Reborn great writer

"As expected, it took 30 years to create a work carefully. This is completely creating a world."

It took Su Shichen two days to read all the eleven books of the Outsiders series that Kodd had published, and he couldn't help admiring in his heart. The Outerlands Continent created by Kodd took eleven books to construct. Of course, If you include the publication of the last book "Outsiders. The Real Outsiders", that will be twelve books, wonderful, truly wonderful works!

The general story of the Outlander series of books is the story of two Americans and an Englishman crossing over to a place called the Outlander Continent. It can be said that there are three protagonists, twelve books, and each of them uses four books. to describe.

These three people became the generals of the human empire, the high priest of the dwarves, and the elders of the blood elves. Three different lines are depicted from three races. A total of twelve books interpret the "Outsider Continent" from various aspects. .

As big as the war between empires on the "foreigner continent", the development of historical beliefs on the continent, as small as the customs and characteristics of each race are written clearly and reasonably.

To be precise, the details and reasonableness are a bit scary, and it is a background that is worth creating in the past 30 years. Although Su Shichen does not have a good impression of Ke De, he is really shocked by the "outsider continent" he built. .

"The Lord of the Rings" is actually the sequel of "The Hobbit", but this sequel is more famous than the novel "The Hobbit". The translation has been called more than 60 languages, and there are other honors, so I won’t repeat them here.

But one thing about "The Lord of the Rings" was called by the poet Auden that "no author has ever created such a fine and illusory world and fictional history." "The Lord of the Rings" is famous for its grand scenes. The Zhongzhou Continent created in Precept is inferior to the Outsider Continent created by Curd in the "Outsider Series".

Yes, the "Lord of the Rings", which is praised by countless people on Earth, is really inferior to the "Outsider Series". Su Shichen now has some doubts about the list of [His World]. Such a worldview is no more than No. 4? (It has been confirmed that it can rise from No.5 to No.4, so although it has not surpassed it, it has been called the fourth in some newspapers.)

Is there a problem with the selection of the list?A world like the Outer Continent is the fourth place, how terrifying is the world constructed by the top three.

It was the first time for Su Shichen to feel such a great sense of oppression. It seemed that the western fantasy novels in this world were particularly developed, far surpassing the previous earth.

What kind of book should I use to fight? "The Lord of the Rings" can be regarded as the best fantasy novel with the best background world in the previous life of the earth. What else can it be compared with?Known as an epic fantasy, "A Song of Ice and Fire" constructs an epic-like world, but it is also the same as "The Lord of the Rings". It can't be suppressed... Su Shichen, who is at a loss for what to do, feels a little headache, A face of confusion ah.

"Brother Chu, this is his last masterpiece. He must go all out and is expected by Chinese fans and Asian fans; and then Ke De's "The Real Outsider" is said to be throwing out the world with the largest background. Setting, fans in Europe and the United States have enthusiastic expectations before it comes out. Well, I have already lost a bit in terms of attention. Brother Chu and Ke De may have started writing books, but now I will write my previous The plan was overthrown, and here we lost again."

Feeling the vibration in his pocket, he touched it and found that it was a mobile phone vibrating. He took it out and saw that there were three missed calls, and they were all from Chu Xing.

Call back "Hey, brother Chu, I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now, so I didn't hear it, what's the matter?"

"Are you thinking about the confrontation between fantasy novels?" Chu Xing hit the nail on the head.

"Well, I just read the "Outsider Series" and it shocked me a lot, so I'm going to rethink my novels."

"Well, the "Outsider Series" can indeed be said to be one of the most successful fantasy novels in the world view." Chu Xing changed the subject, "I also read the news a few days ago, no matter how hard you work on the background It is impossible to write a book in a short period of time that surpasses the "Outsider Series" in terms of background setting, so you must not use your weaknesses to challenge the strengths of others because of impulse." Kodd said before It was true that he meant to belittle Su Shichen, so Chu Xing was afraid that he would be impulsive and make unwise moves.

"I know, brother Chu, don't worry, I'm not that kind of reckless person."

"By the way, Brother Chu's fantasy novel has also won the Hugo Award, and now he has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Brother Chu, where do you rank in the [His World] list?"

"It's a series of fantasy novels of mine. It describes the continent of Nyastria. It ranks No. 30 and No. [-] in [His World]. When I write novels, I focus on characters and plots, and the description of the world is much weaker."

[His World] This list is really high in gold content. The series of novels written on the continent of Nyaster can be regarded as the masterpiece and the highest level among Chu Xing's fantasy novels, but even in this case, it is still not even in the top [-]. No entry.

Ke De No. 4, Chu Xing No. 37. This does not mean that there is a big gap between Chu Xing and Ke De. [His World] is the world constructed in the selected novels, not the plot. If it is based on comprehensive strength Chu Xing and Ke De are at the same level.

"I have a suggestion." Chu Xing said suddenly.

"What suggestion? Brother Chu, please tell me."

"The "Prehistoric Series" is very successful in blending Chinese classic fairy tales, but I also read it. In fact, Brother Chen, you did not describe the background of the prehistoric, but used each character and each story to prop up the entire prehistoric... "Chu Xing didn't make it too obvious, but went to the point.

