Fox in the Penalty Area

The first volume is finally finished. I looked at the word count in WORD, and there are 697,860 characters excluding spaces, nearly 700,000 words.

I did intend to write the campus chapter in detail at the beginning, but I didn't expect that there would be so many words in the end.

And in fact, this campus chapter is not a complete campus chapter. After all, it lacks a lot of campus life scenes, and there are relatively few explanations of Hu Lai's campus life except football.

But there is no way, if there are so many, I estimate that it will take a million words to stop.

Wide to, but not necessary.

Because after all, this is not a book that only writes about the campus. If I want to write about the campus alone, I should start a new book instead of doing so in this book.

So according to my plan, taking the two national competitions as the main line and writing a complete account of Hu Lai's growth on campus will be considered as achieving the goal.

Next comes the chapter on professional football, which is the centerpiece of this book.

I will also try to show you a completely fictional world in the following stories-to be honest, I don’t have much confidence now, and I don’t know if I can satisfy everyone, but I will try my best. I know it's difficult, very difficult, because more than once in the feedback, I saw comments like "It's all empty? There's no sense of substitution".

But I still want to try it.

Like Hu Lai, don't know if your career will be successful, but you have to try, right? How do you know if you don't try?

As for why the chapter on the campus as a novice village has to be written so long, I explained it in Chapter 49 "The Gate to the New World" before, so I won't repeat it here.

In short, after I finished writing, I went back and read the first volume, and felt that it was relatively successful in writing Hu Lai as a player's start, which was authentic and credible.

From a rookie who was ridiculed and excluded by others and knew nothing, he grew up little by little to an opponent who could wrestle with a strong enemy, and was even regarded as an opponent who was chased by a strong enemy. I wrote this process.

Next is the professional football chapter.

At the end of the first volume, I told Hu Lai the risks of professional football through the mouths of Hu Lai's father and Li Ziqiang. This actually represents part of my point of view - I don't want to write this book as the kind of idea that only relying on the blood of the second year, can ignore the problems of the facts, and forcibly exaggerate "dreams are invincible" and "dreams are great". story.

Maybe it's because of old age,

After seeing a lot of helplessness in society, is it more realistic?

It is indeed great to have a dream, but the dream can only take root if it falls on the ground. But how easy is it to land? If dreams are so easy to achieve, what is the value of dreams?

I didn’t write the first volume as Hu Lai. Relying on his championship and performance in a few words, he persuaded his father to agree to take the path of professional football. In the end, the family was harmonious and everyone was happy. Hello, everyone. Well, it's also based on this reason - unrealistic, impossible, too childish.

After all, I am now the father of a seven-year-old child, and I can somewhat understand the mentality and thoughts of being a father.

It is not easy for an adult with fixed three views to be persuaded. I have seen it on Weibo in recent years...

Not to mention that the person who tried to convince him was still his own son, a character who naturally "what do little kids know?" in his heart.

His own experience also made him not believe in his son's vision and expectations for the future, but only regarded them as childish and innocent fantasies, and dismissed them from the bottom of his heart.

At the same time, as a father with a strong desire for control, he will naturally react violently when his son Tutu resists his control.

I know that writing a father-son quarrel and trying so hard to portray a character who is on the opposite side of the protagonist is not very labor-intensive, and it will arouse a lot of people's disgust.

But I still wrote it like this, because Hu Lixin is a character I really want to portray seriously. I don't care if the character I portray is likable or not--he's not there to be likable--what I care about is whether this person is real and represents a part of this person in Hu Lai's world Whether it is a living person with a mind of his own.

By the way, Li Ziqiang is also such a character, and he was not written for likability, so I didn't deliberately portray him in a positive image, which caused people to hate him a lot, which is normal.

Going back to Hu Lixin, I can even say that the focus and hidden main line of the first half of this book is completely the entanglement between father and son. It is about how a low self-esteem and sensitive father faces his son. How can a son who has become naughty under his father's suppression get along with such a father.

There is a line in Li Zongsheng's "Newly Written Old Songs" that really touched me:

"It is very likely that two men will only look alike throughout their lives. Those who are lucky will become confidantes, and those who are unlucky will only be A and B."

I was thinking about Hu Lixin and Hu Lai, will this happen?

What should I do if I don't want to fall into this cycle?

In fact, in the domestic chapter of the professional league, the knot between Hu Lai and Hu Lixin will be gradually untied. After all, there is still a career line between the two.

