More than half a month ago I learned that there was a big push today, and the editor asked me to prepare one. I have been thinking about it, what should I write?
I was still confused until last night. I woke up early in the morning and was sorting out my five years of coding experience. Even I was embarrassed. I will write down a summary of my unlucky experience and leave it to myself.
Remember it.
Why did I want to write a book in the first place? It was because around 2009 or 2010, the eunuch "Marrying Sister" was released, and I was so angry inside!
Later, a guy named "Chen Xiaobai" came out to write "The Obscene Dragon", "The Eunuch", and then "The Story of the Gold", and continued to be the eunuch, and I was very angry!
So I came up with the idea of writing it myself. From 10 to 2012, I messed around intermittently. Sometimes I lost it for a few months, and then picked it up again and revised it repeatedly. At first I wanted to write a Western fantasy with a DND architecture, but in the end I ended up writing it.
"The Secret of Radiation" was first published on Qidian.
Please note that my history of blood and tears has officially begun.
"Fallout" was first released on Qidian. For half a month, I racked my brains to get a contract, but failed. Finally, I went to "Zongheng" in a daze and signed somewhere.
Do you know what is the most difficult thing for me? I just sent out the contract with Zongheng, and then the contract signing message from Qidian came.
I was not thick-skinned at the time, and I felt that I had already signed the contract and could not break it, so I just went to Zongheng. So I stayed at Zongheng for a year and a half, until the beginning of 2014.
If you go astray at this step, you will never go smoothly again!
The book "Radiation" has accumulated a certain degree of popularity for me. At that time, I updated it every day, and each update cost 3k. I was working as a part-time codewriter, which was quite leisurely, with a good mentality and no rush.
But sometimes I sigh. Many people say that if this book had been at the starting point, maybe there wouldn’t be so many bad things later.
The best results for "Fallout" were at 500. For a long time, others knew me through this book.
When "Fallout" was coming to an end, a friend introduced me to Taiwan's Nine Stars, a Western fantasy-type "Desperado" signed in "Zongheng" called "Enemy of the World".
I was so excited at that time, I felt like I was awesome, I had already published a physical book, and a great future was right in front of me! Maybe I would become a god in the blink of an eye! I quit my job and started coding full-time!
As a result, the book was cut in half within two months of its release. The publisher said, ‘If you can’t sell it, stop writing it.’ The last twelve volumes were 700,000 words, Eunuch!
..., do you know how I felt at that time? I can't describe it. I can only describe it as a slap in the face. Or other negative words to describe it, it must be right.
Hard-working people naturally have hard-working things!
At that time, I was discussing with the editor of "Zong Heng" how to write the third book. It was said that Wireless Wen was popular, so I thought about writing fantasy. I wrote a lot of beginnings to no avail, and was shot and killed again and again by the editor of "Zong Heng".
I don’t want to serve you anymore. I really can’t write a simple essay!
I started a new round of seeking death... I went to 'Chuangshi'. My current pen name has '.qd' added to the end of it because I registered 'Tong Chi Taoist' in 'Chuangshi'. There was nothing I could do about it.
Used at the starting point.
Some people teased me about whether this meant "immorality", but I could only curl my lips and show that I was aloof and ignored.
I wrote the urban novel "The Conqueror" in "Creation". Later I felt that the title of the book was too confusing, so I changed it to the more memorized title "The Future Soldier of the City". It has 500,000 words and is also a eunuch.
This means it’s not that the title of the book is bad, but that I’m not good at it. As for what’s bad about it, I don’t know.
Remember... these are all domestic slaves with three surnames, but this is not the end of seeking death.
By the end of 2014, I was really anxious. A friend found a job for me in Beijing. My friend was so respectable that he allowed me to receive a salary of several thousand dollars a month and continue writing books without doing anything.
But this good thing only lasted four months, because my boss didn't want me anymore after the New Year because of my arrogance and teasing... and many reasons.
I guess my boss is also very angry with me, a shameless stickman who only gets paid and doesn’t do any work!
And from the end of 2014 to the middle of 2015, I went to "3g" and wrote two books "Dragon Soul Martial Emperor" and "Invincible Wreck-It King". Just like "Future Warrior", I jumped on it.
This is also a very strange experience. There is not much to say. Anyway, I just write hard and watch others succeed.
From July to November of 2015, I was thinking about whether to submit a manuscript to a Taiwanese publishing house. I wrote two manuscripts and submitted them to two publishing houses. There was no news from one, and the other politely declined.
To put it bluntly, he still looks down on me.
That was the most difficult time for me, from the time I resigned at the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2015. In two years, I achieved nothing, and I had no shame to say that I was a coder. No one supported me, really no one, I suffered.
The shock was so great that I suffered from severe insomnia.
That year, I even ran to the stock market desperately, wondering if I could... As everyone knows, the stock market crashed and I was trapped. I haven't recovered yet, and I still can't bear to cut my flesh, so I can only hold on.
Because I lost so much and was too lazy to take care of it, I have even forgotten the account number and password of my stock account.
