Silently Writing
A Summary of Recent Plot Design and Writing Insights
Taking advantage of the fact that my updates have been decent these past few days, I, Qiao, decisively decided to open a solo chapter to share my recent plot design summary with everyone.
Of course, before discussing the plot with you handsome readers...
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First, from Chapter 251 to Chapter 338, in these mere 80 chapters, we've covered how Su Feng and the Raptors went from building a team to winning the championship in the 98/99 season, the national team's plot, the turning point of the 99/00 season, and laid the groundwork for the chaotic NBA landscape in the coming years.
So, before we talk about the subsequent plot, let's first talk about why I, Qiao, designed Su Feng to win his first championship in the 98/99 season.
First, I, Qiao, have said before that the most difficult thing about basketball novels, or sports novels in general, is that because basketball novels themselves are a re-creation of reality, no matter how the author controls it, as the protagonist's number of seasons increases, future stories will easily lack suspense and the rhythm will collapse.
Moreover, sports novels generally suffer from aesthetic fatigue.
That is, watching too many reversals becomes annoying, watching too many record-breaking moments becomes annoying, the protagonist being invincible for too long becomes annoying, the protagonist not winning becomes annoying, the protagonist winning becomes annoying, and so on.
Therefore, my arrangement of Jordan joining the Raptors in a reasonable way was to allow Su Feng to win the championship perfectly in the 98/99 season and, incidentally, complete the passing of the torch with Jordan.
From a writing perspective, this is called "spoiler-style writing," that is, the author first explains the ending and then lays out the process.
For novels that attract attention with suspense, the biggest drawback of this writing method is that if your process fails to grab the reader, it can easily lead to a loss of subscribers.
I must say, I'm really grateful to everyone here.
Because even though the previous updates were terrible, even during my "one update beast, one update every two days beast" period, my subscriptions remained stable at around 5000 to 6000. (Oh, by the way, we're almost at 10,000 average subscriptions, please come to Qidian Reading to support A Qiao!)
Therefore, if you look closely, readers who have been following along will find that my purpose in adopting "spoiler-style writing"...
...is not to drag out the process of the game, spending a lot of ink describing how Su Feng should win the championship after the ending has already been revealed.
Because in my original setting, Su Feng had to win his first championship in the 98/99 season.
So, in my layout, whether or not he wins the championship is not the most important thing.
As the saying goes, one ring connects to another.
So now the question is, why did Su Feng have to win the championship in this season in my setting?
Because according to my design, there will be many plot twists in the following plot, and as I said, in a novel with 20 seasons, it is impossible for Su Feng to win more than a dozen consecutive championships, so from a writing point of view, this is also called giving the reader a piece of candy first.
Giving the reader a piece of candy first can give the reader the courage and motivation to continue reading, and at the same time increase the trust between the reader and the author.
In short, it is definitely necessary to have cool moments, but for reasonable coolness, we must also have twists and turns.
Therefore, from a timeline perspective, winning the championship in a shortened season not only has the least impact on my subsequent layout, but also allows Su Feng to gain an advantage in his battles with O'Neal, Duncan, and others.
After all, in this way, Su Feng is the first of the three to win the championship, and in terms of momentum, as long as he achieves more honors than Duncan and O'Neal in the future, he will be able to suppress these two great gods.
Therefore, after telling you the ending in advance, the focus of the entire 98/99 season has always been on so-called character descriptions.
For example, the daily life of Su Feng, McGrady, and Carter, for example, I spent a lot of space to explain Su Feng's next opponents, for example, I created the hard-mouthed Pierce, and for example, after the 98/99 season, in order to complete the improvement of Su Feng's strength, I spent a lot of ink to describe the details of Su Feng's strength.
Including at the beginning of this season, what you said, in order to write out Su Feng's toughness, I can even spend half a chapter.
In my opinion, an excellent novel should not only have a fast pace, excellent character settings, and a good plot, but also have character portrayal and side descriptions.
After all, if I skip a lot of things, then when you come back to reread it in the future, you will find that the image of Su Feng cannot be established at all.
However, writing "Da Tie" until now, I believe many readers have also seen that Su Feng, Iverson, or Kobe, I have always been writing about the world Su Feng is in as a real parallel world.
Therefore, in this process, I will definitely insert some details, and sometimes, a game will be finished with one sentence, but a detail can be written for a long time.
Because only details can increase authenticity and rationality, and the increase in authenticity and rationality can arouse resonance in terms of immersion.
And you must know that writing a game is much easier than writing this kind of detail.
So, this is why I said that sometimes I have to polish a chapter for five, six, seven, eight hours, or even ten hours.
Someone said, Qiao, you can write faster, it doesn't matter if the quality is a little worse.
But the problem is, in this way, maybe my subscriptions will be higher, but my average subscriptions will never be as high as they are now.
Because the reason is simple.
In that case, many friends who choose to raise first and then slaughter, or friends who have been following along, will have a clear psychological gap when following or rereading.
I said that I must write "Da Tie" to a quality that I can reread several times.
