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Planetarium Novelist 4

Yes; want to see the gloomy horror?

By Frankie C RederPublished 4 years ago 4 min read

Yes; want to see the gloomy horror? Yes; want to see sadness and misery? Yes; want to see joy? Still there. From the earliest days of blood and feathers to farming, then from the age of navigation to the industrial revolution to the modern city, every inch of the earth has been clearly arranged in my story. I can't help but admire myself for being able to keep serializing for so long and creating such a complex story. Unfortunately, no matter how good the story is, once the serialization is too long, it is also easy to collapse, let's say that at present my story, the protagonist and supporting characters add up to more than seven billion, the reader's taste is also being raised more and more grizzly, the old formula can not fool them, which means I have to write the life of these seven billion characters with new ideas. My level is limited, I really can not control such a complex scene, with the plot more and more cumbersome, a lot of ambush is dug to forget to fill in the pit, some important characters write and write to get lost, the reader complained a lot, I also feel ashamed. The editor lady stared at the declining subscription data, every day long sigh, grabbed my ears and shouted: "You give me a little fight ah! I humbly said that I am essentially a salted fish, want me to be like the great writer next door, while advancing the story of N parallel universes and still maintain an orderly, chapter explosive point, this even if you beat me to death, I can not do. The editor lady gave me the middle finger, but she still refused to give up, thinking that my serial could be saved. The solution she gave me was to see if I could change the settings of the main characters, such as suddenly gaining superpowers, or starting to cultivate immortality after a strange encounter. I said I always write realistic stories, okay, why add these fantasy settings? The editor looked at me with a sad face and said that recently the realistic theme is not hot anymore, and to keep the serialization hot, we must cater to the public taste. Although I've never been a scrupulous writer, I still wanted to refuse to temporarily change a realistic story into a fantasy series. "You see, I've never had the characters on Earth order the technology skill points." I said bitterly, "To temporarily change it to fairy or fantasy, I would be scolded by readers for cheating the audience and not having the right goods." The editor lady held her proud head up with a treacherous face, and I had a vague feeling she might be thinking of something too bad. Sure enough, I saw her slap the table, excitedly shouted: "In that case, why not change the post-apocalyptic theme! And then some sky crashing into the comet and so on, the scene is good, the readers will like!" I'm a little dizzy. No, so the second part of the story on Earth will not go the same way as the first part, and the end of the reunion? I weakly voiced my concern, but the editor lady only coldly snorted: "Your story is now so poorly subscribed, it's a waste of such a good planet as Earth! Since these human characters can not write anything new, it is better to quickly cut the mess, and quickly make the second part of a big ending, we will start the third part, such as the supporting characters of those meow people woof star people, I think it has the potential to be the next main character! After saying that, the editor lady majestically ran back to write a new project, leaving me there to tangle. Although I am a stabbing knives do not feel the pain of the great devil writers, but this serialization for a long time, it is with the characters in the story have feelings, the more than seven billion characters, each is my carefully created children, like when the reunion of the dinosaurs were erased from the face of the earth, I really do not want to. But the serialization is entering a bottleneck is an indisputable fact, how to do it? How can I ensure that Earth's civilization will not be cut off because I am too useless as a salted fish writer? I've been tangled up in this matter for the last few days and I can't eat or sleep well, my hair is almost bald. Really hard, really hard. But there seems to be a providence, the human characters I created with all my heart, as if they really came to life, have their own souls and ideas, scrambling into the dream to tell me that they have their own ideas, no longer at the mercy of my creator, but to control their own destiny. And now they have come up with a way to save themselves. That solution is to ask me to add a science fiction twist to the next serial, so that the protagonists step out of the confines of Earth and into the starry sea, and this serialized story with Earth civilization as its theme can drag on for another thousand million years. Very well, let's do it! I woke up from my dream, breathed a sigh of relief, opened the serialization platform, and started a new serialization of Earth civilization.

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