Hello everyone, I am the author of the book "Illiterate People Write Novels".

First of all, I would like to thank all my readers. Without your support, I would not be able to write today.

I wrote many novels before this, I have forgotten how many.

Because there are too many.

Unfortunately, without exception, they all failed.

("Pu Street" is a term used by online writers to describe their dissatisfaction with the performance of their works after publication. The specific standards vary. Some great writers think that a book is a flop if it earns 300 yuan a day, while others are satisfied if they earn 30 yuan a day.)

But I still remember the royalties from my first novel.

Very little, only 44 dollars.

28 yuan of it came from tips (at that time I would use my account to send myself free gifts every day, each gift was 1 cent, and I could send it three times a day.)

The actual reading fee is only 16 yuan.

This book will be published from April 25, 2023 and will be serialized until April 3, 2025.

In the past two years, it has reached approximately 2.75 million words.

It is a challenge for me and a torment for the readers who follow the updates.

Before writing this book, I had completely lost confidence.

On the day of signing the contract, I set a goal for myself that if this book fails again, I will never write another book in my life.

Perhaps God couldn't bear it and gave me a chance to continue writing.

So I have been writing until today.

About the author:

Many people are curious about what my job is.

I never disclosed it.

Some people speculated that he was a teacher, while others speculated that he was someone with a history-related major.

Let me clarify here.

I'm just a deep history buff.

Why do you like history?

Because history is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone.

Only by seeing more can you distinguish the true from the false.

About the book:

My writing skills are limited, so there are many shortcomings in the book.

Including plot, character setting, scene description... and various typos.

I would like to thank the readers again for @ing me to correct the typos. If I were asked to find them myself, I would definitely be too lazy and would not be able to find them.

After all, the order of Chinese characters does not necessarily affect reading (just a joke).

For me, the part of this book that I am most satisfied with is the first volume, because I had no achievements and no concerns when I was writing the first volume.

Especially before 200,000 words, at that time it was okay to finish reading 100,000 words, but there was no money.

I only get a few dollars a day in royalties.

In order to write 200,000 words as quickly as possible to test the new book title, I completely let myself go.

Write whatever you want to write, and just skip over whatever you don’t want to write, which leads to a fast pace.

The price is that the first volume is written very roughly.

The second most satisfying thing is the last volume.

In order to write a good ending, I spend a lot of time every day thinking and revising it, and am forced to update only one chapter.

I decided on this ending after careful consideration.

There were no technological leaps forward and no great voyages of discovery.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but I lack an opportunity.

The specific opportunity will be written in the extra chapter.

About the extra:

After finishing it, I will take a break for a while, correct some typos, and then write the sequel. I hope you won’t rush to delete it from your bookshelf.

There are some spoilers for the extra content.

There was an opportunity to start the great voyages of discovery and the results of research on the steam engine.

Chongzhen passed away, the crown prince ascended the throne and a new era name was adopted.

Fang Yuegong and Ni Yuanlu will also be given an explanation.

Here I mainly want to discuss with you the temple name of Chongzhen. If you have any ideas, you can comment on this sentence.

(The reason for this discussion is to avoid being scolded. Many people on the Internet say that he can be called the "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty" like Liu Xiu, but this is not in accordance with the rules. Chongzhen's father is Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo. The father is the ancestor, so how can the son be called the ancestor?)

The missing Zhu Cilang will make an appearance in the extra chapter, in a very dramatic way.

About the next book:

I contacted the editor before finishing it, and he asked me about my plans for the next book.

I said that I didn’t want to write a historical article next time because my writing style requires consulting a lot of information.

However, searching for information requires a lot of time and energy.

The body simply can't take it for too long.

In addition, writing two historical texts in a row will cause aesthetic fatigue.

I said I wanted to write an urban martial arts novel or an urban fantasy novel.

The editor asked me to think about it carefully. After all, the change in style from historical writing to urban writing is too big and it would be difficult to retain readers.

If old readers don’t support your new book, it is very likely to fail.

So I started to hesitate.

If I were to write a historical article, I would consider the Tang Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms...or the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and let the protagonist and the top political master of the Ming Dynasty have a political drama.

If you write urban literature, no matter what the content is, the core idea is the same as this book.

So what is the core idea of this book?

"......"

April 3, 2025, 10:45.