After hanging out for a few years, I came back to my starting point to write a book, which will finally be on the shelves tomorrow (Friday).
According to the usual practice, it seems that you have to write a testimonial for the launch.
Most of the testimonials I saw before were sold poorly.
This makes me very conflicted...
First, the novel "Royal Beasts" is based on lightheartedness and comedy, and then opens up a magnificent fantasy world. I am worried that the poor sales will destroy this atmosphere... What I want is that readers will have fun reading it, readers.
I was so happy to watch it, but suddenly a disastrous acceptance speech came out. Isn’t it too disgusting?
Second, when people reach middle age, they are miserable. They dare not show off their misery because it is too miserable... Poor people don't want others to know that they are poor, and the same goes for miserable people.
So, after thinking about it again and again, I decided to summarize my experiences in the past few years.
After all, this experience is closely related to writing novels, and there is no way around it.
After everyone has read it, comparing the two, maybe you can cherish your current peace and happiness more?
The nightmare started when I started my business in 2009...
Before I started my business, I worked part-time on software while working. The year before I started my business, I earned 190,000 yuan a year from software sales.
In 2008, I was working part-time to earn extra money, and I felt very happy making so much money.
But work was not going well, and my ambitions began to expand, so I started a business (never start a business easily! Never start a business! Never start a business!).
What did you do when you started your first business? To put it simply, it was to open a company, acquire gold coins earned by domestic players in a game, and then sell them to foreigners... Many readers will definitely feel a little familiar, because gold coins are earned in the game.
This kind of thing is still prevalent today.
In the early stages, I did make some money.
But soon, the game began to block gold coin transactions, and then as a middleman, this kind of thing began to happen... After purchasing 50,000 gold coins from the player, the account was blocked.
Money turned into ashes.
No blisters appeared.
How to do this?
In desperation, he transformed into a luggage trade.
After struggling for a while, I got on the right track and started to make money. However, due to various reasons, sales suddenly took a sharp turn.
In the end, I couldn't support it any longer, so in order to save costs, I moved from the city to the suburbs (something I should have done a long time ago).
In order to collect funds, I made a women's bag for 85 yuan and gave it to the stock collector in batches. 20 pieces... 1,000 pieces and 1,000 pieces were released. The stock of millions could not be sold for a few dollars, and my heart was bleeding.
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At the most difficult time, I couldn't even pay the rent and still had a lot of goods.
In the end, my wife approached her father-in-law and borrowed 5,000 yuan for emergency relief.
That was my darkest moment...
I have no money and don’t dare to recruit more people. I do all the work by myself. Even though the business is not good, I can’t finish the things every day... Because my wife is pregnant and my parents are not here, I take care of it all by myself.
Wife, while desperately trying to make money.
During that time, I felt like a zombie.
But I know that I can’t fail, I absolutely can’t fail!
If it collapses, what will happen to the wife? What to do to the children? What to do to the elderly at home?
I grit my teeth and support...
I failed to start my own business twice, and I owed a lot of foreign debt. I was so injured that I didn't recover for many years.
It was not until 2014 that I started to get involved in the online literature industry (I had read novels since I was a child, but I had never written any novels).
Making money by writing novels while running a business, in my opinion, is equivalent to one more way to make money.
The first goal I set for myself was to earn more than 3,000 a month for my first novel, because the monthly salary for better jobs in the city at that time was that much (in 2014).
As long as the manuscript fee for that book can reach more than 3,000 a month, I feel it is a success.
And if it is stable, it will solve my urgent need.
Fortunately, the first book reached its goal very quickly. Although there were many twists and turns in the middle, they were nothing.
Moreover, it will be promoted soon.
Based on my performance at that time, with this recommendation, the monthly manuscript fee could easily exceed 10,000 yuan. I was very looking forward to it and very excited... After two failed business ventures, I hadn't made so much money in a long time.
Besides, I am still a complete newcomer in the online literary circle. I am very happy and satisfied to be able to achieve this level.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the entire online literary world began to sweep away Huang (yellow).
I'm not afraid, because what I write is traditional fantasy, and I'm not writing Xiao Huang's novel.
As a result, the website where my novel was published was stopped, and even the server was blocked... It was blocked... What the hell...
God really knows how to joke.
He didn't give me a sap. He stood in front of me and smashed the stick down, causing my head to bleed. Then he sneered and walked away.
I had no choice but to leave. At the invitation of a friend, I opened a fantasy book "The Strongest War Emperor" on Chuangshi (qq reading) and continued to rush.
My grades continued to rise, and my manuscript fee in the first month almost exceeded 10,000 yuan. I felt that my second spring had finally arrived.
