Today, some readers in the book group said that several people had spent several chapters dragging things out.
All of a sudden, I felt quite moved.
There had actually been many similar comments in the reviews, but I had never responded to them.
Today, I'll talk about this topic.
To be honest, if nothing were dragged out, an entire novel could be finished in a single sentence.
Every book was made up of countless stories.
All the background stories, character personalities, inner thoughts—the parts you saw as filler—
What readers didn't realize was that all the emotional engagement you felt relied on those seemingly unnecessary parts.
Take the four people I'd written about recently. If I didn't write about their personalities or their backstories,
And simply glossed over them, having the protagonist recruit them all,
Then later, when they made certain choices, wouldn't you think they were idiots? Because you wouldn't understand their personalities or what had happened to them. If they made choices that clashed with your values, you'd think they were idiots.
And would you read a book like that?
Then there were Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai.
I wasn't particularly good at writing romance, but I still had to lay the necessary groundwork. Otherwise, if their relationship were all glossed over, then one day later on, if Li Ruo Bai had to take a bullet for Jiang Yan Hai, wouldn't you think it was too fake? Without any emotional foundation, why would she give her life for him? (Not a spoiler, just an example.)
In many novels, some people cried while reading, some laughed out loud, and some felt emotional. Those emotions came from immersion. How did immersion arise? It was actually built from many stories that looked like filler to you but subtly affected