A letter to book friends in the New Year

Latest website: Today is February 1, 2024, and there is only one week left before the Lunar New Year. Xiaoyu is here to wish everyone a happy new year.

It's been a long, long time since I used the self-titled "Xiaoyu". I used to like to leave messages at the end of chapters to communicate with everyone, but because updates have been too slow in the past few years, I really don't have the nerve to talk too much.

The serialization of "Eternal God Emperor" began on July 3, 2015. In the blink of an eye, it has been more than eight years. From being unmarried to being married, from being a teenager to now that my daughter is in elementary school, I have devoted all my best years to this book. On the book.

Although I am already ten years younger, I believe that there must be some book friends who followed me from 15, 16, and 17 years ago.

There are also book friends who have gone from junior high school to college, and from high school to work. Most of the book friends who are still following the update have read it for more than three years.

They accompany each other all the way, although they are silent to each other, but they spend several years together in the time and space of the novel.

Thank you so much.

Thanks to all the book friends who are still following updates.

There are a lot of things that I actually want to save until the day it ends. There are so many things in my heart that I want to say to my book friends, just like a collective farewell.

Of course, there are also book friends who have left early - Mu Jin.

I have not forgotten that what I saw in the book review area of ​​Qidian is the book friend who was suffering from cancer. Many book friends cheered for him. He always hoped to see the ending of "Eternal God Emperor", but in the end he couldn't. I can wait until that day.

We have never met each other and have no interactions with each other, but I am definitely more heartbroken than any book friend, and I also have a guilt that belongs only to me... Maybe it is regret, but this mark has always been in my heart.

Let’s get back to the topic. The reason why I wrote this single chapter this time and shared and exchanged some unpleasant things with you before finishing is because of the New Year event of the website.

I haven’t read the content of the event in detail, so just talk about whatever comes to mind!

The issue that everyone complains about the most is always updates, and this is also where I want to complain about myself.

In the past, when I wrote a book, the number of words in the book was only three to four million words, but I could write 10,000 words a day and update three million words a year. But last year, I only wrote a million words.

It’s not that I don’t like writing single chapters, it’s just that the updates are so slow that I feel ashamed to write single chapters.

One night, I was looking through the book reviews and saw a book friend praising the leader. I felt very guilty and felt indebted. After all, one thousand dollars is really not a small amount, so I took out my computer and prepared to add another chapter. But I only wrote more than a thousand words, and I just sorted out the characters and the plot, and turned myself into a mess. In the end, it was completely useless. It is impossible to write in that state.

The main reason for slow updates is definitely laziness. But I feel that a book has too many words and is too complicated to write. There must be a reason in it. It consumes too much energy!

It's too complicated here, which is definitely a complaint and a shortcoming of writing a book.

Every time I want to describe a plot in depth, I think I might waste a chapter or two, so I can only go through the motions.

I don’t want to write too complicatedly. I always want to write a third of the characters to death and a third to the margins and forgetfulness. If it is too complex, it will be too bloated and too protracted, especially if it takes too long to write, spanning a span of ten years. Just explaining the settings and the thinking logic of each character will take a lot of pen and ink.

During this time, everyone is very tired from reading, and I am also very tired from writing.

I don’t want to write like this, I also want to resolve the battle quickly, with a refreshing and rhythmic ending, but I really can’t think of how to quickly resolve opponents such as the Ancestor of Time and Space, Ancestor of the Underworld, and Eternal True Master. After all, the opponents are really strong. Once they are defeated in a few or two moves, won't everyone feel that it is perfunctory?

And I think if all the enemies were killed directly, it would look too flat and thin.

I believe that a book should have a complete world. Faced with small and large tribulations, each character should react differently and participate in different ways.

Each character should have behavioral motivations and will affect the final result in its own way.

Now I think that all book friends must have encountered a problem at this stage, that is, there are too many recent plots. Some of them were written a few years ago and everyone has long forgotten them, so it will be quite confusing.

In fact, I have already said that when it comes to the plot, I will not go into twists and turns. I will simplify it as much as possible and write it as plainly as possible.

Here, I can also give you a clearer explanation:

First, is Ming Zu dead? What is the situation with Ming Zu and Brahma Heart?

To think about this problem, we have to go back to the chapters where Zhang Ruochen faked his death and his consciousness went to Qiyu.

Everyone must have forgotten the reason why Zhang Ruochen went to Tianhuang to look for Biluo Pass.

Book friends who have read those chapters carefully should be able to guess the relationship and situation between Ming Zu and Brahma Heart.

Second, what level is the immortal? How far is it from the ancestor?

I wrote this a long time ago, the difference is very big, but not very big.

They belong to the same level of creatures, and the ancestor is definitely no match for the immortal. The immortal's methods are far beyond the comparison of the ordinary ancestor.

However, if the ancestors wanted to hide or escape, the immortals would not be able to kill them so easily.

If the ancestor self-destructs his divine source, there is a very small chance that he will die together with the immortal.

Comparing the ancestor to the level of the Southern Emperor and the Northern Beggar, the immortal may be Dugu Qiufei, Zhang Sanfeng. The ancestors are compared to Ding Chunqiu and Murong Fu, and the immortals may be the sweeping monks.

There is no existence beyond the ninety-seventh level in this book for the time being, and it may or may not be written before it is completed.

After all, the difference between each level is actually not small, so I won’t write about so many realms.

The ninety-sixth level is already a very difficult level to reach, and it is the level of the most famous ancestors throughout the ages. The difference in strength lies in how far they have traveled in the ninety-sixth level.

Forget it, that’s all for today. I’ll talk to you slowly when it’s over.

There are probably two or three major plots left before the end, and there will be one or two big time spans in between. I have already written the last chapter!

I think people have two big criticisms of "Eternal God Emperor". One is that it ranks very low on the monthly ticket list.

This is because I won’t ask for a monthly ticket for several years. How can I be high on the monthly ticket list? Is it necessary to compete for the monthly vote list? Does it cost money?

I thought about competing for the number one monthly ticket in the last month. After all, we are as good as any other book in the number of readers who subscribe to Qidian. I want to give everyone a glorious ending, but I think that thing costs too much, and it is impossible for me to update it steadily at 6,000 words a day. I can’t write 6,000 words every day, so I don’t want to think about this anymore!

The second problem is that the opening chapter of "Eternal God Emperor" is very cliché and the writing is very poor.

This is a book that was written eight or nine years ago, how could it not be cliché?

When "Eternal God Emperor" first came out, the opening plot was actually quite novel, and it set off a huge trend of following. In 16 or 17 years, at least half of the fantasy novels on the Internet at that time started by following the trend. Many novels started by directly copying "xxx, I treat you like my true love, why do you want to kill me?". Authors who followed the trend made hundreds of dollars. There are tens of thousands, tens of millions.

In this case, how can it not be cliché?

The problem with writing is real.

Because I went back to read the opening chapter by myself, and the writing was so green that Fei Tianyu shook his head after reading it. But everyone has to understand, after eight or nine years of writing, how could I not make any progress? I am also learning and making up for my shortcomings in writing.

In the past 89 years, online novels have been making progress, and all authors have made progress. The writing quality of online novels now is higher than that of that time.

I am planning to refine the opening chapter of several hundred thousand words after it is finished, but I definitely don’t have the energy now.

I wrote a lot of random things, so let’s stop here!

I wish you all a new year, success in your studies, singles finding a partner, married couples having children early, happiness and health at the same time.