Received the editor's notice, it will be on the shelves tomorrow, please support!
Putting it on the shelves means charging, and it also means that I finally have an income, instead of just relying on love to generate electricity.
I also follow the old rules and take this opportunity to have a heart-to-heart talk with you.
I'm really busy at ordinary times. I update nearly 10,000 words every day. I'm so tired that I can hardly breathe. After I finish working, I don't want to say a single unnecessary word or type an unnecessary word. I just want to lie down on the bed and have a good rest.
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But the acceptance speech is still indispensable. No matter how tired you are, you must work hard to write it.
In fact, I have forgotten how many books I have written, and how many times I have written testimonials for the books to be published. Anyway, I vaguely remember that every time I write a speech for the books to be published, I will recall how poor and miserable I was, and how difficult it was to embark on this road.
It’s not easy, so I hope everyone can support genuine reading.
But this time, I don't want to write about this.
——Although I was indeed very poor, so poor that you can’t even imagine it. As a pure northerner, I couldn’t even live in a house with heating when I was a child. Moreover, the house was very dilapidated. It leaked in summer and had no water in winter.
The wind leaked, and it lasted like this for eighteen years.
Being poor is actually nothing, you can always get through it if you grit your teeth.
But poverty can break a person's spine, change a person's behavior, personality, and thoughts, and make a person abnormal from the inside out. He becomes anxious, impatient, not calm, and has low emotional intelligence. This is the most important thing.
Terrible place…
(Of course, this is not absolute. Some people are very poor but have an open-minded heart. I am just talking about most ordinary people.)
I won’t go into details here, anyone who has experienced it can understand.
Today, I want to tell my story about writing.
I love writing, which can probably be traced back to the third grade of elementary school.
I still can't forget it. It was the first time in my life when I wrote a composition - looking at pictures and writing a paragraph - I somehow enlightened and used a metaphor. The Chinese teacher praised me repeatedly and gave me a full grade.
High marks in the class.
Since then, I have developed a strong interest in writing, and started to read books, newspapers, magazines crazily, anything with words, I will read it eagerly, and write down any good words or sentences I see.
Trying to use it in the next composition will result in my composition getting high marks again and again.
Therefore, this is a virtuous circle. The higher my essay score, the more interested I am in reading and writing. The more I read, the more comfortable I become in writing.
This situation continued until high school.
When I entered high school, I never got high marks in my essays.
Because I am obsessed with online games.
Well, that was such an unbearable memory. I stayed in an Internet cafe all night long, thinking about upgrading and upgrading. I slept in the classroom during the day without combing my hair or washing my face.
No wonder, it almost became a joke to the whole class.
Teachers have said to me more than once: How poor is your family and you are still so unsatisfactory? What will you do in the future?
Thinking about it now, that was really good advice, but how could I listen to it at the time?
Later, I graduated. Of course, as expected, I didn't go to college. Instead, I went to a local junior college that I could get into with money.
It was at that time that I suddenly lost interest in online games. I felt that it was too stupid to upgrade mechanically every day and do tasks. What should I do with this time? Even if I can't learn, why not read a book?
Fortunately, reading is my biggest hobby in life.
No matter when, reading has only advantages and no disadvantages.
After reading too much, my hands started to itch, and I felt that if others could write, I could write too.
After I finished writing, I submitted articles to popular magazines at the time, such as Zhiyin, Reader, and Youth Digest. Of course, everything came to nothing. They didn't even give me fifty yuan.
I had no choice but to write on the forum again.
I wrote and wrote, and I really made a name for myself. I was rated as one of the top ten influential figures in the xx forum (I'm not bragging, you can find this on Baidu), but I still have no income and my life is still going on.
It has to be tight.
When it came time to get married, except for the main wedding car, which was an old Mercedes-Benz, the other wedding cars were all Honda Accords. When I went to my father-in-law's house to pick up the bride, people at her family said, "Why did you get these cars..."
Now that I think about it, it’s all bitter!
Later, I started writing online novels, starting from Refusing to Join the Underworld, and then writing about being young and frivolous, Who Can I Fight With, Young King, The Dragon Raises His Head, and now he is No. 1 in the World.
