2012-2018, the period of ignorance.
It was the first time I uploaded a novel, and the sentences were not divided into paragraphs, and the sentences were not fluent everywhere. But writing novels filled me with joy as a high school student.
I wrote two books with tens of thousands of words in a row, but they were cut off because no one read and the collection was in the single digits. I wrote a third book called "The First Demon King's Chef in History" and was finally signed.
The editor Ruili told me a lot at that time, such as asking me to update it stably.
"I'm a student, I can't be stable!"
"Fine."
I was busy with studies in high school and soon stopped reading. In my freshman year, I began to pursue a part-time life, but I found it meaningless and completely out of place.
So I started to rewrite the old book, and the editor became a new one. I finally collected it back to 1,000, but I never had the chance to put it on the shelves.
Then the book was blocked in the first big wave.
A few months later, I went to the next door and my skills improved greatly. I could even write sentences fluently!
I wrote the beginnings of several books, and finally one signed a contract. I was ecstatic. In the end, I even had more than 3,000 collections ready to be released on the shelves!
Damn it, invincible!
I vow to write a million words as long as I get 200 orders!
Unfortunately, there were only sixty-something first orders, so I cried and wrote the apology chapter and cut up the book.
I finally realized the most terrifying thing.
Compared with those geniuses who rise quickly after two or three books,
I don’t have even a shred of writing talent!
Later, I wrote another book and decided to pursue a explosive opening. The protagonist punched Gaia at the beginning and began to evolve a mythical civilization. The first order was 550.
Because it was really difficult to write the protagonist in Wudi Liu, I began to subconsciously try to write group portraits.
This was the beginning of the big world view for all subsequent novels. At that time, I really felt that I was very satisfied with the order of more than 1,000 copies.
Until later, when I was researching books in the author group, I was suddenly ridiculed by a certain boss, who kept asking me how many books I had ordered, and how dare I study how to write novels. I am mentally retarded!
I felt really angry at that time, but I didn’t dare to talk back because he had many fans and the author had many friends.
I am a student. I am afraid of online violence and have given up my mind.
After two years of hard work, I finally finished this book, which I was very happy to celebrate. Then I saw a book called Low-Dimensional Games, and I felt that the ideas and framework were similar to my own book.
Hey, at that time I suddenly felt that it might not be impossible for me to have a chance to start over.
2018-2020, learning period.
I wanted to write a new book, and then an author named Wan Ding appeared in the author group who liked to teach others. I shamelessly showed him the beginning of the new book several times, and after the boss’s corrections, I published it.
Unexpectedly, the new book quickly gained more than 10,000 collections!
Damn it, invincible!
As a result, the collection has stopped growing. The first subscription was 1,200 yuan, and subsequent subscriptions dropped like crazy after it was released. I didn’t know why, so I could only endure it until I finished the book, and all the subscriptions were 1,500 yuan.
Why?
For whatever reason, the novel started out very well but then went from bad to worse.
I began to think carefully about the root causes of good or bad grades.
I plan to write about the Fourth Catastrophe at the beginning of the new year, because I found that this kind of book has good results and not many people have written it.
Write a book that is lighthearted and funny!
This time I learned the hard way that I had to polish the beginning and preliminary ideas before publishing the book, so I shamelessly pestered the author Wan Ding to give me corrections.
"The writing is too sloppy", "The emotions are not brought out", "The writing is not good"...
Rewrite, ask for correction, rewrite, ask for correction, rewrite, ask for correction, rewrite, ask for correction, rewrite, ask for correction,…
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite…
Ten times!
For a full month, I repeatedly conceived and reconstructed, constantly transforming my thinking and understanding of online articles. After rewriting it ten times, I finally got the answer I wanted.
"Okay, not bad."
I'm on it!
Issue a book.
Waiting to sign.
Signed successfully.
Waiting for recommendations.
Barely passing the level to test the waters.
Waiting for the ranking...
Climb the list.
…
No. 1 on the seven lists! First order is 8,700! Read nine thousand!
Damn it, invincible!
However, the reading began to continue to decline, and I couldn't stop it no matter what. I simply gave up and wrote for a month until it was time to read again.
It has dropped to three thousand.
The average subscription continued to decline, from 10,000 books to more than 8,000. Fortunately, I was gradually saved by recommendations, because I received negative feedback every day, and the comedy novels were no longer easy. I was depressed every day while typing.
Sitting for a long time, not seeing the sun, lacking friends, not receiving attention, living frugally, and accepting new declines every day...
My mental state was also on a downward spiral.
Finally, I finished the book with 1.5 million words, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
I began to try to open a new book with joy and expectation.
