The Book's First Anniversary! Reflections and Thanks
On January 19, 2022, a new Qidian author named Yu Mu Shao Sheng opened Qidian's Author Assistant and casually uploaded around ten thousand words of a novel.
As of January 19, 2023, this book had been published for a whole year!!!!
With the New Year festivities upon us and this book reaching its first anniversary, everyone must be eager to know about the details of the author's creative process, so let me share what preparations I made before writing this book...
The answer was that I made absolutely no preparations at all.
I knew everyone surely wanted to know how I developed my ideas during the early stages of this book's creation.
The answer was that I had absolutely no ideas at all.
I just wanted to see whether Qidian's Author Assistant was any good!!!!
Why had I already written nearly four million words?!!!!!!
What the hell was I doing right now?!!!!!!!
I didn't know whether you had heard of a famous theory called—"Throw your hat over the wall first."
It roughly meant that if you felt you lacked the determination to do something, you should first throw your hat to the other side of the wall. Once you had sunk costs, you would have no choice but to climb over and retrieve it.
The author threw her hat to the other side of the Himalayan Mountains.
When I started this book, inspiration poured forth, and I wrote ten thousand words in three hours. I was truly dashing. A year later, scratching my head to fill plot holes and failing to write two thousand words in four hours, I was truly a mess.
Digging holes was fun for a moment; filling them was a crematorium!!!!
Every night at two in the morning, when