Old-time musicians

The title note of the last chapter the night before seems to have caused misunderstanding. It’s my fault. The book should have been written over 3 million words, and the main plot has only been completed by about 60%. It shouldn’t be that long.

When I wrote the second half of the fourth volume, I felt unsure overall. On the one hand, this "uncertainty" is aimed at readers. When a book falls into a vicious cycle of "slower updates and fewer and fewer readers", the few "supporters" who stay behind actually become the biggest "victims". This conclusion is far-fetched - "As long as I give up quickly enough, the author can't cheat me", and those who choose to stay and support you in difficult situations become the people you feel the most sorry for. On the other hand, the "uncertainty" is aimed at yourself. After the battle line is extended, not only is it difficult for readers to follow up, but my own "tracking and evaluation" of writing results has also become blind. I can't judge how well the recent tens of thousands of words are written, and what problems need to be adjusted. It's like a person who can't do a physical examination for a long time. Even if he doesn't feel sore or painful, can eat and sleep, he still has no confidence in "whether there is any serious disease that has not been discovered". However, from the end of the main text to before writing the summary chapter today, I quickly read the "Heavenly Kingdom" volume as a whole. It seems to be okay? At least I am relieved. It may be because I write slowly not because I have no ideas, but because I really don't have time to write. In addition, the outline has a certain stabilizing effect, so the emotions and plot are still coherent, and all the holes that need to be filled in this volume have been filled. I feel that the overall completion still meets the initial expectations.

So, if readers read it all in one go, it should be okay. Just follow the experience, uh, let's change the topic.

"Symphony No. 4 in G Major" occupies a very special position in Mahler's creative career.

The first three symphonies are the first stage of his spiritual wandering and soul exile history, respectively exploring people's "heroic view", "death view" and "natural view". This is cool enough and epic enough, but it is also very tiring and exhausting.

So in Mahler's original idea, the position of "Fourth" should play a role similar to a "safe haven" or "resting station for the soul". After the first stage of the journey, he really wanted to take a break.

Back to Fanning's story, as early as in the "Candlelight Dinner" plot of the second volume, Roy said after listening to him play Mozart's piano sonata: "If Mr. Fanning can write a symphony like this in the rest of his life, even if I can't get the latest news at that time, I will confirm that you must be very happy, without regrets and tragedy."

When Fanning later conceived "The Fourth" in the Abnormal Zone, he was motivated by this sentence. He wanted to write a symphony with the legacy of classicalism by shortening the length of the work, reducing the arrangement of instruments, simplifying the form structure, and shaping the innocent theme character. For example, through the innocent imagination of children, depict the beautiful life in heaven.

But Fanning is not Mozart after all, and he does not have the "innocent heart" that is one of the common talent templates of the protagonist of online articles. The cheerful music he wrote is still mixed with various images of death, fearful emotions and weird symbols from time to time.

I don't know what Roy will think after hearing this song later.

"Everyone who leaves the world is singing", this preface sounds a bit detached or sacred at first, but it is discordant, fragmented, and cannot withstand careful scrutiny.

It is perfect to put the plot of investigating the abnormal area in this volume to match the music, and introduce some esoteric organizations and villains like mental illness.

By the way, after I really started writing a book for the first time, I gradually found that the design of the plot is not "hard to think" by the author, but depends on whether your initial conception and purpose are clear. For example, here, since you want to describe a process of "gradual collapse of order", you must start with a rigorous order, so the plot must be placed in the Western Continent with a strong religious atmosphere, and Fanning must play a conservative priest-these answers can be stably deduced.

A priest should look like a priest, especially this old-fashioned "Lavoisier". In addition to his appearance and temperament, his every word and action must be based on facts. If the lines follow the consciousness of me, a "modern online writer", it will definitely appear to be not attentive enough. If he simply "shows off his skills and pretends to be awesome" and becomes a high-ranking figure in the church, he will not be able to convince readers.

So everyone sees Lavoisier pretending all the time. Others pretend to be awesome by making big news, but he is different. In the eyes of others, he pretends to be awesome when he eats, drinks, and talks.

Although this volume is about writing about religious atmosphere at the beginning, it cannot be too preachy and serious, otherwise it will be too traditional literature. It happens that Fanning is just a "fake". To be honest with you, the above is all the atmosphere I pretended to have, and the readers are also entertained, not so boring.

Almost all of Lavoisier's lines are adapted or imitated from the Bible and related scriptures and manuals. It really takes a lot of time to polish it to fit the plot under such a strict program.

It goes without saying how much space the protagonist's lines take up in an online article.

Let alone writing it, other authors can write several more chapters in the time it takes you to read the scriptures

Is it really necessary to write like this? I hesitated for a long time, but then I resolutely decided to write it! And it runs through the entire Western Continent!

Looking back now, I think, what would have happened if Lavoisier had written his lines as normal in the online text?

I think it is still worth the starting coins for readers to subscribe, and it can even be updated faster.

But I don’t know how much the shaping effect of this character will be compromised. From the perspective of hindsight, a small number of people should feel regretful (only from the perspective of hindsight is it possible to compare), and of course there will be many who don’t like this kind of speech. Readers who use this method feel that it is better to write normally, which is somewhat faster and easier to read.

In short, I said at the beginning that the writing of volumes three and four had a strong experimental nature. This is the situation now. The former is a dream plot and chapters named after music, and the latter is the priest's lines and the setting of the abnormal area. .

Nearly one million words of self-destruction, eh.

The Second, Third, and Fourth Symphonies are also called Mahler's "Magic Horn Trilogy" because the music has a very strong title character (the fourth one is weaker than the previous one, but it is still very powerful at the same time). ), and the materials and imagery of "The Boy's Magic Horn" appear frequently.

This collection of folk poetry is filled with descriptions of desire, love, parting, night, death, and heaven, which once deeply fascinated Mahler, a pessimist. Bruno Walter, his direct disciple, commented that "when Mahler read "The Horn of Youth", he seemed to have found his roots."

But it seems that in order to make a complete farewell to the previous stage of life, after writing "The Fourth", he got rid of the creative influence of "The Magic Horn of the Boy" and entered the middle stage of his artistic career of purely instrumental music with weak titles. .

The Aberration Zone experience was a watershed moment.

In fact, starting from the plot of Volume 4, I intentionally started to weaken the previous structure of "movements are divided into sections one by one + gain inspiration from experience + pick up creative inspiration + complete the performance and break the situation". As the title weakened, in the fifth and sixth chapters , Seven's purely instrumental symphony stage, the narrative method will be even more different from before.

The fifth volume is titled "New Moon". Fan Ning will return to the steam industrial city in the northern continent, return to the helm of the old symphony orchestra, and get back those things he has always wanted to get back.

Of course, the destiny of everyone who gazes into the Abnormal Zone will be grafted and affected, and the things lurking in the mysterious shadows will gradually reveal more terrifying clues.

But generally speaking, the atmosphere of the fifth volume will be more inclined to the conventional "cool" feeling of online articles. Returning is a proud thing in life. As a prototype, Mahler's "Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor" is also "from In the triumphant ending of "From Decline to Lift", there will be some long-awaited and favorite plots here.

That's pretty much it for the trailer.

The "Summary and Asking for Leave" in the title of this chapter is simply a copy of the previous summary at the end of the volume. Now the number of days between each update has to be "asking for leave" (I was wrong, I will dare to do it next time) (Prepare escape)

However, please be assured of the quality of the subsequent writing. The completion of the first four volumes can be used as a reference. I will code whenever I have free time. I hope that I will have more free time in the future.

See you at "New Moon".