Please seriously explain to your brothers the updates over the past six months!
In fact, I had thought about posting this speech as early as half a year ago; finally, I can send it out today.
It must have been June 2016. As a veteran veteran, I started "Cheating and Entering Another World" with the idea of creating my last work. However, unexpectedly, once the book was published, the results were as good as
It's said to be a direct hit!
Yes, it is indeed a hit!
With the support of many brothers, the book's performance has been soaring during the free period, even surpassing several super masters who published books at the same time! At that time, Lao Wang really had an illusion: Am I going to become a god?
Lao Wang is a part-time author, and he has to ensure the number of updates during the new book period. Only in this way will the website arrange recommendations. At that time, Lao Wang really saw a glimmer of hope on the road of online novels, so,
Without hesitation, I chose to go all out!
I work during the day and code at night; three updates are guaranteed, often four updates, or even more! If you have old friends who started reading books during that period, after reading this paragraph of mine, you should be able to remember that Lao Wang at that time,
I often update until after three in the morning just to write one more chapter!
During that time, it was really hard!
My family thought I was crazy, and other authors in the same group also said: Lao Wang, are you trying so hard, are you going to die?
I said: Give it a try, maybe this is my last chance to write online novels.
Then, the books began to be put on the shelves for a fee. Readers in the free period will not save even one after the fee is charged!
Among a hundred readers, less than one reads the genuine version, and the rest all go to see pirated versions...
Originally, Lao Wang thought that with this work, he could embark on a full-time career; however, reality slapped me hard and taught me how to be a good person.
However, I still told my editor Panda that I was very satisfied.
At least, the results of this book give me the confidence to continue to stay in the online literary circle.
Although I am not yet qualified to be full-time, I can only work part-time.
After charging for the listing, I continued to work on it for a while, and I should have reached more than 1.5 million words. During that time, I often made a few explosive updates.
However, after that, I probably didn’t make much news. There was no high-sounding reason, there was only one reason: my body couldn’t bear it!
Just imagine, going to bed at two or three in the morning every night and getting up to go to work at seven the next morning; moreover, this kind of part-time life is not just a day, but a long-term!
Over time, my body has collapsed.
Before I wrote this book, I was a popular teenager on the sports field; after writing this book, I gained more than 20 pounds and looked slovenly all over. My wife said that this was not really fat, but puffiness from being too tired.
I am really worried that one day I will suddenly die in front of the computer late at night while writing a book. If that happens, my death will have no value other than becoming a topic for other authors in the industry to chat about. This kind of thing does not matter to us authors.
Circle, there is a real thing, and there is more than one example.
So at that time, I told my brothers: From now on, I will not update anything later than twelve o'clock.
I’m really tired and scared!
Earning pitiful rice money, but suffering both physically and mentally.
I often see brothers say, you are an author, you must be dedicated!
How to be dedicated?
Give one life in exchange for a pound of rice?
However, in fact, I often updated after midnight, even after one o'clock in the morning, after two o'clock...
Sometimes I ask myself, for what?
All I can say is that in order to give an explanation to the few genuine readers who are waiting for updates!
I am also a reader, and I understand the pain of waiting for an update. In the past, when I was waiting for an update, I would scold him: What did this stupid author do every day? It would only take a few hours to write a chapter, but write it for me instead!
It wasn't until I wrote my own book that I realized that the most difficult thing about writing a book is not the coding, but the conception - I spend far more time on conception every day than on coding. Moreover, the further the book reaches the later stage, the more plots there are that cannot be solved
The more you write, the more tired you become when you conceive!
If I were a full-time author, I could read many other novels every day to draw inspiration. But I am only a part-time author. It’s late at night when I get home from get off work every day, and my brothers are still waiting for me to update—if I don’t update, they run to read novels. Come to draw inspiration? It doesn’t exist!
If I really explain it to readers like this, saying that I can’t write it, I’m going to read novels to find inspiration!
I am certain that readers will immediately come out and say: I accept this excuse!
Is this an excuse?
In fact, only the author’s friends know!
Sometimes I see readers saying, why are your writing getting worse and worse?
In fact, sometimes, it’s not that I don’t know that my writing is bad, but... even if I know that my writing is bad, I still have to bite the bullet and write!
Because, if you don’t write it, you will get scolded even more!
Even if I know that I don’t write books, I just come up with plots, but will readers believe this explanation?
I just want to ask readers and friends: Which author doesn’t want to write more and make more money?
My wife really supports me a lot in writing books. Sometimes she says, how about you quit your job and write books full-time?
Quit your job... These four words are very light, but they bear the weight of a family.
To be honest, I still made some money from this book, but it was about the same as my salary. And when I go to work, in addition to salary, I also have social security; when I write a book, I don’t get social security!
