For Xue Wu now, subscriptions are actually not that important anymore. Top authors don’t have to worry about subscriptions at all. The basic base is still there. Once the reputation is established, there will be a steady stream of new readers who will follow the news and follow the works.
For Xue Wu, what is more important is that he can make progress.
The later the writing progresses, the more one can feel the consumption of spiritual energy. The author will unconsciously run towards the comfort zone and write some very routine things. In the eyes of readers, this is the author's unique flavor, but when the author writes, he often feels distressed because he has not made any progress and can only write some things that are already boring.
I always feel that if I keep writing about the same subject, I’ll be stuck in the same subject.
Readers will eventually get tired of reading, but I can’t get out of it anymore.
As I grow older and my vocabulary grows, this feeling becomes stronger, but I am also afraid of change.
For an author at Xue Wu's level, even the slightest change can have a ripple effect.
Just like when Lin Shu started writing "The Wind Rises in the Green Ping", because the style was very different from the previous ones and it also created a rare BE ending in his writing career, it was questioned in the early stages.
Change also requires courage.
But for the author, if he can get affirmation after the change, the satisfaction is also indescribable.
After "Sunset Hour Hand" was put on the shelves, Xue Wu was in this euphoric state.
One day, he even happily shared his plans for digging pits with Lin Shu and others - there were about ten of them.
"...There's no need to expose your inspiration." Guju said speechlessly, "Aren't you worried that we might have evil thoughts?"
"We all have different styles, so I'm not worried." Xue Wu remained calm. "There are so many topics I want to write about. Which one should I write about next?"
"Tangled, tangled, tangled."
Objectively speaking, there aren't many unique memes in Xue Wu's to-do list - if he were to come up with memes, he believes he can't compete with Teriyaki Chicken Legs and other young authors with endless ideas.
But the characteristic of great authors is stability. Even if the subject has been written about countless times by many people, he can still write in his own style.
"Are you planning to let yourself go?" Ling Luo asked. "The readers will cry."
"No." Xue Wu was very calm, "They all praised "The Sunset Hour Hand" for being well written."
The reader feedback is clearly reflected in subscriptions.
Xue Wu believes that writing "The Sunset Hand" took more time and effort than his other works, but it also allowed him to see more possibilities in his writing.
During the time when "The Tiny Moon" was completed, he had been thinking about a breakthrough. He had a topic he wanted to write about, and sent it to his former editor for discussion, but was rejected by the other party. The other party wanted to write a safer article and felt that Xue Wu's attempt was to use his own disadvantages to meet the advantages of Teriyaki Chicken Legs.
But to be honest, when he was conceiving that article, he didn't think about fighting against teriyaki chicken legs.
That's what he wanted to write. What does it have to do with teriyaki chicken legs?
But the editor just thought so, and talked to Xue Wu about a bunch of nonsense like responsibility, courage, failure, etc., to the effect that he was the author representing the Knicks and should think more about the Knicks.
So Xue Wu has not published any new articles.
When Mixia was exposed, Xuewu really wanted to ask the editor, why didn't Mixia consider the Knicks?
Later he didn't ask and chose to leave directly because he felt that there would be no point in asking.
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"Sunset Hour Hand" performed very well, which gave Xue Wu great confidence. He even had a premonition that this article would probably become another representative work of the pen name "Xue Wu".
This feeling becomes stronger as the number of words in "Sunset Hands" increases.
"The Sunset Hand" was on the shelves for a full week and ranked fourth on the Gold List, officially joining the teriyaki chicken leg army and being surrounded by teriyaki chicken legs. However, thanks to the fermentation of word-of-mouth, this was not the highest achievement of "The Sunset Hand". A few days later, when a key plot was written, "The Sunset Hand" further rose to second place on the Gold List.
[The data on the surface is better than "Tiny Moon"! ]
Second place! Awesome!
Xue Wu didn't ask Lin Shu how much he earned on the first day of the Golden List, but considering that he climbed from fourth to third and then to second, he had an estimate of the daily income of the articles "Becoming F4" and "The Wind Rises and the Green Ping".
All in all, it's a really scary number.
Xue Wu felt that his subscription was already very high, but the teriyaki chicken legs... he could only look up to them.
"I'm just envious." - Xue Wu said in the group.
"What are you envious of? I envy all of you." Gujiu expressed his dissatisfaction.
"How can you be so envious of someone who can't even update his blog every day?" Ling Luo came online and Guju shut up.
After "Sunset Clock" rose to second place on the Gold List, the voices questioning whether Xue Wu had signed with the wrong company gradually disappeared. By this time, the top ten on the Gold List were gradually divided up by the authors of Karaen and Sculpture Entertainment.
Sculpture Entertainment currently has six articles in the top ten of the gold list, Karaen has four, and no one from Knicks is on the list. This reality is really sad - it seems that Knicks' foundation is still there, and not all authors have chosen to leave. But without the support of big authors, even if Knicks has a lot of external resources, readers will never buy it.
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