Arcane Age

It has been 104 days since the book was uploaded on January 18, and it is finally time to put it on the shelves. I don’t know if you have this habit. As an old bookworm, what I love most is not the novel itself, but the author’s innermost thoughts. inside.

Sometimes the battle for the monthly ticket of the great gods is fierce, even if I don’t read their books, I still have to find out the ticket request chapter and read it all over; for newcomers and new books, even if I’m not interested in the plot, I must read the testimonials on the shelf, written well Well written and wonderful, at least there will be support for the first order.

The web literature world is a circle that is always making progress and always pursuing changes and new ideas. In this circle, if you want to live on your laurels and don't think about making progress, you will gradually be abandoned by the times and left far behind; as long as you can lead the new trend, even if it is a cute newcomer, you will definitely have very good results .

Although I have longed to write a book that can lead the trend, but I really don't have the talent, so I had to put my thoughts on the testimonials, hoping to write a long testimonial, if I get a good result by luck , I am afraid that some authors will follow suit soon, which can be regarded as leading a wave of trends.

Since it is a long speech, as an old bookworm and a new author, I will share my views on this industry with you at the beginning.

Around 2,000 years ago, online novels began to germinate, and they developed by leaps and bounds at a speed that no one expected. They have grown all the way to this day, and have become a wonderful flower in my country's cultural industry. In terms of volume and future development prospects In terms of literature, it can be compared with European and American fantasy literature and Japanese comics.

Last year's rich list of writers has just been announced. Tang Jia Sanshao ranked first with 110 million royalties last year, far surpassing all traditional writers, and became the real Chinese writer with the highest income. And all those on the list have an annual income of more than 10 million yuan.

Ten years ago, this was unimaginable. At that time, authors who could earn millions a year were already rare.

Today, Internet writers have become a new profession. I think that in a sense, Internet writers, like emerging Internet anchors, are models of professional stardom.

At that time, the great writer Qian Zhong wrote a book. After reading it, a lady admired it very much, and sent a letter across the ocean to meet Qian Zhongshu.

Qian Zhongshu's answer was: You have eaten very delicious eggs, why do you have to look at the hen that lays eggs?

Many people know this story and will use it in their compositions.

But the times have changed. The writers of those days worked hard and corrected countless times to write a masterpiece. Only a small number of literary and artistic youths can buy it.

Of course, authors in this era don’t need to have too much communication with readers. Among them, the author is superior, and the readers are all admirers and followers, seeking spiritual sustenance.

However, now has come to the era of universal reading, everyone can read books as long as they can read, everyone can write books as long as they can write, anyone can be a reader, anyone can be an author.

Therefore, in such an era, the writer itself is also a very important resource. To achieve success, communication with readers is also inevitable.

This is a new fan economy. To put it bluntly, piracy is everywhere on the Internet. Why should I spend dozens of dollars chasing your book? They even voted and gave rewards, and some people spent a lot of money to become the leader, the golden alliance?

What is the difference between this and the people who send rockets on platforms such as Douyu and Panda?

This is the fan economy!

I have been using the Internet writer to refer to my profession. The word writer is too casual. This is the author's self-deprecation and lack of confidence in himself.

I am writing books with dignity, and I am a person with integrity. My family, friends, and classmates are reading the books I wrote, and even my 14-year-old niece, who is still in junior high school, is reading them.

There is nothing shameful about this profession, and there is nothing unspeakable. Internet writers should hold their heads high. We are the wavers in the tide of emerging industries!

At the same time, readers of online novels, lovely readers, you are not the sluts or nerds in the eyes of some mainstream media or people with ulterior motives.

Maybe you are a student who relaxes while studying intensely; maybe you are a busy urban white-collar worker running around for life; maybe you are a conscientious worker on the production line; maybe you are a A construction worker who works hard with children; maybe you are a waiter with a smiley face in a restaurant; but all of you are dream chasers; pursuing a trace of peace of mind and spiritual relaxation in majestic, elegant, dreamy and beautiful fantasy literature is A form of entertainment, no different from watching TV shows, watching movies, traveling, or listening to concerts.

