"Da Ming 1937" is finished. For more than three years, the most important thing in the life of an old cat has come to an end...... Now it feels really mixed, relaxed, lost, empty, sad, and expectant......

Over the past three years, Xiang Xiaoqiang, Qiu Yun, Xiuxiu, Fourteen Gege, Zhu Yourong, Zheng Yuxuan, Zheng Gongyin, Shen Rongxuan, Ye Ziyu, Shang Xiaojun, Hu Jiong, Wu Yanbin...... These people accompany me every day, and I have to meditate for them every day, arrange every word and everything they do, arrange their thoughts, feelings, loves and hates...... In my sense, they are no longer just characters in novels, but have become living people, living in my mind and heart. They are like family members with me, sometimes I love them, sometimes I hate them, but now suddenly one day, they leave together and don't need me anymore.

Needless to say, this book has not escaped the fate of many books - the first half is wonderful, and the second half starts to decline, but due to the continuous increase in the total number of numbers and the continuous accumulation of serial time, the fame of the book is still increasing day by day. However, many old readers have left, and many new readers have been added. In the end, those more critical readers are gone, and the readers who are left behind are more like me - reluctant to force them to Xiaoqiang, reluctant to give up this book and this story. Xiang Xiaoqiang and they have not only become my relatives and friends, but also many people's relatives and friends...... As soon as he thought of this, the old cat felt extremely relieved in his heart.

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I consider myself lucky that the first book didn't flutter. A lot of people have pounced on their first book, including those who are stronger than me. Of course, a very important reason is that I persevered. The book has 9 parts, 946 chapters, and a total of 3.41 million words. Now that I think about it, I really don't know how to write it. When I started writing at that time, I really didn't expect to write so much, and I couldn't believe that I could write so much. If someone had told me that I would write more than three million words in one sitting, I would have been scared to death.

I remember that after signing 17K just now, the editor-in-chief was paid a lot of blood, and it was still Sister Nanfeng who came - I forgot, anyway, it was one of the two of them, and told me four words: the leftover is king. Yes, it's the "leftovers". At that time, he/she told me that if you want to mix in this industry, the most important thing is to persevere. You can be inferior to others, you can not be as good as others who can make up stories, or you can even be as good as others to update...... But as long as others can't hold on, and you can hold on, you win. As long as you can persevere, "time" will be on your side and will help you eliminate most of your competitors.

I, as well as many other authors, are all very arrogant when they first start a book. The word "eunuch" doesn't seem to exist in our dictionary at all. Although an astronomical number of book eunuchs dropped every day, when we started writing the first book, no one thought it would happen to them. Me too. When I first started writing, I was also very ambitious, and I felt that even if this book would not necessarily be popular, it would definitely not be a eunuch. Indeed, when the first few hundred thousand words are written, it is the time when you are the most comfortable and confident. But when it came to more than 400,000 words, I began to get lost for the first time. So many words have been written, I have not been on the rookie list, I have not been on Sanjiang, I have not been on any "push" (the starting point of this book), the hope of signing a contract is very slim, and I really can't see how much future there is in the distance. can only comfort myself with "my book belongs to the slow burning type" like many newcomers. - Although everyone knows that "slow heat" and "hitting the street" actually mean the same thing.

At this time, many people, the authors, including some sophisticated readers who genuinely cared about me, began to advise me to stop, decisively get rid of the eunuchs, and open a new book. I was seriously wondering if it was necessary to write it down. At that time, it was the first time I seriously considered the "eunuch" issue of this book. However, at that time, I was in the limelight, and my thoughts were like springs, and I didn't have the slightest feeling that I couldn't persevere, and I weighed it purely intellectually: whether to insist on writing it down and continue to try my luck; Or do you want to adopt the experience of those who have come before, decisively stop it, and open a new book?

Of course, even if I was a eunuch at that time, it was not necessarily that I made the wrong choice, or that the new book might be a little more lucky and be favored by a certain editor, or that I would have learned a lesson and write a more attractive beginning of the new book, and it would not have been possible to rush to the new book list. Of course, the starting point is a big pool, and the big pool has the advantages and disadvantages of a big pool - the wind and waves are big, the water is deep, the competition is fierce, the cattle are like clouds and fierce people, and no matter how good the cattle are, they can't stir up the waves, and they will definitely bury some books and some people, not to mention that I, a person who is neither bull nor fierce, has nothing to complain about. But as long as people have perseverance, real talent, and perseverance, worship the law of "the leftover is king", and it will always surface. This is true not only for books, but also for all walks of life. That's something I firmly believe.

But it's easy to say that now, and you can't see it that way at the time. At that time, I didn't plan to write 3 million words, I was going to write 100,000 words. And now it's more than 400,000 words, and it's still in this situation, even if I didn't write at the time and continued to write, how long can I write? How many words can you write? If you don't sign it when you have 400,000 words, will you sign it when you have 500,000 words? Will 600,000 words be signed? It is said that there are more than one million words in the starting point and there are still more books that have not been signed. If that's the case, I've really written more than a million words? Certainly not.

The thought of this makes me shudder, like a man lost in the desert, not knowing which direction there is water, not knowing which step he will fall to the ground and die of thirst.

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Fortunately, at this time, 17K extended an olive branch to me. At that time, the editor of the 17K Military History Channel, Yingyingwen, found me, and it saved the book and me. He said that he read my book and thought it was very powerful and the angle of the overhead was novel. In his experience, this book is sure to be a hit in 17K. At that time, I didn't dare to expect anything "popular", I just thought that I could be contracted, I could get the manuscript fee for writing, prove that I could go this way, and prove that I was this material. So after some trade-offs, I came to 17K. And Yingyingwen is my guide, and it can be said that he has the grace of knowing me, and I will never forget it. Without him, there would be no today's "Daming 1937".

