PS, this is a single chapter written before going to bed after writing the main text last night, and it was only sent out after I got up today.

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The war between China and South Korea is not over yet, and I'm sorry that with my current ability, the outbreak can only last so long.

When I said this, I thought of when I wrote "The Hero of the Forbidden Zone" and "The Winner is King", when I watched three watches, five watches, and ten watches a day, there was a sigh of "the past is like the wind".

I think Lin Hai listened to the Tao at the beginning, and he could update 1 million words a month, and 25,000 words a day for ten consecutive days......

At the beginning, I was also an author who could write 4.6 million words in just 10 months.

And now I don't even write half of that in a year.

Some people say I'm not short of money anymore, so the speed goes down.

Not really, who hates a lot of money?

But as long as I can raise the speed, I can make three or five changes a day, and my score in this book can be like this?

But it's really not fast.

On the one hand, because of my health, it's hard for me to think about sitting in front of the computer for more than ten hours a day without being distracted.

Now I may be out of my state after half an hour of writing, which may be a sign of lack of energy.

On the other hand, as I get older, more family responsibilities are placed on my shoulders, and I can't just think about the story, the plot and the characters like I used to.

Now I need to think about all kinds of problems with my children, my wife, and my parents, which are not big problems, most of them are trivial, but trivial things are particularly energy-intensive, and this kind of small things also make it difficult for me to fully immerse myself in myself.

Take the day I announced the outbreak of the third watch as an example.

It was a Saturday, and my wife and I went out early in the morning with our kids to take him to a Lego robot coding competition.

He competed, and I grabbed the time in the café upstairs.

An hour later, the game was over, and I packed up my things and went to meet them for lunch.

After eating outside, I drove home about half past one, and after a short rest, my wife took the children to help with homework, and I hurried up to code words.

At half past two, he packed up his things and went out again, taking the child to a karate teaching ceremony - he had been practicing this all along, at first hoping that he would be able to exercise, but now it has become habitual.

During the ceremony, I found a table and chair outside a bakery next to me and sat down to continue coding.

Next to it is the awarding ceremony, there is music and the shouts of the host, and I am more than ten meters away with the big sun codeword.

It didn't take long to write, maybe less than half an hour. My son was about to take a tie on stage, so I packed my things again and put on my bag to take pictures with him.

Then I changed places, found a café codeword, and had dinner by the way.

It was the longest time of the day when I could code words continuously, from four o'clock in the afternoon to eight o'clock in the evening - for dinner in between.

It was at the café that I read everyone's chapter and book review petition, and promised everyone to break out.

Wait until eight o'clock, pack up and leave again to pick up my son from the place where he learned to play football - because it's just upstairs from the café, I don't have to change places, otherwise I'll have to find another place in the middle.

After picking up the child, I drove the child and his wife home, let the child wash, and I turned on the computer to continue coding.

I wrote until half past one in the morning to finish the day's update.

This kind of situation that will always be interrupted, always have to change places, always have to pack up and get up and leave and find a place to sit down and code words, it is really difficult for me to immerse myself in the book, so I have to find the state again every time I enter the state, and finally get into the state, and I will be interrupted after writing for a while......

And such days are almost the norm during this summer vacation.

I'm not trying to complain to you, I'm just trying to give you an idea of what it's like to be a full-time web writer on a daily basis.

And seven years ago, when I wrote "The Winner is King", I didn't have children, I had just gotten married, and I was still living with my parents. Every day when I wake up and eat breakfast, I can start writing until I eat at noon, continue to write after eating at noon, write until I eat at night, continue to write after dinner, and write until I go to bed.

Nothing could bother me except eat and go to the toilet, and I was still young, energetic, and vigorous.

And the day I just described, did you notice that I didn't have time to spend with my wife at all, and even when I went to sleep, it was often when she fell asleep that I went to bed.

My wife used to stay with me, but then she found out that she couldn't survive me...... can only be defeated.

There were times when she and I couldn't talk a little a day, except for the necessary exchanges.

She was actually waiting to be able to talk and talk to me every night when she went to bed. But I'm sorry, most of the time I can't even meet her request – unless I talk to her about books. Well, even though my wife doesn't watch football or read the books I write, I still talk to her when I'm carvining, and she helps with a lot of great ideas.

If I can go to bed before one o'clock in the morning at the end of the day, it's considered early to bed.

In addition to the fact that this kind of life trivialities affect my code words, in addition to my physical impact on my code word speed, the book itself also makes it difficult for me to get up quickly.

I'm going to give you a report on how I write a book in a normal day.

Except for the kind of running around and seeing the stitches and needles I just said.

Every morning, when I wake up, I go over everything I wrote the day before, checking for typos, revising and rewriting if I have a better idea. Why not check for revisions as soon as you're done?

