Tell me about my creative outlook

A person who has worked in an industry for a long time will always have some of his own understanding, which has nothing to do with whether he is a great god, has nothing to do with worth, has nothing to do with status, and has nothing to do with grades.

Therefore, I always want to talk about my own opinions, about the phenomena I have seen, and about my own knowledge and understanding, not for anything else, just for a free mind and a quick spit out.

The following opinions are personal views only.

First of all, let's talk about my personal understanding and knowledge of this industry.

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Industry

Now a large number of newcomers join the online novel industry every year, and a considerable number of them come with the dream of making a fortune. They didn't even have a basic understanding of the industry, so they plunged headlong into the army of writers, eager to become famous with a book.

Here, I can say that the vast majority of people come with a speculative mentality.

They enter the industry to make money, not to study, let alone engage in some kind of career.

They don't even see the basic nature of the trade.

In fact, online writers are not much different from most jobs in the world.

The reason why the gods we see can make a lot of money is because they are already at the top of the industry - any industry, as long as you can stand at the top, its income will not be less, maybe more than that.

So what's the difference between writers and other industries?

First, it is a profession with a very large degree of freedom.

This is one of the great advantages of this profession: both the time of work and the content of the work are almost completely controlled by the writer himself. No one can tell you what to do, and no one else can help you much or hurt you much.

In this respect, the ability to be a human being is the least important in this industry, you don't need to know how to socialize, on the contrary, excellent social skills will only distract you from your energy and make you unable to concentrate on your creation.

Therefore, you don't have to complain about the traditional Chinese favor system, you don't have to complain about the incompetence of your parents, you don't have to complain about anyone or anything, because in this industry, your own strength comes first, and other factors that affect your performance are very small.

This is also one of the major disadvantages of this profession: it is too free! People are inert creatures, we were forced to study by our parents when we were young, and we were forced to make money by the cruel social reality when we grew up. Without a little upward motivation, it's hard to work hard.

How many people can really work hard for eight hours a day as if they were going to work?

Because it's a profession with a high degree of freedom, most of your success depends on you.

Here, let's attack two phenomena.

1 is to praise the website as a father, and even have the ugly behavior of calling "daddy" in person. Here's a word to say: literati should have integrity and integrity, no matter how much you do this kind of thing, it will only be exchanged for contempt and ignorance, and it has no meaning for creation.

The kind of saying that the website cultivates you and should be loyal to the website is the most typical example, but also the ugliest example. This statement attributes all the credit and hard work of an author to the website, completely erasing the effort that an author has paid for it, and only those who hit the street will have this mentality. Any author who has put in the effort and sweat for his work, even the painful price and payment, will not accept it!

Of course, I will not deny the work and help of the website, but to say that the practice of holding such a high status, I have always hated and scolded it!

2 is to degrade the website as shit, saying that the website has eyes without beads, and there are eyes that do not know gold and jade.

In the same way, pinning one's future on the support of others is just another extreme performance, so I won't say more.

That's why I want to say to writers who have both of these mindsets: You've chosen the wrong line!

Your mentality is still based on the success of people, but you have chosen an environment that can only be achieved by yourself!

As long as you still want others to praise you, you will not be successful in this industry for the rest of your life.

You can't even see the basic status quo of an industry, why do you write?

Two: It is a profession that is slow to produce results.

A three-million-word novel, from the beginning to the end of the novel, under normal circumstances, takes at least a year. In this creative process, you don't know if it's a success or a failure at first.

And by the time you know you've failed, you've probably spent months and a lot of energy.

Therefore, when people are eager to become famous with a book, they don't know that the real characteristic of this industry is not that it is fast but slow.

You have put in a lot of hard work, if it is changed to other jobs, you may have a lot of money back, but if you change to a writer, it may be nothing!

So, when you decide to step into the industry, are you prepared to fail?

To be honest, this industry is not for those who are cornered, it is for people who have some free time, are interested and are not too short of money.

Such people have time to exercise, cultivate and learn, and accumulate a wealth of experience and writing skills through long-term exposure, while completing their works with a good attitude and enough perseverance.

