On January 19, 2022, a new Qidian writer named Yu Mu Shaosheng opened Qidian Writer Assistant and uploaded about 10,000 words of novel content.

As of January 19, 2023, this book has been released for one year!!!!

On the occasion of the Spring Festival and the first anniversary of this book, you must be curious to know the details of the author's creation, so I will share with you what preparations I did before writing this book...

The answer is no preparation at all.

I also know that everyone must want to know how the idea of ​​​​this book was constructed in the early stages of creation?

The answer is that there is no idea at all.

I just want to try the Qidian Writer Assistant to see if it works!!!!

Why have I already written almost 4 million words?!!!!!!

What the hell am I doing now?!!!!!!!

I don’t know if you have heard of a famous theory called – “throw your hat over the wall first”.

It roughly means that if you feel that you are not determined to do something, then throw your hat to the other side of the wall first. Then there will be sunk costs, and you will have to climb over the wall to pick up the hat.

The author threw his hat across the Himalayas.

When I started the book, I was full of ideas. I finished writing 10,000 words in three hours, and I was really happy. A year later, I was scratching my head and scratching my head in order to fill in the gaps. I couldn't finish 2,000 words in four hours, and I was really embarrassed.

Digging a hole is fun for a while, filling it for a crematorium!!!!

Every day at two o'clock in the middle of the night, when I wake up from my dreams at midnight, I have to ask myself, who gave me the courage to write a novel instead of writing an outline??!!

I think you may have never seen any starting point writer express regret in the anniversary summary of his first book.

Why on earth did you add so many settings in the first place?!!!!Why why why why why why why?!!!

In order to provide a reasonable origin explanation for the setting that I randomly added in my head at that time, I have almost read through the books on psychology and behavior, especially the behavioral motivation part!!!!

Why should I write a system?!!!

Why do I need to add an umbrella setting?!!!!!!

Why should I write about autism spectrum disorder!!!!!!

Why is it more difficult to write an American comic book fan than to write an essay?!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Okay, thank you for listening to my rant, let's get down to business.

First of all, the author's own evaluation of this book is that overall it is okay, but there are also many dissatisfactions.

80% of these dissatisfaction points come from the fact that I didn't think about it at the time, so I uploaded the text without writing an outline.

So why didn’t I write an outline then?!!!!!

Due to the structure and setting problems in the early stage of the article, too much writing and ink was spent later to fill in the loopholes. This also made it impossible to realize the relatively sophisticated and fast-paced unit short drama that I originally envisioned.

If I want to write a unit short play, I need to strengthen the details, weaken the main line, and enhance the sense of immersion in each short story. However, because many of the previous settings were added casually when I was writing the main text, I had to spend a lot of time.

Time to explain what is going on.

When this part is reached, the author feels like he is in jail. On the one hand, he is anxious and anxious, and on the other hand, he is full of regret for his youth and frivolousness.

Because the pressure to fill in the pits was really great, the author took too much into account when developing certain plots, and was unable to create freely.

And because the author's emotional stress will be reflected in the text, the content level of this part is not satisfactory, and these authors know it.

Many readers will find that their long suggestions have been deleted. Some of them may have been swallowed by Qidian, or may have been deleted by assistants, but many of them were deleted by the author himself.

Or there are many reviews, but they are not negative reviews. They just stated a fact, such as a certain part of the plot is written like shit.

When the author saw this review, he didn't feel angry, he just had a very ridiculous feeling, as if someone finally recognized the product.

So why would I delete these reviews?

This returns to the first question, why should I open a book?

I just wanted to try out the Qidian Writer Assistant client to see if it works well.

The answer is that it’s really hard to use!!!!

When I reply to these comments in the backend of Writer Assistant, the person who replied to the comment cannot see the reply reminder, and the same goes for the likes I clicked.

Unless I open the reading client of Qidian, find your comment in the vast sea of ​​articles, and then reply, you can see the reminder.

The problem is that some of the chapters where some of the comments appear are from a long time ago. When I looked at the sentence you commented on, I didn’t even know where it appeared.

However, you have worked so hard to write such a long article and your opinions are very pertinent. I will not give you any feedback because I always feel guilty.

So, my little brain had an idea. As long as I delete the comment, you can see the prompt that your comment has been deleted, which means that you will know that I have read your comment.

Am I a genius?

Well, actually, it’s because there were some big pitfalls before that made the author feel very desperate. In the middle of writing this book, the author’s anxiety disorder once reached the point where he needed medication.

