Chapter 37 Some Explanations on Readers' Book Reviews
Chapter 37 Some Explanations on Readers' Book Reviews
From the publication of the book to now, Dazhui has been paying attention to readers' feedback.
Because Dazhui is a computer reader, he doesn't read many comments in the book review section (there is no book review section on the computer now, and Dazhui doesn't understand it very well when using the mobile phone). He mainly reads what is said in this chapter. If you have anything to say to Dazhui, please leave a message in this chapter.
Regarding some of the current feedback and doubts about this book, I would like to explain it here.
1. About hydrology.
This topic has been around for a long time and was explained in the previous book. Because it is a game text, it must contain a large amount of data descriptions, including descriptions of monsters, equipment, and skills.
In fact, this thing is more difficult to write than normal text. It is definitely not that the author wants to be lazy. This thing requires a lot of brainpower to edit and think about. Sometimes it takes a long time to set up an interesting equipment. In this time, you can write hundreds of words.
As a result, people always criticize me for writing watery stories. Do you think I am wronged? But there is nothing I can do about it. Game writing is indispensable, and there will definitely be data descriptions in the future, especially every time the protagonist kills a big boss and drops a bunch of equipment, there will definitely be a lot of data descriptions.
Get a vaccination in advance.
However, every time there is a chapter with a lot of data, I will post a few hundred more words. For example, Chapter 3100, Weird Goats, lists the data of five goats, but I posted words in this chapter, which is a full words more than the normal -word chapter, just to avoid readers being unhappy. But people still often say that it is watered down, and I really feel helpless about this. It is really not watered down.
Besides, it’s a free period now, so it’s meaningless no matter how much I spend.
This point has been criticized in the previous book and explained. I will explain it again this time and will not explain it in the future.
2. About the protagonist’s tone of voice.
The protagonist sometimes switches his tone according to the scene and the purpose of the conversation. For example, when talking to a few dogs, his tone is relatively simple and straightforward, as if he is talking to a child.
This is not because the author has poor writing skills, but because dogs have relatively low IQs, so it is impossible to talk to them in a fancy way, so the dialogue should be simple and straightforward. You can understand the scene as the protagonist trying to fool a few five or six-year-old children, so the tone must be childish.
If you are talking to an old man or a great scholar, you naturally have to be more literary.
For example, when the protagonist is talking to the hunter, he starts by talking about his "wife", but the hunter himself keeps saying "my wife, my wife" and so on. Then the protagonist realizes that the hunter is a rough guy, so he doesn't bother to be pretentious anymore and just talks about his wife directly.
I think there is nothing wrong with this, I don't know why some people would complain about it.
Moreover, the main reason why the protagonist speaks in a pretentious manner to the NPC is to facilitate communication and fit the context. However, once a mission is received or it is found that it is no longer necessary, sometimes they are too lazy to pretend. After all, it is quite tiring to speak in a pretentious manner normally. It is definitely more convenient to speak in plain language. It is impossible for you to speak in a pretentious manner to everyone you see.
There will be similar situations in the future. One second you will be saying "How old are you, old man?" and the next second you will be saying "Hurry up, old man. I'm in a hurry."
Hereby explain.
3. About the choice of some protagonists.
These choices are all considered, but sometimes the protagonist's thought process is not written out.
For example, when the protagonist wants to exorcise ghosts, he doesn’t look for Black Whirlwind but for Ye Luo.
Imagine: the protagonist uses exorcism, and the ghost comes out. Black Whirlwind says, "left, left," and shouts into the air to help locate it.
But this kind of positioning is definitely not that accurate. If I were to chop with my sword, I might hit it or I might miss it. But even if I am lucky enough to hit it, I can't kill it. Ghosts can fly, so they will just hide and the mission will fail.
But finding Ye Luo would definitely be much more reliable.
So it’s not that the protagonist is stupid, it’s just that he has considered it.
But it is impossible to write down such considerations every time. [The protagonist thinks, what if I find Black Whirlwind?] That would be too lengthy.
In fact, when I write now, I often feel that the content is a bit dragged out. Many times when the protagonist makes a decision, I will write down his consideration process just to explain it to the readers, because some readers will really criticize me.
In fact, I didn’t write these things when I wrote articles before. The protagonist would do whatever he wanted to do, and I wouldn’t explain too much. But later, as more and more people criticized me, I had to explain the protagonist’s inner thoughts in some potentially controversial places.
