It took almost three years to write a book like this, and I naturally have a lot of emotions. I will briefly write down a few here.
If there are more, I will leave some comments to complete this book.
It took about two years and seven months, and I wrote just over 1.3 million words.
From Chapter 400, uploaded on 2019-1-26
To Chapter 500, uploaded on 2020-2-29
So it seems that I wrote less than 150,000 words last year.
So what was the result?
Until 2020, which is the last day of 2019.
There are paid chapters in the early 300s, about a million words, and the total number of subscriptions finally exceeded 10,000.
Among them, friendly bookings probably account for more than 50%.
In other words, basically no one is reading this book, I am basically just entertaining myself.
Of course, this is no one’s fault. The subject matter is not popular, the updates are slow, the level is limited, etc., so it cannot attract people or retain readers.
For me, writing a book is really not an easy task.
At least this book has exceeded one million words, which is far beyond my ability to control.
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By the way, let’s take a look at the conditions I think one should have to write a book:
1. Brain hole: How big your brain hole is, how big and detailed the world you write will be. Without brain hole, everything is empty talk;
2. Accumulation: Accumulation serves the imagination. Accumulation is the key to how to use words to present your imagination to readers.
There is no doubt that my accumulation is far from enough, at least for this current book, it is too strenuous.
I don’t know how many chapters there are, but it’s a very touching picture in my mind. After I read it through the text, I felt that it was only half-sixth or seventy-nine. I revised and polished it again and again, but it was only an eighty-thousand-cent feeling of self-comfort.
Another part of the accumulation is the writing style. Although this part is not valued very much by editors and some readers, I personally am a bit of a literary person and still prefer high-quality writing.
Most of the female videos that have done a good job in this part are most of the female videos, as well as Mao Ni who wrote "Jian Ye" which I just watched last year; 3. Talent: Talent is a bit mysterious to talk about, and it can also be said to be related to accumulation, but it is not necessarily related.
, because many authors are really young. They can write books with rich contents in middle and high school, and even more so in college. The "Poor Man" I just finished made me feel that talent is something that maybe others are born with.
I was standing 400 meters away, and I had been thinking about it for three or two years before I could get past 200 meters.
4. Perseverance: With the first three, there is actually no need for perseverance, because writing a book is easy for them, and it is a favorite. There is no need to talk about perseverance in what they like. Without perseverance, there is no need to talk about perseverance.
Only those who are deficient in the first three need this. This may be the only and least important quality that this salted fish like me possesses.
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Back to this book, I don’t know if it has been mentioned elsewhere.
As for this book, I had an idea for it a long time ago, but it only has the beginning and end and some scattered fragments.
The middle part is almost equal to zero.
So what I've been doing now is filling.
I hope that the story slates in the middle can be laid out piece by piece in a reasonable manner until the end.
It’s almost done now, and it will be over with about 600,000 words left.
But to be honest, I haven’t figured out how to connect many details yet, so the update speed is still not fast.
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Finally, let’s talk about the purpose of opening a chapter.
I originally wanted to start a group when my total booking exceeds 10,000, but I didn’t know if any book friends would come (covering my face and laughing)
As a salty fish, I actually don’t want to form a group. Firstly, I’m too lazy to manage it. Secondly, I’m afraid of joining the group. Thirdly, I’m afraid of being urged to update.
But everyone has it, so this book should be there too.
It's just that I came too late with a total order of over 10,000 yuan, and I'm a little frustrated, so I haven't established a group yet.
well!
Now, I have written at least 500 chapters.
Just create a group, book friends can come in and chat.
emmm, if you are the author of other books, you are also welcome.