Chapter 55 Remarks on the launch
After a year and a half, I returned to Qidian to start a book again. It felt like I was restarting myself again.

In the past year and a half, I have often thought that I might as well retire, travel, raise a cat, play games, and spend my life happily.

But I always feel that there are stories that have not been told, including Chen Ji's story.

From the moment I began to imagine this story, it was out of my comfort zone, because I really wanted to write something different from the past. As for whether I can write it well, that is another matter.

In my past works, I often ignored the logical plot. Some plots were too deliberate and seemed a bit awkward.

To have fun for the sake of having fun, to be passionate for the sake of being passionate, to be funny for the sake of being funny, and so on.

This is a question of how the creator himself strikes the right balance. Obviously, I have done very poorly in the past, and I want to try to improve on this one.

People always have to make progress, even if they are very tired, they can't stop.

In my past works, I was too eager to advance the plot and neglected the description of details, resulting in a lack of visual sense.

Of course, as everyone has seen in this book, I am also trying hard to make progress. I first spent several months collecting a large amount of information and constructed such a solid fantasy Los Angeles in my mind.

When writing, I will try my best to immerse myself in that environment and think about what actions and words a certain character would take and say in that environment.

I am still learning this part, and I hope I can learn faster.

In my past works, the characters I described were somewhat opportunistic. I would spend a lot of time and effort to describe important characters, such as Yingzi and He Jinqiu.

But if the character is not that important in my creative goal, I will be lazy and label him, resulting in insufficient description of the character in details.

I don't think about each character's growth experience in the current era, nor their true demands.

But this is not right.

In this book I tried to make a change. I hope that every character in this book is vivid and bright, even Brother Pao and Erdao, the uncle and the aunt who only appeared once in the early stage.

The amount of creation this time is very large. Take She Dengke and Liu Quxing as examples. Although they are just small characters, I also wrote biographies for them, what kind of families they were born into, what kind of life experiences they have, even if they are small characters, they also have their joys and sorrows.

There are also cloud sheep, bright rabbits, golden pigs, sick tigers, Pegasus... many, hundreds of them.

I hope that they live a "complex" life in this world, rather than serving my creative purpose or advancing a certain plot.

This was a lot of work, but I enjoyed writing the book and really enjoyed this way of creating.

In my past works, I didn’t have a complete and clear outline, only a detailed outline. But in this way, as I was writing, I didn’t even know what kind of story I wanted to create or what tone I wanted to set.

This is the biggest problem faced by Night's Naming Technique and Spare My Life, Great King, so I returned to the first-sequence creative mode, first coming up with the ending I wanted most, and then having the outline and this story.

But there is a problem with writing like this. As a bystander of this story, the creator knows too many things and can't help but spoil some plots that should appear later...

Or maybe I'm too eager for that ending and hope it will arrive one day earlier.

I am also slowly adapting and hope I can do better in this regard.

In the past, due to the special serialization method of online articles, readers have high requirements for the update volume. But for this book, I want to talk to you about this issue first.

In the nomenclature of the night, as you all know, I was number one for a long time.

There is a kind of magic in the ranking first. When you update 8,000 words, you are on the ranking first. When you update 4,000 words, you are on the ranking second. When you drop to the ranking second, you will try your best to get back.

During that time, I updated 12,000 words a day, and I felt like I had become a better person...

But in reality, an author has limited energy. Once the update volume increases, he or she will naturally give up control over the details because you don’t have time to examine the entire story.

Therefore, since I started writing this book, I have never asked for a monthly ticket, collection, or recommendation. I don’t pay attention to any rankings. I hope I can calm down and write a story that is worthy of myself.

I won't deliberately make things bad. I will just post as much as I can write every day to ensure that the quality of my writing is acceptable to me.

Of course, if you can’t write well, it’s just because your level is limited. I envy those talented writers. Their stories are full of ups and downs and their words are gorgeous, which I can never learn no matter how hard I try.

I can only learn to be myself first.

The performance of this book is currently similar to that of The Naming of the Night before it was put on the shelves, and even a little higher. This is something I didn't expect. After all, the protagonist's life has always been very rough, and the updates are also very slow... I would like to thank all the folks who have read the book, and I hope that I can write an ending that is worthy of myself this time.

Thank you all.

Thanks again.

See you tonight in the early morning, there will be another chapter in the early morning.

(End of this chapter)