Moreover, when I go to work, I can be sure that I will continue to receive wages in the future; the longer I work, the higher my wages will be. However, writing the next book may not make a penny at any time.
There are also some readers who encourage me to go full-time. But to be fair, do you think I am qualified to go full-time?
Unless, among the ninety-nine pirated readers, nine come back to read the genuine version - don't miss these nine genuine readers. You must know that my genuine readers "do not save one in a hundred"; nine out of a hundred come back,
Then my income can be doubled!
Even if only two people come back, my income can be doubled or tripled!
And this is also the author's sorrow - whether there is food or not depends entirely on the reader's mood.
Some people also want to say, if your writing is not good and you cannot retain readers, who is to blame?
Since ancient times, deep love cannot be retained, only tricks can win people's hearts.
Brothers, open the library and take a look, you will find that eight out of ten books have exactly the same routine!
However, there is only one copy of "Cheating and Entering Another World"!
Of course, this has little meaning in improving my income - websites like to promote the same routine articles. Otherwise, you won't see so many identical books.
It must have been in August last year, around my birthday, that I told my brothers that my health couldn't bear it anymore, so I dropped my watch from three to two every day.
It was true that my body couldn't bear it, but there was another reason: at that time, my wife found out that she was pregnant.
My wife should be said to be a very hypocritical person! Yes, very hypocritical! (This sentence should not be seen, right?)
What will happen to hypocritical people after pregnancy? They will become a hundred times more hypocritical!
So, after I got off work every day, in addition to staying up late and coding, I also had one more thing to do: coax my wife!
Moreover, my wife's health was not very good during her pregnancy. She had to go to the hospital dozens of times - I had to make up for these dozens of days off at work; therefore, updates are even slower.
But actually, having said that, my wife is really supportive of my career.
Older brothers may have experience that after their wives become pregnant, they especially need companionship.
For example, when my wife was pregnant, if I stayed with her, she would sleep much better. But... brothers, if you look at the time I update every day, you will find that it is very rare for my wife to sleep sweetly.
Occasionally, if I go to bed before 11 o'clock, it is a very good gift to my wife. And the price for giving this gift is that many brothers will say: Your sister, Lao Wang, is lazy again.
, went to bed at eleven o'clock!
To be honest, I owe my wife a lot.
To put it nicely, it’s called chasing dreams; to put it harshly, it’s fucking selfish.
I don’t want to let down the readers, nor do I want to let down the family. However, I didn’t do it well.
Today, I am dedicating a single chapter to explain it because... Today, Brother Wang and I become a father!
Lao Wang and I have been in the hospital since the day before yesterday, so there is only one update in the past two days. There should be some brothers who have guessed my situation the day before yesterday, right?
In fact, I found out I was pregnant in August last year. It was already thirty or forty days old at that time; as of today, I am 35 weeks, which is a few days early.
During the day, outside the delivery room, I was so nervous that I was shaking all over. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I hid in the corridor alone with my mother on my back and cried.
At that time, I suddenly discovered that as an author, I had not even thought of the name of my child...
What an irony!
Fortunately, everything is fine and the baby was born safely!
Then suddenly I found that I had more responsibilities on my shoulders.
From now on, I will not only work hard to live a better life, but also work hard to make my children’s future better.
No matter what my child does in the future, I don’t want him to be a hard-working coder.
From now on, there will be a new member in the family to take care of. When I go to work, I am even less likely to quit my job. This is the money for the child’s milk powder; and writing a book... I really don’t dare to brag about what I want to do - how much time do I have?
, I’m still a bit nervous in my heart!
But I will still work hard to update it twice every day and give this book a perfect ending - this is my promise to my brothers from beginning to end.
Finally, thank you to every brother who saw this sentence! It is you who have always been with me and made my code words and my flashy and unrealistic dreams meaningful!
I am even more grateful to every brother who has read the official version for making my hard work pay off in a substantial way!
It's late at night, I've been excited and nervous all day, Lao Wang, I'm really tired today, and I really can't calm down to type.
Now I am in the hospital, sitting next to my wife's bed. My great wife finally fell asleep soundly, while I was holding my mobile phone and typing this paragraph - don't say that I typed such a lot of words, I might as well write one more chapter.
In fact, Lao Wang's typing speed is very fast; however, typing fast does not mean writing books is fast.
When writing a book, more time is spent on ideation, and less time is spent on actual typing.
Finally, I wish every married brother or sister to have a baby soon! I also hope that the unmarried brothers and sisters will work hard!
Thank you for everything life has given me!
Thanks for all the encounters!
Thank you for everyone's concern!
Finally, let me end this speech with the most annoying four words: No update today!