MTL - Protect Our Patriarch-~ Reflection: Lao Ao talks about the difficulty of the middle and late stages of the novel

Some people always say that Lao Ao is not as attentive as before, the content is not as exciting as before, and his grades are so good.

First of all, I would like to declare that the patriarch is the novel that Lao Ao wrote with the most heart and energy in his life. In the later stage, he spends three hours on plot design every day, and will push the outline of various plots to start over.

Due to the poor writing at the beginning, Lao Ao’s book only had 500 subscriptions in the first 24 hours, and the lowest reached 430. In the mid-term, the subscriptions were two to three thousand, but at present, when it is about 5 million words, it is in the subscription stage. The highest point of more than 8000.

It is best to write a novel at the beginning, because it is a blank sheet of paper that can be played freely, and various inspirations and designs can be stacked arbitrarily.

But after the mid-term, the difficulty is ten times greater than that of the early stage, because many new bridges have been used, and it is easy to form a feeling of old and tired moves. At this time, if one is not handled well, it is easy to form an avalanche of follow-up.

But in the later stage, for example, now that there are more than five million words, the difficulty increases geometrically. At this time, it is not only the readers who are tired of aesthetics, but also the author who has been writing for several years, and he will easily fall into numbness and boredom.

And the further you go, the higher the entropy of the content, the relationship between characters, the world view, and various factors become more and more complicated. It is very difficult to deal with it and keep readers subscribed.

Therefore, don't say that Lao Ao is being perfunctory, if perfunctory can hold back the follow-up, then why work hard?

Taking the recent extremely popular TV series Hurricane as an example, the first and middle stages were very exciting, but what about the next ten or so episodes? Most of the content is difficult in the middle and late stages. Ask readers, brothers and sisters, how many novels or TV dramas are there that are more exciting in the later stage?

Especially long novels like online novels with millions of words!

The reason why Lao Ao is updated steadily every day, and the volume is not large, is because of the need to maintain the motivation and passion of writing every day.

At this stage, Lao Ao’s daily follow-up story outlines, bridge design, mainline design and thinking, and consideration of how to finish the later stage are very heavy, sometimes even exceeding the pure codeword time.