Elegance and vulgarity are not so simple and clear.

Yangchun Baixue may not be better than Xia Liba people, and Internet literature is by no means pure Xia Liba people. There are also a lot of spirits and essences that can shock us and lead us!

At this point, let’s come to an end for now. I’m just a newcomer who has just firmly embarked on the road of an Internet writer, not a spokesperson for Internet literature. Next, let’s talk about myself.

You may not believe it, but my life trajectory is different from most people's.

I was born in a small mountain village in the Central Plains in the last summer of the 1980s. I was the youngest child of this big family.

I loved reading when I was young, and read various newspapers and magazines every day when I was four or five years old. During the summer vacation when I was eight years old and finished the second grade of elementary school, my sister thought that I was talented and bright and didn't need to waste time in elementary school, so she let me skip a grade.

I didn't go to the third grade. I went to the fourth grade in the first half of the semester, and the fifth grade in the second half of the semester. I became a middle school student in one year.

I went to junior high school at the age of nine. At that time, I was still very young, and it was difficult for me to maintain concentration in class. So three years passed in a daze. high school.

In junior high school, I had two favorite entertainment methods. One was to use the breakfast money to go online in an Internet cafe that just appeared not long ago, playing CS and red police. My favorite was to throw grenades with the People’s Liberation Army. Watching people playing Diablo behind others can last an afternoon.

The second is to read comics and novels. At that time, bookstores were still popular in the streets, and there were a large number of comics of Conan, Dragon Ball, and Slam Dunk, as well as the earliest novels that were closest to online literature. Yi's Looking for the Qin Dynasty, The Legend of Double Dragons in the Tang Dynasty, and Overturning the Rain and Overturning the Clouds.

The hobby of reading has penetrated into my soul and bone marrow, and I will never forget it in my life.

I went to high school in 2003, and online literature became popular, such as Zichuan, Mercenary World, Dream Space, Talk of Heavenly Demon, Legend of Little Soldier, Magic Apprentice...

I have read all of these books. At that time, when the owner of the bookstore rented a new batch of books, I would rush over there as soon as possible, picking out the brand-new pirated books that smelled like ink, with a pilgrimage-like expression, It was like a breath of fresh air to a drowning man.

Soon, I finished reading all the books in the bookstore, some of them three or four times. So I started creating, on a hardcover notebook that I bought for five yuan.

I just wrote more than 3,000 words, and was discovered by my class teacher in a self-study class. He was almost 60 years old and read the beginning aloud in the classroom with my notebook. The laptop fell on me.

This is my first association with writing, a very bad memory.

But more than ten years have passed, and I have never given up on reading online literature, and I have always wanted to really start writing an interesting and valuable book. When I get old in the future, it will be my lifelong dream to put a shelf of my self-published books in my study.

Years of reading have left me with a few stories in my mind, which are the accumulation of accumulation after reading books for so many years, and I can’t spit them out.

Before the beginning of the article, I thought about writing Xianxia, ​​and I thought about writing about the popular celebrity stream in the past two years, but I finally chose to write a fantasy book.

Fantasy has been brilliant, and the earliest online literature is all fantasy works, almost without exception. Countless great gods have written fantasy, and fantasy in the past was the type of web literature that everyone loved to read.

However, as the stereotyped academic style makes people more and more annoying, and with the prosperity of oriental fantasy represented by Fights Break Sphere, fantasy has finally gone downhill, staggering and unable to rise again.

In the past few years, books related to fantasy can be roughly divided into three categories.

The first category is the amber flow created by pneumonia. Although it belongs to the game category and has a system, the main plot and chapters are not about games, but about love, hatred and adventure in a real world. Undoubtedly Closer to the fantasy theme.

Good works in this category include Master of the Abyss, Night Ranger and so on.

