Rise of the Dark Witch

"The Rise of the Dark Witch" is finished.

The book was published in December 2022 and ended in December 2023. A total of 2.18 million words were written in a whole year, an average of 6,000 words per day.

Except for the last few dozen days, because I have been struggling with how to end it and constantly reconstructing the plot, which has led to the update time being unstable and occasionally asking for leave, it can be said that it is updated on time at 5 o'clock every day, all year round, and I am so confused after being infected with the new crown virus. are still typing.

finally.

Roya Nangle completed his life from beginning to end, drawing a perfect end to his journey as a wizard.

This is my second completed work in the true sense. The first one was "The Wizard of All Souls", and the second one was "The Rise of the Dark Witch". Although I wrote a few more books in between, I didn't finish them because the results were too poor. People look at it as either a eunuch or not even able to sign a contract.

The performance of "The Rise of the Dark Witch" is also very poor. There are only 120 first subscriptions out of 5,000 collections on the shelves, and the subscription ratio is 40:1.

However, after many years of writing books, it is really not good to always be a eunuch. I am also a reader, and I also hate eunuchs. I don’t want to be that kind of person, so I want to finish this book well.

As long as your grades are not ridiculously bad and you can achieve perfect attendance, that's fine.

I didn't expect it to be finished in a hurry in the end, which is really a pity.

The outline of this book can be written to 5 million words, but the results are really poor.

One million words ago, 300 subscriptions per day.

Two million words ago, 500 subscriptions per day.

I thought that after the word count exceeds two million words, the subscription will gradually improve. I don’t want to make more money, three or four thousand a month is enough.

I didn’t expect it to get worse!

The number of subscriptions dropped to only 100 or 200 per day?

Doesn’t it mean that the more words there are, the better the grade will be? Why is it the other way around?

At that moment I had to admit the fact - this book was hopeless!

In order to come up with a reasonable plot that can complete the main plot, I have been thinking a lot in the past two months, and finally came up with a barely passable answer.

Anyway, in the end of the wizard-style, the protagonist’s strength rises like a rocket, so everyone should be used to it (laughs).

well.

I have to say it’s still a bit of a pity.

It failed to fully present the details of Roja's journey into the wizarding world according to the outline.

In fact, this book has been cut down on branches and outlines many times, but in the end there was a big one.

The first time should be when Roja came out of the Second Trial Starfall Ancient Mine.

If you are a friend who has been watching it, you should clearly feel that after the protagonist came out of the Xingyun Ancient Mine, the plot has undergone extremely obvious fluctuations, it is very incoherent, and the quality has dropped a lot.

That's because I cut many branches and outlines in a hurry.

Originally, Roja still had another copy to play in the apprentice realm, which was the Holy Warrior Festival. Roja will face various wizard apprentice geniuses from the Six Kingdoms at the Holy Martial Arts Festival, and after winning, he will receive his own companion magic weapon.

However--

The results are too bad.

At that time, the book already had 700,000 words and had been on the shelves for three months. However, the protagonist was still an apprentice, and more importantly, the number of orders was less than 500. The average booking was less than 500, and there was no full attendance after three months.

At that time, I was struggling with this—should I just open a new book?

But I really can't bear it, I feel sorry for myself and the readers.

I can only hold on a little longer and find a way to save him.

So I cut the outline for the first time.

In order to improve the performance and speed up the progress, we can only directly cut off the last apprentice copy, let the protagonist face two official wizards to resolve the grievances accumulated during the apprenticeship, and then quickly advance to the official wizard realm.

Of course, it is not only the last copy of Apprentice Realm that has been cut, but also the personal plot line of Weiss, the daughter of the Governor of Hain Port.

I have done a lot of preparation for the character of Weiss. Later, after the protagonist becomes an official wizard, he will work with her to find the Elf Tears. She is a very important female supporting character in the early stage.

However, Weiss was originally poorly shaped, and I wanted to shorten the main line, so I simply cut off the thread.

Along with the Weiss thread, there were also several first-level world quests that were cut off.

After Roja becomes a first-level wizard, he will do first-level tasks in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave to earn magic stones. There are probably three first-level tasks arranged for him, and each first-level task has a plot of about 10 chapters.

Then I abandoned them all.

Due to the cutting of branches and outlines, the dozens of pictures before and after Roja became an official wizard were very messy. It would have been nice if the transition could have been more subtle.

The second time the plot was drastically cut and shortened was when the protagonist entered the Magic Machine Academy for the second time.

Although the branch plot and outline have been cut once before, it only shortened the story of "The Rise of the Dark Witch" from 5 million words to 4 million words.

Or because my grades were too poor, I decided to cut the word count from 4 million words to 3 million words. In order to achieve this goal, we need to continue to cut branch lines and cut main lines.

After Roja enters the Magic Machine Academy, he needs to complete six magic machine trials in the academy.

In the original outline, these six magic machine trials were not as simple as they are now written.

If you want to graduate from witchcraft, you need to complete the trial set by the witchcraft instructor and go to the second-level world to do tasks. Three witchcrafts are equivalent to three second-level worlds and three second-level tasks, each of which has about 10 chapters.

Then Void Guard went to a secondary world invaded by the Void Zerg.

Roja and his friends will work with other people in that world to deal with the Void Zerg, learn the unique methods of using power in that world, join the Void Tower organization, and learn how to use the power of the void to practice in the Void Tower. , get the way to become a perfect human being.

The plot of Void Trial lasts about 30 to 50 chapters.

Then all these trials were brushed aside.

As for the next three trials 10, 11, and 12, I also found a way to cut them off.

