Uploaded the first chapter on November 16, 2019, full of ambition.
On December 1, 2019, when it was 60,000 words long, it was listed in a popular serial to test the water and recommended. It increased by 600 in a single week, which was obviously not good.
On December 8, 2019, 80,000 words were listed on the recommendation list of new science fiction books, with an increase of 800 in a single week. I was confused and anxious.
On December 15, 2019, 120,000 words were listed in the category, with an increase of 700 in a single week, which was a huge hit.
I began to wonder whether the world was wrong or whether I was wrong.
Did I do something wrong? Or has the times eliminated me?
I began to want to face up to my own incompetence and my inability to write a sufficiently satisfying article that would make me fall in love with it after just one glance.
I began to question myself as to whether this story was necessary to continue.
I have always told myself that I should try my best to write novels and have a little bit of trivial pursuit.
Don't be too ambitious, just seek food and clothing with no regrets.
So I always think that stories constructed with care will definitely be appreciated by readers.
I know that my book still goes against the current trend.
It's a slow start, and it's obviously going to be science fiction, but it starts off as a standard urban entertainment.
I am really good at writing about cities, and many people have asked me, if what you want to write is obviously about cities, why do you write about science fiction?
Isn’t science fiction a world of infinite flow and black technology? Why, if you want to write this kind of science fiction with no clear text at the starting point, do you really want to go bankrupt?
I was speechless and choked, not knowing how to answer.
I confess. Really, I didn’t think much about it. It’s just that after experiencing the devastating three consecutive eunuchs in 2019, I asked myself again and again at night, what should I do? How can I survive?
I can't think of any other solution other than changing my career and changing my job.
Many readers know that I used to be engaged in environmental protection and had some achievements. I attended the school's reunion and chatted with my college tutor. He heard about my intention to apply for a job. A week later, I got a job as a technical deputy
The overall offer has been placed in front of me. The monthly salary is not high, but it is not low either.
If I accept this offer and return to my job in the environmental protection industry, I can only and must take responsibility for my family from now on, and I can no longer be distracted by two things.
In the end, I made a decision that my family didn't understand and started a new book.
I thought that the story I had worked hard and worked hard to conceive, no matter how good the results were, would always be recognized by some hardcore readers. Just like that year when I wrote 4.22 million words of "Take the Goddess Queen with You", which was first ordered for 263
, the average order is 2800, and the comic copyright is sold, and the daily sales of Tencent Comics are very high.
I thought I could do it, but reality poured a bucket of freezing cold water on me.
I can't deny that the recommendation results at the beginning were really bad, so I shouldn't recommend Sanjiang strongly.
No one can guess what my state of mind was like when I knew that there would be no more recommendations, and the public chapter was about to reach 300,000 words with numb persistence, so I went to the editor to apply to put it on the shelf directly.
At that time, I had 4,000 collections. What I was thinking about was that now there are so many people reading pirated copies at Qidian, and the book review area is stagnant. Only Ye Feng and a few other die-hard old fans are still encouraging me. I think my subscription-to-book ratio should be about the same.
It won't be a good day.
If the first order is less than 200 and the order-to-revenue ratio is 20:1, just say goodbye to this industry and continue to build sewage treatment stations.
But the ending is a bit embarrassing.
Initial order of three hundred.
I can't get up or down.
It was higher than my expectations, but still not enough for food and clothing.
I started asking myself again.
Should I persevere? What was my original dream?
What kind of book do you want to write? What kind of story do you want to tell?
Do you want to live up to your readers’ trust and expectations again and again?
In the midst of a numbing update, I thought about it for two days and decided to go ahead.
What happened next is known to many new readers.
Brothers have given me many chapter recommendations, and I have not let go of any good brothers who can almost py.
I actually didn’t ask for chapters like this before.
But I found an extremely shameless reason for myself.
To survive.
It is not only the survival of life, but also the last embers of the dream of writing a good story.
I'm going to use my own shamelessness to reignite it.
So I did it.
You should have seen the specific brothers I asked for chapter recommendations in my last post.
To be honest, I didn't have high hopes for the chapter promotions, but what I never expected was that after my brothers' chapter promotions were all in place, my average order increased from more than 200 to 800.
Then, a Silver Alliance came.
The average order quickly exceeded 1,000.
I calculated once at that time that if the daily updates were 8,000 yuan and the average subscription was 1,000 yuan, the monthly manuscript fee could be 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. Although it still could not solve the debt problem, it finally made some sense to persevere.
Before I knew it, another twenty days had passed.
I was waiting for the limited-time free service, which I once despised, but now it is a life-saving recommendation.
Frankly speaking, this should be the only recommendation that can give a serious performance so far in this book.
In the previous test recommendation, the editor treated me well, which is a problem with the book itself.
But this time, I can get it for free for a limited time, and I can finally tell everyone loudly that my motivation to write a book has come back to life.
As long as I work hard to create, treat my books with care, and persevere, I can support myself and my family by telling stories.
I am also deeply grateful for my perseverance before.
I lived up to the failure of 2019, and I hope 2020 will be better for me.
I don’t know what effect this limited exemption will achieve and how many subscriptions it can increase, but it should be better than before.
My last completed book was "Monster Catching Dad", with 2.2 million words and 3,800 orders.
I will still run hard and catch up with my former self.
I still firmly believe that science fiction is the story I want to tell most.
I still firmly believe that no matter where you start or wherever you read novels, there are still a group of readers who like to read science fiction.
My mood is quite complicated today, and what I say is messy. I hope everyone can understand me.
