For more than a week in the next week, Lu Yang completely cut off the idea of signing a contract in advance, and after getting up every day, he updated one chapter, and another chapter at dinner time, accumulating popularity little by little.

As time passes, the number of words published on the starting point website of "Doomsday Wasteland" gradually increases, and more than 6,000 words are updated every day, which is considered to be a medium-to-high speed in 03.

In 03, many signed novels were able to update a chapter every day, which was good, and even some popular authors only updated a chapter in two days, or even three or four days.

There are also outrageous ones that update a chapter a week, or even half a month, or a month.

At that time, readers were depressed to call such works weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly.

The update of the stable dìng has attracted more and more readers to the book "Doomsday Wasteland".

For a newcomer to a new book, at the beginning, the growth in popularity is the most miserable, often increasing at a single-digit rate every day in clicks, favorites, and recommended votes.

But if the title of the book is good, the update is stable, and the content is above the standard, this miserable situation will slowly improve.

The better the quality of the book, the faster this turnaround will be.

Especially as the total number of words published increases, the more readers will be attracted.

Maybe at the beginning, the daily popularity growth was in single digits, and after 50,000 words, the daily popularity growth rate will be three or even four digits.

After 100,000 words, the number of hits per day can even increase by tens of thousands.

The popularity of an excellent work will snowball.

One of the most important reasons is that after a new book reaches 50,000 words, as long as it is updated within three days, it will appear in the list of new books at the starting point.

Although only the top 15 works on the new book list can be displayed on the homepage of the starting point website, after clicking on the entire new book list, you can find new works within 200.

When "Doomsday Wasteland" was full of 50,000 words, it had 3,518 hits, 466 recommended votes, and 282 favorites.

That night, Lu Yang clicked on the new book list on the front page of the starting point, and found the name of "Doomsday Wasteland" in the 54th place.

This result did not give Lu Yang many surprises, nor did it disappoint Lu Yang, it is a good ranking, what Lu Yang needs to do is to improve this ranking as much as possible in the next few days, because every time you improve your ranking, it will have some benefits for the popularity growth of "Doomsday Wasteland".

All readers are looking for new books and are always looking for them at the top of the list.

If "Doomsday Wasteland" can be ranked in the top 15 of the new book list, the effect of attracting readers will increase several times, or even dozens of times.

However, it is precisely because the top 15 of the new book list has such a powerful effect that the authors of each new book list will strive to compete, and the competition is particularly fierce in the starting point, where there are countless authors, even in 2003.

It is worth mentioning that about a week later, Lu Yang received four more sample books from C Publishing House, the third and fourth sample books.

The covers of these two episodes of sample books are completely different from the covers of the previous two episodes, they are redrawn, and they are the same as the first two episodes, in the style of comics, but they look very beautiful.

Touching the sample books of these two episodes, Lu Yang still couldn't put it down, and his heart was full of joy.

Every writer has a dream of turning their work into a pencil.

In his previous life, Lu Yang had only made a print, and all the later works, although the quality was not worse than that of **, had never been published.

It was a long time before Lu Yang understood why.

In 03, it was the most important time for the publishing houses in Taiwan to receive the manuscripts, and at this time, the standards of the major publishing houses were very low.

After 03 and 04, those publishers have become more ambitious, not only demanding the quality of their works, but also beginning to favor the works of famous authors.

In his previous life, a big reason why Lu Yang's later works could not be successfully published was that after his ** was published, he did not become famous in Taiwan.

After being reborn, Lu Yang's "Doomsday Wasteland" was successfully published again.

In this regard, Lu Yang's mood is complicated.

He has not published a work for nearly nine years, and he can publish it again, Lu Yang cherishes it very much, and secretly resolves in his heart to write this "Doomsday Wasteland" well, not only to make a name for himself at the starting point, but also to make his name in Taiwan, and he can't be like in his previous life, after publishing a book, he can never publish it again.