I no longer thought about other things. I was doing business while working hard on coding, and I was immersed in the fantasy world I had built.
This also allows me to temporarily forget the pain of failure in starting a business.
The book "The Strongest War Emperor" has 5.4 million words written, and it is the best book I have ever written.
Although there are definitely various dissatisfaction points, it is indeed a work that has been devoted to everything and is completely immersed in emotion... I have always felt that when an author is immersed in emotion, a novel will have aura, and a novel will have aura.
Aura, no matter what, it will never be too bad.
But later on, the choice to complete the book with more than 5.4 million words was still related to my own financial situation... Because I was burdened by debt, I wanted to earn more. I needed the money so much.
So, I wrote a buyout book outside, and the price was good.
The ideal state at that time was to write a new book, take the buyout money, and still have a lot of royalties for the completed book "The Strongest War Emperor"... The two books are stacked together. Although I can't compare with the great master, I have already
Quite satisfied.
As long as this state lasts for a year or two, my life will completely change.
Tragedy happened again, and he started to sweep away the emperor again...
Readers and friends will probably go crazy when they see this... If you want to sweep away the emperor, you will sweep away the emperor. It has nothing to do with you. Isn't this fantasy?
It's fantasy, a very pure fantasy, so pure that I don't even dare to write the word "bed". The protagonist either sits on a stool or on the ground when practicing.
He is so pure that the protagonist becomes the Supreme Being in the finale, controlling time, space, past and future, but he is still a virgin.
It's so pure that when I write about Chi Luo Luo, I have to use a single character, but readers find it and say it's a typo.
Just like that, there is still no escape... This kind of word appears in a book, such as level 3. If 3 is replaced by three, the word will become **, and if there are too many such words, this chapter will be blocked.
If you block too many chapters, a book will be removed from the shelves and will no longer be available for viewing outside.
This is the end of the story. The book was selling well through many channels. After finishing the book, I was very happy to receive the royalties. Suddenly, it was like a cliff, and everything was gone.
A book of more than 5.4 million words, written for several years, and still making money after it was completed, is gone.
That's fantasy!
I really hate those guys who write little royal texts.
They made money and left in style, but they drag me down to the cesspool for writing fantasy and never recover!
You can't avoid them wherever you go.
No matter where you go, you will be implicated by them!
But is there any way? "The Strongest War Emperor" was finally released, but its peak period has passed and it can't be found on many channels. Even if it is found, it can't be recommended...
Okay, enough complaining.
Times have changed, and although nothing has been achieved, I have finally emerged from the nightmare and the darkest moment.
Nowadays, business is normal, there are off-seasons and peak seasons, but at least I can eat and save some money.
Now that I have opened this new book, I am actually not satisfied with the results, and PK has not rushed to Sanjiang or Strong Recommendation, but for now, I can still write it...
What some authors do is to decisively start a new book if their grades are not up to standard.
My approach is to see a slight upward trend and write steadily until the target is reached!
Moreover, the editor Lu Mingda helped me read the beginning and control the plot before starting the book; after starting the book, he kept helping me keep an eye on the data and help me arrange recommendations... There is a saying, it is not easy to meet a good editor when writing a novel.
Easy, I feel very lucky to have such an enthusiastic editor.
Then, I feel that as an author, the only thing left for me is to write the words well and write the plot well.
Editor Lu Da also comforted me, just take it slow and don’t think too much.
So I put aside a lot of messy thoughts and wanted to write this book with peace of mind, to write it well, to write it long and to write it wonderfully.
This book was released on 9.3. It has been 42 days since today and has more than 250,000 words. It is finally going to be on the shelves.
The total number of words in this book's outline and other information is probably more than 25,000 words, so readers don't need to worry. Suddenly one day, I find that it will no longer be updated...
Now I just want to write with peace of mind, immerse myself in the plot, use a relaxed, funny and passionate style to build the fantasy world in my mind and write out the characters with different personalities in my mind.
If you look at it and burst into laughter, or smile knowingly, I will feel that I have succeeded;
If you watch it, your blood boils, and you want to enter this fantasy world, fight side by side with the characters in it, laugh and have fun, I will feel that I have succeeded;
If you watch it and can't forget the characters and plot, and start to hate me for being slow to update, I will also feel that I have succeeded... Of course, I will definitely work hard to code more words and update more.
In addition, in the Writer's Assistant backstage, I often notice that many readers and friends hardly comment, but vote every day, or secretly give rewards... I even remember the nicknames of many book friends.
Thank you very much, thank you for your silent attention, silent pursuit, and silent support.
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