Today, the new book is finally going to be on the shelves. This feeling is actually a bit strange. When the last book was put on the shelves, I didn’t seem to have written any comments about it. It felt like it was on the shelves before I knew it, and I wasn’t as nervous as I am now.
I was still a newcomer at that time and didn’t know anything. Before I put it on the shelves, I kept calculating the relationship between average subscription and income. I was thinking about how much a monthly subscription of 3,000 yuan would cost, and how much a monthly subscription of 5,000 yuan would cost. My mind was filled with thoughts.
Get a promotion, raise salary, marry Bai Fumei and reach the pinnacle of life.
The result is that the ideal is very full and the reality is very basic. It seems that the first order was 4-500 or so when it was finally put on the shelves. I can’t remember clearly.
In fact, I later learned that based on the traffic volume of Zongheng at that time, such a first-time subscription result for a new author was already very good. But I didn’t know at the time that everything was based on the data from the website. There was a huge gap between it and the psychological expectations.
, it was like a basin of cold water was poured on my head, and my heart became cold.
But now that things have come to this, I can only persevere. After all, I still had a lot of emotions in writing the book at the beginning. I wrote about things I like, so I decided to persevere no matter what.
It's just that the feelings will eventually be worn away. The stand-alone feeling of writing a book without various positive feedback stimulations makes writing less and less passionate. In addition, I was also very busy with work at that time, and sometimes I was too tired after work.
, I will think about putting it aside for a while, taking a good rest today, and continuing writing tomorrow.
Who knew that it is easy to put it down but difficult to pick it up again? Some old readers may still remember that I stopped updating for a few months during that time, right?
Later, when my job became more stable, one day I suddenly couldn't sit still and thought that I couldn't just give up. After all, I hate seeing eunuch books when I read books. I don't want to become what I hate. Moreover, this story is also my favorite world.
, didn’t want him to die young like this, so he started writing again.
I persisted for almost another year, just as the country was cracking down on piracy in 2016, the performance of the book gradually improved, there were more and more readers, the book review area became more and more active, and there were more discussions among readers.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Due to various network cleanup turmoils, the review in this area became more and more strict. The last book was 404'd several times. Well, no, it was completely 404'd several times. It was the editor's struggle, plus I didn't
Day and night, I revised various previous chapters one by one, and finally came back from the dead line again and again.
But even though the writing behind it has been very clear, and there is no scale at all, it is famous, and the title of the book is too deceptive, so it is still reported and called out. In the next few years, it is basically every 3 or 4 months.
I was notified that I would make a big change and then make a small change every 1 or 2 months. It was really exhausting. At that time, I was not even confident that I could finish it safely. Because of the situation at the time, it really didn’t matter that I woke up the next day and found that the book had been blocked.
Not surprisingly, this is the case for this site as well, and has been removed from the shelves long ago through various channels.
Under this situation, the website and the editor all suggested that I open a new book as soon as possible. Friends who have the impression should know that I seemed to have mentioned the matter of opening a new book two years ago.
But I was never willing to let the first book that I put so much effort into die halfway. I always insisted on finishing it, and the work on the new book was delayed again and again.
It has been postponed for almost two years, until two months ago, the website couldn't wait any longer and asked me to release a new book, so I could only open the old book and the new book together.
The editor asked me many times when the old book would end. I pushed it again and again, until he later didn’t believe me about the ending time. He gave me an ultimatum and gave me a time. Even so, in the end I still shamelessly insisted on it.
It took another half a month to finish writing. I would like to thank the website and the editor for their patience over the years.
The reason why the completion time has been pushed back again and again is because I don't want to rush the ending, I want to write out all the plots I prepared and give this book the ending it should have.
I was under a lot of pressure during that time, so several times I saw some Sanwu readers going to the book review section and complaining about the bad ending in every post. I was really angry, because just to avoid the bad ending, I withstood the pressure again and again.
You delayed finishing the book, and ended up getting scolded by so many people. The key is that you just spent money to scold me, and almost all of them were pirated copies.
I have never had a blush or quarrel with a reader in all these years, and that time I really couldn’t help but quarrel with someone.
Fortunately, I finally finished it. At that time, I really had a complex feeling of emptiness and satisfaction. I couldn't believe that I had actually completed the book successfully. It felt like a lifetime ago.
After finishing the old book, I started writing the new one non-stop, and now it’s finally time for the new book to be put on the shelves.
Different from the ignorance and fearlessness in the first book, now I am extremely anxious and under a lot of pressure.
Because I am no longer a new author, I know what the results after listing mean. In addition to being closely related to the author's income, it is also related to the website and a series of recommended resources from third-party channels.
Just like the novels everyone reads, one step leads to the other, the strong will become stronger and the weak will become weaker and weaker. This is the operating rule of this world.
Now Zongheng's traffic is much lower than in previous years. Of course, Zongheng is not the only one. The traffic of all major novel websites has dropped sharply.
The current collection of the new book "" is only about 3,500. According to industry experience, the number of users who pay to read in the end is generally only a few hundred. The subscription ratio may exceed a thousand, but the probability is very small. You are not lucky.
Well, it may even be only one or two hundred, so I said in the chapter that I was very panicked, which is really not a joke.
I remember that I asked for a monthly pass for the last book a few times, but basically never asked for a subscription. I have always been casual about the subscription, and I understand even if it is a pirated version. After all, I have also read pirated versions before, and life is just like that.
It’s hard, and it’s not easy for everyone.
The view has always been that "if you are rich, just support your financial position, and if you are rich, just support your personal position."
Therefore, although the data for the last book on the entire network is good, the proportion of people who paid for it is really not high. There are at least hundreds of thousands of people reading this book on the entire Internet. Later, it ranked among the top ten in the Baidu Index martial arts and fairy categories, but the number of people who paid for subscriptions
There are really only a very small proportion.
At the peak of the traffic surge in the fight against piracy in 2016, there were about 4,000 average subscriptions. But then piracy started to become rampant again. Coupled with various rectifications and the impact of my own update speed, there were only about a thousand more subscriptions left.
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Some readers said that when they saw that the last book ranked among the top 20 on the best-seller list, they felt that the results were very good. This was mainly because the book had more than 6 million words, and the vertical and horizontal traffic was not very high. Except for the big guys in the front, everyone really
Don’t overestimate my income. Of course, it’s hard to tell me the details.
Now that the new book is about to be put on the shelves, I don’t dare to be as Buddhist as before, because once this serious situation comes to an end, I will probably never get up again. Maybe you won’t be able to see me in two years, because then I will
It has been completely eliminated by the novel industry.
The release of new books really requires everyone's support. If conditions permit, it is better to subscribe, even if you support an initial subscription, thank you all.
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, thank you all again.
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This chapter has been completed!