It took three and a half months and nearly 460,000 words to be updated, and I finally finished the first volume of this book.
Strictly speaking, this book is my first long online article. I didn’t think there was any problem in planning the outline. But as I continued writing it, I found that the first volume had already reached more than 300,000 words before I even finished it. In fact, I was a little impatient personally. of.
Although this book is a classic fairy tale with weirdness as its core, and the pace will be relatively slow, but the first volume is so long, it feels slower than the wizard style, and I am a little worried that readers will find it too dragging.
Therefore, some keen book lovers should be able to see that the follow-up of this volume is a little rushed. Tens of thousands of words have been cut out of the daily plot, which is roughly the auction of Jiuhua Jade Dew Pills in Nantian City, and the return to Nanshan County Bi Shengke to hold a banquet. Passed by in one stroke.
To be honest, I don't know if I should cut it.
Due to the lack of feedback from readers on chapter chapters, I was not sure what everyone would like, so I had to rely on my feelings and prioritize the main plot, and slightly cut out some non-main plot daily routines. I was thinking: If I finish the first volume early, will I gain weight as a reader? Will he kill a bunch of books?
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If you have friends who know me, you should know that I used to be a fairly professional book reviewer with a personal public account. I mostly reviewed books for others rather than writing books myself.
I just got used to reading routine articles, and due to changes in my work, I had a relatively free time, so I started coding in recent years.
But writing reviews for others and writing books for yourself are completely different things, with two levels of difficulty.
To write a review, you only need to find the problem; to write a book, you need to solve the problem.
Many times, there are some minor problems that the author himself is not aware of, but even if he knows about them, there is no good solution. In addition, he has to rush for updates, so he can only push back the plot.
In my opinion, in many cases, what determines the performance of a book is not how amazing the author's extreme performance is, but how stable the author's performance can be, and whether he can step on as few or even no poisonous points as possible.
Therefore, it is not easy to be a qualified online article writer.
I wasn't sure whether I could make a living in online writing, and I even wrote a book with 700,000 words, just to practice writing, develop a sense of serialization, and practice it myself to see if I could achieve daily serialization and stable updates.
Because I didn’t expect my last book to be successful, I specifically wrote this realistic post-apocalyptic article, which is now considered a niche niche, along with a personal dream, which I don’t need to mention.
When I come back to this book, I think my mentality is okay. I can stick to my original intention and slowly wait for the book to come out, instead of cutting off the text easily.
But no matter how stable my mentality is, I still hope that this book will be favored and supported by book friends.
Not to mention too much, at least if you order more than 500 yuan, you can't say that you are not generating electricity for love.
So at the end of writing this volume, I can’t help but feel a little anxious when I see less than 400 evenly ordered books. I hope to finish the first volume as soon as possible. I also hope that fat book friends can at least finish the first volume and help the equalization. order growth.
By the way, speaking of subscriptions, in fact, in the welfare center of the Qidian APP personal interface, you can receive 50 points chapter cards by watching videos for 3 minutes every day, which can also be used to subscribe. If you are a student and book lover who is short of money, you can actually receive chapter cards every day, which is enough to read 2 books.
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For this book, the title I really conceived was actually "The Strange World" that I decided on during the design outline stage.
You should also be able to tell that compared to other fairy novels, this book actually puts more thought into the worldview structure. It even designs various worldview backgrounds including chronicles first, and then designs the main outline.
This is my own habit of setting my party background.
However, when writing online articles, the emphasis is on subtraction. It is taboo to cram in too many settings for readers. You need to hold back your efforts and only use necessary information to unfold the opening plot - so when I write a book like this, I am actually torturing myself.
But I'm used to reading formulaic stories, and I'm really tired of seeing the unchanging worldview of the Extraordinary World, the plot developments that I know from the table of contents, and the various brainless villains who take the initiative to kill people.
Therefore, I hope that the world view of the book I write will be more realistic, the plot development will be beyond the readers’ expectations to a certain extent and will not be clichéd, and the supporting characters should also show their style, so as not to lower the status of a “practitioner”. Gold content.
On this basis, I will try my best to ensure that readers’ reading experience is smooth and novel.
How well I have accomplished these writing goals is not something I can say myself. I can only look at the subscription feedback from readers.
I know that this book is slow to gain popularity. In the Internet literature world that increasingly pursues a fast pace, it seems to be non-mainstream and difficult to please the mainstream readership group.
But I believe that no matter how few Chinese, Lao, and white readers are, there is actually enough to support this book.
It just lacks exposure and traffic, making it difficult for this book to reach the vast majority of middle-aged, old and white readers.
Therefore, if you feel that the quality of this book is acceptable, I would be very grateful if you could recommend it on the Chiji public account or other book-loving groups where older people gather.
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Finally, a word about updates.
I know that updating 4k words every day does not satisfy you book lovers.
But I am ashamed to say that I am too handicapped. It takes an average of five hours just to update 4k words every day, and to polish the wording and sentence making so that it is not too plain and simple.
In addition, I know that due to the hasty update, the previous article must have flaws. I also want to polish and refine it as much as possible, and I am constantly revising the previous article.
At present, I basically read a chapter carefully at noon every day, polish the words and sentences, and repair the plot - the progress of the repairs, as well as the modifications that may need to be explained, will be announced in this book club.
After dinner, I will work hard all night to ensure that 4k words are updated that day.
Generally speaking, it is possible to catch up with the progress and check for updates.
But after all, I have a full-time job, as well as part-time jobs such as giving reviews or taking photos, and I also have some irregular demands for social activities, which come from leaders, colleagues, relatives, friends, and even blind dates, etc. It is really difficult to predict in advance.
Or if it catches up with Cavan, it may not be updated in time and has to occupy a place.
This move will indeed make book readers unhappy, and I sincerely apologize.
However, the space occupation generally does not exceed 12 hours, which can be regarded as guaranteeing that daily serial updates will not be missed. I hope you will forgive me.
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There's a lot more I want to say, but when I think about it, there's not much to talk about.
Anyway, I am responsible for writing books and showing the stories of the world I write.
You readers are responsible for voting with your feet. If you are satisfied with this book, please subscribe and support it. If you are not satisfied, it is useless for me to say some empty words.
Therefore, in order to make up for the two thousand words habitually, all readers are also welcome to click on the add book group from the bottom of the introduction.
The above is a summary of true knowledge.
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