Lord of the Mysteries - Author's Note Part 1 Tencent MTL

A speech on the completion of the original (part I)

I was originally scheduled to take a break and write this tomorrow, but maybe the time is sensitive. Many friends have asked me by all kinds of text messages and private messages. I am thinking of taking a good nap, relaxing the excitement at the end, and my cell phone beeps violently. Let people sleep or not.

The end of May was scheduled. I said this a long time ago, but it was impossible to estimate accurately at that time. Generally speaking, in May and June, we had to leave enough flexibility, right? if it were not for the epidemic, I would have traveled to Spain in a few days.

Also, my contract was signed at the end of 2016, and by the beginning of 2022, there is still one book left, 3 million words, and the new book must be at the starting point.

After the digression, let's go back to the book itself.

If I choose a more reasonable development at the end of the seventh part, which makes the plot much faster and unable to unfold in more fullness and detail, then the eighth part starts from the first chapter, that is, under my control, what should be written in each picture, where to turn, how to wind up at the end, I have already considered, there is no sudden acceleration of the plot, and there is no question of cutting off a lot of branch lines.

At the end, I thought before I opened the book that after all kinds of passivity, expectation, confusion and wandering, everyone in the Tarot Society finally got out of their comfort zone to face the world and face all kinds of difficulties. Klein and Azek completed a role reincarnation.

In the end, the contrast between weirdness and innocence, gloom and sunshine, darkness and freshman belongs to a strange picture of a little Cthuru and a little warmth, and points out that Klein has initially awakened and will not break the book.

As for the foreshadowing of the five gold coins, the Tarot's respective experiences, and other pits that do not involve the main line of the book, of course, they are reserved for the second part, which I have written so obviously that the last part is both the end and the preface.

Well, the second part is from Xiao Ke's deep sleep, or even earlier, to the time when he wakes up.

This was all determined before the book was opened. why did you consider the second book at that time? first, I thought the setting was too huge and could write too much. If it was crammed into a book, there would be no distinction between primary and secondary, long branch lines, messy and tedious, bloated. Second, the growth curve of the Tarot people could not keep up with Klein. If we give them too many branches and more stories, let their promotion be reasonable enough. That will have an impact on the structure of the main line, and there will also be the problem of no distinction between primary and secondary. If we do not give it to them and let them grow up and play a role at a critical moment, there will certainly be a large number of friends who think that they will be ascended to heaven and that they will get everything if they are too easy.

So, after weighing it, combined with all aspects of the situation, I am determined to at least write Secret 2, so that this one can calmly walk the plot without having to run maps all over the world, while Tarot will only start the first half of their lives, complete the transformation and growth, and then leave the comfort zone to play a better story and life in the second part.

For me, this is also a challenge, how to bring everyone back into the world after a few years, and how to let new readers go on smoothly and without restrictions without reading Secret 1.

I have no previous experience of writing a series of books or writing a second book under the same worldview. On the one hand, I did not consider this problem when the previous books were set up, and I did not have enough space to expand. Second, I am afraid of repeating past routines. I can't break through, but this fear is also a limitation. I think I can try to challenge it if I have found my own writing methodology.

As I said before, my slogan, no, my motto is:

"never be satisfied, always challenge.

In the second part, I haven't decided on the protagonist and cut-in yet, but now I have some plot images in my mind:

It was a dark line formed by the Tarot's attempts to awaken Xiaoke, represented by different people represented by five gold coins and iron cigarette boxes.

He may come across a cigarette lighter, and speaking of former hunters, he may occasionally catch a glimpse of half a beautiful face, or he may hear news of the discovery of a new world from overseas, or he may have a fight with the kings of the sea. he may explore the unrevealed treasure legends on the sea, and may expand with all kinds of "traversers" and "infiltrators".

Specific style, wait until the time to decide, in short, the setting left a lot of space for the second part, I am not worried about nothing to write.

As for the apocalypse, it is certainly not a solution, but in order to make the end of the second film more stressful, I decided to strengthen the mother god at the epic level. In short, why did the boar get pregnant, why did the man keep his belly, and why did the stone give birth to a child? behind all this, is it the distortion of human nature, or the loss of morality? As for the enhanced plan, it will probably be put in the third part related to the western continent, but I may not write it seriously.

Related to the western continent, I actually did not set it before, just left the interface, the remaining seven sources, and a small number of extraordinary characteristics that do not contain sequence 1, uniqueness, what kind of world, an upgrade system will be built?

I have basically confirmed the idea recently, and I know what kind of setting to make, heh heh.

Well, the source quality as the core of the right path system, with extraordinary characteristics as the fundamental side of the way, and each has its own parts of the lower nine.

The former starts from the Taoist idea of "receiving Zhuan". Well, being sealed means that you have been recognized by Heaven and become a member of this system, and you can happily summon gods such as Liuting Liujia to help fight, but there are no wild Taoist monks who do not receive Zhuan. You want to summon Liuding Liujia, land and mountain gods, why should people talk to you? Therefore, in Fu Zhuan, Fu and Zhuan are separated, and in a word, the seal is within the system, and then, if the Heaven and Pure Land are changed into source quality, the whole setting will be lively and weird.

At this point, I was hungry and my wife urged me to go out. After all, I decided to write it on an ad hoc basis. well, I will stop here first. I will continue this final speech tomorrow to talk about the ideas and gains and losses of the creation of this secret book, and to talk about my creative methodology.

In addition, I would like to thank the boss of Indus for rewarding. I was scared just now, and then I will serialize a series of 20,000 to 30,000 here at regular intervals, and then I did not intend to write it, but now I find that there are many things that do not involve the second part, but can be written, such as Xiao Ke's sleeping dreams, some Quaternary fragments of stories, and so on.

I have already given a hint as to why Tian Zun's hind hands are disturbed:

"Magic Mirror" Arodes, as coming out of the sea of chaos, why does he have to follow Klein? why does Klein carry it in his sleep?

Also, the physical book reset version came out, this time the cover is my favorite, the content is only revised some of the network vocabulary and words that do not exist in the dictionary, for example, he, the specific purchase address can go to see my Weibo, like diving squid, then irregularly outside can follow my official account, directly search "wuzei1985", animation avatar that.

Mm-hmm, we will continue our final speech tomorrow (part two).