In the next week, Lu Yang completely cut off his intention to sign a contract in advance. After getting up every day, he would update one chapter and another chapter for supper time, accumulating popularity bit by bit.

As time goes by, the number of words published on the Qidian website of "Doom Wasteland" is gradually increasing, and the update of more than 6,000 words per day is considered to be a medium-to-high speed in 2003.

In 2003, it was good to have many signed novels updated one chapter every day. Some popular authors even updated one chapter in two days or even three or four days.

There is still an outrageous week, or even half a month, and one chapter will be updated every month.

At that time, readers depressedly called such works weekly, bimonthly and monthly.

The stable update has attracted more and more readers of the book "Doom Wasteland".

For a new book, the popularity growth was the most miserable at the beginning. Often, every day, the collection and recommendation votes grew at a single digit rate.

But if the book title is good, the update is stable, and the content is above the level, this miserable situation will gradually improve.

The better the quality of the book, the faster the improvement will be.

Especially as the total number of words published in the work increases, the number of readers will attract more and more.

Maybe at the beginning, the popularity of each day increased in single digits. After reaching 50,000 words, the popularity of each day will grow in three or even four digits.

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

The popularity of an excellent work will be like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger.

One of the important reasons is that after a new book reaches 50,000 words, it will appear on Qidian's new book list as long as it is updated within three days.

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

When the "Doom Wasteland" reached 50,000 words, there were 3,518 clicks, 466 recommended votes, and 282 favorites.

That night, Lu Yang opened the new book list on Qidian's homepage and found the name of "Doom Wasteland" at No. 54.

This result did not surprise Lu Yang, nor did it disappoint Lu Yang. It was a good ranking. What Lu Yang needed to do was to improve this ranking as much as possible in the following days, because every increase in ranking would have some benefits to the popularity of "Doom Wasteland".

When all readers are looking for new books, they are always used to looking for them from the front of the list.

If "Doom Wasteland" can rank among the top 15 new books, the effect of attracting readers will increase several times, or even dozens of times.

However, it is precisely because the top 15 new book list has such a powerful effect that the authors of each new book list will strive for it. In the place where the authors of Qidian are numerous, the competition seems particularly fierce, even in 2003.

It is worth mentioning that about a week later, Lu Yang received four 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 those of the previous two episodes. They are repainted. Like the previous two episodes, they are also in comic style, but they also look very exquisite.

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

Every writer has a dream to turn his works into lead type.

In his previous life, Lu Yang had only published it. Although all the works after that were not inferior to those of **, they were never published again.

It took a long time to understand why.

In 2003, it was the time when publishers in Taiwan made the most of their manuscripts. At this time, the standards for receiving manuscripts by major publishers were very low.

After 2003 and 2004, the publishing houses' vision has increased. Not only do they require high-quality works, but they also began to prefer the works of famous authors.

In his previous life, one of the big reasons why Lu Yang's later works were not published successfully was that his ** was not famous in Taiwan after his publication.

After his rebirth, Lu Yang's "Dord Wasteland" was successfully published.

Lu Yang's mood is complicated in this regard.

He has not published his work in nearly nine years and can be published again. Lu Yang cherishes it very much. He secretly made up his mind to write this book "Doom Wasteland" well. Not only should he become famous at the starting point, but he should also make his name in Taiwan. He can no longer be published after publishing a book like he did in his previous life.

Because of such ambition, Lu Yang has always been very attentive when writing this book "The Wasteland of Doomsday", conceived and wrote every paragraph with great care.

Keep improving.

Readers have eyes. If a book is carefully written, whether the author has the heart or not, the readers will understand after reading it.

Lu Yang's efforts gradually showed results after "Doom Wasteland" entered the Qidian New Book List.

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

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

Another chapter was uploaded in the evening. After going to the evening self-study with Cao Xue, he returned to the rental house with the two manuscripts he wrote that night. He turned on the computer and found that "Doom Wasteland" was promoted to 39th place again.

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

When I uploaded the second chapter of the day in the evening, I found that I was promoted to 28th place again.

When I came back to the evening, I had already risen to 22nd place.

Ranking is rising constantly.

The total clicks of the works have increased to more than 12,000 in just two days, the recommended votes have increased to nearly 1,000, and the number of collectors has increased to more than 420.

This greatly enhanced Lu Yang's confidence.

Two more days later, after getting up in the morning, Lu Yang turned on the computer, and saw the name of "Doom Wasteland" directly on the new book list on Qidian homepage.

Ranked 13th.

At that time, Lu Yang laughed.

So what if the editor is unwilling to sign the contract in advance?

As long as their works can be ranked on the new book list for a month, will Qidian's editors turn a blind eye? Do they dare not sign the works on the list?

(In 2003, the conditions for Qidian New Book List to be on the list are that the number of words exceeds 50,000, and there will be updated works within three days. When it is on the list for more than one month, or the number of words exceeds 200,000, you will be kicked out of the new book list.)

In the following days, "Doom Wasteland"'s ranking on the new book list has been rising.

On the first day, it rose to 11th place.

The next day, he rose to 9th place.

On the third day, the new week begins, all data on the new book list is cleared and rankings are restarted.

Works that were originally ranked first, third and seventh were kicked out of the list because they were on the list for more than a month, or because the number of words had exceeded 200,000.

In the new week, all new books are starting to re-rank.

After getting up that morning, Lu Yang immediately found that his "Doom Wasteland" was ranked third.

At this time, the number of words published by "Doom Wasteland" at Qidian was more than 96,000, nearly 100,000 words.

Lu Yang looked at it and found that the two works ranked first in "Doom Wasteland" had more than 170,000 words, and the number one ranked first was more than 180,000 words, almost 200,000.

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

Lu Yang was very satisfied with this.

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

Lu Yang doesn't believe it. When his works are ranked first in the new book list, what reason does his editor have to not sign his works?

When signing the contract, it arrived soon.

On Wednesday, the number one work was over 200,000 words and was kicked out of the new book list.

"Doom Wasteland" naturally rose by one place, ranking second, and the third place behind, and the fourth-ranked works were more than 10,000 yuan less popular, which could not threaten "Doom Wasteland".

On Thursday, the work that ranked first in the Wasteland of Doomsday had more than 185,000 words, which was far from 200,000 words. However, "Doomsday Wasteland" killed it overnight, and "Doomsday Wasteland" reached the top.

Ranked first.

Lu Yang came back from school at noon that day and logged into QQ, he saw the message sent by editor Tian Ge.

"Hello Wen Chou! Congratulations on your work being the first in the new book list. You can sign a contract. Contact your contract editor! The QQ of the contract editor is 270283898."
Chapter completed!