Old-time musicians

Hello everyone, this is Timid Orange who has been writing non-stop for four months after "Resurrection".

"Old Musicians" was published on the 25th of last year, which was close to the completion time of the third volume. Unknowingly, it has been written for a year. As of the 25th of this year, the word count should be about 1.6 million.

Compared with other authors, this amount of updates should be a bit handicapped, especially after March, there are always a few days every month (referring to broken updates), but looking at my own working status, I think at least in terms of writing attitude Didn't let myself down.

Well, the author's current mental state is pretty good, and he's no worse than when he finished writing "Resurrection".

Let me talk about my decision first. Before writing the fourth volume, I finally decided to revise the beginning.

The reason why I didn't revise it before is because there is no need to revise online articles. It's either a big taboo or it just doesn't make sense. If you have time to revise, it's better to resume the update one day earlier. It's better to revise the beginning of 2W words than to update 2000 words. The second reason is because, Although there has been a lot of criticism before, the reason why this book is on the market has nothing to do with what they said: "The beginning is too rubbish, and people ran away before it was put on the shelves."

The second point may be a bit counterintuitive, but the data does not lie.

Let’s talk about the most unspeakable data that I have never talked about before and that I can’t understand myself.

The current collection of this book is more than 80,000 (the last 10,000 was stolen by Mr. Bai Yinmeng), and the highest number of VIP subscribers for the first chapter is more than 6,000.

What is the concept?

First of all, it shows that there are not so many readers who abandoned the book, and the appeal of the first volume is qualified, for new authors.

The problem lies next.

According to the average conversion rate of the starting point works, if the high order is more than 6,000, there should be 1,000 follow-up orders, and an average order of about 3,000 (that is, a high-quality badge). If I can become a high-quality product after writing for a year, a newbie like me The author must be laughing in his dreams.

But in fact, my current follow-up subscription for the new chapter is only 300, and my average subscription is only 1,600.

According to the growth pattern of a normal author, the first volume is definitely the weakest in writing skills, and the third and second volumes are definitely better than the first volume.

But my data only started to drop in the second volume, and the third volume also dropped more severely.

I don't know what the problem is either.

He should be the author with the lowest reading rate in Qidian (crying).

But why do I still need to edit the beginning now? I simply want to reduce the number of new swearing messages that pop up in the future.

Because for an author who cannot find motivation in data, in addition to self-psychological construction, if he wants to persevere, he needs the support of several big bosses and the evaluation of more readers. I'm a person with a lot of mental stress. Sometimes I turn on my computer at night after moving bricks and prepare to open the code. After a few ding-dong clicks, even if I delete the comment or reply, I will just stare in front of the screen for half an hour.

The modifications are mainly in the first volume, which mainly involves the actions, dialogues, descriptions, details of being bullied, etc. of the characters who were criticized more fiercely. It will not affect the plot. Readers who have read later do not need to read it again (plan to re-read it) except).

Everything you do is in the service of "persistence".

Back to the summary of Volume 3.

"Symphony No. 3 in D minor" is the one that best reflects Nietzsche's philosophy among Mahler's works. It embodies Mahler's top understanding of the "Superman" spirit in "The Birth of Tragedy" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" .

The main idea of ​​this work will not be pasted on Baidu Encyclopedia. My personal understanding is this: under the guise of "describing nature", it describes the world starting from empty chaos, first going through a breakthrough from nothing, and then The process in which low-level plants transform into high-level animals and higher-level humans, and finally sublimate into angels and the revelation of love.

Or in a word: "Rise higher."

Therefore, no music work has such a "esoteric simulator" as Ma San at its core. The life of the leader of Ma San is incomplete if you have not heard of it ().

When initially setting up the power system of this book, the main climbing structure of the Huita was set as six doors. This was inspired by the structure of the six movements of Mahler's "Third Symphony", and Mahler's The originally planned seventh movement was deleted and placed in the "Fourth Symphony", which also corresponds to the seventh level of the dome door that cannot be opened by mortal creatures.

In the whole book, the particularity of this volume is self-evident, and the naming of "Summer Noon Dream" destined that the entire plot from the first chapter to the last chapter will be presented in the form of a dream. .

