Well, this is written into chapters because only readers who will spend money to buy this chapter will take what I want to say seriously. (This chapter has nothing to do with the plot, it is recommended to use gift coins to subscribe)
If it were published as a public chapter, 100% of the people mentioned in the article would jump up and down in anger and verbally insult me.
So the following is the main text: It has nothing to do with the plot, it is mainly related to the current status of the book and some updates. Those who are not interested in these can just read here and do not need to subscribe.
Of course, if you hope this book can be written, I still hope you will read it.
This way at least when I give up, you'll understand why.
Qidian was held from June 17th to September 10th, and in fact it has not ended yet. This event called Star Moment has caused great damage to the rights and interests of the author group including myself.
Strictly speaking, this is a disguised breach of contract on their part.
But there's nothing I or most other authors can do about it.
Because without me, without you, there are still countless new people trying to become novelists.
China has a vast land and abundant resources, and there has never been a shortage of talented people. It's just a pity that writing books seriously can make them popular. It was completely outdated ten years ago.
Today's major online articles are all commercially operated. Assembly line production, assembly line screening, one editor takes care of hundreds of authors, and there is no guidance or communication about writing at all. It is very different from what ordinary people imagine that the editor and the author work together to run a book, and the editor discovers a certain book. Big difference.
Novelists are freed to rely on their own efforts, and then if they gain a certain level of popularity, they can come back from the starting point to add icing on the cake.
The relationship was tenuous from the start, but the terms of the signing were not.
Signing with Qidian basically determines that you are tied to death here. Regardless of whether you have a future or not, you cannot rewrite this book elsewhere.
If you leave and go to other platforms, then it is best for you to remain unknown, because once you become famous, Qidian will file a lawsuit and ask you to pay a large amount of liquidated damages.
So I always think that this website should add the word "kill" in front of its name.
To be fair, I can understand the purpose of Qidian's operation. I have also participated in some commercial operations, so I understand the choice of commercial websites to recover maximum benefits with minimal operating costs.
But as China's largest online novel platform, it should shoulder more, shoulder social responsibilities, and leave behind something more meaningful other than things produced by commercial assembly lines.
A living space for those who want to write books seriously.
There is a starting point in the past, which is why I still insist on being here despite being so frustrated.
Then it was bought by Tencent’s China Literature.
And what I have to mention here is the cancer that has always been the hardest hit area in Internet articles.
Piracy problem.
Yuewen naturally has no intention of letting them go.
But before fighting against the outside world, we must first make peace with the inside.
After drastic changes were made, the editor adjusted the standards, changed many things and corrected many things, some good and some bad, we started reading.
I have done this many times before from the starting point, but they all failed.
You must have heard the story of Dayu's flood control. Before him, his father's failure was the same behavior he did in the past - blindly only blocking and using various anti-theft measures to prevent piracy.
But to me, and to us authors, this may not really be considered a “failure”.
Regardless, this behavior is doomed to failure.
Because as long as there is an audience, and as long as there are still a large number of people who take it for granted that reading books does not cost money, there will always be a market for piracy.
No matter how hard you try to prevent theft, they will still find ways to find loopholes to get in. So no matter how you intercept it, it will eventually fail.
Until Tencent took over.
I think most of the people reading this chapter will have played Tencent games.
For example, the fire is particularly hot cf.
I personally still remember the scene where Internet cafes were filled with elementary school students and junior high school students who had defrauded money from their parents and bought memberships worth 30 yuan a month just to kick people and get famous privileges.
Tencent always knows what its users want.
As for pirated users, no matter how much they say things like "the reading experience at Qidian is very poor" or "the server is always a aunt", in the final analysis, there is only one eternal reason for choosing piracy.
"free."
Therefore, Tencent chose to abandon the pawn to save the car.
We authors are the abandoned pawns.
The Star Moment event, which has lasted for three months and has not ended yet, now seems more like a test of the waters than a one-time feedback.
Qidian uses official free chapters to attract pirated readers back, but the subscribing authors of these free coins do not get a penny.
——"Wait a minute" you may say, "But wouldn't it be a disadvantage to start from this point?"
No, that's not the case, dear.
Have you ever thought about the rampant piracy websites that spend money to steal genuine books and then let people read them for free? The cost of operating the website and the funds for subscriptions, are they always taking losses out of their own pockets and dedicating them to everyone? ?
——The source of income is the flow of people.
Once the traffic that clicks into the website reaches a certain level, you can easily earn millions or even tens of millions of dollars by placing an advertisement.
I believe you have also noticed the advertisements everywhere on various pirated download websites and reading websites.
This is how they make a lot of money.
The traffic of these users is what Qidian is interested in. They are not willing to give it to pirate websites. In comparison, the money from genuine subscriptions and rewards is a small amount and can be discarded at will.
In the war between Qidian and piracy, we were sent to the front line as unwilling and unknowing cannon fodder.