During that period, my mental state was not very normal. When I saw any comments with more than three lines, I thought they were scolding me, so I deleted them all. For a while, I even swiped all comments indiscriminately and squatted.

Three hours of comments were mechanically deleted in the author's backend.

I think the probability of accidental positive reviews is about 50-50. If you find that your long review has been deleted, it may be the product of the author going crazy in the middle of the night without taking his medicine.

I was wrong. I will take good medicine in the future. I am very sorry to the readers whose comments were deleted or accidentally hurt. The author will try to reduce the number of times he goes crazy in the future.

Of course, some comments you write that are too long may be swallowed up by Qidian. That is beyond the author's control. If you really feel that your suggestions are very pertinent and useful to the author, you can join the group and then type

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On the Internet, reviews of this book are generally mixed.

But there is a very interesting phenomenon. Half of the people said that I wrote like a piece of shit in the first 30 chapters, and the other half said that after 30 chapters, I wrote like a piece of shit.

This is not a simple product of network duality, but represents two groups of readers.

Although there is no outline in the first part, and the overall plot is relatively thin, following the route of traditional linear online novels, there is not much room for writing, but the pace is fast and refreshing, making it more suitable for readers who are accustomed to fast-paced reading.

In the second half, when the author begins to reorganize the plot and turns to unit drama writing, this type of reader may feel that the pace becomes sluggish and that there are too many descriptions and lyrics that are meaningless to advance the plot.

Readers who like to read the second half may appreciate the author's pen power and writing style. At the same time, they are also more receptive to unit drama narratives, so they may feel that the protagonist in the previous part frequently switches worlds, making an emotionless plot advancement.

The tool man is a bit thin.

To say which one the author prefers, each type actually has its own praise and criticism. If the whole book unfolds in this way for the first 30 chapters, the author will be very comfortable.

As someone who has been proficient in some cool writing websites, writing a single-line narrative that is fast-paced and filled with a lot of cool writing is a no-brainer.

Those methods of building cool points seem to be engraved in my genes. I once held this knife and dominated some websites, breaking through the siege and achieving good results.

If you adopt the second method, the time and energy required are completely different. The author's outline and outline mostly contain the main plot and character settings.

All the call backs, ambushes, foreshadowings, the use of certain repeated sentences, the repeated reactions of certain characters, and progressive reactions that you see in the article are all recorded in the author's mind.

On the one hand, my brain has to bear the very trivial task of recording, and on the other hand, it has to bear a lot of emotional pressure to perfect the plot. Although the author has not left home this year, it has been a life of ups and downs.

Magnificent waves.

In some previous plots, the author said that he drank, but he really drank.

And the degree of drinking may be more serious than you think, especially when writing Gotham, in many cases it is the prelude to unconsciousness.

Many people may think that Batman's transformation process in this book is interesting, because it is actually the author's recovery process.

Most of the paranoia, stubbornness, and confusion in the first half were caused by the paralysis of alcohol, while most of the rationality, persistence, and sudden ideas in the later period were written under the influence of sufficient drugs.

For a long time, I didn't know what I was doing.

Some people may think that I am forced by life to make money, but this is not the case.

My family situation is not bad, there is no family pressure, no brothers and sisters, and no complicated interpersonal relationships. The money I earn from working and writing novels is enough for me to live very comfortably in a city with prices comparable to first-tier cities.

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So, what am I doing? Why do I make myself so miserable? Why do I choose the most thankless path between easy and difficult?

I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. When I got up and thought about it carefully, I realized that there were two words densely packed in the words - "love".

You may feel a little nauseous, but in fact, all authors of novels will not make enough money to buy medicine if they are not supported by love and creative passion when they create.

The premise is to create seriously, not to make shit like I used to do.

In fact, I have also carefully analyzed it. Most of the sources of my anxiety are that I know that this is a book that is destined to be imperfect. Just like Schiller, the protagonist of this book, was born with an almost incurable disease.

mental illness.

However, a very important manifestation of anxiety disorder is the tendency of perfectionism, which is commonly known as obsessive-compulsive disorder.

For a while, I sat at the table and looked at the wine bottle on the table, as if there was another me sitting across from me.

That me is incomplete and cannot become perfect no matter what method I use. Like this novel, it is also like the life experiences of many people.

She kept telling me that if you continue, you will only increase the suffering for everyone, just like those patients who were born with mental illness but came into this world.

Others were reluctant to let him die, but he couldn't live well either.

There will be a voice in your heart urging you to make a decision that should be extreme, but she tells you that it is a decisive and judgmental decision.

So why didn't I make this decision at that time?
To be continued...