This book will be launched tomorrow, and
the editor asked me to prepare a speech for the launch as usual.
Actually, I don’t think there’s much to say. When I read books on Qidian before, I thought that being recommended by a big book seemed very impressive. After becoming an author, I think that having more than 300 books on this list in a year is nothing special.
But the editor said it after all, and if I don’t write it, it would seem like I’m not giving him face.
If I wrote it, it would seem like I had given in.
I am as strong as a rock.
snort.
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So I planned to finish this volume today as well, and wrote the end-of-volume summary and the recommendation remarks together. This way, the number of words will be larger, and the editor will be able to feel my strong enthusiasm.
(Definitely not perfunctory.) Still the same old rules, if you don’t like to watch Xianbaier, just ignore me (it’s free anyway).
Looking back on my experiences over the past six months, it really feels like a dream.
As I mentioned before, I had an argument with my boss, resigned and lived in a rented house, started writing a book out of boredom, and suddenly became a full-time author.
To this day, some people still doubt whether I am a newcomer, but there is nothing much to say. If anyone can find a novel I wrote that is over 200,000 words long, I can take half a bottle of laxatives and stand on my head for two hours.
In fact, I have only written one or two books with more than 100,000 words, and the others are basically cut at 30,000 to 50,000 words. Except for the popular category of martial arts, it has not been recommended by any other category.
So this book can indeed be considered my first book in the true sense. Thinking that it will be recommended for the first time tomorrow, I feel a little disillusioned.
For our achievements, the people we should thank the most are of course the readers. It can only be the readers, and it will always be the readers.
It is a happy thing that what you write can be liked by others.
Just like the song goes: If we talk about relatives, the sky is not our relative, because the sky has the sun, the moon and the stars. The sun and the moon shuttle through people and make them grow old, taking away so many people in the world.
The land is not that dear, for it grows everything like gold. After years of scrambling for fame and fortune, we look at new graves and old graves.
Saying that parents are dear to us is not really dear to us, for they cannot live forever. Even children in the house cannot stay with us, and tears fall down in a handful of earth.
To say that friends are relatives is not really a relative, for friends are strangers. People are always greedy, and friends become enemies when they turn against each other.
Speaking of closeness, readers are close. Readers and authors are connected heart to heart~~ I remember an old saying in the early years that there is no gentleman who does not support artists.
Yesterday I braved the wind and snow to come to the northern frontier, and today I went to the south of the Yangtze River, where peach and apricot trees are in full bloom . I advise you all not to indulge in alcohol, sex, money, or eating, drinking, whoring, or gambling.
When you have nothing to do, just go to Qidian.com and read some novels to relax.
I bow to you all with my fists clasped.
May you bring wealth and fortune to the world.
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The part about thanking the author for recommending the book has ended, and the next part is the summary at the end of the volume.
well.
Actually, there is not much to say. It is still the same, the first volume, the second volume, and the third volume. In fact, my writing style has been changing all the time, and the effects I want are always different.
While the tone remains the same, what I want to do is becoming increasingly difficult.
In fact, after finishing the first two volumes, if I continued the pattern of taking things as they come, solving them, taking stock of the gains, and repeating this cycle, I would have become very proficient at it. At least I should have no problem writing about one million words, and I wouldn’t be so insecure and always worried about the results.
But I just think that it is boring to always use the same routine. If readers feel that the routine is repeated, it will be really boring. Although many successful examples tell me that doing so has more advantages than disadvantages, at least it can stabilize the basic market and there is no risk of collapse.
But I am just starting out, my first book. If I don’t try it now, when will I try it? Once a person’s thinking becomes rigid, it is very difficult to change.
In the third volume, I wanted to create a big conspiracy, and then work backwards to have the protagonist deconstruct it step by step.
It's similar to the feeling of Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame or The Longest Day in Chang'an, where a big conspiracy is smashed in a city.
But still, with an invincible protagonist, it’s hard to portray the villain in a serious way no matter where he goes, especially when there’s a spoof part to it.
So the overall feeling is still the same as always, completely different from what I imagined, but the result seems to be okay. At least when I read some chapters by myself, I can still laugh with relish.
For the author itself, this is quite rare.
Now I have come to terms with it and no longer expect to be able to control everything. What I do now is like a science experiment, mixing a few things together, shaking them, and then waiting for the results to show what the effect is.
For example, the fourth volume which is about to begin.
Since the third volume is mainly about the conspiracies and schemes among the people in the underworld, the fourth volume intends to talk more about gods, ghosts, monsters and foxes, with a focus on writing about some evil and weird things.
Mix the invincible flow, nonsense, suspense, horror, folklore, ethical jokes, homophonic puns... give it a try and see what comes out.
What I want right now might be the feeling of the old Hong Kong ghost movies from the 1980s, 1990s, but I can’t guarantee what the ending will be like, so I’ll just write it and see.
They are all short plots anyway, so if there is anything that is not effective, just end it quickly.
Because it is a series, my writing has its ups and downs. Sometimes I feel like I have so many ideas, and sometimes it is hard to write a single word.
So I often feel helpless when someone says that something is not written well.
Just like I rolled down the stairs recently. It’s been more than ten days. My ankle is still swollen. I dare not walk or go downstairs… In fact, I feel very uncomfortable every day. I feel suffocated if I don’t go out for fresh air. But I still have to keep updating. My thoughts will be a little dull.
Eh.
But there is no good solution.
(I have written another chapter without realizing it) That’s all.
Finally, thank you all.
I sincerely thank every reader.
Good night.
(End of this chapter)
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