When learning skills or choosing equipment, the protagonist will think deeply to explain why he does what he does.
But it is impossible to write this kind of inner description every time. For example, the protagonist bought steamed buns but did not buy pork. [The protagonist thought that a steamed bun replenishes 5 points of physical strength for 10 cents, and wild boar jerky replenishes 25 points of physical strength for 50 cents. The physical strength replenishment ratio of the two is the same, but the steamed buns can be eaten separately. For example, if you are 10 points short of physical strength and want to recover, you can eat a steamed bun.
This way of replenishing physical strength is more flexible, and wild boar jerky can only be eaten at one time, so it is more convenient to buy steamed buns. However, if such trivial matters are written, it will be too procrastinated, and there will definitely be people who say that the author is watering down the text again.
Therefore, I will not write about the protagonist’s inner thoughts for some choices that are not very important, or choices that I think everyone can understand, but they are definitely considered.
Hereby explain.
4. About self-centeredness.
Everyone has this egocentrism to a certain extent. Everyone has his or her own ideas and thinks that his or her ideas are correct. This is inevitable.
I am such a person too.
But some people mistakenly think that if I think this or that, everyone must think the same, so my ideas are equal to everyone else's ideas, so my ideas are absolutely correct. If you don't write according to my ideas, you are an idiot and you don't respect the readers.
So I am going to criticize you, and you cannot be angry, because I am absolutely right and I represent the [obvious consensus of everyone].
Well, that’s not actually the case. As an author, I receive a lot of feedback from readers on a daily basis, especially in the previous book, where every major choice is voted on. I can say that for every choice, readers are divided into several different groups.
There is absolutely no such thing as a clear consensus.
Maybe in very rare cases, such as the protagonist must not die.
But most of the time, readers have different opinions.
As an author, I certainly hope to satisfy all my readers, but this is absolutely impossible to achieve.
For example, the main plot of this book, I originally set up two stories for readers to choose from, the dark line and the light line. The plot of the dark line is that [the protagonist was recruited by Liu Qiang, sent to the Qinglonghui base as cannon fodder, and then struggled to survive and finally killed the enemy. ]
Yes, it’s the base in the prologue, the one where a lot of people died.
And the story of the easy line is this one.
As a result, both votes in the group were a tie, and the final decision was made based on the new book selection vote at the end of the previous book. A difference of one vote might have resulted in a completely different story being written now.
So everyone must understand that your choice is just your choice, and as an author, I can't satisfy everyone. I can only choose to satisfy the majority, and sometimes this majority may even be only 51%.
If you choose more than 3, then 50% of the time you may not have any.
In fact, my personal pleasure point is often the more niche one, not even 49%, but the 10%. Therefore, the voting results are often beyond my expectations, and there are not many candidates for the person I want to choose. If I write completely according to my own ideas, I guess many people will spray [Too toxic, is the author an idiot, and come to feed shit again].
Ever since I used the voting method, the number of people criticizing me has obviously decreased, and the author is quite pleased about this.
The side effect is that the author has become a patient with advanced decision-making difficulty. Sometimes I ask readers to help choose an equipment, a name, or what the protagonist should eat for breakfast (usually I ask for opinions in the group, the group number is at the end).
So when you feel that something in this book doesn't fit your ideas, before you start criticizing it, please consider the possibility that your ideas may just be your ideas, and not the [obvious consensus].
Of course, some people just like to criticize the author. There’s nothing we can do about it. They can always find fault with the author.
For example, if the protagonist chooses a weapon, and I write about the protagonist learning swordplay, someone will definitely criticize, "Damn, using a sword again, it's too cliché, why do all the protagonists use swords? Can't you be a little bit original?"
If I write a protagonist using a gun, some people might criticize me, saying, "How can a protagonist use a gun? Using a sword is so much cooler."
If I write that the protagonist uses nunchakus, “Fuck, is the author an idiot? He uses nunchakus. How can a protagonist use nunchakus?”
For example, if I post this explanation, hoping that everyone will criticize me less, there will definitely be people who will criticize me and say, "Fuck, what the hell are you explaining? It's no better to just write two more chapters instead of doing that."
Readers are God. As an author, I can only bear it silently. The so-called thunder, lightning and rain are all blessings.
So if someone criticizes me again in the future, I won’t explain it anymore.
Hereby explain.
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