At 6:20 in the morning, I was sitting in front of the computer after finishing coding for a few days and looking through the group chat, and then I saw this activity.
The activity requirements are to review the creative stories in 2022, the most impressive update content, interesting moments of interaction with book friends, New Year blessings for readers and other related content.
Then the system will send out Easter Egg Chapters. Readers who comment and interact in the Easter Egg Chapters can have a chance to draw a lottery. The highest I heard is that they can draw 6666 points.
Listening to the patter of rain outside the window, I lit a cigarette and began to think about what I had done in the past year.
It seems like there is nothing.
2022 is the year when I will turn thirty, and it will also be the year when I will just throw myself into the street.
At the beginning of the year, I rushed to the street.
Then I wrote a book in Majia, and the results were good and kept improving. The first order was 2,000, and the average order was 1,500. Along the way, I wrote more than 4,000 average orders, and more than 2,000 follow-up orders. This ratio is a good ratio. The number of words at this time
It's about 800,000 to close to 900,000 words, and I've only written less than a third of the plot.
It should work this time, right?
It no longer only has one million words to complete, the plot data has not collapsed at all, and it has been written all the way up from the low initial order.
Everything seems to be moving in a good direction.
Then, it was sent "over the line".
Later, I wrote about entertainment on this vest, and I was blown away.
The reasons and process were discussed in the previous chapter, so I won’t repeat them again.
So, it was the end of the year in a state of confusion.
Then I told the editor: Forget it, I want to write a book that I like this time, and I will write it according to my own ideas. I will accept whatever it is written.
The editor asked me if I wanted to open a vest, which would give me a lot of room for trial and error. No one would know if I cut it off silently. Many people do this.
I said forget it, burn the boat, this vest has been with me for five years from the beginning to now. No matter what happens, it is me, and whatever the result is, it is me.
To be honest, I feel a little regretful thinking about it now.
The book was released, and the readers applauded and said they had been waiting for me for a long time.
Then the first thing everyone did was bet on how many words I would cut.
Well, I also took a gamble myself. I guarantee it would be a million words, right? Maybe even longer?
Everyone laughed, and there was a peaceful atmosphere, so I laughed too.
After publishing the book, everything seemed fine.
The collection continues to increase, and the first two rounds of recommendation increases during the same period were always in the top three or even the top two.
Then the third round of PK failed.
Well, last year Qidian recommended a revised version, and the PC version was very messy, but on the app, the first round was popular serials, the second round was classified as new books, the third round was classified as highly recommended, and the fourth round was highly recommended by the editor.
If there is a fifth round, it will be the strong push after Sanjiang.
Each round of PK is a hard-earned pursuit, that is, paid pursuit of the latest chapters within 24 hours.
The editor can see the follow-up reading two days ago, so the recommendations are also arranged according to the follow-up reading two days ago.
Sanjiang looks forward to reading on Monday.
The first four rounds are recommended for reading on Tuesday.
The third round required more than 800, and I asked for more than 700.
I glanced at the backstage and collected ten thousand.
Most of the books recommended by me at the same time were collected between 5,000 and 8,000, and they all advanced.
Normally, reading will continue to grow, but the ratio to collection will slowly decrease.
In the first three rounds, the ratio of collecting to reading is generally between 4:1 and 7:1.
Anything over 7:1 means there is little potential.
And my ratio at this time is more than ten to one.
The editor asked me if I wanted to cut it because there was no point in writing it down anymore.
Yes, cut it.
Just like the past year, cut it off, open a vest, no one will know it’s me, and then open a new book.
But do you just give up?
I want to give it a try.
If the recommended pk fails, there will be a chance for a rematch in the first four rounds, that is, you can pk again the next week.
I’m going to go to the introductory forum with my author friends who are recommending to come up with the third round of recommendations.
I want to give it a try and don't want to give up just like that.
So I posted a single chapter that I would like to read, and everyone was really supportive. Thank you very much.
The next week, pk advanced.
I successfully entered the third round.
At this time, my pursuit is 1100, and my collection is 1w5.
But it doesn't matter, it's always good to advance.
Everything seems to be fine.
Recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, rewards, and the number of investors are all growing, and the backend collection is growing by four digits every day. In terms of recommendations, I am far ahead of the same period.
It seems so.
But my follow-up reading is 1,300, and my collection is 30,000.
In the author group, everyone brags and beats each other, and I said I sent it.
Everyone said that I was pretending to be modest again. No matter how you look at this data, I am aiming for the first 5,000 orders!
I laughed and had fun with everyone, but only I know the actual situation.
So I started looking for problems.
There are many questions and I cannot list them all.
