I still remember that day. When I was immersed in the joyful pride of being able to help my class teacher with projects in my freshman year, a text message kicked off my online writing - "How was your writing of "Qian Kun"?
Yes, not bad, let’s try the water here.”
At that time, "Qian Kun" was not the "The Reversal of Qian Kun" that we see now, but another unrelated classical martial arts book. I had never thought about electronic publishing. I originally planned to write a seven-story novel.
Another 80,000 yuan was invested in "Modern and Ancient Martial Arts". But by some strange coincidence, I sat down and logged on to the official website.
To be honest, I am a person who never reads online novels. To use my original saying, it is called "not a party, not a member of the same boat." But the home page gave me a very clean and comfortable feeling. I spent a whole time
In the morning, I walked around the station and looked around. I felt that there was a kind of atmosphere here that I hadn't seen in a long time, but it was also very close.
Therefore, after registering as an author, I decisively opened my first book. Following the climax of inspiration, I wrote the first chapter on the spot after registering. I only returned after everything was submitted.
A text message was sent to him, saying "I'm in the water..." At that time, the name of the book was still called "Armed Reunion at the Head of Liangshan Mountain".
From that day on, I started a life of typing every day. To be honest, at that time, I knew nothing about online writing. I didn’t know the essence of online writing and the value of its existence. What’s even worse is that
, I mistakenly confused literature and literature and art, and implicated them in the Internet article. I arranged the shots and the storyline of the story according to my own wishes, but it was not until 30,000 words later that I
After entering the youth training camp, I read the textbook "Youth Training Camp" and realized how ignorant I had been.
Like every author who failed to sign a contract for the first time, I also queued up to comment in the forum under the careful arrangement of . Although I waited eagerly for five days, I waited for the first master of my online article——
Papyrus. In the following days, under the guidance of the Papyrus master, I began to radically revise the article. He read it to me many times and logically pointed out many "rules" of online articles.
Under the guidance of Master Papyrus, I learned about online texts bit by bit and understood many rules and regulations of online texts. Among them, instructor Yi Lei also carefully commented and guided me once. The one that impressed me the most was about Paper Grass.
Instructor Cao spent his busy schedule revising my article. In order to explain it more clearly to me, he specially found a paragraph in the article, and then combined with his own grasp of online writing skills, he carefully re-wrote it for me to read.
To be honest, this sense of responsibility is very touching... In this way, with the help of the master and everyone, I successfully signed the contract.
Below, I will briefly summarize what I learned at the youth training camp and my own insights. This can be regarded as my graduation report from the youth training camp.
This first point is for pure newcomers. The first three chapters of the opening chapter are very important. Secondly, the absolute point is whether you can sign a contract. The first editor is to read your first chapter. By looking at your writing style in the first chapter and your
Your grasp and level of character creation, plot transitions, suspense settings, etc. will be determined to see if you meet the requirements.
Why does the first chapter gather so many requests? Because most readers (except for picky people like me, of course) start from the first chapter after clicking on a book through the title or promotion.
Look. How can we make people look down, look down, and keep looking down... Of course, the first thing is to rely on the portrayal of the protagonist (originally I didn’t understand why the first character to appear at the beginning had to be the protagonist, but gradually I understood
, many rules of online articles are the summary of experience, which makes sense. Young people, please understand it carefully.) Only by portraying a vivid protagonist (I emphasize here that the protagonist you set must be consistent with your readers)
The age and basic nature of the group should be the same. It is best for readers to see their own shadow in the protagonist at first glance, which will facilitate readers' involvement). Next, describe the activities of the protagonist you set.
The series environment is what kind of world you want to bring readers into. Don't underestimate the description of the environment and the rendering of the background atmosphere. This is very important to readers. Readers come to books for leisure and entertainment. They need such an environment.
Let them wander in it. Only when the author sets up such a virtual environment for the reader's spirit to survive can they become dependent on your article. The next step is to lay out suspense, which is also indispensable for a good article.
I won't go into too much detail about setting up suspense. There is a special lecture in "Youth Training Camp" that is very detailed and inspiring. Those who are interested should go and read it.
After talking about the necessary elements in the first chapter, I will talk about a few more things you should pay attention to after opening a new book, which is how to increase your popularity in the shortest possible time (this is probably what many newcomers worry about every day)
things). If you are a new author, especially those who are students or office workers, I suggest you start the book when you have more than 200,000 manuscripts saved. When you start the book, choose a good day, like every
At midnight at the beginning of the month (the reason can be seen in "Youth Training Camp", blood feud has been written). Then three updates a day, increase clicks through your QQ and friends (like me at that time, many of my buddies posted links to my books
Posting it all over his social circle helped me get the first wave of clicks, thank you!). In the early stage, it is almost impossible for readers to take the initiative to read your article, unless there are some exceptions, so for most
For newcomers, in the first few days when you first open a book, you will focus on your own character. If you have many friends and brothers, people are willing to treat you as a matter and actively promote and help click and collect, so that you can rush in every Monday morning.
It may be a little difficult to make it to the top 15 in the overall list, but it is relatively easy to get into the top ten of each channel. As long as you rely on the support of friends in the early stage to get up there, readers will gradually click to watch. Click to favorites.
It will start slowly, and after a while you will have the first batch of readers, and your clicks will also start to increase. At the same time, you can also place advertisements in subtitles, masters, or other very popular works. If someone refuses to let you
Just don’t hit it (in fact, sometimes readers will not click on advertising posts unless your writing is very attractive, or the readers are bored...). In addition, there are many other factors that lie in the author’s hands.
You are lucky to make friends in the group and make some like-minded friends. They will help you promote your work and support you when you are on the list (I feel that I am relatively lucky, meeting people like Chen Qiyao, Zhuzhu, The Truth
(under this, good friends like Shuishui, Mumu, and Liuzi). But everyone must understand that any technique cannot be used as the main means. Don’t lose yourself in these and forget that for an author, collection is the most important thing.
The most important trump card for popularity is the speed of updates and the quality of articles. Those rankings and recommendations are all because readers trust the website and click on the books on the page to read them. But can they retain readers? Can you create it for yourself?
A group of fans still depends on the quality of the article.
ps: I have been disturbed by various things, and I wrote such a speech intermittently. I feel a bit at a loss for words. I haven’t said much about the actual writing skills. I will summarize it when I have time in the future. I have seen a lot of newcomers recently.
There are also many newcomers in forums and groups complaining about the lack of clicks, so I wrote this in the hope that it will be useful to them, and I wish everyone can achieve good results.
Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Gong Da, Cang Ming, Papyrus, Chen Qiyao, Zhu Zhu, Under the Truth...etc. to the editors and friends who helped me!