But it is not simply to untie the knot through a successful career.

I can’t spoil it now, I can only say that not long after I opened the book, I already thought about the plot of the father and son reaching some kind of reconciliation, and even the chapter name of the specific chapter, I just waited until the end. It's about time.

That was a big climax in my mind, a scene that I had repeatedly sketched in my mind.

I look forward to writing it out for everyone to see.

Even when this book was just released and my grades were not good, what supported me to write down was that I wanted to write that picture, that story, and that chapter title for everyone to see.

Well, that's all for the first volume, and the next is the testimonials.

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This is a belated posting testimonial.

According to the usual practice, when every book is listed on V, there should be a testimonial.

Every one of my previous books has such a testimonial on the shelves.

But this book doesn't.

Why not?

In fact, before the book is put on the shelves, I really plan to use the testimonials to chat with you.

But reality is always full of surprises.

On the day when it was put on the shelves, on the morning of May 1st, I just turned on the computer, and the Swans speakers that had been in service for eight years suddenly emitted a series of harsh high-frequency electronic whistling sounds, which woke up my wife who hadn't woken up yet.

And after restarting and powering off several times, I had no choice but to admit that the speaker was completely broken, and I had to buy a new speaker.

In fact, buying a speaker is not a big deal. In the case of JD.com, if you place an order in the morning, it will arrive in the afternoon, and you can definitely get a replacement the next day at the latest.

But this seemed to be a very ominous omen, as if the army was about to move out, but suddenly a gust of evil wind broke the flagpole...

My grades after this book was put on the shelves were very unsightly, and it can even be described as "horrible".

Although I said before I started the book that I didn't care much about grades, would I still be angry if my grades were good?

In particular, the data of the public version of this book - collections, recommendation votes, and the number of chapters - all look pretty good, which seems to indicate that everyone has a good acceptance of my attempt this time. expect.

It was under such a psychological expectation that the subscription results of the first chapter of the new book gave me a blow in the head.

The first number I saw was a little bit in the early thousand.

Later, in the twenty-four hours, I took a special look at it again, and it was a little over 1,500.

When was the last time my new book got such poor grades? I don't know if the first book score of "Legend of Champions", which has the worst score in all my books before this, is lower than this number, maybe?

Even if I was mentally prepared, I expected that the grades of this book would definitely be worse than those of my previous books, but I didn't expect it to be this bad.

The first order in 24 hours is 1,500...

I began to doubt my previously confident thoughts.

Am I not writing well enough?

Is it that my overhead idea was wrong from the beginning?

Was my pace too slow before?

Is there something wrong with my control of some plots?

is not it……

I have a lot of thoughts and my mind is in a mess.

There are also some people who sneer and say that I don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and I want to get rid of the real football. I really don't know how much I have. I really think that the achievements and popularity of these years are brought to me by myself?

Someone also left a message in the book review area and asked me, as a platinum author, that I didn't even arrive with a high-quality book. Is it embarrassing?

In short, the whole day when it was put on the shelves on May 1st, I was confused and my mood fell to the lowest point.

Naturally, I'm not in the mood to write any testimonials.

Faced with such dismal results, what else can we say? What can I say?

It wasn't until an author friend who was on the shelves at the same time as me the next day asked me about my grades that I realized that the grades of many authors who were on the shelves in this issue were far lower than my expectations and estimates.

We all know that something happened at that time, we don't know if it was because of the influence of this incident.

It was a long time later that I found out that starting from this year, every issue of the new book has been on the shelves. The results of the public version seem to be quite good, but the results were cut in half as soon as the author expected. Is there any free reading? And the impact of piracy, I don't know.

At that time, my author friend and I could only choose to comfort each other.

I said to him: "Don't worry about the grades, just calm down and write a good book. Now that the grades are like this, the only thing left to do is to write a good book."

He agrees.

But I quickly realized a problem: "But how can such a result prove that what we think is 'good writing' can definitely write a 'good book'?"

The author friend was also stunned, and sighed after a long time: "That's right. I always think that I write very well. I write very happily and passionately, but the feedback on the grades after I came out And told me it wasn't like that..."

This is a terrible thing for us, that is, when the writing concepts, skills, and experiences I rely on are not recognized, when what I think is "good" is no longer "good", I How to continue writing? How can I convince myself that I am really writing in the "good" direction, not writing blindly?

I don't have an answer.

I also thought about whether to speed up the pace and write the rest of the content according to that refreshing rhythm?

