Chapter 409: Experience and Mindset
Is there any value in the experience of failure?
In the eyes of different people, the answer to this question should be different, there must be some people who think that the experience of failure is valuable, and some people think that the experience of success is valuable, and the experience of failure?
The benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise!
It's like someone who regrets his emotional experience of failure, and feels that the tears he shed at the beginning were all because of the poor sealing of his head.
I usually don't want to talk about it to anyone.
Some people are grateful to those predecessors who taught them what love is and how to love, and feel that if it were not for the careful teaching of those predecessors, they would not have reaped the happiness they have now.
In the online literature industry, there will always be a very small number of authors who gain fame and fortune and are always popular, and nine out of nine authors will hit the street, the difference is only when to pounce.
Some people have been pounced on from the beginning, until they are desperate, and then quietly leave this line of work.
After someone pounced on one or two books at the beginning, they slowly got some results, and then they wrote better and better, or they pounced again after writing and writing.
If you are lucky or have high talent, you will gain fame and fortune at the beginning, and if you have the understanding and perseverance, you can continue to gain fame and fortune for many years, and if you have poor understanding, or if you float red and red, the army of street fighters will always be behind him, and open your arms to welcome him to join the army of street fighting at any time.
Is Sun Quan highly talented, or is he lucky?
This is not easy to generalize, because if he was talented and lucky, he would not have pounced so many books before he was reborn, but when he had just written some results, he encountered the strictest 404 tide in history, and was slapped to death on the beach by the tide.
But to say that he has low talent and bad luck is a bit inaccurate.
Because of his career on the street, he can occasionally write a book that makes a little money and has a good reputation.
If he was really unlucky, so many authors who were 404, why didn't others be reborn, but he was reborn?
After being reborn, he often pondered a question - is his experience of hitting the streets so many times before his rebirth worthwhile?
If so, where is the value?
If not, then I have wasted my youth for so many years on the street?
In his bones, he is very conflicted in his heart.
Both pride and inferiority.
He is proud that his writing is better than many authors, and he is also proud that he can be on the crooked neck tree on the Internet, hanging for more than ten years, and he is still unwilling to give up, still working hard, sometimes he will be moved by his persistence.
And his inferiority......
When he was young, he had low self-esteem, he was not as handsome as others, not as tall as others, and not as good as others......
When he grew up, he didn't care much about the above, but he began to feel inferior again, he always hit the street, and he was inferior to a rising star, obviously entering the industry later than him, but he surpassed his achievements one after another, and he couldn't do anything about it, he could only watch and envy.
Before he was reborn, before he wrote the book "My Decathlon", his inner world had actually changed a lot.
At that time, he was in his thirties, the house was still rented, the car was second-hand, his daughter-in-law did not have a ticket, and he did not know who to give birth to, and the savings ...... In the eyes of some, his little deposit may only be a balance.
He began to realize that he was not worthy of pride, and he finally removed the proud shell in his heart, and then looked directly into his own inferior inner world.
He began to admit in his heart: I have no talent, my writing is like that, I am not handsome, I have no money, I am wooden, I am not funny, I am a social loser, don't do the dream of writing as a god and making a lot of money! Accept the reality! You don't have that ability and you don't have that life!
During that time, he stepped himself into the dust in his heart, stepping on one foot after another.
Then, he began to think about making a little money, stop challenging the subject matter that he was not sure to write well, make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and write a pure and cool essay with a simple story structure and a little facial makeup of the characters.
At that time, the principle he set for himself was - to be pure!
Pure cool text!
Then after he brewed for a while, he wrote the book "My Decathlon", which is a very pure cool article, so pure that it is difficult for readers who have not read enough to find a so-called poison point from his book.
Then, the data of this book surpasses any of his previous works.
Then, when this book was put on the shelves, the first order was more than 2,000, which was the highest book he had ordered since he entered the industry, and then he tasted the feeling of earning more than 10,000 per month.
Since then, his godly heart has died, but his heart to make money is highly active, and he has begun to try his best to please his readers with one cool and crooked plot after another.
As it turned out, he did not do a good job.
The subscription data of that book is getting better and better, and the number of monthly manuscript fees is also increasing month by month, and it is gratifying to approach the level of 20,000 little by little.
Writing online articles, many people know that it is very difficult to stabilize the quality of a work on the shelf, most authors write and write, the plot or the protagonist's character design collapses, and then the subscription data of the whole book begins to fall.
And his grandson's book "My Decathlon" has written 1 million words, but there is no sign of collapse, and the reputation in the book review area is still great.
