Postscript to Volume I
First of all, thank you to all the friends who read this. Not many people have read this book, and every reader is worth cherishing for me, and I hope you can get pleasure from reading.
This novel started out as just a few personal rambling thoughts and inspirations about the Red Devil Sisters' past, about Sixteen Nightsakiya's vampire hunter career, about Marisa's quest for immortality, about the origin of Alice's dolls, and so on. I had a more realistic Gensokyo in my head, some fleshed out characters, and some of the settings that I personally really liked.
In the beginning, it was just a bunch of small short stories, but when I came up with the character of Nalan Tso, all the short stories came together. Nalan Yu's character is not too much, at least under the halo of "protagonist", his role is few, and he hides for more than ten or twenty chapters at every turn. But almost all the story lines in this novel are related to him, and it can be said that without him there would be no whole story. He plays the role of the initiator and tandem of the plot, and my personal opinion in this regard is that the protagonist should push the plot forward, not be pushed forward by the plot. In other words, the so-called "protagonist" should take the initiative to do something, rather than someone else doing something, and he was involved.
In a sense, this character has my personal shadow, and through his mouth, I told a lot of jokes that I wanted to tell a long time ago, and spit out a lot of grooves that I have always wanted to spit out. But in general, he has his own personality and characteristics, his own story, and his story also needs to serve the overall plot. This novel is not his one-man show, nor is it a platform for me to vent my emotions freely, it should be a group show, at least that's what I expected it to be.
Regarding the plot, I really wanted to write it as a story like "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", there is friendship, there is love, there are times when it burns, there are times when it cries, but more importantly, there are beautiful superpower battles. I just like the kind of cool ability setting, all kinds of wits and courage when fighting, and a few particularly cool lines, all in all, this story has to be cool enough. For the sake of the excitement of the battle, the ability setting of the characters can be supermodels, but rather, the stronger and more invincible the setting, the more unexpected it is when it is defeated.
In addition, there are many things in "One Piece" that are worth learning from, such as the super high character utilization rate and foreshadowing recovery rate, the staggering of bright and dark lines, the rhythm control of several small short stories and a large long story, a few small waves and a peak, etc. Eiichiro Oda is a genius, in terms of screenwriting alone, the level of jump is unique, and he draws a super long story that spans more than ten years, and he can still echo back and forth like a single book, which can be said to be very powerful.
Regarding the emotional line, my personal understanding is that the feelings of the characters should be as close to reality as possible. For example, a thousand-year-old monster is unlikely to fall in love at first sight and be jealous like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, for example, a person like Reimu who is used to seeing life and death is unlikely to grind and chirp for a little, and for example, things like love, friendship, and trust are really piled up by time, and they are not so cheap. That's why I love writing Marisa, because among the many "fantastical" and "abnormal" characters in Gensokyo, she is the most "ordinary", which means that I can write about her like an ordinary girl.
This book, strictly speaking, is indeed my first book. We're not professional novelists, we're just writing enthusiasts at best, and we don't have any experience and don't know how to write properly, so we just add a lot of experimental stuff to it. When I write a lot of things, I don't know if the readers like them or not, or I don't think about them at all, after all, the book is not popular, and accordingly, I don't have much pressure to play to my heart's content. Hawkers,When you're inspired, you'll still play better.,When you're not, you'll be stiffer.,The quality of the article fluctuates from time to time.,I think you can read it too.。 But overall, after more than a year of writing, I think I have improved both in writing skills and in the selection and control of content.
I originally planned to write only 500,000 words in the first volume, but it turned out to be everywhere, and I wrote it off. The second volume will be more compact than the first volume, the main line will be more obvious, and the pace will be faster, about 500,000 words. The hero's various love-hate entanglements will end at the end of the second volume, and many other foreshadowings will also be written clearly in the second volume. If you look at it as a whole, the first volume of the whole book can only be regarded as a foreshadowing, and in the second volume, it is the real high-tide part.
That's all I want to say, seeing that this is also the end of the year, when I think about May in reality, it was October in the novel, October in reality, October in the novel, and now it's December in reality, and it happened to be December in the novel, and it turned back after a year...... In conclusion, I would like to sincerely wish you all a happy new year and make your wishes come true in the upcoming 2018.