To put it simply, I drank quite a bit of alcohol today.

I was also drunk but not so unconscious because of the drinking, so I plan to share some experiences about the author with readers today. As you all know, "What kind of experience is XXX?" is a certain body, and as someone who doesn't answer any questions at all, but can watch other people's answers, I can still write about some experiences.

There's a reason why this nonsense is called a "middle-level summary", because more than half of the content of the novel "Moon Shield" is written. As for more than half, that's another matter, (at least in the author's eyes, more than three-fifths, or maybe more than half).

For a novel that may be cut in half in terms of topic selection and may be stillborn, "Moon Shield" is still strong enough. Why is it strong? Because there are two aspects, one is that its author has been persisting and has not given up easily, and the other is that although it is not profitable, the editors of Zonghengwang also think that it is necessary to exist.

In fact, for the author, whether a work can be published or not is definitely more important than any other result. If you don't get the contract of the editor of Zongheng.com, maybe you won't be able to see this nonsense, and you won't be able to see the immature "Moon Shield". So in the current era, sometimes the person who gives you a chance is more important than the opportunity itself, after all, Maxima often has, Bole does not often have.

For me, it's not that Bole is the most important thing.

"Moon Shield" did not get many recommended positions, perhaps it has something to do with the content, the subject matter, the writing skills, the author's qualifications, and the right time, place and people. But none of this has hindered the author's determination to continue writing the story, as he said at the beginning of the "Suggest Readers Read It", this novel will not be a half-work for the author, it will have an ending. This ending will not be based on a bad ending or a eunuch (in fact, the editor had already proposed a similar proposal at the beginning of the year), it will eventually have its own ending.

Regarding the ending of "Moon Shield", in fact, the author has planned it for a long time, but when the plot is written by the author, no one, including me, can tell what the ending will be. One thing is for sure, it is closely related to the two protagonists, Fidel and Avi.

Speaking of the two protagonists, at the beginning, the editor asked me about the two protagonists of the novel "Moon Shield" - who is the real protagonist, after all, most novels only have one male protagonist, but I wrote about the two people at the beginning of the novel.

This is not a good thing for getting recommendations, but the author himself does it anyway. After all, the reason for this is because the story I set up at the beginning needs to be narrated by two protagonists at the same time. If you only have one protagonist, it is difficult to use two perspectives (in fact, multiple perspectives, such as Miranda...). To tell the story and the world I want to tell, after all, the author occasionally becomes the god of the story (more on that later).

As a novice web writer, such a start is difficult and difficult to gain trust. Actually, for me, I don't think there is any difference between online writers and traditional writers, after all, people like me who want to write stories can find the best platform to write stories is the Internet, so I have no hesitation to devote myself to online novels. Saying that it is an online novel is just different from other novel carriers. Ancient and past novels were written with a pen and written on words, while web novel writers like me used a keyboard to type words and record them in online documents. Many things will change depending on the tools and the different levels of efficiency - the impression that the web post is shoddy must also be supported by an efficient computer.

In my opinion, many of today's "Internet writers" are not actually different from ancient writers and former writers, as long as you have something to say.

Of course, many readers will think that the things expressed by online authors are far less profound than those of classic classics, but there are also some online authors who do not want to write profound stories, they just want to write stories, or even write paragraphs. Who can be 100% sure that the stories that you regard as classics have their authors in mind those profound meanings at the beginning of their creation, are you sure that they are not the profound meanings interpreted by the Chinese teacher?

Well, seeing this, there will definitely be many readers who are annoyed, thinking that Xie Fan, the author of this book, is really drunk. But I also feel a little relieved, at least the readers here must be readers of this book, after all, there are not many people who can put up with my verbose narrative style, and I think "Moon Shield" is such a style.

Then one word comes to mind – long-winded Creator. This title is the most appropriate for "Moon Shield", after all, even the author of the author will find in several drafts that the author of this novel is really verbose and verbose. Compared with what I think is an excellent novel, "Moon Shield" will always use multiple perspectives to analyze one thing, to dissect a concept, like... Well, no analogy. For online readers who are accustomed to reading the flow of writing, it must be as uncomfortable as being forked by hellfire (in fact, the author himself is also a verbose person in life, like Tang Seng who traveled to the west).

But.

But I will still insist on writing it, write it in my own way, and I will not succumb to the evil forces.

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With regard to the issue mentioned above.

