This title was chosen because there will be a book club on Weibo at 15:00 on October 26, 2011, where everyone’s questions will be answered on the spot. Everyone is welcome to attend.【】
At the same time, having such a gimmicky title will attract more book friends to come in and have something to talk about.
From the first day of writing on April 16, 2006, the creation of "Subverting the Swordsman", to the failure of "Become a God", to the success of "Return to the Ming Dynasty to Be a Prince", to the loss of "Wolf God",
Until today, I have experienced a lot, understanding the rules, mastering the taste of readers, and positioning my own writing style...
When I wrote "Subversion of the Swordsman" under the pseudonym of "Sleepwalker", I really felt like I was sleepwalking. I didn't understand the rules at all. I just immersed myself in creation. I wrote 150,000 words in 15 days, so I was placed on the newcomer list (
Because at that time, the newcomer list started with 50,000 words, and it took a month to be on the list, but the number of words could not exceed 150,000, otherwise it would be removed from the list early).
Fourthly, the publicity stage is half a month shorter than others, and the loss is not insignificant.
Then came the creation of "Becoming a God". This book gave me more feelings and gave me more experience. I already knew at that time that I could not exceed 150,000 words in a month, but I still didn't understand the rules carefully. I thought
If 50,000 words are on the list, then the updates before 50,000 words will not be counted in the new book period of this month, so I published the book even though I knew I would be on a business trip for half a month in a week. As a result, after publishing a week, I went on a business trip, and after I came back
It will be posted for another week and will be removed from the list when it expires.
When I was released from the list, I reached third place in the newcomer list, but I still only published the book for half a month.
At the same time, because of the positioning of one of the heroines, Ye Feixue, this book caused an uproar in the book review section. Those who sympathized with and approved of her, while those who opposed and disliked her, set off a frenzy of debate.
I was still a newbie at the time, and my recommendations were not high on the list, but if there had been a review list at that time, I'm afraid no one would have been more popular in the book review section than me.
At that time, the book reviews were the highest on the 100th floor. My book review area was a 100th floor every half hour, and there was absolutely no irritation on any floor. They were all long and fierce debates. In terms of content, sometimes five or six people were found.
At the same time, it was aimed at the speech of a certain person five or six floors ago.
In fact, I continued writing with a feeling of sadness and anger at the time. In the later stage, I uploaded a few words in the chapter and then uploaded the whole thing in a modified way, which means it was free.
I just want to finish writing this story, but there are some low-quality people who started insulting the characters in the book, and then started insulting me, and affected my family. Even if you update it for free, you still continue to insult me, and your anger and sadness are silent day by day.
Accumulating.
Finally one night, Xia Tian, I was so tired that my forehead was sweating. I coded more than 7,000 words. When I was about to upload it, I saw those vicious words and completely lost control, and the pent-up anger burst out.
I deleted all the chapters I had just coded, then sat in front of the computer and smoked silently. Finally, I sadly wrote down all my future creative ideas, and then announced that I would stop writing. When I finished typing the last word,
I went up, my eyes blurred with tears...
A man doesn’t shed tears easily because he hasn’t reached the sad point yet!
At that time, it was 2:30 in the morning. I had to get up at 6:00 in the morning and ride my 28 Daqi for an hour to go to work in another district.
Can’t I write about a girl that everyone loves?
no!
Ye Feixue is not a bad girl. On the contrary, she is kind and filial. Her choice of marriage is a normal choice for many girls in real life. But the failure, the failure, is that she was written too beautifully, but too real, and some readers She couldn't bear the fact that she didn't marry the protagonist, so...
But my idea at the time was just to write about a real woman. After all, this is an urban fantasy book. For me, cities, skills can be fantasy, but not even people can be fantasy?
Of course, if you look at what Ye Feixue did today, I am afraid that readers would be amused by those readers who relentlessly scolded her at that time, because in the countless works created today, her behavior is nothing. It was quite advanced when I wrote it this way.
At that time, I was frustrated and really didn’t want to write anymore, so I put aside the keyboard, grabbed the mouse, and played around with the birds.
But I like writing, I really do.
Since childhood, I have loved books.
At that time, my father was a soldier in the field army, and I was in the mountainous area with the army. I had few books to read, so I borrowed them everywhere. There was really no book to buy, so I picked up a torn Japanese version of "Journey to the West" in the army compound, and I wanted to go there. , I couldn’t tell the complete story at all. Rather than saying that I was working on a novel at the time, it was better to say that I was holding a novel and reading the words I recognized in the novel.
