This is a single chapter that should have been posted on the occasion of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, but at that time I was sitting in front of the computer, and suddenly my mind went blank and I didn’t want to write anything.
I have a feeling that if I write, most of the content will probably be pouring out my bitterness. I know that as a human being, no one is not tired. The poor are busy with their lives and the rich are busy spending money. How can there be anyone who is not tired?
, unless I am a fool. I don’t want to trouble you at such a good time, so I didn’t write. After the emotion subsided and I calmed down, I thought about my 2018 again and wrote these words for recording and sharing.
For those of you who have been accompanying this book for half a year.
I think I should be considered a bit mysterious in your mind. Because apart from posting one or two single chapters a month, I don’t even know how to write an “author’s quote”. Unlike some authors who post every chapter
At the end, I just want to be miserable or cute, roll around like a coquettish person and ask for rewards or monthly tickets.
In fact, such a thing doesn't take much effort. I can do it, but I don't want to. How should I put it, it can't be said to be arrogance. What qualifications does the next brother, a calf and a horse in society, have to be arrogant? It's just a subconscious unwillingness.
, I thought about it this morning, maybe it’s because I’m older.
I was born in 1990. According to what we say here, this year I will be 30 years old.
I am a person whose name starts with "三".
I don’t know if you have ever had such a feeling. When you were a teenager, you would be very strange and resentful. Why do those people in their twenties and thirties look at us in a strange way and call us naive?
It's as if they haven't grown out of their teens.
What’s very embarrassing is that when we really reach this age, looking back, we may even feel that we are very childish.
For example, the matter of 'acting cute and acting coquettishly'.
It's cute when a teenage girl does it. But it seems a little weird when a thirty-year-old does it. How did I discover this feeling, because when I was in my early twenties, I used to like 'a lot'
'Celebrities, I think they are all so cute and cute. But suddenly one day, I found that some of them were already in their early thirties, two years older than me, and they were still acting coquettishly and cutely. I suddenly felt a little pitiful.
There is such a feeling of being ‘forced by life’.
Then I suddenly realized, oh, I am also thirty.
In the past, I always heard elders muttering, people, you do things at your age. When I heard this sentence, I always felt that this sentence was far away from me. I was still a teenager, and I waited until the so-called 'what'
When you're older, it's too late to think about it.
But life often does not allow you to be so calm, because neither you nor I are the protagonists of the novel, nor are we the authors of our own lives. Many people will feel that I have the final say in my life! This is true, but it can really be done.
There are not many people. Most of the time in our lives, others make the decision. We have to deal with it. It is not easy to deal with it.
Probably before August 2017, I didn't feel this way. Because at that time, I was still very happy. This kind of happiness is similar to the happiness of "Erha". I don't want to do so many things and don't have so many things.
Worry. At that time, I even felt that I was already twenty-seven and had not yet reached the so-called 'what age'. I was quite lucky in this life.
ridiculous.
Just at the end of 2017, my life was turned upside down. Things stemmed from some 'interests', and then I saw what human nature is. A relative of mine, who I had never suspected would cheat me,
Not only did he deceive me, but he also insulted me. That's fine, but what I couldn't understand the most was that he attributed it to my lack of experience in the world, and I deserved it, because his reason was that there were too many such things in society.
It's just that you met me.
I was very sad, and I didn't tell him. The reason why I was sad was not that I was cheated, but that he was the one who cheated me.
This incident made me feel that so-called relatives and family affection are unreliable.
Not long after this happened, I lost my income. You can think of it as losing my job, which is similar in nature. At this time, I finally felt what it felt like to be "knocked down by life". I lay in bed and couldn't move at all.
I didn't want to move. At that time, a thought came to my mind. It was already miserable enough, how could it be miserable?
A few days later, my girlfriend broke up with me. The reason was that her mother didn’t agree with us being together. Her mother wanted a civil servant, a son-in-law with an iron rice bowl, the kind of son-in-law who both works and drives a car worth more than 100,000 yuan.
The money, the car, the feeling of living and sleeping together. But I can’t give her what she wants.
This is my 2017, my three views are shattered and decadent.
On January 1, 2018, around this time, one thing I understood was that people say that there are peaks and troughs in life, but no one told me that in fact, the troughs are not the end.
Even if you jump down, you have to plunge into the puddle in the valley.
Fortunately, there is water in the puddle, so he won't die.
In the first half of 2018, I decided to climb up from the puddle.