Why?
The reason is clear to him, because he has so much experience in hitting the streets, so rich that when he writes each plot, his instinct will tell him - in which direction to write, there will be poisonous spots, which will lead to the loss of readers.
During that time, he clearly felt that he was improving.
He felt more and more that if he just wanted to make a little money, it didn't seem so difficult to write online articles?
……
However, the sky has unpredictable circumstances, people have good and bad luck, the 404 tide is irresistible, and the sudden rebirth is even more irresistible.
The book was suddenly closed, and he was suddenly back in 2006.
His comprehension of writing was interrupted so suddenly.
It wasn't until he re-wrote "My Decathlon" that his state slowly returned, and by the time he wrote "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", he had more comprehension in all aspects.
For example, one of the realizations is that the larger the world background, if you want to write well, the more you have to start small and see the big from the small.
Therefore, in the story of "Immortal Dragon Ring", he unveiled the whole world little by little as the plot progressed, as the old village saying goes: eat zongzi, eat one piece at a time.
He didn't rush to introduce how big the background of that world was, and he wasn't in a hurry to throw out various settings, only when the plot needed it, he released a little related setting.
When he was about to write "Sword of Killing in the Clouds", he still had this idea.
——See the big from the small! Eat a cut, peel a cut.
From the outline part, he did it consciously.
The main part of the text adheres to this principle.
Then, after the recent publication of the book, peers and book lovers gradually discovered that Sun had written the story steadily.
After throwing out the setting of Reiki Revival at the beginning, when everyone was curious about what novel settings the world of Reiki Revival would have, Sun was not in a hurry at all.
He poured pen and ink into the male protagonist, and occasionally scattered some pen and ink on the characters around the male protagonist Lin Yun, and he actually spent a lot of pen and ink frantically to describe the plot of Lin Yun's filial piety for his father after the car accident.
Many readers are impatient to read it, and begged him in the book review area and in the book fan group to advance the plot faster, and don't keep writing about these trivial things.
But no one scolded him for his bad writing.
Because he wrote a lot of highlights in the process of describing the hero's filial piety to his father.
For example, the simple filial piety of the actor Lin Yun, his concern and care for his sister, the responsibility of supporting the whole family alone when he was a teenager, and his father's attempt to commit suicide because he wanted to reduce his burden...... and so on, Sun has set up several characters in the hero's family through small things.
The father is kind and filial, the elder brother takes care of the younger sister, the younger sister is very sensible, and does her best to take care of the housework at home, but she does not tell her brother, only hoping not to increase the burden on her brother.
Readers are also human beings, and in addition to the novel creativity, the huge and gorgeous world background, and the blood-boiling, imaginative and impactful fights, the delicate and warm family descriptions are enough, as long as they are well written, readers will also be moved.
Of course, as a work of aura revival.
Sun Quan has not forgotten another selling point that this kind of subject matter is different from traditional urban literature.
- Play!
Reiki revival text, the protagonist will inevitably become stronger and stronger with the revival of the aura of the whole world, and the more and more powerful male protagonist, if you don't arrange a good enough fight scene, then what's the point?
If heroes are useless, it's not fun.
So in the first tens of thousands of words, Sun also interspersed two fight scenes for the male protagonist.
One was an underground black fist to make up for his father's surgery.
The other is to rebel against the malicious people who snatched his boxing appearance fee.
In the two fights, Sun Quan took out 120% of his skills to pave the way and describe it, and the result was okay, and the response from readers was very good.
This shows that before he was reborn, several fighting texts that hit the street were not written in vain.
After all, he still has something to be good at.
If he can't write the play well, he can't write the previous "Immortal Dragon Ring" either.
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For the next period of time, Sun was concentrating on writing every day, occasionally distracting himself from other things, such as "The Legend of Wukong" was finally signed by Fu Lei.
He didn't know how Fu Lei persuaded the author of the original work.
actually asked the author himself to agree to pay the copyright fee in installments, and the 300,000 film and television adaptation rights fee was paid in three installments?
That afternoon, when Fu Lei came to his office to report the matter, after listening, Sun stared at her for a long time, and was quite impressed.
Afterwards, he figured out why the original author was persuaded by Fu Lei to agree to the copyright fee of 300,000 yuan, and paid it in three installments.
——Probably because the number of words in "The Legend of Wukong" is too small, and the full text is only more than 100,000 words? So the author himself doesn't think that this book is likely to sell film and television copyrights, right?