But Su Shichen understands that this is indeed the case in "The Prehistoric Series". Although there are many comments that Su Shichen has constructed a prehistoric world, Su Shichen really doesn't have too many descriptions about the prehistoric world. There is no such thing as Tolkien or Curd, who has described the imaginary world bit by bit into a real world.

But Su Shichen's world constructed with characters and plots gives people the feeling that the prehistoric world is still very exciting. Go to the literary circle to see how many prehistoric novels there are to know how successful the prehistoric world is.

"Brother Chen, your skills in portraying plot characters are very deep. The apocalypse in the prehistoric world or the fascinating tomb robbery in which the ghost blows the lantern, this time you can go in this direction."

"Thank you, brother Chu, I will definitely think about it."

"Hehe, come on, win this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel!" Chu Xing encouraged on the phone.

After hanging up, the bewildered look on Su Shichen's face completely disappeared as soon as the phone call ended.

That's right, he simply doesn't have the time to complete the construction of a world in 30 years like Kodd did.

"Using characters to drive the world, which fantasy novel has the most heroic characters?" After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of a suitable one. He knocked himself on the head, why should he limit his thinking to the field of novels.

The previous confrontation between him and Yuan Ju wasn't an adaptation of a movie, so let's open up his mind a bit. Anime, movies, novels, TV dramas, and even games can be used, as long as they are suitable.

This kind of large-scale search has broadened the mind, but it still didn't find a suitable one for a while.

"By the way, I should think about it in a different way. If I talk about heroes in western fantasy, what is the first thing that comes to my mind?" Su Shichen asked himself a question like this, and then came up in his mind. A name—the demigod Ner'zhul!

With the appearance of the name of the demigod Ner'zhul, a game called World of Warcraft came into Su Shichen's mind.

Inspiration suddenly surged in his head, and characters appeared in his mind one by one——

Second Commander of the Burning Legion, the darkest eredar warlock in the world, known as Archimonde the Defiler!

Known as the greatest rebellion in the entire history, the most powerful warrior in the Pantheon, the creator of the Burning Legion, the Dark Titan Sargeras!

Pull out the magic sword Frostmourne, and finally become the Lich King Arthas Menethil, the leader of the Scourge! !

……

Su Shichen was excited, and then kept perfecting the idea in his mind, Warcraft, the most popular real-time strategy game in the world in his previous life, this game can be said to make the concept of "hero" very prominent.

The game is very fun, but the huge background of this game is even more exciting. Undead, pandaren, elves, demons, blood elves, gnomes, goblins, ogres, etc., all kinds of races are overwhelming. They are all common in Western fantasy novels.

The uncommon Kaldorei, Draenei, Naga, and Sarty races are more lively than the contending schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Not only racial wars, but also the Burning Legion and Scourge. It can be said that the background of Warcraft is simply a template for this western fantasy, just like Jin Yong's martial arts novels. Anyone who can jump out of Jin Yong's martial arts and write well can do it Known as the master, Jin Yong's martial arts can be said to be a template of martial arts. It is definitely a good idea to make Warcraft a Western fantasy template in this world.

Su Shichen didn't believe that a novel like World of Warcraft would not be able to suppress the Outsider Continent. Su Shichen was very excited when he thought of this idea, and immediately turned on the computer to start writing, but he didn't type a word for a long time.

Well, the background of Warcraft is too huge. As mentioned above, both Arthas and Sargeras can completely become the protagonist of a novel. The stories behind each hero are very huge. The events of the reading force and the character of the reading force caused Su Shichen to have no idea where to start.

"Huhu——" exhaled heavily, "I want to calm down, I want to calm down, take my time, I remember that there are thirteen official novels in the background of Warcraft."

Searching in his mind, it was indeed as he remembered, there were indeed thirteen official novels of Warcraft, of course, strictly speaking, there should be eleven, and two of them were fan fiction.

"The Official History of World of Warcraft", "A Brief History of World of Warcraft", "The Well of Eternity", "The Age of Dragons"...

"These eleven official novels of Warcraft can be used as a reference." Su Shichen is planning to create a series of novels combining novels and games.

It is indeed difficult for Kodd to create the Outlander Continent in 30 years in a short period of time, but how many people constructed the background of World of Warcraft.

Naturally, it is impossible to write down the background of Warcraft in a chronological manner like the "Prehistoric Series". Even if we only focus on rewriting those few wars, it will take about seven or eight books to describe it.

Su Shichen thought of a tricky method, taking the perspective of one of the heroes, and writing it like a biography, omitting some unimportant parts, and just writing it directly, using four or five heroes who are related to each other A biography holds up a book.

It is completely believed that this "Warcraft Series" can shock the world.Similarly, this series can completely exceed the number of "Outsider Series". If you think about it, even if the heroic deeds of five Warcraft are combined into one book, dozens of even the top stories can be found in the entire background story of Warcraft. A hundred heroes worth writing about is so easy.

Well, the number one in the [His World] list in the later generations, which was called by the "New York Times" "the series of fantasy novels that can never be surpassed——"Warcraft Series"" was created by Su Shichen in this way.

Of course, this is something to say later, the most important thing is, which hero's deeds should I choose to start with the first pioneering work of this series?

this is a problem……

ps: Well, when it comes to Western fantasy with a huge background, the first thing Kitty thinks of is World of Warcraft... By the way, I watched Armored Warriors with my sister for a while, and then Kitty's three views collapsed, and I felt sick for a long time. (To be continued.)