Today the new book is finally going to be on the shelves. This feeling is actually a bit strange. When the last book was put on the shelves, I didn’t seem to have written any comments about it. It felt like it was on the shelves before I knew it, and I wasn’t as nervous as I am now.
At that time, I was still a newcomer and didn’t know anything. Before I put it on the shelves, I kept calculating the relationship between average subscription and income. I was thinking about how much a monthly subscription of 3,000 yuan would cost, and how much a monthly subscription of 5,000 yuan would cost. My mind was filled with thoughts. She got a promotion and a raise, married Bai Fumei, and reached the pinnacle of her life.
The result is that the ideal is very full and the reality is very basic. When it was finally put on the shelves, the first order seemed to be 4-500 or how much, I can’t remember clearly.
In fact, I later learned that based on the traffic volume of Zongheng at that time, such a first-time order result for a new author was already very good. But I didn’t know it at the time. Everything was based on the data from the website. There was a huge gap between it and the psychological expectations. , it was like a basin of cold water was poured on the top of my head, and my heart became cold.
But now that things have come to this, I can only persevere. After all, I still had a lot of emotions in writing the book at the beginning. I wrote about things I like, so I thought I should persevere no matter what.
It's just that the feelings will eventually be worn away. The stand-alone feeling of writing a book without all kinds of positive feedback stimulation makes writing less and less passionate. In addition, I was also very busy with work at that time, and sometimes I was too tired after get off work. When I read it, I would think about letting it go for a while, take a good rest today, and continue writing tomorrow.
Who knew that it is easy to put it down but difficult to pick it up again? Some old readers may still remember that I stopped updating for a few months during that time, right?
Later, when my job became more stable, one day I suddenly couldn't sit still and thought that I couldn't just give up. After all, I hate seeing eunuch books when I read books. I don't want to become what I hate. Moreover, this story is also my favorite world. , not wanting him to die young like this, he started writing again.
I persisted for almost another year, just as the country was cracking down on piracy in 2016, the performance of the book gradually improved, there were more and more readers, the book review area became more and more active, and there were more discussions among readers.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, with all kinds of Internet turmoil, and the review in this area became more and more strict. The last book got 404 several times. Well, no, it was completely 404 several times. It was the editor's struggle, plus I didn't Day and night, I revised various previous chapters one by one, and finally came back from the death line again and again.
But even though the writing behind it has been very clear, and there is no scale to speak of, it is famous, and the title of the book is too deceptive, so it is often reported and called out. In the next few years, it is basically every 3 or 4 months. I was told to make major changes and then make minor changes in 1 or 2 months. It was really exhausting.
At that time, I was not even confident that I could finish it safely, because of the situation at that time. It was really no surprise to find that the book had been blocked when I woke up the next day. It was the same on this site, and it had been removed from various channels.
Under this situation, the website and the editor all suggested that I open a new book as soon as possible. Friends who have the impression should know that I seemed to have mentioned the matter of opening a new book 2 years ago.
But I was never willing to let the first book that I put so much effort into die halfway. I always insisted on finishing it, and the new book was postponed again and again.
It has been postponed for almost two years, until two months ago, the website couldn't wait any longer and asked me to release a new book, so I could only open the old book and the new book together.
The editor asked me many times when the old book would end. I pushed it again and again, until he later didn’t believe me about the ending time. He gave me an ultimatum and gave me a time. Even so, in the end I still shamelessly insisted on it. It took another half a month to finish writing. I would like to thank the website and the editor for their patience over the years.
The reason why the completion time has been pushed back again and again is because I don't want to rush the ending, I want to write out all the plots I prepared, and give this book the ending it should have.
I was under a lot of pressure during that time, so several times I saw some Sanwu readers going to the book review section and complaining about the bad ending in every post. I was really angry, because just to keep the ending from being bad, I withstood the pressure again and again. You delayed finishing the book, but ended up getting scolded by so many people. The key is that you just spent money to scold me, and almost all of them were pirated copies.
I have never had a blush or quarrel with a reader in all these years, and that time I really couldn’t help but quarrel with someone.
Fortunately, I finally finished it. At that time, I really had a complex feeling of emptiness and satisfaction. I couldn't believe that I had actually completed the book successfully. It felt like a lifetime ago.
After finishing the old book, I started writing the new one non-stop, and now it’s finally time for the new book to be put on the shelves.
Different from the ignorance and fearlessness in the first book, now I am extremely anxious and under a lot of pressure.
Because I am no longer a new author, I know what the results after listing mean. In addition to being closely related to the author's income, it is also related to a series of subsequent recommended resources on the website and third-party channels.
Just like the novels everyone reads, one step leads to the other, the strong will become stronger and the weak will become weaker and weaker. This is the operating rule of this world.
Now Zongheng's traffic is much lower than in previous years. Of course, Zongheng is not the only one. The traffic of all major novel websites has dropped sharply.
The current collection of the new book "Land Key Immortal" is only about 3,500. According to industry experience, the number of users who pay to read in the end is generally only a few hundred. The subscription ratio may exceed a thousand, but the probability is very small. , if you are unlucky, you may even only have one or two hundred, so I said in the chapter that I was panicking, which is really not a joke.
In my mind, I asked for a monthly pass for the last book several times, but I basically never asked for a subscription. I have always been casual about the subscription, and I understand even if it is a pirated version. After all, I have also read pirated versions before, and life is just like that. It’s hard, it’s not easy for everyone.
The view has always been that "if you have money, you can support yourself, and if you have money, you can support yourself."
Therefore, although the data for the last book on the entire network is good, the proportion of paid people is really not high. There are at least hundreds of thousands of people reading this book on the entire Internet. Later, it was ranked among the top ten in the Baidu Index martial arts and fairy categories, but the number of people who paid for subscriptions Really only a very, very small percentage.
At the peak of the traffic surge in the fight against piracy in 2016, there were about 4,000 average subscriptions. But then piracy started to become rampant again. Coupled with various rectifications and the impact of my own update speed, there were only about a thousand more subscriptions left. .
Some readers said that when they saw that the last book ranked in the top 20 on the best-seller list, they felt that the results were very good. This was mainly because the book had more than 6 million words, and the vertical and horizontal traffic was not very high. Except for the big guys in front, everyone really Don’t overestimate my income. Of course, it’s hard to tell the specific details.
Now that the new book is about to be put on the shelves, I don’t dare to be as Buddhist as before, because once this serious situation is over, I will never get up again. Maybe you won’t be able to see me in two years, because then I will It has been completely eliminated by the novel industry.
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