I didn't go out this month and stayed home obediently, focusing on writing, but I still encountered some things.
Last week, my eyes became a bit inflamed, which worsened the vitreous opacity. After using regular eye drops without much effect, I quickly made an appointment to see a doctor. Before leaving, my wife, a recent ophthalmology graduate, said it was nothing serious, as long as it wasn't a retinal disease. I asked what retinal diseases included, and she said the macula, and then I forgot the rest.
When I arrived at the hospital, the Doctor examined me and said that the vitreous humor was indeed cloudy, but the shadow was small, movable, and there was no Flash, so it wasn't a big problem. However, he said my macula seemed to be in bad shape. I was terrified and immediately scheduled follow-up examinations. I was depressed at home for two days. Fortunately, after the final examination, they said there was nothing wrong and I just needed to remember to have regular check-ups in the future.
Dear friends, if you have high myopia, please remember to protect your eyes and use them scientifically!
Well, this month the plot finally moved to the start of the war, connecting many of the foreshadowing elements and building up the tension. This series should conclude in November, or at the latest, early December.
Because war is a continuous process, it cannot reach its climax all at once like the Great Smog of Backlund, with many foreshadowing elements resolved and many tragedies occurring, I did not adopt the writing style of the end of the second book. I only slightly enhanced the atmosphere of war and the reactions of different people.
This resulted in the "Self-Questioning" chapter lacking sufficient emotional build-up. Of course, I didn't write that chapter as a climax. For me, it was just an important point in the plot structure. Its importance lies not in being sentimental or in the inner cries, but in changing the state of Klein having no major goals or strong demands from the beginning of the fifth book, and in building up the tension in the later plot.
Therefore, what I need is clarity, a certain explosiveness, like a nail driven into the plot, tightening the story that follows.
With this in mind, I ultimately adopted the repetitive questioning technique that I hadn't originally planned to use in this book. If I used indirect, descriptive, or subtle methods, the key points that needed to be highlighted wouldn't be clear, which would result in insufficient emotional delivery in the later part of the story. If it weren't for the preceding chapter, the emotions and feelings hidden in the conversation with Bernadette wouldn't have been presented so subtly. As for using the method of talking to other people or objects, I initially wrote a version that was extremely awkward, many times more awkward than asking myself questions.
Of course, because the writing style was changed at the last minute, there was a lot of redundancy in that part. At the time, I wanted to let the emotions unfold slowly before tightening them up. Well, now it seems that I overdid it. Sometimes, I have to repeatedly remind myself of the word "restraint".
Regarding the war, given the stylistic setup established so far, it's unlikely that Little Klein will directly engage in combat, and I won't be able to depict specific battles directly. At most, I'll highlight two or three battles to outline the overall situation. Going forward, the efforts of Little Klein and Bernadette, along with the storyline of the Giant King's Court, will unfold in an interwoven manner. I hope I can write it well.
That concludes the summary for October. The first chapter has been updated today. Please vote for me with your guaranteed monthly tickets! Vote for me! Vote for me! Vote for me!
Also, we're number one in monthly votes again in October! Thank you everyone. This should be the first time we've achieved a triple combo (like, comment, and share). I'll be releasing extra chapters in the latter half of the month, during a crucial part of the plot. I'll be asking for more monthly votes then!