Summary of this stage and leave for two days!
The next dungeon will cover the sky. I want to ask for leave to sort out my thoughts. I was going to ask for a day off. I got up this morning and thought about it. I found that there are many things to sort out. It takes two days, so I just asked for two days off.
Here is also a summary of the three volumes of Daluo Starfield, Zhuxian, and Yangshen. Since it is a summary of everyone, it is also a summary of myself.
Frankly speaking, before I finished writing the martial arts part, I was full of expectations for the fairy tale part.
The 24-hour follow-up order of the martial arts part has been relatively stable, maintaining around 1600 to 1700. At that time, 4,000 words were updated twice a day, and only two or three days a month were interrupted, but the grades were still OK. The average subscription has also been rising slowly, reaching more than 3,900 average subscriptions at the highest point, and almost reaching 4,000 average subscriptions.
At that time, I was determined to break through the 4000 average order, and I was not satisfied with the 1600-1700 follow-up order 24 hours a day, because it was too stable.
I want to make a breakthrough in the Xianxia part.
Therefore, I spent a lot of effort on the construction of the main world of the Xianxia part. Not only did I ask my editor-in-charge, Qinghu Boss, for advice many times, but I also had the cheek to ask my old friend Fu Xiaochen many times for advice. I am very grateful that they do not dislike me. Annoying, basically all questions must be answered, tirelessly.
Thanks to their opinions, as well as my own thinking and experience in writing books in the past, I made a decision that I personally feel is quite bold. Based on the prehistoric worldview, I will reshape and transform and construct a brand new prehistoric universe as the main world.
I don’t know if you like this kind of main world, it’s a certain risk, but I’m not a person who is too content with myself, I hope I can write something “special” in every book, even if the result is not necessarily good.
During that period, it can be said that the whole person was busy like a spinning top. Obviously, I was writing a book at home full-time.
But that period of time was the busiest period of time for me in recent years. The martial arts part has not been finished yet, and it is updated every day. I also need to consult a large amount of information on the prehistoric mythology, make various records, and construct a worldview. It is also necessary to design characters and plots... At the same time, it is necessary to review and read Zhu Xian in advance, and design the characters and plots.
The above is only about writing a book... In reality, I am not alone. I need to buy vegetables, cook, wash dishes, etc.
All kinds of writing matters and life chores are mixed together, and the time is extremely tense, with thousands of threads, and people are like spinning tops.
So, during that period of time, I often couldn't control my emotions and collapsed, and I often couldn't sleep.
In this state, the main world reshaped with the prehistoric mythology as the background barely built a framework, and the characters, origins and various related plots of Taishi Demon Sect are almost the same. The writing ideas, outline, and detailed outline of the Jade Immortals chapter are also barely finished.
After all the ups and downs, I barely finished the preparations. I thought everything was going to change for the better. But unexpectedly, the next change gave me a heavy blow.
When I first arrived at the short story of Taishi Mozong, my grades were fairly stable. After 24 hours of follow-up, it was still stable at around 1600-1700, and some chapters even rose slightly.
I personally thought it was stable, and I was overjoyed.
But I didn’t expect that after entering the chapter of Zhu Xian, natural disasters came, and the follow-up subscription dropped sharply. In 24 hours, it dropped to 1400, and some chapters even only 1300.
I was dumbfounded at the time, and I didn't know why this happened.
At first, I thought it was because I chose the wrong copy, because it took too long to finish Jade Legend, and it’s not like classic martial arts, where various movies and TV shows are broadcast repeatedly, and the characters on the opposite side are familiar to everyone. It has a sense of substitution, but many readers of Zhu Xian may not have read it.
Originally, when I was constructing the main world of the Xianxia part and the plot of Zhu Xianjuan, I was very tired, and the grades of Zhuxianjuan were not good. At that time, I felt a sense of depression. .
But I'm also a bit stubborn, and many friends suggested that I end the Zhuxian volume as soon as possible and enter the next instance.
Personally, I feel that if a problem arises in the current volume that is being written and is not resolved, the problem will recur in the next volume.
Therefore, I took a closer look at the plot of Zhu Xianjuan and re-optimized some designs. Then I kept writing.
I have to say that hard work still pays off. When the Zhu Xian volume was completed, the 24-hour follow-up of the following chapters did not recover to the level of 1600-1700, but it also recovered a little, and returned to about 1500.
Zhu Xian scroll ended, I breathed a sigh of relief, I thought it was a relief, and then as long as I choose the right copy, there will be no problem.
After returning to the main world, the first six chapters and 24-hour follow-ups have finally returned to 1600. But the bad news followed.
Maybe it's because of the mental fatigue some time ago, or maybe the fairy tale part of the main world just built a framework, and many details haven't been really thought out, or maybe it's all kinds of miscellaneous things in life that mess with my mind...all the negative emotions and negative states seem to be here. Time to explode.
I suddenly ran out of inspiration... It was like a surging spring was suddenly completely drained, and the place I was in turned into a desert, without a drop of water, not even a wisp of water vapor.
So for the next ten chapters or so, I just wrote in pain like a walking dead, just to complete the basic narrative structure (beginning, process leading to the climax, climax, ending), the characters have no soul, the dialogue tastes the same, and the climax is lacking passion.
In this case, the subscription also gave me the most real and fierce punishment. After 20 hours of follow-up subscriptions, I finally recovered to 1600. In just ten chapters, in just three days, it dropped to 900... Among all kinds of criticisms Words, one after another, come one after another.
Unspeakable, unbearable pain.
By this time, my mentality was already on the verge of an extreme collapse. I know, I can't go on like this. If I go on like this, I don't think it will be long before I really can't write this book.