And what makes me feel like I have nothing to say when I think about it.
If they can taste the sweetness of this matter, then.
Why not keep doing it?
Star Moment is a summer activity that ends at the end of September, but right after that is the National Day Golden Week.
After that, the days that could unfold came one after another.
I hope that I am overthinking it, and I strongly hope that this matter is only temporary and will not happen again in the future.
But let's be honest.
you.
Do you trust Tencent?
Many authors at the same time as me, faced with this problem, chose to resist by limiting the number of words and stopping updates.
Yuewen's response was to ban it directly with a wave of his hand.
I believe you have also noticed that many books have been lost for no apparent reason.
Although it is said to be a net cleanup, books with more extreme descriptions but which are quite popular remain intact. In the final analysis, only books with low popularity and no harm in being axed will be "collateral damage".
After coming back to his senses, he said a lot more.
Miserable as we are, in the end we never have many choices before us.
If you are squeezed out of value by the platform, you will also be criticized by readers.
Recently, another reader came to my book group.
When I join the group, I say that I just watched the beginning.
My book group is set up for Q&A, and the questions are related to the latest plot, because I hope that the people who join the group will be good readers.
But he wasn't. He skipped the plot and clicked on the latest chapter just to find the answer and join the group.
Such impatience makes it impossible to take my book seriously, and certainly cannot take my situation seriously.
Sure enough, when he mentioned the issue of updates, I told him that an announcement had been made, and he said, "I didn't read it."
The tone was quite aggrieved.
But I wrote it there, but you didn’t read it, and then you came to ask me specifically.
This is also the reason why I am posting this appendix, because only readers who can spend money to subscribe will take what I want to say seriously.
After my reader explained that he didn't want to update because of the current situation, he said something that any creator would hate.
"Let's see if you have any dreams."
dream.
dream.
When it comes out of your own mouth, it may be some kind of lofty word that makes you unable to control your emotions.
And when it comes out of someone else's mouth, it often means that you have to give it your all without any conditions and without seeking any reward.
Two examples I have seen with my own eyes are that a "loyal fan" who asked for a painting from an artist, after getting a reply from the artist with a clear price tag, angrily cursed his painting as "you can't see dreams from above, it's all Rubbish that smells like copper."
Another loyal fan of a cartoonist threatened to kill him after his cartoons became a paid work, and said he would kill anyone who agreed.
And I think the most chilling thing about this cartoonist is probably this.
This comment was ranked number one.
Do you have a dream? If you have a dream, you should be hungry and work hard.
I don’t have to give you any support, and I don’t even have to spend money to read your books, but you must keep working hard to create, because if you don’t do this, you are a person without dreams.
Well, I call this dream kidnapping.
Of course, people who keep talking about dreams often never really work hard for the meaning of this word.
I am very tired.
Since starting this campaign on June 17, my subscription has been declining every month.
Last month, I finally managed to organize my thoughts and convince myself. I saved up my manuscripts and insisted on updating them steadily.
Income has dropped to less than one-third of what it was before.
This is why I hardly wanted to update this month, but I did anyway, and then watched my subscriptions continue to drop without being able to do anything.
Some readers accused me because I didn’t update enough. Once I update enough, my subscriptions won’t drop.
yes.
So what standard counts as too much?
If I updated it every two days, he would say it was not enough; if I changed it to daily updating, he would say that the number of words and chapters I updated every day was too few.
So when I have updated 10,000 words per day, which is a word count that most people can agree is "too much", everything is still declining?
Who will pay for all my efforts?
It's definitely not him.
All he had to do was open his mouth and accuse me of not doing enough, and I had to work my ass off and work day and night to meet that standard.
As for returns, there is no guarantee for you.
He just painted a pie and said you didn't work hard enough.
After all, blaming things on you because you didn't work hard enough is always upright.
I'm very tired.
Over the past two weeks, my average sleep time per day has been 3 hours.
Today I spent 5 hours and finally completed a super long chapter of 8,000 words. If you have noticed, these chapters are all in recent times.
It takes a lot of energy to deal with this plot, and coincidentally, I can't see any sign of being heart-warming.
There isn't much I can do. I don't have the time or energy to do anything else except write a book.
I don’t want to write a story I’m not satisfied with and publish it to fool people, because the money you subscribe doesn’t come from the sky, so I always hope to make you feel that the money you spend is worth it.
But it's possible.
It's wrong.
If possible, I hope that friends who have read this chapter and are still using bonus coins to subscribe to the text will switch to real currency subscriptions.
Even if 1 bonus coin is used in a chapter, the subscription will not count.
I can only ask that I can’t change your will. People who think it’s free to watch and don’t pay for it can always find a reason to feel at ease.
I will continue to write books because it is the only thing I can do now.
No matter what the situation is, no matter what the path ahead is, I only have this one choice.
So, if this book means something to you.
Please take action.
hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and take whatever