I first fought with my relative and tried every means to get back most of my losses. Then I found a job and had a living income. I used the money I got back to pay a down payment.
, I have a nest of my own. Although I don’t have much money left after paying off my salary and loans, my heart has become a little more at ease.
I don't have to worry about a lot of things anymore.
Just like that, the first half of the year passed.
In the second half of the year, I felt that I should work harder because I had a girlfriend again. What I was very ashamed of was that because I couldn’t make ends meet, when we went on a date to watch a movie or something, she would often buy the tickets.
I feel that as a man, I cannot continue like this.
Then I thought, what can I do?
I haven’t worked for a few months and quit my job? No, if I quit, I won’t be able to pay off the mortgage, so I can’t quit. I can only find something I can do outside of work. What can I do?
I thought about it a lot, but in the end it failed due to various things. In the end, I thought, it seems that I can only write novels.
Many people describe writing novels as very lofty. Why do I do it for my literary hobby? I persisted for so many years and finally ended up with this and that... I don’t have such messy thoughts. My original and most fundamental thought was that I have more
Make some money. At least, I can't let my girlfriend buy movie tickets anymore.
So I started writing. The first thing I wrote was a science fiction novel. I wrote more than 100,000 words, but I reluctantly signed the contract without any recommendation, and it ended without success.
Then I wrote martial arts, wrote the beginning, and didn’t sign a contract.
Then I started writing history. The "Technician of the Tang Dynasty" that you have seen was one that I was about to give up after several submissions were rejected. Fortunately, the editor Hu Ya who read my submissions was a very responsible one.
The editor, she responded to me every time and pointed out the shortcomings, giving me the confidence to make corrections over and over again.
Finally, I posted the beginning of the book.
I received replies from Huya and Xu Xu. Huya said it was okay, let’s just write it down first. Xu Xu said it was a bit messy to read, but it was okay.
Then I received the contracted website. According to the author's last number, the editor assigned was Xu Xu. Therefore, I would like to thank my editor, especially Huya. If she hadn't replied to me again and again, I might have given up long ago.
After signing the contract, the first website message I received was ‘Popular Categories’.
I was excited for a long time, because when I saw the word 'popular', I thought it was a very cool recommendation, and I remembered that I even added an update. Now I know that this is actually a very small recommendation, and it is difficult to find it.
This shows that actually this book was not very popular at the beginning.
If I had known about it at the time, I might have been shocked. But because I didn’t know, I wrote very energetically, very happily, and very happily.
I would like to thank my readers here. The usual fate of a book that is not very popular is that after being given a recommendation, there will be no follow-up. But because of your collection and clicks, this book has become more popular.
The data has always been at the forefront of the same period, so we persisted in the PK round after round. Looking back, it is actually very dangerous, because I am a newcomer at lv1, without any background or so-called treatment, and I rely entirely on you.
.If I lose the PK round, the book will be finished, that’s for sure. Fortunately, we overcame all obstacles and did not lose in the round, which also allowed the editor to see my efforts and the potential of this book, and the success was announced on October 1
Available today.
On the day it was released, I updated eight chapters.
This is the number of words I have accumulated for a long time, because I type very slowly, and I am not free to type 24 hours a day. I remember that after uploading five chapters on the first day, I waited for three hours, and it was already early in the morning.
.Three hours, only 120 subscriptions.
My heart felt so cold, I thought, it's over, it must be over, I'm on the street.
My first thought at that time was actually not that this book would not make any money. My first thought at that time was that I am sorry to the veterans who have supported it for so long, and I am sorry to the veterans who occasionally gave rewards during the free period.
, and the editor who has always supported me and given so many recommendations, it was put on the shelves at the beginning of the month.
I'm so ashamed. I don't know if everyone can understand this feeling.
It's probably like, in a high school sports day, the whole class expected you to get first place, but you fell down when you were crossing the line.
I remember that I sat there for a long time, and it was almost getting cold, so I went to bed. When I woke up at noon, I looked again and saw that the first order was already 1,600.
Later I found out that I was actually the stupid one who didn’t sleep in the middle of the night. Now that I think about it, it’s also a lot of fun.
This book finally made money.
I cherish this hard-won opportunity, so I never stop updating for a day. There are at least two updates every day. Many people may think that two updates is nothing to be proud of, and there is still 20,000 a day. But I
I want to tell you that my ability is really limited, and my time is also limited. It is already difficult for me to update twice a day. And every month, I update more. In the first month, I updated 230k
, in the second month and last month, I updated 213k, I dare not say too much, but if you compare it horizontally, it should not be too little.