After getting to 17K, I got a treatment that I couldn't have imagined. Again and again, the homepage is blocked, the channel is blocked, and the editor is forced to push (it seems to be called this), and there are many lists, new book lists, subscription lists or something, "Daming 1937" is also a frequent visitor. In short, this book often appears on the front page, or hangs on the channel page, and no matter how bad it is, it stays on the subscription list around the clock. At least in the early and middle stages of this book, there were no top 15 subscriptions, and the title of "Daming 1937" can always be found on the homepage.

And just like that, at 17K, my book became red. Here, I really found the feeling of being a web writer.

At about 1 million words in the book, the legendary "million-word threshold law" came into play. At this time, the passion for being a new book has been completely exhausted by this time. The plots that I conceived in the early days were all written as I could, and the pressure of coding and updating day after day overwhelmed me...... By this time, writing this book was no longer a joy for me. At least the pain is starting to outweigh the pleasure. It is said that most of the new authors were eunuchs at this time. I know this very well. At this time, how tempting it is not to write. I began to crave a return to the life of a "normal person", eating, drinking, singing, visiting bookstores, and playing games after work...... Many things that were taken for granted in the past can now be happily ever after.

When I used to read books, I often read many authors who said, "Your support is the biggest motivation for me to keep writing." I used to think that this was a cliché of the authors, which was equivalent to a star coming to the stage and saying "Audience friends, I want to kill you". But now that I have written a book myself, and I have personally struggled in front of the threshold of "eunuch or not", I have deeply realized that this is definitely not a cliché.

Every day, I watched the heated discussion in the book review section, watched the readers argue about the performance parameters of various weapons, argued various points of view in the book, guessed the plot below, and asked me to arrange tricks...... In this case, I really can't be a eunuch. I couldn't convince myself, I couldn't do it. It's not like I'm writing a diary or writing a novel on my own for my own amusement. Now there is a large group of people who laugh, get angry, have fun and worry with my story every day. It's not my business anymore.

In the author group, I also have a hardcore reader - Xiao Riding School. At the time, he was still serializing Iron Age. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even watch his "Iron Age" at the time, but he must watch my "Daming 1937" every day, and after reading it, he discussed the plot with me in the group. At first, I thought that the university was just a token of the newcomer's kindness, and then said something encouraging. I didn't expect that every time I was in the group, I could be caught by him and then discuss the plot with me. Where I wrote brilliantly, the university did not hesitate to praise it, and then put on a very evil grin, giggling there. The things I wrote poorly, such as the plot dragged on, the flesh was numb, and it was illogical, and the university was never polite, and it was a good drink. I think, except that I really like to read my books, there really is no other reason, pinch hehe......

Sometimes when I really hate this book and really don't want to code, I just chat and fart in the group to send pressure, and even hope that it will go on forever and never have to write again. At this time, the school university often jumped out coldly, and said gloomily: Maoda, has it been updated today? Don't go to the codeword yet...... If so, three. For a while, I suffered from "Xiao Riding School Phobia" and was afraid to join the group for many days. Later, I couldn't help but show up, and the school university always jumped out as soon as possible, and said: Wow, I was surprised to see the cat! And then the second sentence is: Why hasn't it been updated today?

…… Meow a cat, what else? In this case, I found it much more difficult to be a eunuch than not to be a eunuch.

At this point, in addition to the book friends, the three people who gave me the greatest help and encouragement, such as the blood reward, the sister of the south wind, and the big riding school. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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Later, once this threshold passed, I felt much better, and it was officially entered into the state. Although there is less passion and less "pleasure" in the back, the writing is more stable, and the possibility of eunuchs is rapidly reduced. When the first hundreds of thousands of words, I have to spend a lot of brain on organizing language and choosing words and sentences, and after more than one million words, the next pen will be much smoother, and basically I don't need to spend much thought on "writing", and I will come out subconsciously.

It took me a few years to write this book, and I missed out on a lot of things, especially not much money, but I also gained a lot of things. For example, in writing, in writing skills...... All of this has allowed me to grow from a ticket player to a professional writer. More importantly, I understood the true meaning of "perseverance". If it was just a proverb before, now it has become a personal experience. This is the most important thing, what can be used for a lifetime, and no amount of money can be exchanged.

Many book friends asked me if I would continue to write and if I would disappear. This can guarantee that the old cat will continue to write and will never disappear. After all, the old cat prides itself on being born to code words (haha), code words are painful, but, isn't it popular now that "pain and happiness". "Da Ming" is the first book of the old cat, and the old cat also said that the first book does not care whether it is popular or not, nor does it care how much money it makes, but whether it can learn something. It looks like a little longer now, but I've learned a lot! Now even if it's a "teacher", the old cat is looking forward to showing his strength in the new work!

However, I have to rest for a while now, more than three years, I haven't had a weekend, and I haven't enjoyed a leisurely evening except for illness. The old cat is really too tired and really needs a break. Moreover, the direction in which to develop next is still being weighed. Also, the new house I bought is about to be handed over, and a lot of decoration, materials, appliances, and furniture are waiting to be run! It's a good time to take a break and think about a new book. Hehe.

And one more person to thank: the editor of the Military History Channel is against the sky. After Ying Yingwen left the Military History Channel, he was "responsible" for me. For a long time, the inverse gave me quite a lot of help. Here's a word for you: thank you! Also, Mengzi, Ah Fei, weaving wounds...... These bosses have also given me a lot of help, and I can't thank you enough!

I won't say anything to thank CCTV, CNN, BBC, etc...... For me, one era is over, and the next is about to begin. I hope that when my new work comes out, the old cat will be fortunate and have you as my readers!

A thousand words, a thousand words: thanks!