A Few Things and What Comes Next

This book is almost a million words long now. To be honest, it currently has 700 average daily subscriptions, which is very stable. It's neither dropping nor rising. Well, it's a third-rate flop.

During the initial launch period, I was sabotaged by a competitor. Although the editor still chose to believe me, all the necessary trial runs and comparisons were canceled, and the book was released without any prior publicity.

Later, the editor said the results were too poor and suggested that I cut it off and start a new book. I said I wanted to try publishing it, after all, it hasn't been easy to write this far.

Then, the novel, titled "Naked Run," with 300,000 words and 10,000 favorites, was released without any fanfare and received 332 first-time subscriptions.

I said before that I would continue writing if I got 300 subscriptions, and friends from all walks of life supported me. I did get 300 subscriptions, so I continued writing, and I've been writing ever since.

I don't want to make hindsight comments like "If there had been a competition, this book would have performed so much better than it is now," it's pointless.

I admit I was young and naive back then, and that was that; the matter was dropped.

I thought that after writing this book for almost two years, I should be making progress, but I didn't expect that I would be regressing.

The previous book had 900 average daily subscriptions upon completion, while this one currently has 700 average daily subscriptions.

The previous book had a free limit of 800,000 words and was available on all platforms after more than 1 million words. This book currently has 980,000 words and hasn't even been available for free on Mobile QQ.

I know that with poor grades, the editor won't be as accommodating as before. I understand that, so I never ask the editor for a recommendation, because I don't want to make things difficult for them.

Editors are just cogs in the secret machine of Yuewen. If they don't do a good job, they will be replaced. So, as someone who has also worked in the field, I understand the difficulties and never cause trouble for editors.

The previous incident already put the editor in a very passive position.

Therefore, under these circumstances, the future of this book is already foreseeable; its ceiling is already set, and it will likely only reach 700 average daily subscriptions.

I'm not saying this to elicit sympathy, but I just think that I've been writing books for two years, and I've written two books. Neither of them has ever reached 1,000 average subscriptions. One book had 900 subscriptions, and the other had 700.

Having seen so many top-tier sellers with 3,000 average daily subscriptions, long-term contracts with 7,000 or 8,000 average daily subscriptions, and even contracts with top sellers or platinum sellers with tens of thousands of average daily subscriptions, I feel quite ashamed. I never imagined that you were just a nobody who had never even reached 1,000 average daily subscriptions.

When I first entered the industry, I thought I wasn't the kind of person who was all talk and no action, always dreaming of becoming a legend with one book. My goal wasn't high; I'd be happy with 1,000 average daily subscriptions.

But now it seems that even this small goal is difficult for me to achieve.

However, I have a good mindset. I'm not the kind of person who blames society for being poor. If I'm not capable, I'll accept it. If I can't do anything, I can't just commit suicide. Life has to go on.

Okay, enough complaining, let's talk about the arrangements.

Everyone says that Lin Dong's story is too short, with only 400 chapters. I think that's true, it is indeed too short. So let's continue writing.

Then let's go to the Great Thousand World and write the story of Lin Dong's fame Great Thousand World.

The story of Martial Ancestor is actually difficult to write. Why is that?

For example, there are more than a dozen stories about Flame Emperor in the Great Thousand World, so I expanded my previous book to 600,000 words based on these stories, which was very easy.

However, there are only two or three records of the Martial Ancestor's deeds in the Great Thousand World, which is far too few, and no matter how much it is expanded, it cannot be increased to 100,000 words.

My plan is as follows:

I'll first review the plot of the Great Ruler and see if I can create a complete story about Lin Dong, just like the previous book, the Great Ruler: Flame Emperor.

If I can make it up, then I'll start another Martial Ancestor The Great Ruler Arc and write it from beginning to end.

If you really can't come up with anything, then just write a twenty or thirty-chapter side story, which is to extract a few of the Martial Ancestor's deeds and write them separately.

For example, it seems that the side story about the Martial Ancestor causing havoc in the Ice Spirit Clan by the Great God Cabbage was abandoned. I can try to complete it and write a short story.

If I really can't come up with a complete story outline and choose to write short stories instead, I hope you won't complain.

Because my original writing skills are terrible, I'm a total failure, otherwise I wouldn't be writing fanfiction. If I had that ability, why wouldn't I just write original works, making tons of money and having the copyrights, right? (laughs, probably dreaming~)

I'm just a third-rate writer whose writing is getting worse and worse, only able to produce 700 average subscriptions. I hope you can understand this and not demand too much of me.

I'll try my best to come up with a complete outline, but I can only say "try my best" because I'm not sure myself right now.

I was planning to take a day off tomorrow to redesign the outline, but many friends advised me not to stop updating, as it would hurt my popularity.

Because that's how it was with my last book. After the Battle Through the Heavens storyline ended, everyone wanted me to continue writing the Great Ruler storyline. But I forgot the Great Ruler storyline and had to reread it and redesign the outline. So I said I was taking seven days off, and everyone should remember to wait for me.

I promised, but when I came back I found all the readers had left, emmm...

But I still managed to finish the book, which deserves praise.

Therefore, if I continue writing the Great Ruler chapter tomorrow, I can only use tonight's time to redesign the outline.

I wonder if one night is enough? I always feel that designing an outline is a very difficult and tedious task, and it's impossible to finish it in just a few days.

Ugh, this is giving me a headache. Slow and steady wins the race.

If I can't get it done tonight, I'll have to take a day off tomorrow and update again the day after.

Don't worry, if I need to take leave tomorrow, I will send you a separate notice in advance.

I'll try to finish tonight and update tomorrow. I always feel like you'll be like the readers of my last book, promising to wait for me to come back, only to find you've all disappeared...

That's all.

Li Kuanglan

April 19, 2019