I am not saying this to make excuses for myself, but to tell everyone that I am not 'pretending' like some people scolded me. Until now, I haven't even achieved a high-quality product, so what is there to pretend?
I have been working hard and have never been idle, because I know that opportunities are fleeting. If I don’t cherish it and miss this opportunity, maybe I will be back to the me at the end of 2017, lying in a puddle in the trough.
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Fortunately, I was 27 that year and still had some courage to stand up and climb up again. But I know how uncomfortable I was in the first half of 2018. I don’t want to live like this again, so I will cherish it very much.
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I will definitely write this book seriously. Book friends who have not joined the group may not know that I have made a lot of 'mind maps', which are used to make outlines and settings about official positions, systems, horse farms, marquis mansions, and digging.
The pitfalls, the information I checked, etc., etc., I was afraid that I would forget what I was writing, so I did it very carefully. This is the first time I have done something so carefully in my life.
But even if I do this, it’s useless. To borrow the words of a book friend in the book review section, trolls are like shotguns and don’t use crosshairs.
For example, regarding "Kaiyuan Tongbao", I have explained it countless times. Kaiyuan Tongbao, cast in the fourth year of Wude, has nothing to do with Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. But every time a recommendation is made, a group of people will come and say, "Hey, in the early Tang Dynasty, everyone
Now that I have Kaiyuan Tongbao, I have learned a lot.", with a strange and yin-yang expression.
Another example is 'Kang'. He thought there was no Kang in the Tang Dynasty, so he complained about it, but in fact there was a Kang in the Han Dynasty. You can find out after a little search. Don't take what you think for granted, or what you see in TV series, as
Truth, once someone exposes it, you will show off your IQ.
Also, I saw someone the day before yesterday. He read the first chapter and said that my mother who traveled through time and did not adopt the original body was not a human being. I read the first chapter and didn’t see this word. I don’t know how he saw it.
.Then in the third chapter, he said again, you said you didn’t want to support me before, but you said you would support me later. You are really hypocritical, author. This shows that the author is not a good person in reality.
If I am blocked at both ends, I will not be a good person inside and out.
Then I became very curious, what kind of author does such a person like?
I clicked on his name and saw that this grandson was an ordinary account with no top-up, no fan value for any book, and he was an author himself.
Oops...I could understand him instantly. He was just jealous because he saw me getting promoted.
Brother, if you read this single chapter, please remember what I say below.
It's useless to be jealous. I wrote this book without asking for any chapters or advertising. I wrote it in a daze until today, and I also received a lot of recommendations. What does it mean? It means that maybe you have seen the so-called "conspiracy theory"
', You must have ads, you must have brushes, etc. I have been writing books for half a year. It is undeniable that I have seen it. It is true. But there are more of them. If you only focus on eye-catching and scolding people every day
, you will never write a book.
In the past six months since I wrote the book, this chapter says that the people who criticize me in it are all kinds of weird. But most of them are concentrated in the free part, because trolls will not pay to read the book. So basically, when I meet someone who shows off their intelligence and abuses me unreasonably,
I just banned it, I don't like it. Why, because I feel that since I am not from the same group, you don't like me, but you still look at me so meanly just to scold me, I don't owe you anything,
Why are you scolding me? It's better for me to block you and cut off the connection between us. If you just want to vent your life, go somewhere else to vent. I still have readers here, so don't taint their eyes.
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To be a good person and do things, you have to be with the right people, what do you think?
The average order for this book is now 2,500, which is still 500 short of a high-quality product. If I have any wish for 2019, it would be for this book to be a high-quality product. I want to give myself an explanation and also accompany this book.
Here’s an explanation for all the book friends who have made it this far.
Many people may not understand what quality products are.
Premium products represent the quality and popularity of a book. The threshold is 3,000 average subscriptions, and now we are still short of 500. The so-called average subscriptions are the total number of subscriptions divided by the number of chapters. So many authors who want to get premium products quickly usually
Increase the number of words in each chapter, and then reduce the number of chapters. For example, the 5,000-chapter and 6,000-chapter books you see are all for quality. But in fact, for readers, it doesn’t matter because the number of words is small.
For chapters, the subscription cost is less, but for more words, the subscription cost is more, and the same goes for the author.