I have never written about what it should feel like to write about a dream. I tried to summarize some key words at first: such as the sense of time and space as if from another world, the dreamlike atmosphere, and the intermittent twitching. The sense of detachment, the hidden rational personality, the rising artistic passion, and the sudden awakening from the dream like the bursting of a bubble.

So the first thing I thought about was whether to make the structure design and chapter naming special.

Thinking about this, my obsession with "structure" has deepened in this volume. In order to express unreal dreams, I gave up the realistic "writing structure" and instead adopted the artistic "formal structure". "The plot is distributed roughly according to the length ratio of "Mahler's Third Symphony": the longest first movement is the first part, and the second to sixth movements are the second part. The number of chapters in the two parts is roughly the same, and the ending is appropriately done. of freedom extended.

If the additions in the final chapter are counted as two numbers, the numerical ratio is 54:10:10:12:12:14, which basically meets my previous idea of ​​"musical structure".

Directly using the naming method of first movement/second movement + number + subtitle, it should not be used again in the future, and it can be regarded as a different attempt.

The second attempt was to adjust the main narrative method.

In the past, the music line and the mystery line were intertwined and advanced. Although the music and mystery finally merged together, the events were actually separate. For example, the "Giant" volume of troubles first completed the flash mob and then fought the phantom man. " The "Resurrection" volume first writes about Fanning's exploration of the ruins, and then writes about Kaplan's completion of the premiere.

Generally speaking, it is a linear narrative structure, with music leading to one section, and mystery leading to another section, alternating with each other.

This volume has a "wheel-shaped" narrative structure, with clues pouring in from all directions toward the center, just like the crowds of sleep phenomena in a dream.

By the end, everything collides and the musical performance is a mixture of everything.

In previous concerts, I just wrote how the music was performed, and at most added some psychological activities of the audience or performers. But for this concert, just the lines I listed in my outline were:

The musical description of the "Third Symphony" itself; the recycling of the entire foreshadowing of the "Meat Sacrifice" ceremony; Fan Ning's inner interpretation of the dream; Fan Ning was finally promoted to the Seeker; the foreshadowing of the cracking scene - Joan and "Miss Scarlet Girl" The confrontation between "The Eye Mother", "The Pale One" and "The Disintegration Field"; the foreshadowing of the mobile phone - the containment competition between the Special Patrol Office and Fan Ning; the foreshadowing of the Fox Lily - the solution to Pogorelic's suppression Threat; the ending of Master Lucter, Luna and Miss Nightingale: the historical projection of the Southland

In this way, every few hundred to a thousand words, I would pull a string to detonate one, and I would not engage in boring fights and injections. All of them were to substantively promote the results, and then end it quickly, as soon as the feelings came. The climax is like a bubble bursting immediately. Don't leave too much room for words at the end. Don't let the reader release all their emotions. There must be a sense of loss when they wake up from the dream.

I think so, but maybe I just let it go, so my subscriptions keep dropping.

However, I have to write it down after a long time, which is also a challenge for myself.

The last special attempt is the keywords in the preface, which appear frequently throughout the plot.

"Love is a question, and those who desire it always answer with violence and idyll."

Right, I guess everyone has come up with the keywords mentioned above.

In the past, like the first and second volumes, the main theme was often revealed later in the plot, but this time when Fan Ning embarked on his business journey, the proposition was directly raised.

The reason for doing this is also based on the development method of musical works: presenting the theme and motivation as early as possible at the beginning, and then developing and exploring it in subsequent repetitions, transformations, modulations or counterpoints.

There is no Nietzsche in this old industrial world. People here do not know "Dionysus" and "Apollin" like Fanning. Of course, they have their own vocabulary, calling the former "violence" and the latter "idyllic".

When different desirers lead to different endings, when the "Dionysian spirit" symbolizing "violence" and the "Apollinian spirit" symbolizing "idyllic" are perfectly integrated in Fan Ning's works, "Love is a question" At the end of the volume, answers and echoes were obtained.

"Love is a Question" also contains a bit of my own rebellious spirit.

Although the promise is still valid, I am actually not very willing to label a novel as "no heroine", "single heroine" or "harem novel". The relationship between men and women is regarded as the core attribute of a work. This Secondly, and the most important thing is that the relationship between men and women has been completely objectified into a flat thing like "accept one, accept a few, or not accept at all", which is like choosing between two pounds of pork or three ducks at the vegetable market.