I'm sure it will be improved in the next novel - one might think that this author named Xie Fan has plans for a second novel?!

I can tell you responsibly that there is. And unlike this one, which is set in the European Middle Ages and involves magic, the second novel will be a new attempt. To some extent, when I was writing Moon Shield, I didn't think that I would always write fantasy novels, after all, it is a difficult thing to choose a foreigner's name, their surname and first name are different, and it takes a lot of brains and shortcuts. The most important thing is that I only wanted to write a fantasy novel from the beginning, and I personally prefer science fiction.

So my second novel in the future (one year or two years?) will use the Chinese name as the name of the protagonist, so that it is easier for the reader to remember - I have many characters, but the personality is not distinct? A skilled teacher once pointed out.

Well, I'll admit that, after all, I don't think I'm good enough, and that's something I really want to improve.

Drunk and sober, in fact, not drunk at all... Self-control is something I've always been proud of, after all, I don't want to let my sanity be lost somewhere, even for a moment.

Regarding experience, the short and medium-sized mini-stories that have been written in the past cannot be a reference for a long novel, and writing a novel of more than a million words on the Internet is not the same, it is completely different. This difference made it difficult for me to move forward, but after a certain period of perseverance and writing the story according to the fake outline, I gradually embarked on a "smooth" path.

However, because there is too much laissez-faire, some plots of the novel "Moon Shield" seem unreasonable. These so-called unreasonableness seem to me to be an inevitable result, but they will not be pits, nor will they be "derailed", let alone destroy the structure of the plot. They will eventually be solved by me, and then the whole novel will be fleshed out.

Regarding the plot, even my best friend could not give an opinion that was accepted by me, after all, the author himself is very subjective, and his sense of autonomy has developed to the point of no return.

About the characters, the characters are interesting, and this kind of fun is what the author wanted to invest in at first, but it turned out not to be satisfactory.

In fact, as early as the second volume, I wanted to make a table of characters and put it in the "works related" section, so that readers can easily understand the characters whose names are translated into English. According to my personal statistics, there are more than 200 characters in the novel "Moon Shield", and these characters are definitely characters with names and plots. For readers, they are like stars in the sky, they can't write them all down, look at the back and forget the front, after all—they still lack the ability to shape the characters.

However, the author has a "character Excel"!, which is a character document that records all the characters who appear in the story. Each tile corresponds to a character with a plot, appearance, personality, and background, and when he dies in the plot, his name will be changed by the author.

So, while reading my novels, remembering the names of the characters, remembering the things the characters have done, and then corresponding, is a difficult thing to do, and it is something that I didn't notice from the beginning. Here, the author still needs to apologize to the readers of "Moon Shield", if possible... No reader has ever complained to me anyway (bracket laughs).

That's pretty much the end of it. These things are not aggrieved in the author's heart, but tonight I have a new perspective on certain things, so I hope to find a place to record it with some words. It's like the "some words that come from feelings" in the related works, and they are also sent with feelings.

About the author.

I'm a simple person, and it's simple because my original intention in writing a story is simple, that is, to write a story that I want to write. I say it's simple, because in my eyes, life is inherently simple, but people choose to be complicated, not that it is inherently complicated.

But I'm also a complicated person, and those complexities are things that I encounter in life, and those things don't necessarily appear in "Moon Shield". And the original intention of writing a story is simple, but what you want to seek after writing a story is very complex.

Finally answer some questions from readers and friends.

Q: Why the dual protagonists?

A: Because the story needs it - actually because of the author's dual personality...

Q: Your novels haven't been on the shelves!

A: Of course, if the grades are not good or the writing is not good, it can't be put on the shelves, and I only write stories, so it's better to leave the matter of how to sell novels to professionals. Perhaps, it is in the best state now, after all, I can't be a god-man who is getting more and more words a day.

Q: Why didn't you build a readership?

A: Actually, I'm quite lazy, the readership will give people a sense of responsibility, and I'm afraid of taking on any responsibility, and the number of readers is not very large, and I don't have a sense of marketing...

Q: How long will this novel be written?

A: It's hard to be sure because I belong to the author who sets the characters, personalities, and endings and then makes the plot feel reined. Therefore, the original set end word count is estimated to be unattainable, and it may be 15%-30% more than expected.

One final word... This "mid-level summary" may be revised from time to time, after all, it is an accident.