The second category is the wizard stream, the fantasy version of the mortal stream. I haven’t watched the earliest wizard stream, but Mysterious Journey is undoubtedly a very good work, although the second half of the book is a bit of a waste of time.

And several high-subscription works of the Fantasy Channel, such as Warlock of the Witch World and Wizard Journey, are almost all wizard streams.

The third category is Arcane Throne written by Squid, a book of scientific magic, but unfortunately it failed to form a genre, and the imitators did not achieve satisfactory results.

I read all these books carefully before I started writing, and analyzed most of the beginning parts, and there are also many parts that pay tribute to the great gods who are ahead in terms of world structure and realm division.

But the core story is my own idea, and it is also the part that has settled in my heart after reading so many books over the years, and it is also the story I really want to write for everyone to read.

This is not a book that purely pursues commercial writing. While trying my best to cater to readers' preferences and write popular and good stories, I don't want to give up my persistence. a real world.

Therefore, I did not write according to the cycle of setting up suspense-creating pressure-pretending to face the face of the routine. Due to the lack of writing power, the story that breaks away from the routine seems a bit loose and not so compact, and it is also less attractive to readers. Not very strong.

A truly high-level author can make most readers look forward to it while writing their own stories, and even scratch their hearts with enthusiasm. This is what I lack, and it is also what I want to pursue.

I try to do web writing as a career, I will persevere, I will study hard, and keep moving forward.

The structure of this book is very large, and the part shown so far is just the tip of the iceberg. There are still many plots that I feel excited when I think about it, so I will insist on writing them all and show them to everyone who likes fantasy and this book. readers of the book.

So this book will not be an eunuch, and it will not be unfinished. Even if there is only one reader, I will insist on completing this journey. This is a commemoration and memorial to my ten-year life.

Finally, talk about achievements and prospects.

It will be put on the shelves soon, and the number of favorites is 11900. In the past few days, the daily recommendation votes are not very high, which shows that everyone is not interested in the plot of the seabed.

I will strive to write the last part of this plot wonderfully, and I hope everyone can continue to support me after it is released.

Fantasy is a very mature subject, so many people are tired of reading it, and none of the books reported on the Fantasy Channel has a book-to-subscribe ratio of more than 10:1.

Fantasy is now a very niche category. However, other niche books such as martial arts, history, military, and competitive channels often have magical books with a subscription ratio of 8:1 or even 5:1, but there has been no fantasy in the past three years.

Without a broad readership base and no loyal fans, this is the tragedy of fantasy authors.

Judging from the current situation of my book, as long as the subscription rate is not lower than 30:1, I can laugh out loud.

I am not complaining here. In fact, the more than 300,000 words I have written are not good enough to attract everyone's enthusiastic support.

This is a long novel, the road we have to go has just begun, Xi Wei's story has just unfolded, so let us set sail slowly!

After twelve o'clock tonight, VIP should be opened. Give it a go, the bicycle becomes a motorcycle, so I will explode in May!

Tomorrow, at least two guaranteed updates will be updated, and the additional updates up to 19,000 recommended votes will be six updates.

Other additional conditions are as follows:

1. 24-hour first order for every more than 100 plus one update. On May Day, if there are 300 first orders for the first chapter, then three more will be added, and so on.

2. Monthly ticket plus change. There are double monthly tickets this month, and there are a lot of great masters. I don't have much thought about the new book monthly ticket list, but I still want to compete for the fantasy category monthly ticket list. Therefore, we will add a new chapter to 20 monthly tickets in May. The double period is equivalent to 10 monthly tickets plus a new chapter.

3. Add rewards. For each additional rudder master or above fan, one chapter will be added, two chapters will be red, and five chapters for leader, which will be valid for a long time.

Thank you for your support. If you think this book is not bad, please contribute even a first order, which is a great encouragement to me!

Finally, let me end this speech with a poem I like very much: I have a bright pearl, which has been blocked by dust for a long time. Now the dust is gone, and the light is born, shining through thousands of flowers in rivers and mountains!