And after success, they began to try to transform.

Therefore, writers with quick ideas are also doomed to failure.

Because it's not a crash track.

Three, it is a highly competitive profession.

Everyone knows it's competitive, but few people think about why it's so competitive.

It's not because it makes more money, it makes more money starting a big company.

It's because it has a low threshold.

Anyone can come up and write as long as you want.

In 2004, when I was working as a game studio, from the initial boom to the later depression, I saw it all, and the biggest realization I came to was that when the threshold of an industry is low and it can make money, many people will flock to it, making all the industries that make money less profitable.

Because of this, in this low-threshold environment, every writer is facing competition from tens of thousands of peers, competing for the limited layout resources of the website!

Therefore, any industry with a low threshold actually has a common feature: easy to enter and difficult to rise!

In such a situation, if you want to fight your way out, you have to have something unique about yourself.

It is often said: accumulate and grow.

But I think our industry, it's a thin accumulation!

Because of the low threshold, most of the people who come in are thin.

The foundation is thin, if you can't accumulate strength and accumulate momentum, who can blame you for the failure?

Fourth, it is a profession that needs to endure loneliness.

What is a novel?

It's a visual embodiment of our imagination!

It is to use words to express the story we want to be as perfect as possible.

So what kind of people need to be imagined the most?

Lonely people.

When you are in the glamorous world, you see handsome guys and beautiful women, and people around you talk to you from time to time, chatting about all kinds of interesting and fresh topics, how do you conceive and create?

Writing is a profession that requires you to be immersed in the scene, it requires you to be able to incarnate all kinds of people and things in the process of ideation, so it needs a quiet environment rather than a noisy environment, and it needs a boring and relatively monotonous life.

Sounds simple, doesn't it?

The problem is over the years!

How many people can resist the temptation of the outside world for a long time? reduce unnecessary external life, reject everything that may cause trouble?

If you make money just to enjoy, then you will find that in the process of your enjoyment, you have lost the ** and inspiration to create.

Of course, I don't mean sitting at home all day, but it's safe to say that a frequent social life will definitely not help you create. Occasionally, the atmosphere can be adjusted.

The question is how many people can master it well?

It can be said that:

This industry is not suitable for speculators, enjoyers, self-righteous people, and those who desire quick success.

It's for people who love what they do and are willing to pay for.

It is suitable for people who can keep writing even if they don't make money or make little money.

It is suitable for people who can be willing to be lonely, and do things solidly, step by step.

The above is my personal opinion on being in the industry.

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Here are some of my thoughts on the author's creation.

Attitude

I am a resolute attitude determinist, believing that attitude determines life.

Therefore, in my opinion, if an author wants to stand out in the online novel industry, he must first correct his attitude.

One: See yourself clearly.

When you decide to engage in this industry, the first thing you have to do is not to think about how I will make money writing books and how to make a fortune, but to see how capable you are.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself: What is my personality? Can I sit still? Can I endure a long period of loneliness and boredom? Am I capable enough to write a good story? When I conceive this story, am I happy, sad, painful, sad, or excited?

Am I an impatient person?

Am I not a humble person?

Ask yourself these questions first to see if your own qualities are right.

Don't go for a career that doesn't fit your personality at all, that will only waste your time.

The point is to see if you are already a person who is willing to put in all the effort to achieve a career, and is continuous and not impetuous!

Two: See others clearly.

There are too many writers who always meaninglessly belittle others, especially those who have become famous.

It is reasonable for the reader to belittle, but it is impossible to say that the author is derogatory.

A great god has its inevitable reasons for success.

Attribute the success of others to "the website praises him", "luck, that is, he published a book two years earlier", "what he wrote is also garbage", criticizes Sanshao, criticizes potatoes, criticizes tomatoes, criticizes JJ, criticizes everything that can be criticized, and then thinks that he is a talent, and others can't see it.

even spread rumors and framed "it's all brushed up", "it's all about inviting gunmen", "it's all hype......

