Writing books is my hobby and my profession. I have been writing full-time since 2005. It has been ten years. Looking back on these ten years, I don’t know how to summarize it.
For Xiao Sheng, novels have penetrated into life.
Xiao Sheng liked to read martial arts novels when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school. The first novel in his life was probably Liang Yusheng's novel. When I was in junior high school, I came up with the idea of writing a novel. I probably wrote my first novel when I was in the second grade of junior high school. The only reader was a buddy of mine.
In 2003, Xiao Sheng tried to submit his novel to a publishing house and persisted in writing it for two years. Unfortunately, every submission ended in rejection.
In 2005, Xiao Sheng began to try to write his first online novel, named "Arrow Penetrates Ten Thousand Miles", and signed a contract with ReadWrite.com. This is the first book in his life that is officially open to all readers.
By 2007, Xiao Sheng's first book was published, which realized Xiao Sheng's dream of printing his own words into books.
I have been writing for more than ten years and writing full-time for ten years. I don’t know what to say during these ten years.
If I really have to say something, I would just say that writing is a very painful thing.一??ww看w?·1?
It is Xiao Sheng's biggest hobby and the hobby that he loves the most in his life. But when the hobby turns into a profession, everything is not beautiful and everything becomes so difficult.
In the past, when I was just a reader, I would enjoy reading any novel. For Xiao Sheng, the process was a kind of enjoyment, a very wonderful physical and mental experience, and very pleasant.
But when I started writing, it became painful. Because at this time it is no longer for enjoyment, but for learning, learning the author's skills, learning the author's creativity, learning the author's layout...etc.
Ever since I started writing books full-time, my hobby became studying, and I lost my biggest hobby in life. Just imagine how painful it is when your biggest hobby becomes learning. Without hobbies, life will lose a lot of color.
Although it is not easy for me to write a book for ten years, and sometimes it is even painful to write a book, I do not regret my choice to write a book.
When I wrote "Emperor", it was already my tenth book in my life. It can be said that "Emperor" is also my longest book so far. A w?
"Emperor" is my personal favorite book, and it was also the most painful book to write. Because when a book reaches three million words, the enthusiasm of the whole person will decrease, and the whole layout is very huge, and there are too many things to consider.
Whenever I communicate with readers, readers often say that two updates a day is too few and that there should be more updates.
I also know that it is not easy for everyone to follow up every day, but it is even more difficult for Xiao Sheng to keep writing year after year.
Two chapters are updated every day, and readers only need ten minutes to read it, but Xiao Sheng has to sit in front of the computer for ten hours. In addition to normal writing, he also has to do structure, settings, and look through previous plots. So as not to forget too many characters and plots.
Xiao Sheng is also dissatisfied with "Emperor", and many readers have said things like water injection. Regarding this situation, Xiao Sheng could only say that he tried his best, but he could not prevent it.
The whole process of writing a book is very long. There are times when Xiao Sheng is tired, there are times when he wants to be lazy, and there are even times when he is at a low point and wants to escape...
Although Xiao Sheng is said to be an author, he is first of all a person, a living person, who has different emotions like everyone else, including joy, anger, confusion, and loss...
From the writing of "Emperor" to the present, there have been various complaints, but Xiao Sheng did not say anything more. Xiao Sheng just wanted to say that what I can do is worthy of the majority of readers.
Based on the current situation of "Emperor", judging from various statistics on the website, "Emperor" has about 800,000 to 1 million readers nationwide.
However, judging from the feedback data from various channels such as QQ and QQ reading, there are thousands of people across the country who support the genuine subscription of "Emperor", which means that out of a hundred readers, only one reader is paying.
Xiao Sheng didn't want to say anything more about piracy, because piracy has already made people numb.
If you really want Xiao Sheng to say something, then I just want to say that if you don't like "Emperor", you can choose not to watch it, but please don't use swear words to scold me. This is at least for my hard work. A kind of respect.
Xiao Sheng is very grateful to the readers who have always supported the subscription, because it is because of your continuous support that "Emperor" can persist until now. I would like to thank you for your strong support all the time. Thank you.
In fact, it is not very difficult for many people to support the original version of "Emperor".
Take the subscription of "Emperor" as an example. Whether you subscribe to "Emperor" at or QQ Bookstore, the total of all VIP chapters only costs more than 200 yuan for senior members and more than 300 yuan for junior members.
Some readers may think that two to three hundred yuan is not a small amount of money, but for a book that took more than two years to write, two to three hundred yuan is really not a lot of money.
Xiao Sheng started writing "Emperor" in January 2014. It was published in Taiwan in February 2014 and published in August 2014. It has been two years and three months since it was written.
In these two years and three months, except for about ten days of New Year's holiday, Xiao Sheng rarely rested, and the time he did not write a manuscript was only thirty days in a year.
So do you think that two to three hundred yuan is a very expensive thing for two years and three months?
So, if you can't support the genuine version, I can't force you, nor will I blame you. I just want to say that if you are not satisfied with "Emperor", you can express your opinion, but don't say it in a dirty way. , if you don’t respect me, I don’t have to respect you, and I will scold you back when necessary.
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