#66 - Thoughts on the book being put on the shelves (some words I want to say after eight years of w

If there are no unexpected events, this book should be available tomorrow at twelve noon.

The results of this book aren't great, but fortunately, they aren't so bad that I can't bear to look at them.

To be honest, I've really encountered some bottlenecks recently.

When I wrote my first book, I was a freshman in college, and I didn't use this account. I won't tell you what my first book was called.

At that time, it was an urban novel, but it only had a few dozen initial subscriptions. I earned a guaranteed 600 yuan from the website each month, and I was quite happy at the time.

After all, I was a college student, and I was very happy to have some money.

As I wrote, that book later earned me about 1,500 yuan a month. I happily treated my roommates to a barbecue and became even happier.

Then I started my road of writing flops.

Then, in my sophomore year?

I wrote a good book that earned me about five or six thousand a month, and I was on cloud nine~

I used to walk around school with my hands in my pockets.

I felt like I was invincible~

As a result, because I wrote too much erotica, the book was gone~~~~

I was so sad at the time. It brought a lot of mental trauma to my young sophomore self. I didn't sleep well all night, but fortunately, I passed my driving test.

Later, I flopped with another book or two? One was urban, and one was Japanese-style supernatural? (Actually, this one wasn't too bad, with four or five thousand yuan a month)

Later, I became addicted to 'Snow Sword Stride' and 'Sword Coming'. They were so well written that when I was a junior, I started writing 'I Have Many Resurrection Coins'. That's probably how you all got to know me.

After 'Resurrection Coins' was completed, I started writing 'Fellow Daoist, Your Script is Really Good'.

The most ridiculous thing is...

Because of the book 'Resurrection Coins', I entered the website's premium group. Later, whenever a newcomer came in, they would say, 'I grew up reading your book'.

Damn it, I was only a junior when I wrote that book!

However, 'Resurrection Coins' is indeed more well-known than 'Fellow Daoist', but in terms of results, 'Resurrection Coins' really didn't have as many subscriptions as 'Fellow Daoist'.

Also, 'Fellow Daoist' was the first to sell the manga adaptation, and then it was 'Resurrection Coins' turn.

So, some readers say that my writing has declined, but I don't think so, because the results are indeed better than before.

But after 'Fellow Daoist' was completed.

I really did decline.

To be precise, I should say I was confused.

Because writing books, in my opinion, shouldn't be something that's easy to decline in. Because the more you write, the more you read, and the more you communicate with other authors, the more naturally your horizons will broaden, and the more you'll see.

But why did I keep flopping?

I was always troubled by this at the time.

Don't think that after 'Fellow Daoist', I only wrote the flop book 'Fairy, Put Down Your Knife'. Actually, I started writing quite a few books.

At that time, I was writing two to three books a day.

Besides really needing money, I was thinking about finding my own path.

Some of those books had an average subscription of 1200, some had an average subscription of 2000, and some even had an average subscription of 400.

I was always exploring, but I couldn't see my own path.

Until one day, in the author group, a very powerful author friend, who was from my hometown, said something that made me think for a long time—"I feel like your recent books have been repeating yourself".

Yes, ah.

It seems that's really the case.

I seem to have been repeating myself.

The question is?

What does it mean to repeat?

"Repeating" is not equal to abandoning one's "strengths". If someone is good at writing harems, can you tell them to abandon their strengths? Would you say that's repeating?

I don't think so.

If someone is good at romance, would you tell them to abandon romance?

That would be the end of them.

The "repeating" here means that I have been "plagiarizing myself". My path has already been formatted. I have been bound by my previous success.

But I'm speaking too generally. Actually, it involves a lot of other writing knowledge and playing to my strengths and avoiding my weaknesses, etc. Explaining it would probably take tens of thousands of words, so I won't go into it here.

Simply put, to summarize in one sentence—I've walked my previous path too many times, and my writing has become numb. Even I find what I write boring.

So at that time, I temporarily gave up writing books.

I still wanted to write xianxia, but I wanted to find another path, a path that would allow me to use my strengths in "romance" and "female character design" without feeling bored myself.

Then I turned to writing an urban novel.

The plot of that urban novel was terrible, but it allowed me to use my strengths in "romance" and "character design".

That urban novel's results were a little worse than "Fellow Daoist", but it was still a great premium novel.

After the urban novel, I wanted to write xianxia again.

Really, I really don't want to give up xianxia. There are many types of xianxia, and I divide my own "dao" into—romance xianxia.

I started frantically reading "romance xianxia", reading the books of other great authors, reading the books of Chicken Fork, and trying to figure out how to perfectly integrate character design and plot, how to perfectly combine and separate the protagonist and the female lead, and how to perfectly integrate the plot with the female lead and the male lead.

In the end...

I'm still confused~~~

Then there are the two books that you know I cut. One urban high-martial arts theme failed, and one urban spiritual revival failed.

And then there's this one.

Do you think I succeeded with this one?

Obviously~ The results of this one are also just average~~ What success are you talking about~

But, this one should be considered my putting some of the things I've been thinking about into practice.

To be honest, this book is the one I've been criticized the most for. In my seven years of writing, I've never been criticized so badly.

If I'm not being criticized for the old-fashioned tropes, then I'm being criticized for "Why is the male lead so weak?".

Especially the two things of "A son of a concubine cannot take the imperial examination" and "In Chapter 13, the male lead is told by Wang Xuan that his spiritual veins are severed", good heavens, I was simply criticized to the point of being completely worthless.

But after writing books for so many years, I've been criticized an average of twice a day, so over the past seven years, it's been several thousand times. I'm used to it.

I will write this book well and definitely won't drop it. If I were going to drop it, I would have dropped it long ago. After all, my editor-in-chief tempts me to write urban novels every day.

If I can break through myself and find the path that suits me best, then that would naturally be a win-win situation.

If I can't find it, then I can only keep going.

Isn't that how life is? No matter what, you have to keep going.

The path of writing books is just another manifestation of life.

I will definitely finish this book seriously.

No matter what the final results are, this book will definitely be of extraordinary significance on my writing path.

That's all I'll say. I'm going to go write.

It's going to be available tomorrow. I will try my best to write.

Dear readers, those who have money, please support me with your money. Those who don't have money, please support me with your presence.

Please give me an initial subscription, sob sob sob, please~~~ please~~~

I'm really hungry recently (╥﹏╥)

(There will be a chapter of the main text tonight)