Summary of Part 4
Immortality, a gift, or, a curse, this is the theme of the fourth part, in fact, in many people have embodied, such as Aztec, Anderson, Leonard, and so on, and so on, and finally Xiao Ke saw those cocoons, saw wrapped in the cocoon inside the costume of the modern earthlings, saw three of the cocoons have ruptured, the gift, or the curse of the question, I do not think it is necessary to point out again on purpose, the entire The world of that kind of thriller horror suspense crazy dark tone and immediately appeared.
This is before the book, I expected one of the most impactful picture, now seems to be good, smile.
The entire fourth part, layer by layer, recycling ambush, including from the third part of the middle of the buried Anderson that line, and finally have a strong outbreak and reverberation, I’m still relatively satisfied, and some of the rest of the line, in the fifth part will also do some recycling.
However, there are still some faults in the fourth part, one is the lack of conflict in the rich man’s daily life, once stretched out, don’t even know how to build tension, and many points have to be accounted for, have to be mentioned, which led to some anxiety before going to Charnes Gate, I was a little anxious, and the twist is not soft enough, missing the final pad of that, as I said before, so I will not talk about it more.
Secondly, the amplitude of the plot was on the long side, and there was a bit of a pacing problem in the middle and later parts of the book.
In late June to mid-July, my writing state are a bit burnt out, from Klein get the formula, Leonard digging graves end, the tension of the whole plot from the peak of the downturn, I tried to make up for it, to reorganize, looking for new stimulus, but the effect is not too good, as for the reason, I later also roughly figure out, lack of change.
In layman’s terms, it is the escalation dragged for too long, from the middle of the third part of the ascension of the secret puppet master, to the middle of the fourth part of the after two or three hundred chapters, the aesthetic began to fatigue, tension began to decline, and urgently need to be essentially changed.
So, I adjusted the rhythm, will be able to put into the back of the back, can be described side by side description of the side, very clearly aimed at upgrading and vengeance two lines, from the self-perception and specific data, the effect is still good.
Of course, it caused some problems, and there were a few places where it was rushed, such as the Calderon bit, which should have been a bit more sprawling and convoluted.
Well, for me, upgrading is not only a cool point, a point of anticipation, or a tool to control the pace, the former is easy to understand, even in the real world, upgrading is everywhere, the staff have staff promotion paths, businessmen and officials alike, the reality without upgrading doesn’t exist, only that some of them are not so obvious.
The latter one is more complicated, I simplify it into the pursuit of change, and then the daily book also need change, need new things to stimulate, an upgrade can bring a lot of changes, so it can be used to control the pace, measure the problem.
After speeding up the pace and coming to the final climax of the plot, the most important thing for an author is to straighten out the emotions, to straighten out the emotions that he wants to express, to eliminate the harmful and superfluous things, and to make sure that the progression of the layers of emotions, the accumulation and the outbreak of emotions are not disturbed, are not interrupted, and are not watered down.
So, in the last part, I shed a bit of urgency, first of all, after Adam’s line was pulled out, there was a natural lack of urgency unless you pulled in the Rose School and all that, and if you did that, the scene would be too confusing to place the emotion on revenge, on sadness, well.
Secondly, this scene is directed by Kirk, roughly to keep things under control, a few too many surprises and urgency would result in a digestive escalation that can’t flow logically, and splitting the revenge and escalation into two threads would be too much of a drag later on, with pacing definitely out of whack, and tension not there either.
Also, the presence of the Red Angel evil spirit initially would have made the urgency impossible to pull off, which is a bit of a sacrifice for the sake of characterization.
Well, going back and interspersing Ince’s memories to flesh out the character didn’t really help the mood, so that was sacrificed by me as well.
In fact, it is not impossible to create a sense of urgency in the middle of the book, for example, to advance Daley’s death, to detonate that kind of emotion in the middle of the book, to create a sense of urgency that Ince can kill everyone and escape, but in this way, the aftermath of the finale and the poignancy of the curtain can not be guaranteed that the emotion is in place, after weighing, I can only make this kind of trade-offs.
For Daley, in the earliest persona, I was putting her into the Goddess of the Night quest for the power of death thread, and then abandoned that idea to have her be an ordinary genius with a less protagonist-template story alongside the captain, an ordinary mid-level of the Nightwatchmen, which is unique and rare in the context of the whole ambient tone of the whole story.
Ah yes, and also, a lot of the time my wording can be a bit informal and weird, as is the order of words. I am making some attempts, I want to convey the picture in my mind, the emotion in my heart, to you in the most graphic way possible, and at this time, I don’t think about whether I should use an adjective, a verb, or a noun, but rather, I think about which word or words are more crucial to show the picture, more visual, more intuitive.
Many authors have similar problems, I remember Wen Rui’an many books, some places seem to water, such as a bunch of “knife” around a person’s name that, but in fact, are trying to better shape the picture, to better convey the feeling, break through the limitations of the text, at this point, the text is always worse than the picture.
This is the technical summary of the fourth part, as for the third or the first crosser who is, you can guess, hehehe.