The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Towards the end, Lao Huo said some words from his heart

Actually, I had wanted to say these words a long time ago, but I held back. The reason is very simple. The author must control his desire to express himself. You can say whatever you want in the book review area. In the novel, even if it is only related, try to say as little as possible when it is not necessary.

Until someone asked me if I was writing it myself now, and asked me if I dared to answer.

What am I afraid to answer? Of course, it is me, the Eternal Fire, who is writing it!

I have always been humble, but I dare to say that even if I am writing the most difficult ending now, even if I write it with difficulty, no ghostwriter can compare to it!

Ghostwriters who can write to my level have already worked alone, and they will only make more money, not less. In addition, I almost became a ghostwriter back then, but fortunately no one wanted me. Manual face-covering picture.

Well, after the emotions are resolved, I will start to say something rational.

All readers can see that the whole Confucianism and Taoism has entered the finale and will be completed in about two months.

Lao Huo also knows that many people complain that after the Zongsheng, it is very much like a normal fantasy article about fighting monsters and leveling up.

I don't object at all. Yes, after the death of the patriarch, it is a normal fantasy novel of fighting monsters and upgrading.

The reason is very simple.

After the semi-saint, many things are changing. Confucianism has always been about people and being involved in the world. After the semi-saint, it is separated from the Confucian concept.

Confucianism is a non-detached cultivation system. If it is detached, it is not Confucianism. However, fantasy novels must be detached in the end. There are many contradictions between the two.

I believe that this contradiction can be resolved many years later as I continue to read and study, but I really can't do it now.

Sorry.

In fact, unless it is a novel with a smaller world view, novels with a slightly larger world view will eventually be too detached from reality, causing a strong sense of illusion and insecurity to readers, so no matter how the author writes, readers will not adapt. There are also sayings such as burnout, etc. In short, this is caused by multiple factors.

Of course, I don't shirk responsibility. The main reason is that I am not good at ending.

Readers who often read online novels know that it is difficult to achieve perfection in the later stage of any book.

Many online novels have bad endings, not because the authors don't want to write, but because the later stages of novels are really hard to write, especially long novels.

I have read so many online novels, and many of them were finished before 3 million words. I can name many of them, but I can't name any of those with more words, especially those with more than 7 million words. Of course, it may also be that I have not read many books of this length.

I am not saying this to shirk responsibility. If there is a problem, it should be solved.

I am used to using the ORID model to reflect on myself, so I will use it here.

My problem is that it is the first time I have written such a long story, and the plot is far less exciting than the first and middle stages, and some readers are dissatisfied.

I am actually a little anxious and thinking about how to improve it.

The main reason for the analysis is that I laid out too much in the middle stage. In fact, since the appearance of Emperor Luo of Denglongtai, I have been laying out the story. The world is too big and the length is too long. The fundamental reason is that I was reading something about religion at the time and wanted to write a theme - I can't say it for the time being, and I will talk about it in detail elsewhere after it is finished.

The current situation is that the chapter is too long and too extensive. I can't just end it after Fang Yun's canonization. I have to finish it in one piece. However, my ability to finish the chapter is not good enough, which makes it not as exciting as the first and middle parts.

If I didn't write such a big topic at that time, and just wrote about Fang Yun's canonization in a conventional way, it would be much better.

As for continuing to write after the death of the ancestor, there are really not so many reasons. It's just to make a simple echo.

The death of the ancestor was in late March and early April. Even if it should have ended at that time, it should have been written by May, right? Now it's June, I can finish it around July or mid-August at most. It only took two or three months longer.

A book that has been written for more than five years, and some readers have read it from junior high school to college (it doesn't seem to be something to be proud of), and I wrote two or three months longer, can it really be considered a serious delay in completion? Can it be considered!

If I didn't solve the problem of the imperial clan, the ancestor dragon and the dusk fortress, and ended the book quickly after the death of the patriarch, the number of people who scolded me for having a bad ending would definitely be ten times or even a hundred times more than now!

I wrote for two or three more months. With my update volume (which doesn't seem to be something to be proud of), how much more money can I make? Do I need to do that!

I admit that I did have the idea of ​​making more money before, but the way I thought of making more money was not to drag this book without finishing it, but to start the next book immediately after finishing this book, so that it would be seamlessly connected.

But later I thought about it again and again and felt that it was not possible.

My book Confucianism and Taoism was actually launched in a hurry, and many things were not fully set, resulting in some inherent deficiencies that could not be made up later.

From my perspective, I can't make the same mistake twice.

From the perspective of readers, do readers like to see a new book in a hurry, or would they like to see a more complete new book one or two months after the completion of Confucianism and Taoism? I am also a reader, and I believe that most readers will choose the latter.

