Tokyo underground city

Basically, to confirm, this book will stop updating here.

The content has reached a more appropriate ending point here. The next concept of the fourth volume should be to make a fuss about the struggle between the Red Leaf Group and the two major families.

I won’t disclose the specific details, so as not to reveal readers’ expectations.

Summarize the issues that arise.

This book, in fact, had a very clear purpose when it was first opened -

[Draw a relatively large framework and write an idea of ​​"more than 10 million words" with the purpose of writing as long as possible. This is not ambition, but a feeling similar to the "goal" of writing training. 】

As a commercial creator, I know very well that readers will not read content with too many settings, but from my perspective, there are some things, such as private goods, too many nudity settings, and a particularly long structure. , if you don’t write it down properly, you will eventually be tempted to sell it.

As for private goods, to put it bluntly, there will always be a day when I get tired of writing them.

To put it nicely, sooner or later there will be a day of mastery.

For example, Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" is, in a sense, a big jar of vinegar that can kill people.

Therefore, strictly speaking, I did not control my thoughts and tried it enthusiastically according to my own ideas.

Readers who come to watch it with the purpose of making the plot more exciting will probably not be too happy (the author knows this well.

But for authors whose ambition is to write novels, a big problem is the "late period". For example, My Favorite Mystery, Release the Witch, and Amber Sword are essentially works that started to have problems in the middle and later stages (the best among them is probably Mystery).

This is also the reason why I must write about chaebols and companies, because there are usually two reasons why novels do not read well in the later stages. One is the lack of "purpose" and "structural" high-end combat power, and the other is that it is too complicated. The high-level struggle will lack a sense of substitution and be too nihilistic (such as the performance in the fourth volume).

From this perspective, Ma Zhe is really a good textbook for late-stage combat power. According to a certain operations officer Yuzi, it is the "art of hate" (not in a derogatory sense).

But obviously, for now, it's not something I can control.

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Then let’s talk about the problems of the fourth volume itself. The most critical point is that the fourth volume is the volume where “idea” and “reality” finally come together. However, because it was realized during the creative process, it is very “unsatisfactory” in all aspects. Hasty".

In other words, it is relatively nihilistic when written, and relatively nihilistic when read. This is also related to the concept of the fourth volume.

The fourth volume was originally supposed to tear down the entire city of Tokyo and sacrifice it, but with such a large content and no experience at all, it unexpectedly fell apart. (I’ll mention it again when revising, the mysterious big scenes are not good either. The Black Emperor’s resurrection ceremony and the poisonous mist of the Plague Witch are, at least for me, relatively nihilistic. How do I switch from “personal heroism” to “grandiose” "Narrative" should be a problem that I will still have to overcome in the future - so if there are no accidents, I will still collapse again after writing similar content in the future. If I am not short of money by then, I will probably grit my teeth and fight to the end. Go and have a glimpse of the end of the abyss.)

If we go back and review the fourth volume now, we should focus on the "progress of swordsmanship" and "the struggle between families" as the main line.

However, just like the errors in plot arrangement in Volumes 1 and 2 (before revision), there were too many things I wanted to express, and in the end they conflicted with each other and became weightless and unstable. (It was much better after the reincarnation content was cut off in the second volume. As for why I wrote about reincarnation, it was actually one of those situations where I had an obsession with writing a reincarnation plot and couldn’t control it. It was much better after deleting it.)

The problem with the third volume is probably that it was written too quickly (the volume with the fewest words in the first draft), and that there was not enough combat content.

I re-edited it dozens of times, and the result is that "the combat part is still the most interesting."

However, this book by Tokyo was created with the "ten million word framework" in mind, and the feeling of blending all the things I wanted to write into it. Basically, there is no surprise in this kind of result.

It's just a pity that it ended so early.

According to predictions, the senior sister should appear in the next two volumes.

The fourth volume is about burning glass balls, the fifth volume is about explorers being regarded as gods in some countries, and the sixth volume is about being regarded as devils in some countries. In the seventh volume, we meet the senior sister and the frontline base again.

The harem team is neatly organized and officially enters the deep level.

There is a hidden idea that the protagonist, apart from knowing little about the dungeon itself, has actually been trained by Xu Qin to almost the same level. Because Xu Qin himself has the talent of a psychic, he was called by the end of the abyss.

However, he chose to give up on the final decision of leading the protagonist to the dungeon, and now he is struggling in the middle level alone with his team of mentors.

This is basically the current idea.

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Without any surprises, the new book should be released at the beginning or middle of next month, or at the latest in early August. It will probably be a relatively pure Holy Grail War type comic with a side of combat.

There is an anime called "Re:CREATORS" (about the creators), which can be used as a reference (just search for 'RE Creators').

It's the one with the white-haired saber girl.

It is also a work with a good idea but poor performance (too many setting elements). I plan to pick it up and revise it as the story basis of the new book.

As an author, I have always wanted to write a Chinese-style magical realism work, that is, a story framework that can use Chinese names to express various magical settings without causing a sense of violation. (Magical reality is of course not this definition, but essentially my thoughts have two directions, so there is no need to go into details)

Therefore, the new book should integrate some of the ideas saved previously through the framework of RE Creator before bringing them out.

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Basically it will be a mixture of "The Ruined Library (the Lobotomy Company)", "Sky Realm", "Re:CREATORS" and "Holy Grail War".

If there are not too many surprises, it will be a novella completed within one year with 2 million words.

In terms of settings, the protagonist will fight using popular characters from his street novels, including the wise-tank demon hunter captain (steel-type low-demon worldview) plus the ice-steam wasteland-style lady specially created for the Creator War (magic background, force value).

Those who lose the battle will become useless people without the ability to create (a setting that can be made public in the early stage).

Coupled with one or two harem girls (bishoujo mangaka and the like) who are also creators, and their apostles, this is probably what the work feels like.

This work, no surprise, is oriented towards purely commercial writing (the main selling points are combat and characters)——

The likelihood of Waterloo is highly slim.

All in all, let’s collect materials and write an outline first.

Readers who see this can leave their thoughts on the concept of the new book, such as what kind of plots they like to read, harem, battles, lilies, settings, etc. You can mention it.

Anyway, everyone who catches up here is considered a good friend. I will try my best to refer to it and then become a fan (so that some people obviously don’t have the patience to read it, and the mentality of not reading this will affect their mentality.

The book club group is 230527053, a special reminder for mushrooms. It is an old group from the Holy Death period. It is relatively cold. The advantage is that the author is still available on call (exaggeration, my reaction time in the group is still relatively slow now).