And such quality is definitely not as simple as changing three or two typos.
What chapter, what time node, what kind of plot to write.
In this chapter, what kind of writing style to use, from whose perspective to write.
In the next chapter, how to transition and lay the groundwork, and how to connect after the groundwork and transition, these are all things that I need to spend time carefully polishing.
Therefore... since I myself encountered a series of setbacks in reality, for the sake of quality, many times, I really wanted to communicate with you, but because of the poor updates, I didn't even dare to log on to QQ.
But recently, my condition has indeed recovered a lot.
So, thank you again for the support of all the readers! Thank you for giving me so much patience and confidence.
Thank you again.
Okay, let's get back to the topic.
Next, let's talk about the recent groundwork.
Some people say, Qiao, hasn't your history changed too much?
Sigh...
Wake up, if I write 20 seasons and all the players remain the same, then what's the difference between letting you find NBA commentary videos on Bilibili to watch?
I, Qiao, have said before that the biggest problem with sports novels is that after writing a few seasons, basically old readers can write it for you, the author.
But at least now, I think you absolutely can't guess the future of the book "Da Tie."
I said that I won't touch some people's career trajectories, but I have to touch some people.
For example, for some reasons, based on my personal speculation about reality, Duncan went to the Celtics.
And for example, for some reasons, I painstakingly laid a lot of groundwork for Little Yao, and I also talked about this with Shui Qie next door...
In fact, this silly guy even planned to let Little Yao continue to go to Mosaic, and I directly said to him at the time, Little Yao in your book is already like this, and he still goes to Mosaic?
Doesn't the appearance of your protagonist bring about changes in history?
So now the question is, if everything remains the same, then why don't I just use the native protagonist, but have to use the time-traveling protagonist?
The reason is very simple, as early as when I was preparing to write "Da Tie," I thought about it, I want to follow my ideas.
In my world, the protagonist has cheats, but I must also respect the IQ of other teams and the IQ of those players at the same time.
Just like Su Feng will improve, Kobe will improve, the Raptors have a luxury package, the Celtics also have a new version of the four-star team building, and the Lakers also have a new Big Three.
The era I wrote about originally had many stars, so why not let them have a thrilling brawl?
Write a basketball novel that you are familiar with, but also unfamiliar with.
This is my original intention when I started writing the book.
You are familiar with this player and this era, but unfamiliar with my layout and the inability to figure out the suspense that follows.
Only in this way can I guarantee that when I write to the last season, you still don't know if Su Feng really wants to retire, and if it is really the last season of his career.
And you also don't know what kind of honor Su Feng will get, and at what time node will he become the well-deserved NBA No. 1 player.
Of course, I was able to come up with so many tricks, which is also related to the fact that you provided me with a lot of ideas in the chapter reviews.
Well... I am an author who never copies chapter reviews, I am just a porter of excellent chapter reviews.
In short, I hope that I can insist on finishing my ideas, because even if it is a little breakthrough, in my opinion, this step must be taken.
Otherwise, one book for another... I really don't know if I will still want to write basketball novels one day after my passion for basketball is worn out.
So, let me say that again...
As for whether it's dragging or not, to be honest, this thing is a matter of opinion. Because now, I feel that many people have different ideas about "dragging."
For example, some people just like to see full details, while others just like to watch game after game.
And just like now when I look back at "Saint Seiya," I can't watch it at all.
Because don't you think that "Saint Seiya" has no daily life at all, and many plots and character settings that Kurumada Masami wants to create cannot be established at all? (The main thing is that there are still a lot of bugs.)
And conversely, in many slice-of-life anime, although there are not so many punches to the flesh, I feel the charm of the characters and the author's character settings attract me.
Anyway, let me say that again...
When it's time to skip the plot, I can finish a season in a few chapters, but when this season needs to lay the groundwork for my plot, I will spend many chapters filling in the details, and when it needs to be hot-blooded and second-year, I will also spend hundreds of thousands of words to describe a series.
Each plot has the focus of each plot.
And only after connecting these corresponding key points, just like when I wrote about Jordan joining the Raptors before, you didn't feel abrupt...
Only reasonable foreshadowing and deduction can make the plot proceed smoothly.
So, I have always been a soulless coding tool.
I will not adjust this writing style, because as I said, a novel cannot be finished by simply explaining the outline in a few paragraphs.
As the author of "Da Tie," it is even more impossible for me to give up my ideas for the sake of some day's results.
Therefore...
Thank you very much for your support.
After all, without your support, I would not dare to try so many new ideas and tricks in "Da Tie" so capriciously.
Of course, let me say that again...
As an author, I also need to eat!
I can't even afford pork anymore, and recently the days have been so hard that I can only look at the courtyard in my rural hometown to see if there are any heatstroke mantis shrimps and depressed mantis chickens, like this...
Crying!
Hey, this wave is not selling misery!
It's asking for monthly tickets, it's asking for recommendation tickets!
Those readers who say "next time for sure," please have mercy on me! Don't say "next time for sure"!
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