My hair is not dry yet, so I can’t sleep yet. After I saw the year-end summary written by someone I have always liked, I suddenly thought of thanking the novelist Yumeng Soo who wrote the year-end summary.
2021 has really gone by in the blink of an eye. At the beginning of the year, Ogata spent the longest night of his life in Kyoto, and at the end of the year, Ogata's story is coming to an end.
As 2021 is coming to an end and this book is about to be completed, the author will tell you some stories about writing this book this year.
If I ask the author to evaluate my book, it would be too stable!
This book was put on the shelves at the end of last year, and the first order on the shelves was 6351. For a book with such a niche subject, this data is considered very good.
But in reality, the first subscription was very high. Not long after it was put on the shelves, the number of follow-up subscriptions (the number of subscriptions to the latest chapter within 24 hours) became an extremely stable around 1,200.
This number of follow-up orders has remained stable until now.
In other words, from the time when Volume 4 was first serialized, until now, throughout 2021, more than a year later, the number of follow-up orders for this book has not changed, and has always been around 1,200.
Regardless of whether it is recommended or not, the number of follow-up subscriptions will never change, neither getting higher nor lower. Only in certain specific chapters (such as some dull chapters), the number of follow-up subscriptions can soar to nearly 2,000. The data is extremely stable.
Although the number of follow-up subscriptions is not high, the number of new subscriptions every day is very high. Thanks to the high number of new subscriptions, for most of 2021, this book has been in the 20-40 range of the best-selling list in the light novel area.
internal float.
To be able to keep sales within a certain range for more than half a year is really extremely stable.
The average booking is also very stable, the first booking was 6351, and now it has only slowly increased to 8000.
Recently, because there are not many potential readers left who are interested in the subject matter of this book, resulting in various reasons such as the increase in collections and the decrease in new additions, the ranking on the best-seller list has dropped slightly, to the range of 40 to 60.
It fluctuates, but the follow-up order remains unchanged, still around 1,200...
Because the book is about to be finished, the author has become more Buddhist recently and doesn't pay much attention to the results. The author now has only one goal: to bring this book to a successful conclusion.
Not only is the data in this book very stable, but the progression of the plot is also very stable.
The book is now almost 3.2 million words long, and until now there has been no major breakdown in plot or combat power.
There is no situation where a character who was very strong in the early stage is not as good as a pig or a dog in the later stage. Characters who were very strong in the early stage are also very strong now, such as Mamiya.
There was no situation where one person was too strong. For example, Ogata. Although Ogata is now considered to be the ceiling of combat power, no one should think that if Ogata is allowed to fight alone without using a pistol,
Mamiya and Genichi can definitely win.
The author is also confident that this stability will last until the end, and he is also confident that before the end, there will be another climax that will make you all vote for this book from the bottom of your heart.
The author has set a total of four climaxes for this book:
The battle of killing hundreds of people.
The Battle of Nijo Castle in Kyoto.
The decisive battle with the shogunate army.
And it won’t be long before everyone can see the battle.
It sounds like I am bragging, but the author feels that he has made rapid progress throughout the year.
Although I had written a 3.7 million-word novel before writing this book, that novel was purely a toy for my own pleasure, and no one read it. I wrote it as I pleased.
In terms of writing ability, the author was actually a novice when he first started writing this book.
So now when I go back and read the beginning of the book, the author really feels that I was so immature at that time, and I was verbose in many places... There are many plots that I can write better now, and I will be able to arrange them better and make them more interesting.
interesting.
Around the fifth volume of the Kyoto chapter, which is at the beginning of this year, the author thinks that my writing ability has begun to make great progress.
The rhythm of the novel and the mobilization of readers' emotions, which were very mysterious things that I had never been able to figure out before, are now gradually becoming apparent.
Originally there were a lot of things I wanted to talk about, but because my hair is almost dry and I want to sleep, I will skip it for now and wait until I have the opportunity to talk about it later.
If the author's estimate is correct, the book will be completed in March or April of next year.
When I think that the story of "Shura" is coming to an end, the author really has mixed feelings.
In mid-to-late March of next year, when this book is about to be completed, the author will release a new book to seamlessly connect the old and new works.
The author has told you before that I, who have infinite love for sword and halberd novels, decided to write a "Samurai Trilogy" that shares the same worldview.
For this trilogy, the author has already made the basic settings.
The trilogy will compose the legends of "Shura", "Nioh" and "Dragon" respectively.
The next book will compose the legend of "Nioh".
The legend of "Shura" began in the Kansei period in 1789, and the legend of "Nioh" began in the Ansei period in 1860.
As for when the legend of "Dragon" will begin, please allow the author to continue to keep it a secret.
As far as feelings are concerned, the author actually wants to write a "dragon" story sooner. After all, the author is the ultimate "Yakuza" fan. According to the author's setting, the third part will be a movie full of "Yakuza" elements.
A work that is about to overflow, the protagonist is a macho man with a dragon tattoo on his back like Kazuma Kiryu.
But there is no way. If the story of "Nioh" is not finished first, the story of "Dragon" cannot be started.
Compared with the original one, the next part will have far fewer fantasy elements and will be more martial arts and more sword-playing. The author is confident that it will bring you a brand new work that will give you a refreshing understanding of the new work.
All in all, thank you for your care this year! Please take care of me more next year!