The Spring Dawn Fills the Courtyard with Green Poplars and Fragrant Grass

Well... The sun has set. The Wen family returned. And I also stopped writing. My stomach is growling, but the rice hasn't been cooked yet. It's over. Is it really over? This sentence has been something I have been asking myself since I realized it was going to end a few days ago. I can't describe that feeling, I feel so empty. It took 5 years and 67 days to write 843,000 words. It's not a great number, it might even be a joke... What novel takes so long to write? But I never care what others think. I respect my own inner feelings more. I am a person who would rather be deficient than excessive. The writing can be bad and the story can be bad, but it can't be perfunctory. I don't want to force myself to continue writing this story just for the sake of ending it. I am still an idealist. Growing up, I have believed in some wonderful existences, some existences that many people do not believe in. Speaking of this, the biggest feeling I have about this book is "qiao". I hate rainy days the most, it will affect my whole mood. But it does bring me a lot of inspiration. So this book was written many times on rainy days. From this point of view, I made many big stories in the book happen on rainy days. Speaking of which, the origin of this story is very accidental. I have had many dreams since I was a child, and the world in my dreams is full of strange things. But the clearest and most emotional ones have always been scenes from ancient times. So I originally wanted to write a story in which the heroine can travel back and forth between ancient times and modern times with ease through dreams, and the heroine also took on the role of myself. But as it is written, when the heroine traveled to ancient times for the first time, stood at the gate of the Wen family, and saw those girls, at that moment, I seemed to be hit by something. Since then, the story has been telling ancient plots, resulting in fewer and fewer modern parts... In the end, it was difficult to modify, no matter how much it was changed, it would not go smoothly. Simply, I deleted all the modern content in front of it, about 50,000 words, with one click, and started anew directly from the gate of Wen Mansion. Let's talk about the most recent coincidence. It was when Jiang Xu went to Wen Mansion to propose marriage to the fifth girl. I happened to be on a business trip to Hangzhou that day. After the plane landed and I was on the transfer bus, I had nothing to do, so I opened the memo on my phone and started writing. As I was writing this, I suddenly came to my senses! I was in Hangzhou at this time, and the capital in the book was Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was also Hangzhou. At that moment, I got goosebumps all over my body, and after a while my scalp felt numb, I quickly posted the location on WeChat, recorded that magical moment, and posted a friend circle that was only visible to me. Because I thought that I was here to marry the fifth girl for Jiang Xu. The next few days were very busy. I worked until 2 o'clock in the morning every day. I was very exhausted. I could only write less than two or three hundred words every day because of the squeeze. Finally, on the way back and before the plane lands, I persevere to finish that chapter. Thinking back, this book has stayed with me for 5 years and 67 days. So many days and nights, why are they not "wearing" books in disguise? I don't update it every day. Unless I am very busy at work, I don't have inspiration every day. But it's true that I haven't been careless. The culture, food, prescriptions, and customs mentioned in the book are all well-documented. Including some characters, they are also fictional and substituted for real deeds. These are all edited and revised after spending a lot of time, reading a lot of books, collecting a lot of information, and spending money to buy some old books that cannot be found online. The most profound impression was when the eldest girl got married. Because it is the weekend, there is plenty of time and the statistics are accurate. I sat in front of the screen all afternoon for the short section about the etiquette and customs of going out alone to get into a sedan chair. After lunch, when the sun went down, I wrote a short section. It's less than 400 words, because I've been flipping through information throughout the process... The most time-consuming thing is basically some etiquette. Including the scene of the general's funeral, it took a long time to write... For an unprofessional person like me, it is very energy-consuming and mental, so every time I write such an important scene, I need to slow down for a long time. When AI is prevalent today, I have also had the idea of ​​asking AI to help me write. But I quickly canceled this idea, because this book is more than four years old, and I have been working on it for more than four years, not less than these few months. But one advantage of AI is that it can easily help me catch typos, because sometimes typing is faster and I don't have enough literature, so I tend to overlook inappropriate words. For example: the synonyms of de, de, di, zuo, sit etc. Are used. But there is no way to modify them all. AI only became popular this year, and the previous text did not enjoy this benefit. This is how I comfort myself: People always make mistakes, and writing is no exception. Let's talk about embarrassment! What makes me blush the most are the poem-like sentences in the book. I don't want to write poetry, mainly because I don't have the ability! I'm just a happy elementary school scumbag, why? Many times, I will find some special music to educate myself and completely immerse myself in that environment. So as I write, I shorten a sentence into seven or five words in an orderly manner. I really wrote it from my heart and with my feelings, without any hard words. Only when I got to the back, I found that I really liked the tone. That's why there are so many 7-character and 5-character words later. I have deliberately tried to write it. But the premise is that I need to collect ancient poems with similar and related expressions. I need to read more and read more to analyze their single-word expressions, and then collect different words with the same meaning and different expressions to form the 7-character poem I want. The process is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. I have never been so serious when I was studying. This kind of deliberate writing, just 7 words, they flashed in front of my screen for almost an hour and a half, and I haven't completely decided yet. Yes, more than 800,000 words in 5 years, this is how time is wasted. There are also times when I can't write a sentence for several hours and am in a bad mood. Just stop writing. Because I know that a few days later, half a month later, or a month later, I suddenly feel that I can write a complete seven-character paragraph, the so-called poem, in less than half an hour. It's so weird... After a rough calculation, there are nearly 270 characters, big and small, in the book, and I have memorized them all. This is quite shocking to me, because I am a person who finds endorsements particularly painful. From the outside, they are just paper figures, but to me, they have different emotions. For them, I have cried and laughed, and I have also felt them struggling and active in my writing. I have drafted outlines no less than three times, both large and small, and the endings are always desolate and tragic. But they fled in the direction I gave them again and again. I have done this many times, but I have no choice but to persuade myself to let them go. After all, they are also their own helmsmen. Life is theirs, and I am just a writer, writing their stories. …There is much more I want to say, but it's time to stop. It's so long-winded that I can't even catch up with the number of words in one episode. Today is August 15th. This year marks the 81st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender. My book is also finished today. The story in the book continues, and I hope that we will never forget our national humiliation from generation to generation! Thank you to real book fans and e-book fans for your companionship over the years. Finally, I wish you all well.

My literary skills are good, but it's too lengthy and chatty. But I have to admit that perseverance is great, but it's so difficult to retain readers! 😁

I skipped to the next one hundred and thirty chapters and read it. It was well written and could be understood at a glance. If the beginning were like this, I feel that there would be more readers and it would retain people.

Cui Geng😁😁

To be honest, I didn't even know who the protagonist was. Only after I saw this character card did I realize that the fifth girl is the protagonist.

The writing is great, but it takes patience to read. Stop it and come back to read it when there is no pressure. Come on, author!