So, at this moment, I made a rather painful decision—to take four days off.
In this era of ever-changing and extremely demanding updates, stopping updates for four days... the price is too great.
It turns out that it is. When I resumed the update and entered the Yangshen volume, the 24-hour follow-up subscription that had dropped to 900 fell to an unprecedented low of 600 again.
Although during the four days of stopping the update, I re-read Yangshen completely and carefully, and conscientiously structured the plot, and made some settings that I thought were interesting.
But the follow-up order still inevitably plummeted.
Of course, the slump in follow-up subscriptions is not necessarily the reason for the suspension of updates for four days. It is estimated that there are the same reasons as Zhu Xianjuan. It has been too long since Yangshen finished the book, and many people have forgotten the plot, or they were attracted by my martial arts part. Many readers have never seen Yangshen, and their sense of substitution is not strong.
Of course, the main reason must be that my writing is not good enough.
In fact, at this time, I vaguely realized that the reason why the results of the two dungeons of Zhu Xian and Yangshen were not ideal was that on the one hand, it was because the readers who were attracted by martial arts were not interested in Xianxia, so they were lost in the Xianxia part. The other part is because the two books have been finished for too long, and many people are unfamiliar with them; there is also a very important reason, that is, there is a problem with my writing style, and I will focus on the third reason.
Classic martial arts and online fantasy fairy tales are not only different in audience, but also fundamentally different. The group portraits of classic martial arts, that is, the various supporting roles are vividly portrayed, with obvious characteristics, and there are many supporting roles, and many of them run through the whole text.
But online fantasy fairy tales are essentially upgrade novels, and various supporting roles are rotated batch by batch according to the level, and the focus is mainly on the protagonist. Many important supporting roles have extremely limited roles, even the boss, All appear in stages.
My original writing method is to possess a villain with a distinctive personality, and then interact with many distinctive characters in the original work, so that people who have read the original work or film and television will have a strong sense of substitution, and the effect is also good. very nice.
But when it comes to fantasy fairy tales, troubles arise. The possessed villains may still have distinct personalities, but there are very few supporting characters in the original book with distinct personalities, and even few of you have impressions. This kind of interaction It's almost like interacting with a few passers-by, and the effect is greatly reduced... Obviously, the original way of writing martial arts must be changed. The way of writing must change with the times, if it does not change, it will die!
Back to subscription changes!
I am an emotional person, and I often hope that if I put in effort, I can get some rewards.
But I didn't expect that the return was the opposite... My broken glass heart was hit again. Therefore, in January, I felt that my whole body was exhausted in one breath, and the update was not very effective.
From Zhu Xian to the early stage of Yangshen, I fell all the way in 20 hours, from 1600-1700 to 600. I was hit again and again. I worked hard, but the harvest was reversed. At that time, I was really disheartened.
This month's manuscript fee is also the lowest since the book was released, falling below 10,000 for the first time.
It was also this month that I had the idea of writing a new book.
Of course, this month, there is one person who made me very grateful, "Master Oracle", I must thank you.
This period is considered to be the darkest period of my book. Apart from the occasional two or three critical words, this book basically has no book reviews.
However, the more there is a lack of book reviews, the more I will pay attention to it personally. Maybe the more lacking something, the more I hope to get something. Everyone is like this.
Whenever I see the word "read" you left behind in "Master Oracle", I feel a burst of warmth in my heart—there has never been a moment when I feel that the words "read" seem to be cold. The words are so warm, let me know that there are still people supporting me.
During this period, I have already returned to my hometown. I just encountered the epidemic, and I can’t go out of the house. I have my parents and I don’t have to do housework. I have more personal time.
Perhaps it was the passage of time, or maybe it was the warmth of my family, my emotions that had been on the verge of depression and collapse for a long time also slowly recovered.
My mentality gradually improved, and I no longer care so much about the 24-hour follow-up subscription falling to 600. During this period, I began to do my best to update, and my writing status gradually recovered a little.
Unexpectedly, the grades gradually improved.
Although the 24-hour subscription is still far from the original 1600-1700, it has also recovered to about 700, and by the end of Yangshen, it has recovered to 800.
This month of February is the first month that my book has not been interrupted since it was put on the shelves. I wrote about 170,000 words this month, which is incomparable with other great masters, but it is more than all my past months, and the manuscript fee has recovered again. In addition to being normal, in fact, the subscription income of this site is still less than when I wrote the world of martial arts, but thanks to the income of the bookstore and some audio copyright income of old books, the total income of this month is barely the same as that of the first few months.
In March, my mentality was completely calmed down.
Although I can't completely ignore the 24-hour follow-up of updating chapters every day, at least I am not so persistent.
March is also the month that I update the most. There are about 210,000 words, which cannot be compared with those tentacles, but I think this should be considered a pass.
Maybe it’s because the status has improved a lot, and the update is not bad. In the main world’s “Turning Storms, Giants Rise”, 20 hours of follow-up subscriptions finally returned to 800, which happened to be about one volume at its peak.
The above is my experience during this period of time.
Of course, the dungeon of the Yangshen and "The Rise of the Giants" have been criticized by many people, and some old readers even said that they were written by a different person... I accept all these criticisms, although for me personally , There are many twists and turns in the middle, but for readers, good is good, bad is not good, for whatever reason, they will not think too much - this is normal!
However, please believe me, as an author, I will not intentionally write poorly. This is related to my job, and I believe that no author will do this. Please believe me, I will try my best to adjust my state, and do my best to write the following content better.
Finally, take two days off to clean up the sky!
After so much nagging, it’s almost 4,000 words. However, I have always wanted to write a summary, and now I have finally fulfilled this wish.
that's all!
Black eyes and white hair!
(end of this chapter)