Chapter 111: Back to the old business
"War Behemoths
Appearance: An orc riding a heavily armored beast that resembles a rhinoceros.
Game Setting: The effect is a war cry, destroying a follower with an attack power of 2 or less.
Novel setting: A centurion belonging to the Dark Lord's army, he is considered a mid-range miscellaneous fish combat power unit in the army. ”
A passage automatically emerges from the notebook, complete with a stick figure in addition to the textual description, and after setting it, Harvey is immersed in the positioning of the character of the volume, and he sits at his desk, ready to resume his first career in this world - writing novels.
He should have had a better choice, such as being more undisciplined and taking the books that belonged to Earth from the Endless Library and signing them with his name. This is a quick and easy way to do this, and it is most suitable for Harvey, who has no time, and even if he has a literary problem, Harvey can carry Alexandre Dumas's novels alone.
But Harvey believes that "The Count of Monte Cristo" is already the pinnacle of popular fiction, and after centuries of precipitation, a few flaws in the original work have also been modified by Harvey. It is for this reason that Harvey was reluctant to carry Alexandre Dumas's other novels, but with "The Count of Monte Cristo" moved his cemetery into the Panthéon, Harvey could not find a second historical popular novel that could surpass "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Writing purely for the sake of writing has no meaning, but will be criticized for regressing the level.
The field of literature is both broad and narrow, and like most art circles, the verification of whether a work is excellent does not lie in the reader's feelings but in time, and the precipitation of time can confirm the excellence of the work beyond the limitations of the times and be widely disseminated. It just so happens that Harvey least wants the result, instead of working hard in the field of literature for decades to mix up the title of a literary master, it is better to devote this time to the study of magic, and a man's dream should be "the sea of stars".
Harvey wanted to write a novel because he wanted to create a board game called Hearthstone.
Why does Hearthstone have anything to do with the novel car? This is an obvious conclusion.
GWENT card is the setting in the game "The Witcher 3", because of its simple and interesting gameplay and rich linkage with NPCs to attract a large number of players to indulge in it, even the game is jokingly called "GWENT card 3" by players, buy GWENT card to get "The Witcher 3", because of the popularity of GWENT card, the follow-up is independent of "The Witcher 3" GWENT card game, the game mode is similar to "Hearthstone".
Not to mention "Hearthstone", the setting of Blizzard Games is rumored, even if you haven't played the online version of "World of Warcraft", you can know a little about these contents if you have played the stand-alone version of Warcraft.
Both card games are built on the same foundation, a world that is widely accepted by players.
GWENT is based on the story of The Witcher 3, and Hearthstone is based on World of Warcraft, and without these rich and interesting worlds and settings, the charm of these two games is at least half or more.
Harvey doesn't have the ability to make triple-A games, so the simplest, crude and effective way is naturally novels, which are used to complete the pale content of the game.
Popular fiction, fantasy popular fiction, takes the world as the pattern, departs from the narrow structure of contemporary literature, and fantasy novels similar to "The Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire" are Harvey's goals.
Harvey can't be said to be a big fan of Western fantasy novels before he crossed over, and he also has a complete set of Western fantasy settings in his heart, and this world originally contains Western fantasy elements, which is very convenient to set up.
Another advantage of completing the game with novels is that it is not a lot of work for Harvey, who learned a general spell [Sketching] from the magic book brought by Count Henrietta, and the general spell used to record information for the caster is several times faster than Harvey's writing speed with [Tiny Miracle].
Now, in theory, Harvey can write more than a million words a day, provided he has all the content in mind.
Harvey's ability to make a real version of Hearthstone was not possible, and [Elf's Autofactory] gave him hope, thinking that it would be a good decision to lay down the background elements first, and it only took two or three hours a day for Harvey to create more than 50,000 words of novel content without sacrificing the quality of the novel.
Harvey didn't rush to write, compared to "The Count of Monte Cristo", the novel that Harvey was ready to name "Dark Age" tested his writing skills more, "Dark Age" background and world setting are mostly ready to refer to "The Lord of the Rings", "The Lord of the Rings" is the most orthodox in Harvey's opinion, and one of the most wonderful Western fantasy novels, when he was watching the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings", "The White Wizard" Gandalf rode a white horse from the place where the sun rose to lead the Rohan cavalry to charge the orc troops, but he had goosebumps all over his body, I was excited and didn't sleep all night.
"It's not easy to write an epic novel." Harvey closed his eyes and recalled the afterglow of the movie in his memory, muttering that the novel can express a lot of things, but it is not as intuitive as the movie, he needs to think about the setting, scrutinize the plot, conceive the world of each character, and even put thought into the structure of the novel.
Generally, the structure of novels is linear, and if you want to highlight the grandeur and epic sense of the content, it is best to use a three-dimensional structure and a multi-line narrative.
Whether it is a movie or a novel, different structures will be able to achieve different effects, the classic movie "Pulp Fiction" or "Two Big Smoking Guns", the animation "Wine of Eternal Life", these are typical three-dimensional structure films, centered on the plot or timeline, the audience usually only feels puzzled after watching a little content, what kind of thing is this filming, unclear, inexplicable, and when the plot of the movie is on the right track, the audience will be amazed by the director's ingenious conception.
"Pulp Fiction" is a shit movie full of accidents if it is filmed in ordinary ways, just like the name, no one knows the plot of this pulp novel in the next second, the person who was previously considered the protagonist was killed in the next second, one of the protagonists and the big boss met on the street corner, and when they were fighting, they were imprisoned and abused, and many other plots are ridiculous.
"The Wine of Eternal Life" is the adventure of a crazy couple in ordinary production techniques, and there is nothing to see about it.
It is the three-dimensional shooting technique that gives the soul of the two works.
There are very few works of this kind, because even the intuitive way of expression in a movie is like walking a tightrope, thankless, let alone a novel.
If Harvey intends to use this method to write a novel, he will inevitably need to fully understand the content of the novel he wants to write, set every detail, and straighten out all the logical relationships.
Before writing the book, Harvey estimated that he would need at least ten days to set the outline and outline of the novel.