Anyway, just writing this is a waste of time, isn’t it?

In this volume, I want to present the love that modern European literati, poets and artists have seen, thought, experienced and understood. It is a kind of love that is obsessed with physical attraction but pays more attention to spirituality, a mixture of holiness and joy, restraint and Passion, morality and anti-morality are the reasons for the concept of love in the steam age. This is why there is such a southern country. The deep love in midsummer is passionate, but "courtly love" or "elegant love" has always been sung and praised.

As for Fan Ning's self-analysis and inner introspection, if he can show a bit of the temperament of a modern European artist, I can only say that he has done his best. The subconscious analysis of dreams in the final chapter, due to length reasons and mainly to serve the plot, only briefly elaborates on the most important identity correspondences. In fact, throughout the third volume, I buried details of all sizes, including scenery, Dialogue, text, small actions, small plot

I won’t go into details about the female characters. To give two examples of male characters, the two men Fan Ning befriended on the first night in the South, Trois and Massenegou, were actually two types of self-competition in Fan Ning’s original subconscious mind. As for the concept of love, which one is dominated by "Apollinian philosophy" and which one is dominated by "Dionysian philosophy", you can try to analyze it.

In short, this "summer noon dream" reflects Fan Ning's depressed emotions in reality. If anyone has discovered any details, it may be secretly "interesting".

Let’s summarize it here.

Thanks to the harbinger of the Silver Alliance, the treasure box that the boss dropped when I was doubting my life directly stabilized my Taoist heart. Not only did it stabilize after the third volume, but I also had the confidence to finish the fourth volume. .

And thanks——

The first alliance and half of the silver alliance were moved and smiled

I don’t have a good name for the alliance leader.

Leader ErlcRyuu

Leader of the Divination Cauldron

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Operation classmates who silently contribute behind the scenes——

He Yanyan

Youyue Liuli Luna

In addition, thanks to the silly group members in the "Old Symphony Orchestra" book group, and the familiar party who often writes in the book review area (maybe the two sides don't match, the digital ID is also a bit face-blind, you can add more if you haven't finished!)——

Han Shao Xian Huang

Dare to be bold

Boshan

Really rich imagination

Wife Kal'tsit

Sui Yu Senior

The sea is water

Stubborn stone

Wilde, the warrior of love

Deep scarlet

Not love the country, love mathematics

Mozhe Chujie

Plankov, the chief trombone of the Wehrmacht Band of Theorien

The most proud in the world

Give me peace of mind, take care of my stability

Wind and Cloud Absolute Sword

Staying up late Ultraman

It's simply not possible

Don't blow or praise Nana Jun

The sheath is small and not yet a pole

amar cord

Godel

The Dove of the White Night

The Flowing Fire Warm Winter

Han Shisan

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The Grilled Fish of Wind Wound

ASKXDR

Gio Tuanzi

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Qi Chen

Wumeng Xiusi

Jiang Jiu

There are always authors who go fishing

Ashyx

Nanling Tomb Ghost

Kola Karin

Xise Luner

Student Antelope

Yuan Baozhen

Barking and Hush

The Lost in the Sea of ​​Books

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Floating World Dust Tour

Jiushan Xuanqing Xiangyou Jueze Taoist

Billions of Years of Wasteland

Deacon Xingyun

September

Reincarnation Heaven

Zi Mu TheFool

Haibo Wave

xha

St Honghonghuohuo

James Han

Guan Zhi Sanren

Thank you for following the update (bow)

Dividing Line

I can still write.

Talk about the update later.

In addition to adjusting my status and refining my ideas, I also need to revise the manuscript. However, I will tentatively schedule it to be updated every seven days. Today, the 12th, is the 8K final chapter + 4K summary. I will take a break from the 13th to the 19th. The update will start from the 20th in the second half of the month (I often skip posts recently, right?).

By the way, I thought it would be easy to guess what the next volume will be about, but it seems that no one has guessed the direction.

The fourth volume, titled "Heaven", is based on Mahler's untitled "Symphony No. 4 in G Major". According to the outline design, Fanning will enter the abnormal zone in this volume.

See you on the 20th.