In fact, every book will have problems, such as pen name problems, expectations problems, writing problems that are too convoluted, and so on.
If you have results, everything about you is right; if you don't have results, everything about you is wrong.
So, this time, most of my colleagues in the same period had the opportunity to go to Sanjiang.
I probably didn't.
Next week is the fourth round, and the follow-up reading on Monday is the last chance.
But I know the chances are slim. I am at least 600 points behind Sanjiang, and more than 1,200 points behind Xiaodiao.
Next Friday it probably won't go to Sanjiang and will go on the shelves in obscurity. It's still the New Year's Eve, so not many people are likely to read the book.
Based on this follow-up reading, the first order should be around 6 to 800. This is the worst first order in the five years I have been writing a book.
But it doesn’t matter, I’ve already looked away.
It’s hard to say that on my thirtieth birthday, I asked my parents to borrow money to pay off the mortgage because I didn’t have a penny in my card.
My dad complained a few words, but my mom didn't say anything.
I quietly went back to the house to sleep.
Early the next morning, I was woken up by a text message that they had transferred money to me.
I did cry, but they all went to work and I didn’t know.
Three years ago I wrote about twenty-seven years of accomplishing nothing, and three years later it became thirty years of accomplishing nothing.
Thinking back on the past year, what happened?
My hair is falling out even more, my face is more haggard, my health is getting worse, I have to go to my parents to ask for money for my mortgage, and my relationship development is in a mess with no progress at all.
It's been a terrible year. It's been a shit year.
But people can never lose confidence in the future.
I often write a sentence in my novels: "Those who always care about the past cannot move toward the future."
So I want to continue writing this book, and I want to write down my results, even if they are very poor compared to me in the past.
After reading the background data, you will not be able to continue writing. Everyone says that you can persevere even if your grades are not good.
But how many can really persist?
So I decided to be an ostrich and never look at the background data again.
As long as I don't look at it, I don't know how bad my grades are!
As long as I write happily, there will always be readers who will like it, even if it is only a small number of readers.
If the author writes unhappy, the readers will feel it.
So as long as you try your best, readers will feel it.
I have always believed so.
The cigarette in my hand burned out, and I put it out in the ashtray.
Listening to the patter of raindrops beating on the window, I clicked on the activity interface again.
[From January 14th to January 21st, writers will sign serial works at Qidian.com and publish New Year-themed chapter submissions, and you can open the [Year of the Rabbit Good Luck Red Packet] Easter Egg Chapter. Book friends can draw some coins by commenting on the Easter Egg Chapter and interacting with it.
Grand prize, up to 6666 points!]
[Please include in the submitted chapters: a review of the creative stories in 2022, the most impressive update reminders, interesting moments of interaction with book friends, New Year blessings for readers and other related content.]
I didn’t create any stories in 2022. It was a shit year, a year in which hope was extinguished and then extinguished.
What’s the most impressive update reminder?
No.
Interesting moments of interaction with book friends?
"Old eunuch", "Definitely have to cut it again", "The writing is so foggy that I can't understand it", "It's a blind date again", "The talent is exhausted", "Trash", "Let's cut it", "Dead eunuch".
New Year greetings to readers and other related content?
happy New Year to all.
After typing this, I hesitated, should I just send it out like this?
Because I remembered what I thought a reader had said a few days ago when I was chatting privately with me.
"Wangchuan, don't always look at those who criticize you. Look more at those who support you. I will always support you! Come on! Don't be discouraged! You are the best and most grounded in my heart.
Angry author!"
I re-read the chapter comments in the book and saw comments that I rarely read in the past.
Looking back on the creation story of 2022?
This is just the trough before taking off! It has already fallen through the center of the earth, and it will always continue to rise in the future!
What’s the most impressive update reminder?
"What about the next chapter? What about the next chapter? What about the next chapter? What about the next chapter? What about the next chapter? What about the next chapter????"
Interesting moments of interaction with book friends?
"This blind date smells like a fool at first glance!" "Come on!" "Update soon!" "Is there a possibility that the timid and lustful one is Wangchuan yourself?" "Where is the black long straight? My black long straight.
How about straight?"
New Year’s greetings to readers:
The past year has not been easy for many people, whether they are students or office workers.
I'm also very disappointed and sad.
But the past has passed. In 2023, I hope everyone can have a safe and positive future.
I'm not good at writing, so I don't know how to say nice New Year greetings, so I can only say something that is true from the bottom of my heart.
Oh, by the way, I heard that the system will automatically send the Easter egg stamps and then draw them there, I don’t know.
This is probably the only benefit I can give you besides writing books (it’s still a bit of a waste).