Then, at 6:30 every night, I stood in front of the radio and listened carefully to Liu Lanfang's "The Complete Biography of Yue". The next day, I could tell it vividly and vividly to the children in the courtyard. In fact, it was also a book, but it was just that Words are transmitted to my mind through other people's mouths, rather than being directly reflected in my eyes.
In the early days, I collaborated with my classmates to write a martial arts novel imitating the ancient dragon style. I wrote a thick pile of paper, which was then confiscated by the teacher and put on the corner of the table.
I like books, I like, I like writing.
Then today, many years later, I discovered this platform, which can realize my dream.
The insult hurt, but I couldn't bear to let go of it.
After traveling for half a month, I came back.
Can’t I write about a girl that everyone loves?
no!
I just wanted to write about a real woman who made mistakes, but in the end was reborn from the ashes, took the body of the Goddess of Luo, and returned to the arms of the protagonist!
If you want to be loved by others, I will write to you!
So, I changed my pen name to Yue Guan!
Therefore, in "Return to the Ming Dynasty to Be a Prince", Han Youniang, whom everyone loved, appeared.
But I was unwilling to do so. I held my breath, but I just didn’t think that a girl with a good nature, but who suffered various encounters that she could not resist by herself, could not be reborn from the ashes!
So, when Huiming grew stronger day by day and was loved by more and more book friends, I began to try to create another character whose situation was more complicated and unbearable than Ye Feixue: Cheng Qiyun!
There are three thousand poems in beautiful rhyme. Who knows what Linglong is thinking?
This time, I was careful, bit by bit, bit by bit, slowing down the pace, letting people get to know her bit by bit, peeling off her appearance, and clearing her soul.
This time, I succeeded.
There is no doubt that I cannot make everyone like her. Even Han Youniang is criticized by some. But the vast majority of people like her, at least they will not dislike her.
I grew up step by step, learned some rules, learned some techniques, and achieved some successes, but I wanted to be innovative and changeful, so I tried Western fantasy this time.
When I felt that the story of "Return to the Ming Dynasty to Be a Prince" should end, I ended it decisively when it ranked first for six consecutive months from July to December 2007.
Hui Ming ended in early January 2008, and by the end of that month it was still ranked second on the overall list. The first place was "Star Change" and the third place was "The Ultimate Servant".
This kind of courage is not unique to me, but it is not something that most authors can achieve. I love my work like my own child. When I feel that it should end, I don’t want to make fun of it and discredit my own child.
If I had continued to write history with the power of returning to the Ming Dynasty, my results can be imagined. Given the popularity at the time, I would have been at least in the top three.
But I wanted to change, so I gave up my 150,000-strong historical novel collecting book club at the time and started fantasy. Most of the people who already had book friends couldn’t possibly like both history and fantasy. I was completely, completely
of restarting.
This book can be said to be a failure. Some things will not be successful if you just write according to your own wishes. In the fantasy genre, the most important thing is the upgrade system. You can fight with others for ten chapters in a row. You can
If you use three chapters to describe in detail how the protagonist practices the mysterious and mysterious skills, the readers will still enjoy it with great interest. However, if you focus on writing about people, things, and emotions, and ignore the characteristics of fantasy itself, that will not work.
I still wanted to try it, and this time I chose "Rainbow All the Way".
As long as I write about the city, I cannot completely separate myself and write an urban novel from beginning to end. I will unconsciously think of some heavy things and some realistic things, and reflect them into my life.
novel.
Therefore, although there are always people who tell me to this day: My favorite of your novels is Rainbow all the way, how it is, how it is, but in terms of performance, it is not successful.
To this day, I still maintain a habit, that is, every post posted by a reader.
At that time, there was a reader, whose name I can no longer remember. He said to me in the book review area: "Is Jin Yong more famous than you? He wrote fifteen martial arts books in his life, seven up and eight down. Qiong Yao is more famous than you.
Are you famous? She has written a romance all her life and created countless film and television stars. Are her abilities any greater than yours? What about you, you have tried all of them, including martial arts, urban, Eastern fantasy, Western fantasy, and history.
, what else do you want, what else do you want to try? Isn’t it better to write about what you are best at?”
This sentence touched me very much, so I went back to write history.
However, I still held on to the energy and didn't want to simply repeat it, so I chose the ancient pre-Qin era.
Today’s readers know too little about the stories of that era, and have a clear sense of immersion...
