Warlord: King of All Clans

Woof woof woof, the content of the fourth volume has ended, yes, at least that’s the outline.

Now the question is, how to write next?

Generally speaking, there are only two options: go home to farm or go out to work.

Because most of the sensational and stabbing plots were cut, the content of the fourth volume was reduced by half, so the foreshadowing of the fifth volume was completely missing, after all, there were 50,000 fewer words.

If I go home to farm, the outline below will need to be modified, but it’s not a big problem.

If you want to work outside, just continue writing according to the outline of the fifth volume, but the lack of preparation will seem abrupt and somewhat unreasonable.

Woof woof woof! I'm so square! Waiting online!

In addition, I have recommended it to many friends in the past few days!

Because I have to go to work and write, I don’t have time to reply to readers one by one, which makes me feel guilty. I can only take the time to like as much as possible!

Here are some answers to the questions.

About writing style.

Although I am a newbie in online literature, I am not a beginner in novels. I used to practice writing traditional fantasy and traditional martial arts, so I have some basic knowledge.

I’m posting a chapter of traditional fantasy that I wrote a few years ago in the book circle for you to see. The traditional fantasy I write is still very good!

But due to my lack of experience in writing novels, the plot structure is a bit disorganized, which is unavoidable. I am not a talented writer.

Moreover, online literature pursues a high rate of updates and lacks polishing and modification, so you can imagine how rough it is. According to my previous writing speed, two thousand words a day is a lot.

In my opinion as a ten-year-old bookworm, a true newbie is the kind who is scolded to the point of quitting the internet after writing his first book to the tune of 100,000 words.

As an old bookworm, I have experienced countless battles in the comment section, and my psychological quality is very strong.

Bad reviews are still reviews, let the storm come even harder!

About the plot.

Before I started writing, I revised the outline several times and asked a friend who is an online editor to look it over.

The structure is simple and old-fashioned, but it also fits my obsessive-compulsive disorder requirements.

The outline is as follows:

One volume contains 100,000 words and is divided into ten volumes.

The first volume is about survival, the second volume is about exploration, and the third volume is about development, which is the beginning part of the novel.

In the first volume, survival, Uliyan brings a convoy of refugees to the river bend, where they face various difficulties in survival.

Then Juanbi stabbed him with a knife, used his own life, and entrusted Leo to take care of everyone, awakening Leo's fighting spirit.

In the second volume of exploration, Leo faced various challenges and finally gained a foothold in the river bend.

The Firefly Adventures then appear and go in search of the Atrium, while the story of Master Bobak unfolds.

Finally, Leo was told about the invasion of the undead plane, and Bobak was ready to use his own life to block the door to the undead invasion.

And tell Leo that the world needs a unified force to resist risks, thereby awakening Leo's ambition for unification.

As the third volume develops, there are various threats from the wilderness, and more are the malice from human society, including religion, nobility, mercenaries, etc. For example, there is an attack by horse thieves, and Leo cannot stop them, so he can only hide in the lord's house to defend himself. Half of the villagers are crying inside, and the other half are beheaded outside in a queue to build a Jingguan.

Leo's mentality changed and he became a decisive ruler.

Finally, the lord's house was burned down by a fire. Leo led the survivors to migrate to the courtyard, and then tried to recruit the chaotic neutral wild people, kobolds, bear people, minotaurs, and subdue the lawful evil boar people, gnolls, and orcs, so as to grow and become stronger.

In theory, this should be a standard traditional Western fantasy. Even if my writing skills are not good enough and I can't write it with epic charm, at least the structure is not a problem.

I sent these outlines to traditional editors, and they said they were great.

I sent it to the online article editor, and he said it was a pile of shit, all poisonous. After writing one volume, one-third of the readers left. After writing three volumes, all the readers left.

Forget about making money by writing online articles, you may even be scolded by cyber mobs to the point of jumping off a building (editor's original words).

About the protagonist.

Many people think that the protagonist goes with the flow and has no big ambitions.

That’s right, it’s written like this. The protagonist was a social animal in his previous life. It’s impossible for him to be a slacker at work, but he traveled through time the next second and aspired to become the king of all races.

Even Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was not so brave when he was herding cattle.

Those protagonists who can manage power and lead troops to fight after traveling back in time and possess extremely high personal charm and political intrigue could not have been office workers in their previous lives. They must have been at least ministerial-level cadres, right?

If it was the president of a small country who traveled through time, it would make sense.

People need to grow, just like playing Mount and Blade II, you can only add a little bit after you level up, and not all attributes are added, you can only take care of some while focusing on others.

Moreover, the power of an individual is too small. It is not that the protagonist can just open his mouth and demand it and it will be realized immediately.

In certain circumstances, ambition is also a product of going with the flow.

When you were a kid, you wanted to be a scientist. What about now? Have you become a scientist? Isn't it still your ambition to be a rich man?

In fact, Leo is growing in every volume, and his personality is changing slightly, but it is not expressed in clear words.

(When I was a kid, I aspired to be a writer, and I still do. I’ve been working hard for many years. In fact, I meet the requirements of a time traveler, but I just don’t have the opportunity.)

About the supporting characters.

Although my perspective has always been on Leo, I like to write group portraits, and the characters I write about cannot be without souls.

I didn’t write much about Ulian, which was intentional. After all, he will be the first important supporting character to be killed (but now I don’t want to kill him anymore because my writing style is different now).

According to my understanding, the more ink there is, the more painful it will be when cutting, but many people advised me not to do this because it is too harmful.

So I seldom portrayed the protagonist's father-in-law and deleted many of his plots.

For example, the memories of serving in the Aeolus Fortress, the story of him marrying a lady from a noble family, and the reason why he was injured.

If I write too much, readers will only read ten lines at a glance and not feel anything. Instead, they will say that I am writing too little.

Just delete it!

There are many such plots, such as how handsome Ivan is and how honest Roman is.

For example, why does Vici have brown hair, and why his name is a mixture of the name of a southern noble and a northern barbarian.

Too watery, delete!

At the beginning of the fourth volume, entering the middle stage of the novel, Leo first rides alone for thousands of miles to escape with the little mouse.

The fifth volume is about the War of the Orcs in the North.

But these are too far away from Hewan, and two consecutive volumes of more than 200,000 words will make the development of Hewan unfamiliar, so I decided to merge them into one volume.

Those sensational points and conflict points were all made in the outline before the book was published. It was originally a plot of stabbing people, so now we try to delete and modify it as much as possible.

But it still looks a bit abrupt, hasty, and even the style of writing changes suddenly.

For example, the plot where Leo was in a coma and the little mouse dragged him through the snow for three days and three nights, he faced the wolves alone, hunted with a slingshot, and after being extremely hungry, he expected the bee pupa to give birth to babies, and so on, are all gone.

For example, the orc army siege, the complete collapse of Varanger, the death charge of the Northern Knights, etc.

Alas, I have to change the outline when I go home to farm, and it seems abrupt and annoying to go out to work!

What should I do tomorrow?