This is to allow me to withdraw from the emotions and mindsets of what I wrote on the first day, and to examine what I wrote yesterday from a different perspective, and maybe make new discoveries.

Maybe I was stuck yesterday with something that I wanted to die, but today I suddenly figured it out.

Because I slept late, I got up late, and after this change, it was almost eleven o'clock, and this is when the new content began.

If you're in good shape, you'll be able to finish a chapter by dinner, and if you're in a bad state, you'll be able to finish a chapter by 10 o'clock in the evening.

If you're not in a good state, it's likely that you've worked hard to write today, and you'll be in bed at night and think about it, and you'll wake up the next day and rewrite it.

That's why it's important for me to have a manuscript in stock – I'm not the kind of writer who is extremely talented and writes books in one go. I'll be stuck a lot, I'll hit a bottleneck, and I'll find that the chapters I've written before are invalid......

If there is no manuscript to save, it can only be interrupted.

Some readers say that I can't move two shifts every day, one chapter in the morning and one chapter in the afternoon, without passion and no hope at all.

But that's what I've done my best to maintain.

The book has a minimum of manuscripts, and after the two chapters are automatically updated the next day, there will only be one chapter.

From only one chapter to being able to give you three consecutive updates in the past two days, it took me a month to slowly save up the manuscript.

There are also readers who say that you write slowly and write water.

When we talk about "water", I think it may be that we have a different understanding of "water".

For some readers, not writing about football games, not writing about the protagonist's goal is water.

But for me, only writing about the game, only writing about the protagonist scoring a goal is water.

Match after game, written round by round according to the schedule of Europe's top five leagues, the protagonist scores goals in each game, and collects various championships and individual honors season after season......

It's easy to write, but I don't like it.

It's not football, it's football strategy.

"The Fox of the Forbidden Zone" is completely empty, why do I still write it according to the rhythm of real football? Why can't I write about the stories and fates of the characters that revolve around football?

What looks off the pitch is just as important as anything that has nothing to do with football.

Because they shape each character along with the game itself.

Only the game, Hulai is just a goal machine, he has no way to come and no way to go, he just wanted to enter the school team from the beginning to now open his mouth to win a championship, how this happened step by step, it can't be reflected by the game alone.

What is his living environment, what is the personality of his parents, how did such parents and living environment shape him, who people appear around him, who like him, and who hate him...... It all takes all together to create a complete Hulay.

Otherwise, all you see is just a "paper man", the front looks like a person, and when you go around the back, you can see that it is just cardboard.

Hu Lai is like this, Li Qingqing is the same, Li Ziqiang, Xie Lan, Hu Lixin, Zhao Kangming, Wang Guangwei, Zhang Qinghuan, Chen Xingyi...... And so on and so forth, and so on and so forth, a lot of the people who appear in my book at the moment are like that.

Of course, given the length of the article, the characters who are not very important will have fewer scenes, and there will be fewer descriptions around them.

But the meaning of that meaning, no one who is isolated only exists in the plot of a football game.

Without the depictions outside of football, the depictions of "water" that some readers perceive, the character is untenable, meaningless, just a symbol.

For example, if there were no previous episodes that started from entering the National Olympic training team, how could Hu Lai's hat trick against the South Korean team have enough explosive effect? Is it just up to me to say a grievance between China and South Korea before the game?

I said at the end of the first volume that even when my grades were particularly bad, I insisted on writing the school football plot in my mind word for word according to my original idea.

So now I still say this, no matter how many people don't like those plots outside the court, I will still insist on writing, writing completely, and writing full, because every word in these plots is the cornerstone of my construction of this world, the clouds and wind in the sky of this world, the fish in the water, the soil, the green plants, the three-cornered plum blossoms on the balcony, and the sunset in the group photo......

Without these, the world is incomplete and unsubdued.

Without that, there would be no point in me writing this story, so I might as well distill the main idea in one sentence and tell you that the book is finished.

I wrote this book, not ...... Or I don't just want to write about how Hulay is killing all sides in the world of football.

I also want to put my years on football, life, family, children, dreams, and love...... Thoughts on many things are kept in a book, in a world.

When I read the books I like to read, I feel like I'm immersed in the world created by the author. When the book is finished, there will be a strong sense of melancholy, and I feel empty in my heart.

That's how I felt after I watched "The Cover of Han" in one breath for several days in a row.

I wrote my book with this idea of "I want to create a world".

So even though some plots seem unnecessary to some readers, I still write because I know it's necessary.

I have my own persistence and stubbornness in this.

And are the plots outside of these games written too much? I don't think it's too much, it's necessary to write, not a word is too much.

Let's just say that from the end of last season's Chinese League A to the current battle between China and South Korea, some readers have counted it, and there are no games in the chapter.

But I don't write a book based on how many chapters there must be competitions. I arranged the content according to the character creation and plot progression.