It must have been very hard at the beginning. There was no income. I received a subsistence allowance of one to two thousand a month. It was difficult to support my family and myself even with this income!
Fortunately, I had a job at that time, and I was officially employed by a state-owned enterprise (haha, this word is quite old, but it is still very popular in our hometown, and everyone values this). I was the kind of person who could not starve to death even if I was not full.
The job also pays one to two thousand a month.
The two incomes added up are barely enough.
But it’s very difficult. I have to work and write a book at the same time. There are a lot of online novel updates. I spend at least seven or eight hours a day, which is equivalent to having two jobs!
I had to find time to write a book. I went to work at eight in the morning, got up at five to write, got off work at six in the evening, and continued writing when I got home.
Sometimes I secretly write books during working hours.
Hehe, everyone knows about state-owned enterprises, and I am not the only one who fishes in troubled waters.
The workplace’s canteen, stairs, workshops, and security rooms all have traces of my coding.
However, this is not very safe. I am often typing words, and when my boss calls me, I have to return to my job immediately.
To be honest, I didn’t like going to work at that time, I just loved writing books. I often imagined that if the royalties were high, I would quit my job and go home to write books!
I really like writing, and I especially hope to be able to devote my life to it.
In order to achieve this goal, I even missed some good opportunities at work.
My boss once wanted to transfer me to drive.
Everyone knows that in state-owned enterprises, driving is a good job. The main reason is that you are close enough to the leader, and you are the person next to the leader. You feel different, as if you are superior to others.
But when I thought about the need for drivers to be on call and the irregular commute to and from get off work, I declined because it would affect my novel writing!
When my family found out about it, they felt it was a pity and thought that I had missed a good opportunity for a "high promotion".
Another time, the leader wanted to transfer me to the office to write materials (I have published several books, and everyone around me knows it). This is also a good job in the unit. It is better to sit in the office than to work in the workshop, and to contact the leader.
There are also more opportunities, and it is also a career that everyone will envy.
But I know several seniors who write materials, and all of them are tortured to death by the matter of "writing materials". They often can't get home at midnight, and they stay up late at work writing materials...
Undoubtedly, this job will also affect my writing of novels.
After much thought, I still declined the leader's kindness.
I want to write a novel.
I have been stuck with writing novels my whole life!
I don’t believe I can’t write my grades!
It was really hard at that time. I had to take care of work, writing, and family. Fortunately, I married a very virtuous wife, and my father and mother had strong support. I basically didn’t have to worry about trivial matters at home.
I've been careful!
As you all know what happened later, I wrote one book after another, and my income from royalties finally gradually increased, and I reached the point where I could support my family.
I stopped working and settled down at home to write a book.
It has been many years since I wrote it...
Without your support, I wouldn't be where I am today.
I really like writing novels, and I want to write novels for you all my life.
In 2020, I published another book called "No. 1 in the World". Thanks to everyone who has not given up, it ranked first on the new book list and clicked list during the new book period, and received a lot of praise and love.
But then, the real test came.
Subscription list.
The more people who spend money to read this book, the higher the ranking will be.
Whether I can eat this bowl of rice or not, subscription decides everything.
The past glory and historical achievements are nothing. Now we have to start again, from scratch.
As I said before, I like writing novels and want to write novels for you all my life.
Please support me by subscribing!
Let me take you into the real world of "The Best in the World"!
There is only one week left until one month. Can Chen Dong successfully become the captain of No. 3 Middle School?
How will the incredibly powerful Long Yiye deal with Chen Dong?
Will Xiao Xiao be his girlfriend? Will Wang Ying call him daddy?
What is Xiao Xiao’s identity?
Chen Dong's father, Chen Dong's mother, and the mysterious crazy old man...
Everything is in "The Best in the World"!
ps: I don’t need to teach you how to recharge. Who doesn’t have WeChat and Alipay now, haha.
pps: Today is my second daughter’s birthday. If you are not too busy, you can leave her a message of blessing. I will read it to her one by one!