So, if I am really short-sighted and don't rest after finishing Confucianism and Taoism, why do I decide to spend one or two months reading frantically to prepare for a new book after the completion?

Some readers also think that I am lazy and slack. If it was in the past, I would accept it, but now, I really can't accept it.

In fact, I now sign up for at least one online course every month, attend a reading club every week, and keep reading and studying, trying every way to improve.

I won’t tell you how many books I read in a month, because many people will question it, including me a few months ago. In fact, everyone who has learned speed reading knows that as long as it is not a thick book in a profound field, it is normal to read one or even more books a day. I can’t read one book a day now, which is slow, covering my face. Of course, after reading, taking notes and reviewing repeatedly every day, week, month and half a year to fight against the forgetting curve are more tiring.

If I were lazy, why would I learn speed reading to expand my vision, causing my eyes to swell and feel uncomfortable every morning, am I crazy?

I am not bragging when I say this, but I am full of guilt, because I have done too many wrong things in the past, wasted too much time, and didn’t know how to study and read well. I don’t really want to say this, because there are many people who work harder than me, and there are many people who are more worthy of talking than me, and there are even many big guys among the readers. Everything I do is nothing more than making up for the mistakes I made in the past.

However, I am still working hard, but I am considered lazy and slack, which I can’t accept. Some people even think that the later part was not written by me, which I can’t accept even more.

I am so anxious now. My friends, classmates and my brother comfort me all day long, saying that I should be calm and take more rest. They also say that I am lazy?

Well, it seems that I have said too much. I guess people will ridicule me for playing a character setting. Forget it, it doesn’t matter. Just treat it as a way to relieve my emotions.

At this point, someone must say, Lao Huo, you spend time studying and reading, why don’t you add more chapters? You are still lazy!

The reason why I did this is very simple. When I wrote Confucianism and Taoism in the later period, I felt deeply inadequate. I suddenly realized that the writing process of this book may be the process of my life. Confucianism and Taoism are more difficult to write in the later period. Isn’t my life, or the life of most people, like this?

The reason why Confucianism and Taoism are more difficult to write in the later period is that I am not capable enough and have insufficient knowledge reserves. If I had studied more, read more and practiced more in the past, would Confucianism and Taoism be better?

So I began to reflect. I asked myself, I made mistakes before and didn’t spend a lot of time reading and studying. Will I continue to make mistakes now?

I chose to change. This is why I can’t move my study and reading time to writing.

Life is not just about the immediate survival, but also about the pressure and grief of the future.

I originally did not explain some things. For example, some people said that Fang Yun used mind mapping in the book mountain after he was canonized. In fact, I was clearly writing about the pyramid principle at that time. The two have some intersections, but they are very different. In my book, I said that Fang Yun established linguistics based on Saussure's theory. Some people said that Saussure's theory is not applicable to Chinese characters, but in fact it is just not completely applicable, and Saussure is considered the founder of structuralism and semiotics, which is the key.

For things like these, everyone has different thinking, understanding, and cognition. Many times, either I am really wrong or I can't express it clearly. I can change it if I can, without too much explanation or dispute, and I never blame the readers. The readers did not curse or attack, but simply expressed their own opinions. Whether right or wrong, there is no problem.

But some people believe that it is not me who wrote it, which I really cannot accept.

Well, actually from another perspective, I should be happy that some readers think so highly of me.

Having said so much, the last step is to talk about specific actions to change.

Actually, now that I have written about Confucianism and Taoism, many things cannot be changed and can only be used in future new books.

1. Learn from the experience of Confucianism and Taoism. In the future, the length of the book should be controlled. Through methods such as advance estimation, reader feedback, outline determination, and later revision, the word count should be guaranteed to be no more than 7 million words.

2. The setting of power and the world should be guaranteed to be within a certain limit. Make sure that you can write before you write. If you can't write, try to reduce the level of power. Many aspects involve specific writing, so I won't say more.

3. By strengthening time management, better manage your time, and reduce procrastination and other time-wasting behaviors, I will try to spend an extra hour writing every day for the next book.

4. Find a better way to write. If technology advances and can use brain waves to write, that would be great, cough cough.

I have said a lot today. In fact, I am a super entangled person. If I don't say it, I am afraid that readers will misunderstand and say that I don't respect readers and don't communicate with readers. If I say it, many contents will definitely be misunderstood or even used as a pretext or even framed and slandered as hype and selling personality settings. This kind of thing has been happening all the time, and it doesn't just happen to me.

Without further ado, I will do my best to complete "The Greatest Sage of Confucianism and Taoism", and then continue to learn and improve, and write better novels.

Finally, I bow and thank every reader!