From Chapter 66 to Chapter 103, in nearly forty chapters, there are only two inconsequential games, one is the last round of the Central League, a ceremonial game, and the other is a warm-up match for the training team.

These two games can basically be regarded as no games.

So what did I write outside of these two games?

Hu Lai went home, eased his relationship with his parents, tried to reunite with Coach Li, and his interaction and relationship with Li Qingqing gradually progressed; There is also the finalization of a new contract with the club; the reconciliation of Hulai's mother and grandfather; Take the opportunity of the World Cup to briefly introduce the overview of world football; Using a game similar to FM Football Manager to visualize Hulai's abilities and also lay the groundwork for the future story, and the football game itself is also necessary for this to shape the world; Attention from national teams; the intersection of Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai's respective futures and fates with Hu Lai; The National Olympic training camp is equivalent to opening a new copy, new teammates and new roles are appearing one after another, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the training camp to continue to develop with Li Qingqing; Through Guo Junfu's perspective, Hu Lai's current ability is described; A party not only reflects Hu Lai's ability, but also shows the easter eggs and tacit understanding of his relationship with Li Qingqing; Through the East Asian Cup, we will describe the grievances and hatreds between Chinese football and South Korean football in this time and space, and bring out the two main opponents in this age group in the future...... Finally, the blockbuster in the Sino-Korean war was born.

So much content, I summed it up so simply and finished it in a few hundred words, it seems that the previous dozens of chapters are really watery.

But just looking at these inductions, can we really understand the world and characters in this?

Or if I write it another way, Hu Lai went home and went on a date with Li Qingqing, and I mentioned a paragraph in the text: "Hu Lai and Li Qingqing made an appointment to meet and had a meal, and after the meal, they went shopping and talked about each other's ideals, Hu Lai was a little melancholy and lost, because Li Qingqing was going to play the World Cup, but he didn't even know where the World Cup door was going...... After returning home, Hu Lai received a call from Uncle Yong, telling him that the contract had been negotiated, so he said goodbye to his parents and returned to the club......"

Is it?

Probably, but not what I wanted to write about.

I wanted to write something that might be a bit tedious, and I took the trouble to describe things other than the main character, which may be watery from the perspective of serialization, and the pace was slow.

But when I wrote it, I was thinking about what the effect would be when the book was finished, as a whole.

I hope that when the time comes, people will be willing to read it again, watch it more often, and read more things in one sitting.

Of course, I also understand the opinions and dissatisfaction of readers about this, for example, some people say that if it can break out, in fact, everything is not a problem.

I agree with this statement 100 percent.

But the problem is that I can't write this book with quality and quantity, not to mention whether I can still do ten or five changes a day, even if I am asked to do three changes a day.

Let's just say that in order to ensure my current quality, the speed can't be improved, which is a fact.

Quality and quantity are a very helpless paradox in many cases.

Of course, I also hope that I can make three or four changes every day, and also ensure that the quality does not slip.

It's just that "the concubine can't do it"!

Occasionally, I mean occasionally, we can have an important game like this time, and if the manuscript allows, we can break out, which is very good for me now......

That's basically it, because it's written wherever you want it to go, so it looks a little trivial and messy.

After all, this is to casually talk to everyone about the single chapter written, which is not the same as writing the main text. I didn't have to choreograph the story, I didn't have to think about which passage was better at the front and which was better at the end, and I didn't even try to fix the typos......

The nearly 5,000 words I took the time to write before going to bed after writing the main text of the day—and even then, by the time I wrote this, it was already 1:40 a.m. on August 25.

My wife was already asleep, and before I went to bed, I hugged her and apologized to her, after all, strictly speaking, it was already the Qixi Festival......

My main purpose in writing this chapter is to hope that we can all understand each other.

When you see that the plot is not moving at the pace you expected, please do not rush to curse. If you chase harder, you can open the automatic subscription to raise it first, one week a month.

All I can guarantee is to write this book as well as I can, and hopefully the quality will not deteriorate by the time I finish it.

I will create this world according to my plan and rhythm, everyone has confidence in me, I write slowly, you read slowly. I don't pre-design the word count, and I don't set the length.

It's over when it's time to finish, and it doesn't matter if it's three million words or seven million words.

Now that I'm more than a million words old and haven't gone abroad, I don't care about this kind of thing at all, because the story is going smoothly, Hulai is growing, his football career is just beginning, and he still has a long life ahead of him.

The road is under your feet, just walk, no matter how long the road is?

When you reach the end and look back, there are bumps and bumps along the way, as well as magnificent legends, as well as the ordinary life of roadside wildflowers.

This is the story of Hulay, and the world in which he lives.

At that time, I hope that when I leave this world with you, I will be a little melancholy, a little empty, and a little satisfied.

Thank you.

(End of chapter)