2020-2023, transformation period
Save 30,000 manuscripts and publish them.
Jump on the street.
Save 50,000 manuscripts and publish the book again.
Hit the street again.
Almost zero social interaction, a monthly mortgage of more than 8,000, sick family members, myself being unemployed for half a year, a confused future, all kinds of thoughts in my mind, and insomnia all night long.
I started to be irritable and irritable, and even yelled at people around me, especially when they advised me to go out and find a job and said that I was just playing games.
Anxiety disorder, a mental illness that is common among full-time writers, quietly came to my door.
Finally, I felt it again.
This time I plan to write an invincible flow again. I saw a book in which a little girl was sacrificed to an evil god, so I will write a book in which the protagonist, as an evil god, is summoned by a little girl.
Will I still succeed?
"Short-lived", "good luck", "accidental", "wall of newcomers", "all talents are exhausted"... Authors who only wrote once and received thousands of orders account for the vast majority of authors who have received thousands of orders.
The so-called ten thousand orders,
Just getting started.
Ranked second on the new book list, the beginning was very good, but unfortunately the plot started to drag after more than twenty chapters, and the protagonist also lacked subjective initiative, so reading began to decline.
Four thousand first order.
Damn it, no... no more invincible, no more invincible.
I began to study the data feedback, and carefully considered and experimented with various new plots according to the rules provided by the backend. Finally, I continued to read steadily, and the average subscription began to gradually increase.
Book again.
Then, comic book revision.
Subscription performance improved again.
It's a pity that the framework of Invincible Flow couldn't be written for long, and the results could not be stabilized in the later period. The anxiety disorder became more and more serious, so I could only finish the book reluctantly.
One night, I was bleeding while brushing my teeth. I knelt on the ground and cried, feeling that I had a terminal illness.
From then on, the journey of hypochondria began with forty trips to the hospital a year.
I knew I couldn't hold on anymore.
Go see a psychiatrist.
it has been improved.
"If you take medicine, you will be groggy and unable to write novels."
That's it.
Then I refuse to take medicine!
In the new book, I tried to lower the starting point of the protagonist and reduce the explosive points, but the results were very poor. Until later, I wanted to write a group portrait novel.
How about the protagonist playing games on his mobile phone, controlling a person with super powers to add points, and saving the world again and again?
As long as the struggles of superpowers are well written and the information gap is created, it will be interesting.
OK, let’s get started!
The new book started out well, until a certain part of the plot started to drag on, and then the reading slowed down, just like the previous book.
To be honest, I have basically no sense of language. I have to read it several times before I can tell whether the writing is good or bad. I can't judge the quality of the plot. I need data to make it clear.
If the plot is not procrastinating, I don't know what good rhythm is. If the plot is not dull, I don't know what intenseness is.
Hindsight.
All along, compared to those geniuses who have foresight and foresight, my book writing is almost like a blind man dancing with a sword, and a stupid bird flying slowly.
There is no other way, the matter has reached this point, we can only accept the shortcomings.
The first order is seven thousand.
Very good, as expected.
Nowadays, I have gradually transformed. Through a lot of note-taking and repeated thinking and deliberation, I have gradually understood what is a sense of expectation and what is a succession and transition. The subsequent results will never collapse.
Hey, there seems to be something wrong with my eyes. Could it be a hypochondriasis attack?
Go check it out.
The retinal tear was repaired with laser. I followed the doctor's advice to rest for half a month and listened to cross talk in bed for half a month.
After returning, the readers left and dispersed, and there were only more than 3,000 orders left.
After the update was restored, the average subscription quickly increased to more than 5,000. Now I am ranked tenth in the essay competition. The bonuses for fourth to tenth are not high, but the bonuses starting from third are very high.
I said in the author group that I wanted to compete for third place.
Everyone laughed.
Because the rankings were based on average bookings, the average booking for third place at that time was 13,000.
I said that the framework of that book was not good. The explosive points and the sense of anticipation were all at the beginning. The follow-up was nothing more than dead bones in the grave, and it was difficult to achieve anything.
As for me, now I can observe the background data in real time and constantly reflect on new plots. There are more expectations and hot spots in the framework for the later period, and my performance will gradually improve.
Of course they don't believe it.
There was a word count requirement for the essay review. Because during the half-month break, I had to update more to have a chance. So I started to update, think, and devote all my efforts to it like never before.
A few months later, my average order rose to 10,000, while the average order for that book dropped to 10,000.
Take away the essay prize.
In the end, they all ordered 16,000.
