This is also the realm I will pursue next.

3. The plot is split.

The main plot of this book is too separated from the player plot, which further drags down the rhythm.

This is a problem with the selection of materials, and it is also a problem that was ignored at the moment of conceiving the book. For this book, there is no solution, but the new book should try to avoid it.

The lesson is that in future creations, whether it is the main line or the branch line, all plots must be able to be integrated in various ways, interconnected with each other, and strung into a tight line.

4. Poor literary skills.

There are too many repeated descriptions, too many repetitive words, and sometimes the descriptions are too pale and weak.

The descriptions of battles are terrible, and the big scenes are all the same. They have no characteristics of their own, and they are not written wonderfully.

The reason is that there is too little accumulation. This problem can only be improved through a lot of reading, conscious imitation and learning, and continued creation.

5. Want to write everything.

This is the most common mistake made by novice writers. Although I have written two books, this problem still exists.

When creating a story, you don’t need to explain everything, nor do you need to pour out everything at once. Instead, you need to unravel the story, go deeper layer by layer, and keep moving forward.

Sometimes, you should also leave appropriate fantasy blanks to leave room for readers’ imagination.

At the same time, when creating in the future, you should also avoid watering down.

The above are the most serious problems of this book. There are some other minor problems, but they are not serious.

When creating the next book, these mistakes should be avoided as much as possible.

Regarding the new book, I don’t have any specific ideas yet. I have had some ideas, but none of them have been finalized. I am a little interested in the theme of witches, but considering the lower and upper limits of the performance, I am a little hesitant… I am even a little confused about whether I should continue with the female lead.

I want to know what everyone thinks. You can leave as many comments as you want in this chapter. I will read every one of them.

After all, when it comes to writing, in addition to what you like, you also have to write stories that everyone likes.

Next, I need one to two months to think carefully before I can finally determine the theme and plan of the new book.

However, before starting a new book, let me finish writing the extra chapter of “World Tree”!

Please don’t remove this book from the bookshelf yet. There will be several extra chapters to come, which will be released in the next few days.

As a text that focuses on group portraits, the extra chapters should still be worth reading. (Laughs)

Dear book friends, thank you for your company

for the past two years. I look forward to seeing you again when there is a new book in the future.

– Click

(End of this chapter)