Thanks to all the brothers and ladies for your support in passing the test, and thanks to the little master Huihui for taking care of me. I was lazy some time ago and didn't update well enough. I feel sorry for Huihui, but Huihui still gave me so many recommendations. I'm sorry, sorry, and ashamed.
Unconsciously, "Long Live the Coach" has written 850,000 words. According to the outline, the plot is a little more than one-third of the way through. There are still some writing methods and creativity that have not been shown.
In fact, many people think that being a coach is not as immersive as being an athlete. I thought so at first, but writing the book "Long Live the Coach" made me change my mind.
In the past, sports novels, whether they were about football, basketball, or the "all-around flow" writing method I pioneered before, the core was the game. Describing the process of the game was the main content of the novel. A game could be written in seven or eight chapters, or even ten chapters. Several chapters, from pre-game remarks, to the start of the game, to the stalemate stage, and finally to the end, and even post-game comments, etc., then start the next game and repeat the process. This can be regarded as an old cliché of sports novels.
Under this old routine, athletes who can show their personal abilities are obviously the best entry point for the novel. In a game, the most outstanding players must be the athletes, and the coach's presence will be much lower. Therefore, if the game is the main content, the coach does not have much sense of involvement.
Works written about coaches are often written in a way similar to the basketball manager game. You select the lineup at the beginning, develop potential newcomers, win the championship, and do it all again next season. Everyone is the same, the same plot, if you change the time point and the team, you can write a new novel.
It is precisely under this old routine that football and basketball articles can continue, because the game process of other sports is not so easy to describe in a long form. A basketball game lasts 48 minutes, and a football game lasts 90 minutes, not counting overtime. It is not difficult to write five, six, seventy-eight chapters. But if you want to write a sprint, a 10-second race process, it is really difficult to expand the content to seven or eight chapters. It only takes 10 seconds, and there is not that much content to expand. When I was writing "The All-Around Athlete", I felt that it was quite extreme to write three chapters about a competition process within 10 seconds.
In fact, in addition to football and basketball, other sports are also very exciting. However, for current Internet articles, 2 million words is considered a starting point. Only with enough words can it bring more revenue to the website and more content to the author. income.
Except for football and basketball, it is difficult for other sports to support more than 2 million words of content. If you just write less than 1 million words, or even just 600,000 to 700,000 words, it is actually very easy to write about sprinting, long jump, or swimming. If you want to write long, you can only add water and repeat.
When creating with the game process as the main content, you will inevitably encounter the content I mentioned above, which is either repeated over and over again, or the sports event cannot support a long form.
So I had a new idea, which no longer centered on the process of the game. Together with some of my other creative ideas, I came up with this book "Long Live the Coach".
Book friends who have read the previous content of "Long Live the Coach" should be able to find that there is not much content describing the game process, and sometimes it is even just a sentence. In most cases, a few chapters are spent digging into the pit, slowly unfolding the problems encountered by an athlete, and then the protagonist will help the athlete solve these problems, mixed with some progress brought about by training, and when it comes to the competition, Instead, I didn’t write it in detail. I only talked about the results of the game from the third perspective.
I tried to explore a new way of writing sports novels, which would weaken the content of the game to a certain extent and weaken the boring repetition. Within the framework of sports novels, storytelling is used to promote the development of the plot and highlight the characteristics of the characters. Writing this way may be a bit advanced and may make many readers uncomfortable, but I think this is a new way of thinking and a new direction, and I want to try it.
I am such a person who likes freshness, and I always have some unique ideas in my mind, so if you are tired of the same routines and sameness, it would be a good choice to keep following my works.
So far, I have received feedback from a lot of readers. With this new way of writing, readers are more polarized. People who like it will love it and can't put it down, while those who don't like it will think it's a crappy thing! Of course, there are also many people who watch "Long Live the Coach" simply to support and pass the test, whether they like it or not.
So, no matter what, since you have read Guan Guan's novel, Guan Guan would like to sincerely thank you for your support!
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