Otherwise, the fact that Roja cannot become the master student of the Magic Machine Domain will only be known after the protagonist becomes a fourth-level wizard and passes the 12th Magic Machine Trial.

The same goes for the subsequent trip to the Nightmare Realm.

In the original story of the Nightmare World, Roja and others would enter the Nightmare World. While hunting the Lord of the Nightmare World, the Lord of the Nightmare World, knowing that he would be defeated, committed suicide and destroyed the world.

The nightmare world is about to collapse, and the wizards are fighting for the source of the nightmare world. At this time, Roja did not participate in the fight for the original power of the nightmare world because he felt the call of the Six Magic Stones.

When the other wizards were injured, dead, and tired, and the original power of the Nightmare Realm was almost divided, they didn't expect that the dead Lord of the Nightmare Realm actually came out to reap the benefits. The Lords of the Realm are twins! It was just my sister who died before!

I just want to finish writing this plot, which requires at least 30 chapters and 150,000 words, which will take a month.

Of course, I wanted to speed up the progress, so I cut it off directly. In just a few chapters, I killed the Lord of the Nightmare Realm, ending my journey in the Nightmare Realm.

The next step is to become a third-level wizard.

After the third level, Roja will go to the world of tree people to hunt for wood crystals and upgrade the withered vines into a more powerful third level witchcraft. Returning to the Six Kingdoms, he discovers that the thousand-year blood catastrophe in the giant whale sea has gone out of control...

The Thousand-Year Blood Tribulation is the Red Wizard of the Giant Whale Sea. In order to cultivate the Kong Whale, when the Kong Whale was still very weak (level 4), every Red Wizard who signed a contract with the Kong Whale would sacrifice their spirit to the Kong Whale after their death. food.

The Kong Whale's strength grew rapidly. After absorbing the spirit and beliefs of countless red wizards, he reached the sixth level. Then he suffered a mental breakdown and went on a rampage every thousand years.

Those splintered spirits are the spirits of the red wizards sacrificed by the past generations. They use the flesh and blood of the empty whale to "resurrect" and destroy everywhere. Hunting the clones of the empty whale can alleviate the schizophrenia symptoms of the empty whale, and you can also obtain the demon blood crystal, which is both a disaster and an opportunity.

Naturally, these plots have been cut.

After solving the thousand-year blood catastrophe, he met Leia in the elf mission and became a fourth-level wizard.

Originally, the protagonist's encounter with Leia only meant that the protagonist became a fourth-level wizard and knew the meaning of the existence of "Saint Leia" and the "Child of Truth".

The protagonist who knows the truth will be involved in the game set by the tenth-level transcendents.

Next comes the climax of "The Rise of the Dark Witch".

In order to compete for the only ninth level, the strong men in the entire multiverse risked everything.

In order to cultivate the ninth level to inherit their own authority, each transcendent person implements their own talent training plan.

The Son of Truth of the Wizard of Truth...

The son of the Abyss Lord of the Abyss...

The Void Lord's Void Zerg...

The Fairy Blessing from the Fairy Queen...

The Dragon Spirit Assessment of the Dragon God...

Just like the geniuses in Zhetian compete for the position of the Great Emperor, many geniuses in the wizarding world stain the starry sky with blood in order to reach the ninth level and gain the power of transcendence.

I feel a little guilty whether I can finish all this within 3 million words.

result--

I decided to end this book in the sixth volume of Elven Ruins.

If I keep writing this, the number of subscriptions every day will be less than 100!

Four hours a day and a few hundred monthly royalties are too little even if it is to generate electricity for love.

How can we complete the main line in a reasonable way? Make the protagonist a level 10 wizard? A perfect ending?

In order to think about how to cut the plot, I don’t know how many brain cells I have lost in the past few decades.

Sometimes I think maybe I should write 2.5 million words?

Sometimes I wonder if it would be better for the protagonist to go back to the Six Kingdoms to sort out the situation?

Sometimes I think about arranging some enemies for the protagonist to show the strength and abilities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth levels?

Think about it.

I kept coming up with plot after plot idea, but it was constantly rejected.

Many times, after I have just finished updating, I have no idea what to write in the next chapter. As the author, I just know the plot a few hours ahead of the readers.

The answer I finally came up with is the current plot.

The biggest lesson I learned from this book is - don’t spread your world view so widely! Next time you think about outline and setting, be sure to limit it to 2 million words!

As I wrote it down, I don’t know exactly how much plot I cut out.

Starting from 700,000 words, I have been chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping...

I am not thinking about how to write a better and more attractive plot, but I am thinking about how to reasonably cut off the plot and finish the book as soon as possible.

Others wrote without an outline, but my outline was too long and had to be cut off.

Heart hurts.

Looking back now, maybe if I don't cut the outline and write 5 million words honestly according to the outline, my results will be better? Of course, it's more likely to be a waste of time.

Exhausted.

call.

I'm really relieved that I don't have to continue thinking about how to cut the plot.

When I wrote the words "finale", I felt that all the fatigue I had accumulated for a year was blown away by the wind.

at last--

Thank you for your continued support.

The new book has been conceived and the outline is being written.

I plan to write a steam fantasy, but I don’t want to continue writing wizards. I’ll probably be able to meet you at the end of January or February.

This time I must write an outline within 2 million words! If the results are mediocre, finish it within 2 million words. If the results are hot, think of ways to expand the outline.

I really don’t want to experience the pain of cutting out the plot!

I hope that in the creation of the new book, I can write a work that will satisfy both readers and myself.

Goodbye new book! (End of chapter)