I quickly rejected this idea, because that would not make the book better, but it would make the book nondescript.

Later, the new speaker arrived, and I connected it to the computer, turned on the music player, and listened to the songs that I had to listen to in order to calm down my emotions.

I told myself that since the grades are like this, anyway, I don’t know if my writing is really good, so I will finish writing this book according to the original plan and rhythm.

Even if the grades of this book are not good, at least I can finish the story and those words in my heart completely, leaving such a story as an explanation for myself.

The only thing I am worried about is that because of poor grades, it will cause me to look down on the starting point and make me finish the book early.

But my editor-in-chief, Chang Tian, ​​is a good person. He is actively helping me promote the copyright adaptation of this book, hoping that this can alleviate the regret of the unsatisfactory results of electronic subscriptions, and he neither directly nor tactfully said to me that I hope Finish this kind of talk early.

Therefore, since there is no worry about finishing the book ahead of schedule, I will follow my definition of "writing well" and write well.

I wrote Hu Lai's first national competition according to the plan and the existing rhythm. I didn't write that he won the championship in the first national competition and then soared into the sky. According to the original plan, Luo Kai went to the professional team, and Hu Lai stayed on the high school team.

It is written that Hu Lai is a sophomore in high school. After some hard training, he can become the leading shooter of this team. Write about him killing all sides in the Anton Cup, showing the results of his hard training.

I wrote that he participated in the second national competition. According to my outline, he made it all the way to the finals and became the national champion, breaking Shuguang High School's dream of three consecutive championships, and also defeated Chen Xingyi.

It was written that even though he won these championships and honors, it still failed to change the conflict and relationship between him and his father. In the end, he could only choose to leave without saying goodbye and continue to pursue his dream by running away from home.

There is not a chapter in this that changed my original plan because of worrying about grades. Basically, it can be said that the campus chapter was completely written according to my original ideas.

I also no longer look at the subscription results, and open the author background every day just to upload new chapters, or to correct typos in old chapters.

Why is the grade bad?

I don't know, and I don't want to research it. There may be reasons for the general environment, or my own problems: it may be because I chose such a niche way to write in such a niche subject, or it may be because my early rhythm is too slow and my emotions are too depressed. The main character is too frustrated...

It may be caused by one of these reasons, or it may be the result of all factors combined.

In short, the results are like this, so let’s do whatever I love, I’ll immerse myself in writing a book, and I’ll use it as a stand-alone machine, just write out the stories in my heart.

Under such circumstances, Qidian gave me a big push, and then I discovered that the score of this book has been slowly increasing... It is about to rise to the boutique line.

From the initial order of 1,500, the average order is 1,200, which has gradually increased to the current average order of almost 3,000, and the high order is almost 4,000.

And there is one more point - the number of maximum subscriptions and average subscriptions in this book is not far apart, only a few hundred.

What does this mean?

It shows that although there are not many people who read books, the readers who subscribed with V at the beginning did not lose many, they all stayed and kept chasing updates!

This is really a big encouragement for me.

I don’t know if everyone in front of the screen can understand my feelings at that time. It’s like trekking alone in the dark for a long time with your head down, only to find out with the help of a little light in the sky that there are many people walking by your side!

Then on the second day of Dafeng’s tweet, Hu Lai’s stories crossed the line of 3,000 subscriptions and entered Qidian’s boutique channel.

At that time, I thought, I want to write a testimonial on the shelf, and share with you my mental journey in the past two months.

Now it seems that a platinum author is so excited to say that his book has passed the boutique line, which is quite a gaffe.

But after these two months, I think I still have reason to be proud of my current achievements.

I adhered to my original intention, I was so slow, and I wrote in the two shifts every day, and my grades improved little by little?

This book, almost condemned to death, seems to be able to breathe again?

I don't know if there is a reason why this achievement will not be terminated early from the perspective of website management.

I don't know how shabby this result actually looks in the eyes of others.

But anyway, I am very happy, I am very satisfied.

I finished the first volume of this book in its entirety, and it was a reward for me to achieve such a result when I finished writing it.

I gladly accept it, and accept it frankly.

The above is the belated testimonial of this book. I will continue to uphold my original intention of writing this story, write this story down, write it completely, write the joys, sorrows and joys of everyone in the book, and write about their lives. , write a world.

Still the same sentence, thank you for continuing to subscribe to this book, thank you for coming to join us, thank you for joining me in witnessing the growth of Hu Lai and the birth of this world.

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