Cheeky asking for support(1/2)
As title.
I just opened a new book. This book should have 10 million words, but the results...
Let’s retell the story of this book.
When I paid about 100,000 yuan, I gave my first recommendation. I can’t remember what it was called. It was on the computer, not the app. There was no cover, just a line of small words. I turned on the computer and searched for a long time, and finally found it in the corner.
.
A total of four books are in this recommendation position.
I think there must be a promotion among the four books, maybe I can do it.
Then... I found out that two other books had app recommendation bonuses. We were just running naked, and someone else had a pair of underpants. My mentality suddenly exploded. How could we compare?
A friend who is also an author told me, don’t be afraid, those books with bonuses are not included in the comparison, you just need to be better than that book...
1/2 chance of advancing?
Instantly revive with full blood.
Then someone got promoted and got an app recommendation, but I lost it.
I took a look at the website where you can check the data. Not to mention the two with bonuses, the one who got promoted has a collection similar to mine.
At that time, I thought that he should be better at studying than me.
Pursuing reading is very important, more important than collecting.
I simply continue writing without any more ideas, waiting to be put on the shelves, and I will stop writing after receiving the three-month creative subsidy.
In this way, a month passed peacefully. Occasionally, I was insulted by some prostitutes late at night, which made me unable to sleep and wanted to cut the book.
Later, I resisted, not because of my dream, but because I wrote nearly 200,000 words. In order to encourage myself, I gave myself a reward of 100 yuan for college living expenses, and the starting fee was only paid after the starting point was 200 yuan.
Books and nothing else.
time, money.
When it was about 190,000 words, I went to the editor and asked: Can it be published on the shelves?
(At that time, there were a lot of books, and the results were very good. I was admitted to 150,000 words. I thought I could do 200,000 words.)
Editor: Don’t worry, I’ll push again.
Me: Any suggestions?
(Thinking: Good things, good things, I can save them.)
Friday afternoon: Congratulations...on getting promoted to a popular page.
What kind of recommendation is this?
Turn on the computer, skip the homepage, enter the category, and keep scrolling down with the mouse. At the bottom, there are more than twenty books, including me.
Other books have tens of thousands of words, but mine has 200,000 words.
There is no such thing as promotion, so it just hangs and has no effect. Well, when there is no recommendation, I will naturally add more than ten or twenty collections a day, and then after receiving this recommendation, I will also have more than ten or twenty collections.
It's equal to none.
Well, I hung up for a week with a complicated mentality. When I saw that it was almost 250,000 words, I asked the editor if it could be put on the shelf.
The editor said: Don't worry, he will push it again.
I had no choice but to continue waiting.
I waited until Friday and found that it was still the same.
For a moment, I understood something, but I didn't dare to say anything because I had already written a lot of words.
I took the initiative to ask: Sir, do you think my 300,000 words can be put on the shelves?
The editor quickly replied: Yes.
You can take a look at the month before I put it on the shelves. I only wrote one chapter every day, because if I updated it normally, I would have 356,000 words on the shelves.
To be honest, I actually gave up on this book because it had nothing in it. I just wanted to receive three months of benefits, and then I gave up. I don’t want to write books in the future. I don’t have this talent.
Finally, when it was released, I posted a speech. I posted it very restrainedly, and then in a joking tone, I said, I hope the acceptance ratio will not be 70 to 1, or 100 to 1, because I
experienced.
That was much earlier. At that time, I graduated from high school and was a quasi-college student. When I put it on the shelf, I wrote a very capricious sentence:
I don't mind piracy.
At that time, there were more than 3,000 collections, and there were only a few 30 first orders...
When this book was put on the shelves, it gave me a desperate surprise. The first order was RMB 210!
It turns out that I am not trash. I have a collection of 3,400 and my first order was 210.
The reason why I have this idea is not only because I have no recommendations, but also because every time I ask the editor: Sir, have any readers read my book?
With two to three hundred thousand words, I was scolded by prostitutes late at night. In addition to thinking about the small subsidy, I also looked forward to the support of genuine readers, imagining that they would not speak and just read silently.
The editor told me:
There are rules, don't ask questions.
I didn’t recommend it, and I didn’t know how to follow it. In order to get a creative subsidy for three months after it was released, I forced myself to write it, and it was already assumed that I was writing rubbish.
In response to that sentence:
In a field like this, everything is a surprise.
After three months of no recommendation, the number gradually increased, with rewards ranging from 10,000 to 10,000, and alliance leaders became available one after another.
It's called smart recommendation, which means "People who have read this book have also read it", which makes the book better.
And it happened intermittently. During the Chinese New Year, I once paid seven or eight yuan a day for manuscripts, worked hard for several hours, and harvested a hand cake. This happened every day, breaking the big defense...
At that time, it was said in a writer's talk:
Cut the book!
In the end, I still persist to this day.
There have been no major ups and downs, but a few small ups and downs, which have allowed me to persevere to this day, and I plan to continue persevering...
But there is no shortage of great falls.
The author who tested the waters with me and was promoted later, when I put it on the shelf, I took a special look at him, and he had already cut the book early.
Now I have forgotten even the title of the book.
I first ordered 210, wrote the average price of 1,000, then dropped 800 yuan, and now it is slowly returning to 900 yuan.
From the first book, Erbihehe said: I don’t mind piracy, but then I couldn’t bear the humiliation and cut the books myself.
When I was about to graduate, I started to think about life.
When I was reading books in junior high school, I read pirated copies. After I found out about the genuine books in high school, I started searching on Qidian.com for the authors of those books I had read when I was a kid. If I found that they were still writing books, I would have a very strange feeling, as if I was reminded of the rainy night.
The days when I secretly held my mobile phone and hid under the quilt to read novels. If I had not written a book, the author would have quit and left, feeling helpless and lost in his heart:
Another person defeated by reality.
Some time ago, when I was drinking with friends, I would lament that five years ago I would never have thought of writing a book, but now I have, and I secretly asked myself:
Will you still be here in five years?
Dare not answer.
I fully feel the uncertainty of life.
No doubt about the above, I am speaking from personal experience.
It has been on the market for many years and has never been sold. When this book was put on the shelves, I laughed and laughed at myself. I hope you will buy it and support the new book.
If you write two books together, there will eventually be hope.
In fact, the new book is about original fantasy, and it has been drafted, but I didn’t dare to publish it for fear of being thrown into the street. Finally, I decided to write a Hong Kong drama on the spur of the moment. I didn’t want it to be a big hit, I just wanted to make money, so I continued to persevere.
I have exhausted all the electricity that love can generate, and squeezed out every bit of it.
Moreover, I am also writing seriously, continuing to try, and reviewing old Hong Kong ghost movies.
Therefore, please read the new book and read everything!
Tomorrow I will test the waters and push the app. It will be an unprecedented start. I hope I can advance.
Well, it’s not good to be miserable late at night, so I’ll tell you an episode.
Mysterious Planet, this pen name, was my favorite astronomy in addition to novels when I was in high school.
Use a pair of ten-fold binoculars to look at the moon, and even the stars that cannot be seen with the naked eye, and identify them against the star chart. The old book called "Starry Sky at Night" is still in my hand. It calls this behavior:
Survey the sky.
This kind of person: the backyard astronomer.
Ha ha.
To be continued...