What’s funny is that I was extremely depressed and took medicine indiscriminately. Because of taking medicine indiscriminately, I once fell down on the sofa at home at two o’clock in the middle of the night, my brain exploded, and I felt like I would die in the next second. As for other illnesses, let’s not mention them.
, it is not uncommon for some authors to fail after writing.
At that time, I really reached a desperate situation. I wasted two years and wasted the skills that I had relied on for more than ten years to make a living. I couldn't go back to the original path. The road to coding seemed to be dead, so I still
My family is about to be ruined if I have to endure all kinds of cynicism.
I thought at that time that God would take pity on me and give me a way to go, so I was thankful!
At that time, someone asked me to be a gunman. I could write short articles at fifteen thousand words. Even the outline was laid out for me. I just had to write.
I refused.
Uncle, I used to have a monthly salary of nearly RMB 10,000 before tax, but now I am being paid fifteen thousand words. Why am I paying such a high price just to eat dog food?
Bah..., uncle, I don’t accept it!
But it doesn’t work for eggs.
My classmate called me and asked if he could introduce me to a job. He said he might be able to get a salary of 15,000 yuan a month.
I said 'Okay, okay, okay', I was so happy!
After half a month and no news, I called and asked, saying, 'I introduced you, but my boss doesn't want you because he thinks you're not good enough.'
My heart went cold.
In November 2015, I continued to struggle and went to Longkong to find the mailboxes of various online writing websites, and then sent articles to ask for a buyout.
This is my last desperate struggle.
Most of the emails went unanswered. An editor from Hongshu ignored me but asked me to revise the manuscript. An editor from NetEase took pity on me and finally gave me a 20-yuan offer.
Remember how many websites I stayed on?
Five!
House slaves with five surnames
Twenty for a thousand words, I counter-offered thirty for a thousand words, but they refused. Well, I still have a living, so I can’t ask for too much. So my sixth book "Flower World" was uploaded after the Chinese New Year in 2016.
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I felt at the time that this was my last chance. Although I had repeatedly claimed that this was my last chance, if I didn't succeed this time, I really wouldn't be able to survive.
I won’t mention my unlucky experience at NetEase. Sometimes success doesn’t come from hard work. Anyway, I wrote 1.1 million words, which cost NetEase Cloud Reading RMB 20,000 in royalties. I have no shame in continuing there.
Scammed money.
As for why I am shameless, I would say that I stayed at NetEase for a few months, and the most I collected was 1,000?
Others charge tens of thousands for manuscripts, but I charge a few hundred.
Man, I am a person with high self-esteem. I have no shame anyway. My moral integrity is a joke. I can go away!
After going around in a circle, many people said to me, "Why don't you go back to the starting point?"
I feel like the starting point is so high-end, I don’t deserve it!
The competition is so fierce, can I stand out?
There seems to be some shady story or something, so I just rush into the street. Can I get in?
Don't be ridiculous, I really thought so. I was torn by a series of blows and felt extremely unconfident.
I want to thank the 'rustic guy' who was hanging out at Qidian. I guess it was because he felt sorry for me that one day he said to me, 'Write an introduction and I will help you send it to the boss of Qidian Science Fiction in May to try it out.'
You can buy a thousand words forty or fifty' casually.
Is there such a good thing?!
That was in March this year. Anyway, my morale was at zero, so I just gave it a try. What if the boss in May took a fancy to me?
As a result, the boss was blind, felt it was worthless, and refused!
Is this the end?
Is this a complete overturn?
Are you going to kill yourself and bid farewell to life?
I'm angry!
If you say no, then reject it. If you say it’s worthless, then it’s worthless. If you don’t buy it out, I won’t issue the book!
Uncle, I am a shameless person anyway. I uploaded it myself and mixed it up myself, but I still don’t believe it!
So I received the signing contract message three days after I published the book.
Unfortunately, I only started with 30,000, which is what you see now in "Wasteland Rising".
This damn* is my own rise, okay!
From the end of April to November now, I have written more than 1.5 million words, and I have stumbled along the way. This process has also been filled with bitterness and tears, but at least my confidence has returned.
Thanks to the Qidian platform, I have been able to get out of the street and finally have enough food and clothing.
If I had known this earlier, I would not have left when I was writing "Fallout" in 2012. My miserable experiences over the years have proven one thing - finding a good platform is much more reliable than trying to figure it out on your own.
I also want to thank you for your editorial expedition. There are probably not many funny writers like me, so please bear with me.
I don't know if the words I wrote will be of any help to others. I only know that everyone's success is different. Everyone should figure out the specific path for themselves.
If you don’t have a good father, a good mother, and good luck, you should at least have a self that can withstand beatings.
The writing is crude, commemorating my troubled coding career. I hope that one day I can earn hundreds of thousands a month, and when I look back and laugh about my experience, it is a training. And if I fail, this is not a training, but a joke and a shame.
Until then... let's wait until then. I'd better keep my feet on the ground and code.