…
Then, I suffered a nervous breakdown due to excessive stress. I suffered from heart palpitations every day. I stopped reading for several months to recuperate my body until I recovered and finished the book normally.
That year, Qidian's anti-theft effect was very good, the income limit was increased several times, and people around Qidian started to achieve results one after another.
"Promise."
I want to be a starting point master.
2023-present, future, reshaping period
Pounced.
I deeply understood and studied the ignition book, tried to deconstruct its secrets, and then jumped on the street.
More than once.
For a whole year, I cut out several books, but I couldn't find the direction to write them down.
why?
I started to reflect.
Even if you complain about untimely life and social injustice, nothing will change.
People should understand and analyze the current situation, and take action after fully understanding the reasons.
While reflecting, I was also doing another thing.
No longer let your life consist only of writing books.
Exercise, travel, give lectures back to school, control your diet, and actively socialize.
I am fully aware of the need for good mental and physical health to ensure sustained work output.
I began to learn to please myself and stopped arrogating myself. When I felt anxious, I would immediately eat, drink and have fun without causing a backlog.
It took me half a year to successfully reduce my original weight of 178 to 137, and get rid of the obesity of more than 20 years.
Get rid of insomnia and heart palpitations!
For more than ten years, I have generously answered questions for those who asked for advice, and I am full of gratitude to those who have been kind. Even though my grades plummeted after I fell ill, I still finished every book I put on the shelves for a fee.
Unknowingly, I am surrounded by many old readers, author friends, editor friends, and other friends...
Everyone has given me encouragement and support.
Finally, by controlling variables, I understood why my books were successful.
Whether it is the Fourth Natural Disaster or the Salvation Organization, it is actually the framework of "a transcendent protagonist plus a group of protagonists". This is the kind of subject I am best at writing.
Why didn’t you write about this kind of subject when you first came to Qidian?
Because, group portraits are books that are difficult to reach and have a limited audience.
Then it will be difficult to become a great god and climb the highest mountain.
A lifelong dream is likely to die prematurely, which is tantamount to abandoning the great road and studying small skills in the world of immortality.
Most people are just like the red turtle, growing slowly and failing to become a goldfish. They will even give up and choose easier things when they encounter setbacks at the beginning.
The remaining people also realized that their talents were limited and destined to live in obscurity for a lifetime, so they no longer had the will to fight.
I don't want to admit that I am a red fish. I have already known that I lack a sense of language, am not sensitive to rhythm, and have no writing talent at all.
A blind man wielding a sword cannot predict the situation in advance and can only reflect upon it after each injury. How can he reach the highest state?
Until I saw a sentence in my speech when I finished this book a few years ago.
I was finally relieved.
"The redfish is destined not to become a goldfish, but it doesn't matter even if it never becomes a goldfish, as long as it is the best redfish!"
So I poured all my experience, inspiration, and passion over the past ten years into the new story outline, hoping to deliver it 100% of the time.
Group portraits, sacrifice, inheritance, epic, crying, laughter, change, the fate of blood...
The character designs for each generation have been written in the outline, with each generation alternating and succeeding one another.
good.
After being unemployed again for more than ten months, walking in the darkness, I seemed to have grasped the sword in my heart.
Draw your sword! Send a book!
The results at the beginning were pretty good, and the editor even commented with high emotional intelligence that it has the potential to be a hit.
However, the plot has been delayed in the past half month, and the old problem of "there is a problem with the plot before it is released" has happened again. Because there is no real-time follow-up before it is released, I can only finish writing and wait a few days before adjusting the follow-up. .
Gradually I realized that the "old problem" was partly due to the ability to be late-minded, and partly due to the fact that the beginning and the framework were well done, but the plot from the beginning to the time it was released was not polished enough.
I felt that this book was slow to gain traction at the beginning, and it was the slowest to gain traction among all my books. In fact, I was already prepared to order hundreds of copies from the beginning and then make a comeback later.
Only by breaking away from the original framework can we break through to a new realm.
The early results of this book are already much better than expected.
I can’t say that I will definitely write better and better after it is put on the shelves. I can only say that I will do my best.
I’ll just write my acceptance speech here.
Thanks to "Yang Yan who lives in the dream", the leader of "Fei Wen", thanks to the editor Canaan, thanks to the operation officer, thanks to the leader of the kindergarten, don't pray for Shixian, poor Xixi, the vegetables are green, and the chapter that doesn't fall into the fish push.
Thanks to my family and friends who have always supported me.
Thanks to myself.
Finally, thank you all for your continued support and wish you all a Happy New Year in advance.
I hope you will start here and continue to the final remarks of this book.
My life is like walking on thin ice,
Do you think I can make it to the end?
