Again, to book friends
I received a text message on Friday, which means that the book is ending its long public free period of nearly three months and is about to go on sale.
He has been in the industry for nearly ten years and has written many books, and this is the only book with a free word count of up to 400,000 for the public.
I was a little emotional, so I wanted to talk to my book friends.
Debuted at the end of 2008 and has been since then. Before I started in the industry, I wrote review essays and columns for many years. In 2008, I got together with a few friends from Xinmin Evening News and Jiefang Daily in SH and made an appointment to test the water.
I remember very well that the three of us registered three pen names and then opened books at the same time. Excited and passionate. However, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. The characteristics of online novels and the pulse of commercial literature are not as simple as many people think. So, I was the only one of the three who barely crossed the threshold, put the first book on the shelves, and persevered. The other two wrote more than 200,000 words and couldn't see any hope, so they gave up completely and couldn't do it.
So I always felt like I was lucky. I am always grateful to my readers and the platform. The education, educational background and writing skills of those two media people are more than ten times better than mine. But this really has nothing to do with education and writing.
Back to the book. I left the starting point in 2013 and returned in 2017, and I suddenly realized that the starting point had become very foreign to me, and I, the old author, were also very foreign to the readers of the starting point. I've been adjusting and adapting for almost three months.
Needless to say. The results of this book are not very good, so much so that I have been depressed recently, and I feel shameless, and I have even cut off communication with the editor.
But this book is really the most serious and longest-inspiring book I've ever written. From the planned opening of the book in February, it has been delayed until June, with countless revisions in the middle, and tens of thousands of manuscripts have been constantly torn down and restarted. Coupled with the fact that work is getting busier and busier, time is extremely fragmented, and the overall picture of overall writing is greatly affected.
I used a lot of pen and ink to outline and portray the image of Xue Chunlan and the heroine, and the emotional line was too long. It was an attempt on my part, and the market's reaction showed that I was wrong. I must admit it. In the next book, I will learn a lesson.
I'm overestimating what readers can afford. I also overlooked an important point: the fragmentation of chapters on the Internet and mobile apps, which led to local depressive plots, felt very unpleasant to track and read.
Since July, the response from readers has exceeded my expectations. The backlash is endless, and the abuse is endless. There are many book friends chasing me on Q and scolding on WeChat, and I can't bear to read it in the book review area, so I don't dare to read it.
But I stuck to my point. It is beyond imagination for a small person from a humble background to get together with the daughter of a wealthy family. So I still laid out a lot of twists and turns. Although many book friends denounce the dog's blood and clichés, I still feel that after reading as a whole, the slow heating of the plot will help the advancement of the overall structure and the growth of the protagonist.
I was really sweaty. You are my food and clothing parents, and I have no intention of going against the market.
In the coming time, I will continue to do my best to finish the book according to the established outline. As for the malicious speculation and slander of some authors mixed in the ranks of readers, I simply told them frankly today: This book is a buyout, even if only one reader subscribes in the future, I will eliminate interference and finish the writing.
There is no possibility for eunuchs.
Starting today, during the strong push period, there will be three updates a day. The update time should be fixed as much as possible. In this way, the number of free words should be more than 400,000 when it is put on the shelves.
For subscriptions, I don't dare to anticipate them. The fact that I chose to write this testimonial today shows that I am fully mentally prepared.
But I still have hope. I hope that my persistence and seriousness can be recognized by more and more book friends. This is the foundation of my future perseverance.
Again, I have always treated my readers with 100,000 sincerity, I have always written each chapter with 100,000 seriousness, and I cherish less and less creative time in the past few years.
Again, to book friends.
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