Fox in the Penalty Area

First of all, this last chapter was actually written when I decided to cancel the manuscript. If I hadn’t asked for leave, it would have been this update at six o’clock in the afternoon that day, and the third volume would have officially ended.

It's just that I readjusted my thinking later, scrapped the beginning of the fourth volume, and added a detailed description of the transfer at the end of the third volume.

But no matter what, I kept this chapter, but made some revisions, deleted some parts that conflicted with the existing plot, and added brand new paragraphs.

I've probably edited, added, and deleted about five or six times this chapter alone -- until last night when automatic updates were added.

Although there are a lot of changes, they are all additions and deletions. I am very satisfied with the structure and theme. I have explained everything that needs to be explained here, and everything that needs to be closed has also been closed. There is still hope for what should be hoped .

In the previous chapter on the leave request, a friend said that after I won the championship, the description of the reactions of all parties was insufficient, like a running account.

Why didn't I focus on describing the reactions of all parties after winning the championship?

Because I want to describe everyone's reactions in the last chapter... If I wrote it after winning the league championship, won't I repeat it now?

What's the point? In order to add a chapter or two?

After winning the championship, this volume is not over yet, but it is not far from the end. It is completely unnecessary to write the same thing twice in such a short space.

Originally, according to my original plan, this chapter should be the last chapter after I finished writing the move.

This volume starts with buying a new house, and ends with moving, which can be regarded as an echo from beginning to end.

Unexpectedly, I had a problem with the choice of which team Hu Lai would go to in the end, and I had to overturn and rewrite this plot, so I added a transfer plot after the move.

Fortunately, there are not many additions, only three chapters, otherwise the emotions will be incoherent...

However, because the update is not fast enough, the experience will be a little bit bad if you follow the update. But if you look back and look at it in one breath, it should be much better.

Tell me about the whole third volume.

After finishing the third volume, I used Word to check the word count as usual, and it was 717,000 words.

It has about the same number of words and chapters as the first two volumes.

I didn't expect such a coincidence.

I didn't deliberately control the number of words or length, and the plot ended where it was written.

Looking back now, in fact, there are not many things written in this volume of 700,000 words.

The big plot is the U23 Asian Cup plot at the beginning of the book. In the middle, there is the plot of beating Wang Xianke, followed by the Olympic plot. After the Olympic Games, it is the winning plot.

After finishing the game that won the championship, the rest is actually aftertaste. Including the transfer is just a small plot.

There are only these four important storylines, interspersed with some small episodes.

According to the writing method of "Bushui", it may take 400,000 characters to finish writing.

After the Olympics plot, some readers can't wait to read the story after the transfer to Europe, but I still finished and filled up the subsequent league championship plot according to the plan.

Because if it is not written in this way, how can it express the expectations of the people in the book world for Hu Lai to go to Europe?

How could he have so many people at the airport to see him off in the end?

After all, Hu Lai helped the team win the Chinese Super League championship this season. He also won the top scorer himself and broke Shi's coaching record. Only with these achievements ahead can he highlight his status in the current domestic football world.

If the emotions of the whole volume are to bloom in the final epilogue, there should be no rush.

Anyway, I like the ending of this volume very much. It not only concludes the third volume, but also summarizes the entire first three volumes.

The same is true for the last round of the league. I used the method of describing two games in parallel. In many cases, I even made Hu Lai deliberately disappear in the description, just like the characteristics of his striker-you can play most of the game. Can't see him, don't care about him, forget him, but at the last moment, the most critical moment, he will definitely appear in the most critical position.

Someone said delay?

I don't think so.

The two games are written together, from the kick-off whistle to the final whistle, a total of eight chapters, delay? This is the last match of this volume, the most important match, a match where the fates of many people are intertwined.

For the Super Bowl game at the beginning of this volume, I wrote eleven or twelve chapters for each game.

In this last round of the league, there are several main characters to be represented, and I feel I'm concise enough to write them in only eight chapters.

After winning the championship, why did I skip the chapter on the coaching change of the national team? The coaching change process was solved by me with a news announcement. I didn’t write about the confrontation between Wilson and the Football Association. Although I wrote about it, it would destroy the final rhythm and cool down the emotions brewing from the last lore. . Let the story become fragmented and blur the focus-the transfer plot I added later here is a bit redundant. If I write the transfer before the last league game, the emotional effect at the end of the roll will be better. more focused.

It's a pity, this is the disadvantage of not having enough manuscripts... If I can still have a manuscript of 300,000 words, then I may have completed self-adjustment and revision before everyone knows it.

Through this modification, I also want everyone to know the status of my writing, and why I can’t save more manuscripts...

Some people say that you only need to write two chapters, with an average of two hours per chapter. Can you not write it in six hours?

I really can't write it.