Therefore, although the return to history has been successful, there is obviously still a gap compared to its heyday.
I am changing, trying my best to broaden the scope of the play, and at the same time, I have to move closer to the readers.
After all, I am standing on this stage to perform for them.
I'm not like Guo Dalu in "Happy Heroes", who throws a plate of sweet and sour carp on the guest's face, points at his nose and yells: "Of course you put more sugar and vinegar in the sweet and sour fish, why don't you add more?"
Salt, do you know how to eat fish? Do you know how to eat fish?"
If you want to be so self-admired, just create a blog and post it. What are you doing here?
Fortunately, with the support of my book friends, through "Step by Step, Lotus Grows" and now "Night Walk in Brocade", I have recovered step by step, and my ranking has risen again.
Today's environment is no longer what it was back then. It's very, very difficult to win a place.
I always feel that readers should subscribe and it is earned through my hard work. But other than that, recommendation votes, rewards, reviews, etc., everything is out of love.
.
This is what I think and what I do, but it does not mean that what I can say or what I can do, my old book friends and book group managers can be my spokespersons to expand it infinitely.
Someone mentioned cheating on tickets, Yue Guan disdains it!
Someone mentioned that readers are encouraged to accumulate funds and run on the alliance leader for rewards. It is shameless to close the month!
These things were not possible for me before, are not possible now, and will still not be possible in the future.
But you can’t overdo it, right?
Now when my leader rewards me, and after the reward has been given, I often see my die-hard book friends post to advise: "No need to reward, you just need to subscribe,..."
So my book friends and allies who rewarded me, even though they have already paid their dues, feel instead of happiness and pride, they seem to feel ashamed, lost, and confused?
So as soon as my new book friends joined the group and asked enthusiastically how to subscribe, my enthusiastic old book friends and the management immediately came to greet me and said: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome. Subscribing is the right thing. Anything extra is just out of love.
If you want to vote, vote..."
So when some book friends in the group said that I was very excited about the chapter on that day, and called on everyone in the group to vote quickly, old readers, old managers, and new readers rushed up and said: "
Young people, don't be impulsive, just invest if you want, let everything happen, we come with the wind and go with the wind..."
It doesn’t matter to you. Readers and friends can’t only have one book. If they have votes, of course they will vote for other books. If you don’t, why would others rush to give away tickets?
The gentlemanly style has been extended to an extreme in my case. I am doing Song Xianggong, turning all my readers into gentlemen, just like a group of penguins in tuxedos...
We are leisurely, we are at ease, we are swaying, we are indifferent to the world, we are in the uninhabited Antarctic glacier...
That's right?
We are here.
You can always vote normally, right?
The deliberate construction resulted in a deliberate laziness and indifference.
We don’t encourage tipping, we insist on not cheating on votes, and we stick to our principles and bottom line, but that doesn’t mean we don’t do anything. Even if we shout that friendship comes first, we still have to run when it’s time to run, right?
This is a battlefield that requires competition. Our bottom line is to fight without unfair means, not not to fight, let alone bullshit.
Without votes and not on the list, where will my readers come from? Will they give me, this Penguin gentleman, repeated recommendations?
In the late Ming Dynasty, there were more than 10,000 words per day, but now there are actually quite a few, with an average of 9,000 words of updates per day. Everyone knows my situation. With my fragile body and limited time, is it easy to achieve this step?
?
Why is the big chapter broken into small chapters? Because many readers only know the chapter number, but they don’t know the word count, so I have to explain it over and over again, but I can’t explain it here every day.
Today is no different than before. There are too many “means” of competition and too many “methods” of competition.
"A gentleman can bully others"
If there was any punctuation mark in this sentence of Teacher Mencius, it would be a comma in between, and there would be another sentence after it, so it’s clear!
"It's hard to ignore the wrong way!"
The atmosphere that needs to be improved must be improved, and normal competition must be maintained. I hope to have excellent results, and my book club will be proud of me!
We have come to this day through ups and downs. Looking back, it was not easy with all the ups and downs!
Hundreds of teams are vying to travel, but I only hope: we are in the same boat through thick and thin, and we will go up together!
Occasionally, someone will jump to the book review area and say: "If you have the time, you might as well write one more chapter..."
I replied to him in advance: "Shut up, write your thoughts and write a novel, those are two different things! One just opens his mouth and the other racks his brains, how can they compare?"
It’s late at night, so please stop by and ask for a ticket!