Because of such ambitions, Lu Yang has always been very attentive when he wrote this "Doomsday Wasteland", conceived with heart, and wrote every paragraph of text with heart.

Constantly improve something.

Readers have eyes, a book, whether the author has intentions, whether the writing is wonderful or not, after the reader has read it, he will understand.

Lu Yang's efforts gradually showed results after "Doomsday Wasteland" entered the list of new books at the starting point.

On the morning of the second day after entering the list, after Lu Yang got up, uploaded a new chapter, and when he clicked on the new book list, he found that "Doomsday Wasteland" had risen to 48th.

When I came back from school in the afternoon and turned on the computer, I found that the ranking had risen again, and it had risen to 45th.

I uploaded another chapter in the evening, and after the evening self-study with Cao Xue, when I returned to the rental house with the two chapters I had written that night, I turned on the computer and found that "Doomsday Wasteland" had risen to 39th place.

On the morning of the third day, Lu Yang found that he had risen again, 33.

In the evening, when I uploaded the second chapter of the day, I found that it had risen to 28th place.

Coming back in the evening, it has risen to 22nd place.

The rankings are constantly rising.

In just two days, the total number of hits of the works has grown to more than 12,000, the number of recommended votes has risen to nearly 1,000, and the number of collectors has risen to more than 420.

This greatly enhanced Lu Yang's self-confidence.

Two days later, after getting up in the morning, he turned on the computer, and Lu Yang directly saw the name of "Doomsday Wasteland" on the new book list on the homepage of the starting point.

Ranked 13th.

At that time, Lu Yang smiled.

What if editors don't want to sign up early?

As long as their works can be ranked on the new book list for a month, will the editors of the starting point still turn a blind eye?

(In 03, the conditions for being on the list of new books at the starting point are that the number of words is 50,000, and there are updated works within three days, and when the list is more than a month, or the number of words is full of 200,000 words, you will be kicked out of the new book list.) ）

In the days since, Doomsday Wasteland has been rising in the new book list.

On the first day, he moved up to 11th place.

The next day, he moved up to 9th place.

On the third day, a new week begins, and all the numbers on the list of new books are cleared to zero, and the ranking starts again.

The works that were originally ranked first, third, and seventh were kicked out of the list because they had been on the list for more than a month, or because the word count had reached 200,000.

It's a new week, and all the new books are starting to re-rank.

After getting up this morning, Lu Yang immediately found that his "Doomsday Wasteland" had ranked third.

At this time, the number of words published at the beginning of "Doomsday Wasteland" has been more than 96,000, nearly 100,000 words.

Lu Yang took a look, and the two works in front of "Doomsday Wasteland" have more than 170,000 words, and the number of words in the first place has more than 180,000, almost 200,000.

In a few days, these two books will also be kicked off the new book list.

Lu Yang is very satisfied with this.

It seems that in a few days, his "Doomsday Wasteland" will be ranked first.

Lu Yang doesn't believe that when his work ranks first on the new book list, what reason does his editor have not to sign his work?

When it came time to sign the contract, it didn't come very long.

On Wednesday, the No. 1 work reached 200,000 words and was kicked out of the new book list.

"Doomsday Wasteland" naturally rose one place, ranking second, and the third and fourth works behind it were more than 10,000 less popular, and they could not threaten "Doomsday Wasteland" at all.

On Thursday, the book in front of "Doomsday Wasteland" had more than 185,000 words, far from 200,000 words, but "Doomsday Wasteland" cut it down overnight, and "Doomsday Wasteland" reached the top.

Ranked number one.

At noon that day, when Lu Yang came back from school and logged in to QQ, he saw a message sent by Brother Tian, the editor in charge.

"Hello Wen Chou! Congratulations on your work reaching the first place on the new book list, you can sign a contract, contact your contract editor! The QQ of the contract editor is ********. ”

(This QQ is purely apocryphal)