But the rule for high-quality products is to order 3,000 evenly, and this cannot be changed. If I want to get high-quality products quickly, the fastest way now is to brush them up, or to collect a chapter every day. But neither of these will work, because I will brush them out.
Yes, it is always fake. When you read books, you will find that many so-called high-quality books only have a few thousand clicks per week. Think about it, if high-quality books have an average subscription of 3,000, how can the number of weekly clicks be several thousand? This means there is a problem. But
If people have money and don't care about money, that's another story.
Although I get some royalties every month, I absolutely cannot afford to do this kind of thing. And I have no way out. If I bite the bullet and come up with the money, and someone deceives me again, I will probably become autistic on the spot.
.so this is not an option for me.
As for increasing the word count, this single chapter has already been written to 5,000 words. Do you feel tired reading it? Too many words will make readers tired and affect the reading experience. Originally, this was not an option for me, but I didn’t
The only way is to choose this.
I will not exaggerate as much as six thousand or seven thousand words per chapter. I will only increase it by one thousand words. It was originally three thousand words per chapter. From today on, it will be four thousand words per chapter. For everyone who reads the book, the cost will not increase because you
Reading is calculated based on 5 points per 1,000 words. Basic V is 4 points per 1,000 words, and advanced V is 3 points per 1,000 words. Generally speaking, 15 points for 3,000 chapters and 20 points for 4,000 chapters.
, nothing to lose.
Then, if you calculate it this way, if you update with the same number of words, you will have fewer chapters, and you will be able to reach a high-quality version faster.
However, the effect of this is still limited. The fastest way is to come from everyone's support. If you can subscribe to it all by jumping in, and you can save a pack of cigarettes and subscribe to dozens of chapters by watching the free ones, the shortfall of 500 will be just around the corner.
I hope that everyone can work with me to make this book "The Technician of the Tang Dynasty" a high-quality product. This book is like a child we have conceived together. I believe that people who really like this book will hope that it is good.
Next, let’s talk about the plot.
After reading yesterday’s chapter, everyone will probably say ‘fuck’.
Without giving away any spoilers, let me tell you briefly about the main characters currently appearing in the story. Look at the character list. Above the supporting roles, those marked as 'supporting male, supporting female, male protagonist, female protagonist',
They all have their own stories behind them, but these subplots have not been developed.
Li Chongyi and Li Zhien, pointing east.
Li Ji and Li Siwen, pointing west.
Wang Ou, pointing south.
Yuan Tiangang points to the north, as well as Zhangjiazhai and so on. There is a big secret hidden behind it, and I will tell you about it. At present, in terms of outline, this book has only started one-fifth of the way, which is like playing Red Alert.
, Li Mu is in Chang'an and needs to lay a good base first.
As for stallions being promiscuous, I have always felt that these are two different things. Everyone has read countless novels. What kind of novel would think that stallions are promiscuous? I think there is no reason to harvest for the sake of harvesting.
This is called a stallion's lust. But my requirement for Li Mu is that he must be accepted only if he has to, otherwise he will not be accepted. Please supervise him.
Okay, having said so much, everyone must be tired of reading. Today is New Year's Day. I wish you all peace and beauty, happiness and good health, good health, promotion and salary increase in the new year, abundant financial resources, good luck, and make a reservation by the way.
Reading it alone will help me make my New Year's resolution. This book is a masterpiece. Thank you all.
There are double monthly votes from the 1st to the 7th. If you have a vote, please vote. I will update the 12,000 challenge several times in the past two days to earn some red envelopes for your monthly votes. But I still have to take a day off today, New Year's Day.
I will go home and have a meal with my parents. When I come back in the evening, I will update a chapter. I hope you understand.
I hope this single chapter doesn't have too much negative energy.
I also hope that it can give some encouragement to people who are in the same trough right now. As long as you want to, it’s never too late to stand up.
To sum up my 2018 in one word, it should be 'panic'. I panic because I am afraid of losing it, and I panic because I am afraid of not getting it. Just like now, I am very worried whether I will suddenly go back to the situation at the end of 2017.
At that time, within three months, I lost my job, lost my girlfriend, and was cheated by someone I trusted. I was also worried that no matter how hard I tried, this book would never be high-quality. Maybe in a few days, you guys
I have given up reading. I will sit blankly in front of the computer again.
I hope that in 2019, I will no longer be so panicked. After all, I am already in my thirties and it is time to mature.