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The following summary contains spoilers. Friends who haven’t finished watching the first part are not recommended to read it, otherwise it will significantly affect the reading experience: different books, the structure and meaning of each part must be different, the first to think about the fate of the plot At that time, I had the idea that the first part should be an introduction and a prologue in my mind. What it needs to do is to show what the current world looks like in the past few years, and what major changes have occurred compared with the mystery. To come out, what is needed is to roughly erect the image of the protagonist of this film, that is, Lumian, and then slowly fade away. What is needed is to bury some key clues of sufficient importance.
After I have an idea, it is the question of how to realize it. I didn’t have any preset position at the beginning. I searched for inspiration through a lot of reading, conceiving, and playing games. Just at this stage, some readers in the comments on the official account recommended me " What Remains of Edith Finch is a game.
I played for less than half an hour, and I couldn’t stand the severe 3D dizziness, so I had to give up, but then I went to Station B and Zhihu to brush related videos and articles, and completed the customs clearance in this way (no.) Then , I was thinking, this way of telling a story in a symbolic and metaphorical way is very interesting, and it also has a feeling of psychedelic chaos and detachment. The temperament is quite similar to what I want to capture and show. fit.
With such a thought in mind, I decided to play some tricks in the first part of Fate.
Humans, there are always people who are impulsive, always don't know how much they weigh, and want to challenge everything, but life is so short, how boring it is to repeat yourself all the time.
Moreover, I'm not new to playing with symbols and metaphors. For example, in Arcane Art, the part of Xiaolu's dream is to use the analysis of dreams to symbolize the characters' personalities, tendencies and thoughts.
So I think this time, the form of dreams can still be used, but it can’t be limited to more than a dozen chapters, can’t stop at a glance, and can’t be limited to the reflection of Lumian’s self-psychology. It is necessary to deconstruct the stories that have happened and abstract them into various Elements of symbolism and different metaphors are restructured and stitched together with the bridge sections Lumian has seen and conjectures, and are presented in front of everyone with a sufficiently complete bright story.
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Everyone, this is very interesting. I am obviously telling such a story, but it is actually such a story, which is really interesting from the perspective of the creator.
But as a web article, I must ensure readability and usefulness.
The former refers to the fact that the author can't have fun, and the readers are confused and can't read it. What is needed is to tell the reorganized story in an easy-to-understand and interesting way, and to put some clues and some abnormalities into consideration. The place where it is written is thrown out in a simpler and straightforward form, so that when it is turned over later, the reader will have the feeling of "so it is", rather than "what the **** are you writing".
The latter refers to not writing a hundred or so chapters eloquently, and then telling everyone that this is a dream of the protagonist, then readers will inevitably have the idea of "what is the meaning of this", so this book cannot simply be a story that has already been written. What happened is told in a symbolic, metaphorical way, and must have a more important role in the story structure of the whole book.
Therefore, after the chapter where the dream is broken, I have to tell everyone in flashbacks and "reports" that this movie not only deconstructs the protagonist's heart and gives him the internal motivation to act later, but also many plots have symbolic meaning. It is a metaphor for other things, and there are many clues buried. These clues are very important for the development of the following text and the development of the story, not just a simple dream.
In this sense, the "Dream Demon" is indeed an introduction. I will slowly fill in the holes left, and the most important one may not be solved until the third to last or even the second part.
Let’s continue to talk about the idea of creation and the practice: After deciding what I want for the first part, I haven’t written for a long time, because I’m lazy, because I haven’t finished reading the materials, because it’s too early to open the book, until it’s on the shelves As mentioned in the testimonial, I threw a few book titles to the starting point and let them choose by themselves. Their choices will determine Lumian's second path and the direction of some stories.
They chose "Ring of Fate", I saw it, "Ring of Fate..." I touched my chin, the first part can add elements of cycle, the comparison before and after certain things is also symbolic, and more Elements can effectively improve readability.
At this point, the idea is completely finalized, but the first thing to write is not what everyone sees now, but the story that happened on the real timeline, including every important detail.
I named it "solid line".
After having the solid line, it is necessary to extract key plots and details, and then combine elements such as dreams and cycles to compose the story on the surface, which is the "bright line".
In this process, sometimes the key plots are first symbolized and metaphorized, and then put into the story, using Aurora's bridge and Lumian's imagination to eliminate incongruous parts. It is to have a bright story first, and then consider which solid-line plot to put in and how to symbolize it. In short, it is a process of getting close to both ends.
After completing these, there is a step to mark the writing attention points.
What does that mean? That is to say, the writing points of certain characters and certain stories. For example, the annotations of the three investigators are normal writing, and Aurora’s annotations are "Lumian's beautifying impression, repeated presentation of deep memories, and the bridge's emphasis on some details." Make up the stitches, show the abnormal behavior, and be more realistic and have self-thinking in the later cycle", etc., etc.
In the outline handed over to the starting point for review, I deleted all the "solid lines" and all metaphorical explanations, leaving only the "bright lines". I don't want anyone to know the answer before my story is finished. , even editing.
After thinking about these things, it is formal writing.
Many readers and friends often have a question, is it possible that with such a perfect outline setting, the follow-up is purely based on this?
The answer is impossible, inspiration will come at any time, sometimes if you don't write a certain plot, you will not find a better way to deal with it later.
As an example, write about the world on the other side, when Aurora and Lumian faced many undead.
On the one hand, I put the key point of Aurora pushing Lumian away in a relatively simple symbolic form, and on the other hand, I will consider how to fill in the remaining content and details.
