A New Year's letter to a book friend

It feels like time flies.

I vaguely remember that when I graduated from college in '22, I had just finished my senior sister's book.

At that time, I was still a little apprehensive about working full-time.

Especially after writing two dog food articles, I wanted to try to transform, and created the last book against the current for ten years.

Although the reputation of the previous book is not very good, it is indeed the best one I have achieved since I wrote the online article, which made my first step after full-time work very down-to-earth.

I wrote against the current for less than a year, and the results were good, but there were also a lot of problems exposed.

In addition, staying at home for a long time, it is normal not to go out for a month or two.

The whole person is socially closed, and when you meet someone in reality, you will have a symptom of "unable to speak".

It's that I know what I should say, I know exactly what I should say, but I just can't open my mouth.

So in July '23, I directly found a lot of author friends who are usually familiar with the Internet.

Ask them where they live, if they can meet the base, and then plan a national travel route.

No. 3 asked, and No. 4 went straight to the road with his bag.

I visited the southern region in July and then went north in August.

In addition to the Northeast, Xinjiang and Xizang, I basically walked around some of the major cities.

I also met a lot of authors offline.

When I first started meeting with the author in July, I sometimes couldn't make a fart for half a day.

By August, the situation had eased a bit.

What makes me happier is that when I went to Qingdao, it happened that Yang Xiaorong was also going to Qingdao for a tour, so I made an appointment with him to play there for four or five days.

After that, he happened to come to Hangzhou to meet his friends, so he went back to Hangzhou together.

At that time, he also wanted to move out of his hometown and try to live outside.

And I was worried that if I returned to living alone, I would have autistic symptoms.

So the two hit it off and found a house to share in Hangzhou.

Later, there was another author friend from the Northeast, and we usually brag about it every day.

Once the code is finished, you can play the game together.

To be honest, because I took a year off from college, I didn't know my roommates for the first two years and the roommates for the next two years.

I don't have this experience of playing games all night together.

This is a rare and precious experience for me.

……

Coming back to this book, Cat Lady's grades are Honey Ji's fourth book, and the worst one.

At present, it is ordered at 2000, which is only about a quarter of the UP master's book.

When I wrote the first three books, the grades were better than the other.

That's when I was worried.

Because of the online literature industry, there are few authors who have been improving.

So I'm very wary of this situation, and every time I open a new book, I'm mentally prepared.

Even so, after discovering that your book may not even be able to achieve the best results in the new book period, it will still have a great psychological impact.

This is actually quite common.

This is probably the case with many eunuch authors.

After all, if you look at a few of your old books, the manuscript fee may be more than the new book you write, and that motivation can easily be hit.

I wouldn't be an exception.

It's just that I still love the story.

The theme of the cat lady has actually been written badly, and I prepared it before I opened the book.

What's more, it's still a pure love article with basically no career line.

In addition, after a break of four or five months in between, the feel will become somewhat rusty.

But even so, the 2000 average results, the manuscript fee is not small.

At least for daily life, there is not only enough, but also a lot of margin.

I don't have much ambition, I just want to live my little life well, just like Ai Qing in the book.

It's like that if you have money, it's almost the same if you don't have money, just starve to death.

Now after sharing a house with the author's friend, the rent is only 1,500 a month, counting the water and electricity bills and the money for food, the cost of three or four thousand a month is three or four thousand, and it may not even be half of the cost of the manuscript of the book.

Every time I feel like I'm doing good or bad grades, I think about it, and then I feel at peace.

I've been writing online articles full-time, and if my mentality can't be adjusted well, I'm a little sorry for the word full-time.

Now this book, from the beginning of the shelf, to the present, except for leave, the rest is basically updated with 7,000 words a day.

After experiencing the lessons of the previous countercurrent, this number of words is probably a level that I can maintain for a long time in my full-time state.

It has been a mental breakdown every day, and basically insisting on a month will physiologically resist the code word.

Now the 7,000-word update has been insisted on for more than two months, and it seems to be okay at present.

If you can keep it until the end of the book, I hope that future books will maintain this amount of updates.

……

The content of Cat Niang's book, in fact, there is not much to say.

The main context is that Xiaoyu has slowly changed from the concept of a cat to the three views of a normal person.

And when Xiaoyu becomes more and more like a normal girl, the highlight of this book is slowly coming to an end.

Especially after the relationship between the two people is confirmed, the posthumous order will be cut in half.

I'm quite familiar with this situation, and I'm not surprised by anything, so I just continue to advance the plot step by step.

……

According to the current plot direction, the book should officially end at the end of this month, or in March.

Here's a preview of it.

It's a book of pure love for a single heroine, and there is no specific career line to support it, and the number of words can't be written too much.

In the end, it should be able to write about 800,000 words.

……

As for the new book, I thought about it a long time ago, and the theme is overhead entertainment.

I've always liked to read urban literature, and there are two enduring categories of urban literature.

One is the rebirth of urban commercial literature, and the other is entertainment.

The last book has been written about the reverse current for ten years, and the next book is going to touch the thighs of entertainment.

However, I am not very interested in Huayu, so I will do overhead treatment.

Cat Niang's book and the next article are basically thought of when writing about the countercurrent.

It's just that in order, the cat lady was written first.

After the end of March, I will take a break for about a month, and I will start a new book.

Thank you all for your support and companionship along the way.

Happy New Year to everyone in advance!

Oh yes.

I'm going to go out with my classmates today, so I'm going to take a little leave~

Tomorrow the update will be resumed.

Above.

Honey Ji thank you.