(Actually, the reason why I wrote such a long article is because when I was on QQ and other fish today, and when I gave him a manuscript, I saw a group of novices in a certain group talking nonsense, so I moved this thought...... There are too many such people, and I can't help but want to jump out and teach them a few words. Of course, people didn't say anything about me, and I wasn't qualified enough. But because I don't have that qualifications, I think I can say a few words for the gods at the top of the clouds. ）

I want to say: as long as you are a writer with this mentality, you deserve to hit the street, and it is justified!

As long as a book becomes famous, it must have its merits, no matter how much it is logically contradictory and how unreasonable, it must have its success.

If you can't even learn the most basic from others, how can you succeed? Let alone take the best of it and get rid of the dross.

You look down on the gods, complain about the website every day, you don't take the road to success, you have to go around the detour, scold the mother and scold the website if you fail, and even spread rumors to slander others, specialize in bad habits, and turn creation into speculation.

The drunkard once said, "Don't just look at the bad things about the great gods, but learn to draw the good from them." ”

I have always remembered this and never forgotten it, so thank you in advance.

Three: see the work clearly.

You have to learn to read other people's books, but you also have to learn to read your own books!

No matter what kind of writer you are, as long as you write your story, you will definitely think it is good-looking.

This is normal, if you don't think it's good, you won't write it.

But the problem is that it doesn't work.

A lot of things don't just feel good about you.

So we have to learn to look at the work.

First of all, we must learn to look at other people's works, that is, understand the market.

You first look at the works of those great gods and find at least one that you like.

When you have a favorite work of the great god, at least it proves that your taste is normal and there is not much disconnection with the public. Otherwise, what you like is niche, and it is destined that the novels you write will be difficult to popularize.

No one writes about something they don't like and doesn't feel, and even if they do, they won't succeed.

When we learn to look at other people's work, we also learn to look at our own.

People are always tolerant of themselves.

In other words, if I write a story and I'm a little dissatisfied with it, then someone else is probably very upset.

If I write a story and I like it for eight, others may like it for less.

That's why many writers think they're writing well, but the market isn't hot -- you're too lenient with yourself.

Therefore, if you want to write a good novel, you must learn at least two things: 1 outline 2 review.

This aspect is a specific skill, so I won't talk about it, too many people have said it.

Suffice it to say that it's important to learn to review.

When you write a good article, read it yourself at least once first.

Ask yourself a few questions:

1What is the selling point of this article? If not, please delete and rewrite.

2. Whether the basic sentence is smooth and whether there are typos. This can be done by making a note of this.

3. Whether it is contradictory, and whether it is inconsistent with the outline and the main line.

4. What are the tones, styles, and characteristics of writing books, and I don't know what my style is, so how can I write well?

5. Can be revised to look better!But how well you write, if there is a better choice, please try again.

Every time an article is revised, the quality is improved.

Generally speaking, if a writer can insist on writing for six hours a day, two hours of writing, two hours of review, and two hours of revision, if not too good, at least it will not be too bad.

Outside of six hours, if there is a deposit, go back and read the manuscript again, maybe there are new ideas that can be revised.

After an article has been written on the day and the basic revision of the day, it is best to go through more than 20 days of precipitation, mixed with occasional revisions, and the quality will be greatly improved.

Of course, this is a requirement for web novels, and if it is placed in the traditional field, the requirement will only be higher.

Therefore, it is very important to learn to see the work clearly, to see other people's and to see your own clearly.

It is better for yourself to spend the time spreading rumors and chatting with you.

4. Correct the purpose and attitude of writing.

When writing a book, we always go through the experience of creating, posting, and then staring at the results, and suffering from gains and losses.

This is a typical rookie stage, worrying about grades, being depressed because you can't make money, meditating because you can't write a manuscript, venting your anger and blaming everything for not being affirmed and recognized.

This is understandable.

What I want to say is: correct the purpose of our book, and see our own strengths, strengths and shortcomings.

Don't write for grades, don't write for money.

In the beginning, you should enter the industry for the sake of interest and persist for the sake of progress.

Yes, written for the sake of progress.

When we write a novel, set ourselves a goal.

The goal is not how much money you make, but how much you can improve in one of your weak areas.

When you write with a purpose, you will find that at this time, you are really moving towards success.