Obviously, in the "solid line", Aurora only said "my, notes", so more dialogue details and story development need to be imagined by Lumian himself, looking for inspiration from Aurora .
But I also know that this will definitely make many readers uncomfortable. After all, it is really different from the overall style of painting, and it is too old to be a fan.
I thought and thought, limited by time, I really didn't think of a better way to deal with it, so I could only write it like this. However, in the process of thinking, I felt that this could be ended in the way of reverberation!
In that way, firstly, it can further show the essence of the dream mixed with the bridge, and secondly, in the second echo, there will be a foreshadowing in front, uncomfortable memories, and the overly fanciful language of the onlookers. The evaluation is not real enough, I can really turn this ancient romance or two-dimensional dialogue into a sharp knife, precise and moving.
What is outdated is never the dialogue, but how to use it.
In other words, when I wrote about the world on the other side, I really had the ending of the first Nightmare.
There are two endings that were initially expected and then abandoned: one is that after Lumian escaped, he slept in another alpine pasture, dreamed of Kordu Village again, dreamed of Aurora, dreamed of his little friend, The Kordu village in the dream is so peaceful and peaceful, which is based on the title Nightmare.
The second is to cut the camera directly to the Trier bar, and Lumian tells the story again, "I am a loser, and I hardly pay attention to whether the sun is shining or not..." This shows a kind of cycle and fate Structural beauty.
Yes, the first sentence of the story made up by Lumian is also the first sentence of the first part of Fate.
Since the first book is full of symbols and metaphors, how could there be no story told by Lumian and the story at the beginning of the book?
According to Lumian's character, this story must be eight parts false and two parts true, and the real part is more of a symbolic presentation, hiding the core clues.
Everyone, I used Lumian's story at the beginning to tell you what the first part will be like, and this is its symbolic meaning.
The above are the creative ideas, writing summary and satisfactory parts of the first part. There must be some shortcomings: First, the narration of the knowledge about ritual magic in the first part is placed in the acceleration stage of the plot, which brings certain changes to the overall rhythm. In fact, I should adjust the order and tell these things before I know that the cyclical story begins to be intense, or spread it out a little bit, and use flashbacks and interludes to scatter that part to the next few places.
The second is between exploring the underground of the church and Lumian hunting the flame monster. Because the clues in the early stage are temporarily used up, the abnormality has not yet shown up, and the plot is in a relatively weak state. This is when I first set up the outline. Unexpectedly, when we got there, we really needed to take a break, but not for that long. Moreover, the entire Dreamland Ruins was mainly a single-person hunting and exploration area, so it was obviously not attractive enough to take the lead alone.
But at that time, there were still some lines to be laid, and some small stories had to be told, so the overall structure was more complete, so I suppressed my impatience, and finished the story little by little. Of course, some content must be deleted to speed up the pace obviously. This point, before the comments and feedback, I felt that it had been completed. After all, there were manuscripts saved at that time. Therefore, seeing everyone’s comments, I laughed secretly on the one hand. On the one hand, I am fortunate that as a creator, my writing feeling has not degraded, and I am consistent with the readers.
The third is the dislocation of expectations. What I expected was that the first part of Fate is the introduction, the key to unlock the following stories. It has its own structure, but the clues have to wait until the next part is opened, and many readers are looking forward to it. Like the first part of the mystery, there is no problem with a complete conclusion and a strong enough climax, but I can't think of how to imply that everyone will fill in the pits while playing with symbols and metaphors.
The fourth is the shaping of the characters. This is a part of the sacrifice for the overall conception of the first film. It can only be sketched and supplemented slowly in the follow-up. Of course, the part of the "complement" I envisioned may not be the same as everyone thinks. It may be more crazy? perhaps.
The fifth is the problem of early-stage upgrades. I should put the point that the negative impact of low-level potions will be significantly reduced as the end is approaching. In this way, Lumian’s low-level upgrades will not be too inconsistent. I don’t really feel it. After all, it’s been several years since the mystery was written. Not everyone remembers some of the details behind it. Talk about it, make up for it.
Tomorrow, I'll get the character cards for Oral, Mrs. Pouaris, the curate, and the official trio.
After finishing this, I will ask for leave as usual, because I need to improve the outline of the second part and rest adjustments, I will take three and a half days off, and update the first chapter of the second part on the 28th, which is Friday at 12:30 noon.
For the second part, after much deliberation, I chose a volume name that I had used, because it fit so well that I couldn't find a replacement.
The second book, "The Light Chaser"-remember, you are dust, and you will return to dust.
This one is also a relatively small chapter. Don't compare it with the Faceless Man chapter. The volume should be more than a hundred chapters, and it won't be much longer than "The Nightmare".
Of course, there will also be a large number of chapters in the follow-up, which all depend on the theme, structure and function of each part.
Finally, thanks to friends from LIVY37 for rewarding Baiyinmeng again.
Finally, ask for a monthly pass!
Well, last, last, and last, I recommend another book: Liu Xia's new book "Above the Galaxy".
Bandit Tang, a young refugee who came out of the ruins, with a pair of skillful hands and a good-looking face, an inexplicable responsibility and an oath that will never be fulfilled, stepped up to the top of the starry sky step by step.
If the **** does not show his mercy any more, let us light the bonfire, shoulder the great sword, and become dry bones, or legendary heroes.
To be honest, the homonym of the protagonist's name makes me unable to bear to look directly at it, but the book is still a good book.
By the way, I am away from home, the summary has not been revised, please forgive me for typos and wrong sentences, and ask for a monthly ticket again~