Open the document every day and first correct the typos written yesterday. If there is something wrong with the description or the plot, it must be corrected—this time the text is a major revision, and there are always minor repairs and corrections.

After changing what I wrote the day before, I think about today’s content, how to cut in, how to start, what point to write at the end of the chapter, and what emotion to end with... These are all things that make me rack my brains.

Cuttlefish said that he often sat in front of the computer for a long time before he started writing every day.

I'm about the same as him, but once he thinks about it, he can write it out smoothly.

I can't, I often get stuck in the middle.

I have to think for a long time when the character says a word, how to say it, and in what form it will be better... What will the result of the character's actions in this place be, and what impact will it have in the future? Don't just bury it here?

There is a ready-made way to express a meaning, but is there a better way to express it?

Just like when you play a game, when you choose A, the plot will be completely different from the plot caused by you choosing B, but is it better to choose A or B?

As an author, you have to keep doing similar multiple-choice questions.

The problem this time is that I chose A, and wrote it down according to the premise of option A. I found something wrong while writing, so I had to overturn it and go back, choose again, and choose B. The subsequent plot will have to be readjusted according to option B.

All the content prepared and written before can no longer be used. For me, who only had four chapters to save, it would simply make the family who is not rich even worse...

Speaking of writing itself, the author has a creative peak, but in fact, my creative peak has passed. Now if I want to write high-quality things, I have to give up speed and spend more time grinding in front of the computer bit by bit, competing with myself.

And when you think about it... I really want to never be the kind of author who has both speed and quality.

When I wrote "We Are the Champions", I only updated two chapters a week, or even one chapter.

When I was writing "The Godfather of Champions", I changed it every day, and I couldn't shake it—except for the Wenchuan earthquake, I asked for a leave of absence to make a change.

That is to say, the speed of writing "The Hero of the Forbidden Zone" and "The Winner is King" is faster, but the style is different and the writing method is also different. Besides, if we only talk about the quality of the text, the fastest written "Winner is King" is definitely not the best of all my works.

I have been writing football novels for nearly eighteen years, and I have only focused on one theme for so many years. I don’t know how many authors can be like me at the starting point. I also have to say that my creative career is indeed going downhill, and the quality and speed will gradually fail to improve, and I will lose the sense of empathy for commercial writing and readers. Ben, then quit the business completely and disappeared...

If it weren't for the book "Fox in the Restricted Zone", I might really be here.

It's nothing to be ashamed to admit. As you can see from the last book, the creative passion is fading.

After writing football novels for so long, no matter how much I love football and writing, there will be a day when my passion will run out and my aesthetics will be exhausted.

This is also the reason why I take a long break every time I finish a book—I used to take a break of at most one month, how can I take a break for half a year?

People should submit to the old, but also respect objective laws.

Fortunately, I found my feeling again in the book "Fox in the Restricted Zone". I can't say that my career is in the second spring, but at least I still have a lot to say now.

And the desire to tell is very important for an author.

I used to write "Do You Care About Me Playing Football" and "We Are Champions" when I was 21 to 23 years old, and I wrote "The Godfather of Champions" from 24 to 26 years old. Listen to you.

Now I would like to tell you about the accumulated experience of my life from 26 to 40 years old.

So there is the book "Fox in the Restricted Zone". I believe that everyone can see a lot of my attitude and thoughts on life and football from it. These attitudes may be different from when I wrote "We Are the Champions" and "The Godfather of Champions".

For me now, at least writing this book well is far more important than breaking out—my so-called good writing is to write a book that can stand the test of time and withstand repeated scrutiny. And not just how high the subscriptions are -- I'm not saying subscriptions don't matter. It’s good to have high subscriptions, but if I want to increase the subscription results without quality acceleration, then I really can’t do it. Since there is more than enough heart but not enough energy, then make a trade-off and give priority to quality.

I know that the IP of online novels is difficult to sell now, and the IP of sports and football novels is even more difficult. I can't decide the copyright adaptation. As an author, all I can do is to write this book well.

In the days after this book, I will also write it with this idea-quality first, quantity later.

Speaking of this, although I have said it many times, I still have to say it again: If you feel that chasing is too painful, you can turn on the automatic subscription to raise it, such as raising it during important games, and wait until the update is over. Tone to see.

good for everyone.

Don't say something like "Obviously the climax was dragged down by you without passion".

It’s not that I procrastinate, it’s that I can write so much every day, my output is limited, and it’s possible that if I write, it will be for nothing—all of them will be invalidated.

In fact, if you go back and read the plot in one go, you will feel that there is no delay at all, every word is not wasted, and every character that appears, what is said, and the description of them is meaningful.

Now that I’ve finished talking about myself, let’s talk about the novel itself.

In this volume, Hu Lai ended all his domestic journeys and set off for Europe, starting a long journey in his life.

I have been listening to Yin Wu’s song since I wrote the chapter about Qin Lin’s retirement. I listened to it repeatedly. I only listened to one song for many days. After finishing the third volume, I re-wrote the ending of the third volume. Part, until now, still listening to it when writing this summary.

In fact, this song is not saliva, and the melody is not catchy. But I just love it.

When I wrote about Qin Lin's retirement, I decided to use this song until the end of the last chapter, because the lyrics of this song are really suitable for what I want to express. The conclusion of the final part and the prospect of Hu Lai's future. It can just serve as a connecting link between the past and the future, just like the transition in a movie.

Hu Lai travels far with the expectations of so many people, isn't it just to chase the dream in his heart?

But traveling far because of a dream is not only a beautiful thing, but also has difficulties and obstacles. This is not an outing with singing and dancing, but a hard trek that requires courage and luck.

As the song says:

"But in the distance, there are also hot and cold winters, rainy nights, and muddy roads."

Similarly, despite all the difficulties and obstacles, those of us inside and outside the book will still hope that Hu Lai will have a smooth journey, with more smooth journeys, less twists and turns, more joy and less sorrow.

He is the "hope of the whole village" in the book.

It is also the children we watched growing up outside the book.

From a middle school student who was ridiculed and excluded, he grew step by step into a "genius star" who can carry everyone's hopes.

I used 2.3 million words to show how he did all this and how he completed this transformation.

Putting it in my last book "Green Green", the number of words is almost finished, and now I have only just stepped out of the domestic football...

But I don't think the pace is slow. I personally think that I wrote the first three volumes very well.

That's how it should be. A person's growth cannot be achieved overnight, and a genius doesn't just pop out of a rock.

He should have a way to come, so that he can have a way to go.

With 2.3 million words, I have written his origin, and then I will write his whereabouts.

I don't know how many words I will write, but I will definitely try my best to write completely, thoroughly, and convincingly according to the feeling of the first three volumes, so that people really feel that there is such a person, a group of people in that parallel time and space. Man, those things happen.

And I am just a camera with no emotions, faithfully recording all of them, and presenting them to the audience in front of the TV.

This is a big reality show, and everyone in it is a real person with flesh and blood, not an NPC.

Just like I have repeatedly emphasized that Dong Wen must insist on asking European clubs to make an offer that he thinks is in line with Hu Lai's worth, even if this approach is unnecessary in the eyes of many fans in the book, there is a great risk, and it is not flattering. like.

But I wrote it anyway.

Because I think Fatty Dong should be such a person. He has his standpoint and angle of view, he will stick to some things he thinks he should stick to, instead of becoming an NPC who blindly serves the protagonist, as long as the protagonist is involved, it is "good, good".

And Li Ziqiang. Some readers feel that Hu Lai has already achieved success in his career and has proved himself. There is no need for Li Ziqiang to always dislike him.

But let me say that his dislike of Hu Lai is not in his football career, but in his daughter Li Qingqing. As a father who was widowed at an early age and raised his daughter alone, any man who tried to get close to his daughter would be regarded as an enemy by him. No matter how good this man is, even if he is rich, incomparably rich, and famous all over the world... As a father, he should still be bombarded.

This kind of discomfort has nothing to do with right or wrong, it is a person's feelings.

And feelings are unreasonable.

Don't say "this is wrong" or "it shouldn't be like this".

There is no right or wrong, should or should not.

Maybe until the end, Li Ziqiang would not fall in love with or accept Hu Lai from the bottom of his heart. But what does that matter? Is it not good for a person to maintain his independent personality and thinking?

In short, this is my creative attitude when writing this book.

And I am also very happy to see that the results of this book are always improving, even if the progress is very slow, but it is indeed getting better.

Now the high order is more than 9,000, and it is heading towards 10,000.

The average order has also exceeded 6,000, which is twice my original goal.

I think, as a purely fictional story that lacked a sense of substitution at the beginning, it can still achieve such results, which is enough to give me the confidence to continue writing.

Thank you for your support and tolerance.

I said at the beginning of this book that it is a willful work, and you can still let me continue to write willfully, which makes me feel extremely satisfied.

Writing this book is very tiring. I often write until midnight, and I can only write two chapters a day after racking my brains.

But seeing my results, I am still very happy.

I will often turn over and re-read the plots I wrote before, read what everyone said in this chapter, and then hold my mobile phone and have fun.

I think that being able to understand the things I conceive and create is the greatest happiness for creators.

Obviously, I have such a tacit understanding with you.

thank you all!

Grateful!

Please continue to look forward to and appreciate the scenery during Hu Lai's journey.

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PS, according to my own statistics, Hu Lai has scored a total of 121 goals in official games so far in his career. In his career in two and a half seasons, counting the league, FA Cup, national team, The Olympic team scored 121 goals in various official games. Is this efficiency okay?

There is an easter egg chapter in the back to show you how I made statistics in the process of writing the book.