Chapter 312: Ten thousand subscriptions reached, thanks to all the bosses who support this book!
Ten thousand subscriptions reached, thanks to all the bosses who support this book!
Ten thousand subscriptions reached, thanks to all the bosses who support this book!
First of all, thanks to all the bosses who support this book. Cola really didn't expect that this book could reach ten thousand subscriptions. I am very excited and kneel down to thank you again.
As a pure newcomer author, this book has stepped on many pits. From the beginning, I didn't know why so many people supported and liked the train theme. The new book list suddenly rushed to the first in the category and the top ten in the general list. To tell the truth, I was completely confused at that time, because I didn't know why I had such results.
At that time, I really didn't know what "poison points," routines, or pacing were. I just wrote whatever came to mind. So before it went on the shelves, many bosses would find that the style changed from time to time, the direction was not very clear, and there were many loopholes in the settings, and I was scolded a lot...
At that time, I was really very confused because you didn't know the reason why readers liked your book, so I cared very much about all the comments and data, changing the previous chapters back and forth, looking for the appetite of the readers.
It wasn't until before it went on the shelves, that is, after the plot of the Bizarre Radio Station was completed, that I clarified what I wanted to write, and then I started to update with full motivation. Although at that time, my follow-up reading had dropped miserably and was almost cut in half, the data of 30,000 to 40,000 collections after it went on the shelves only had 700 average subscriptions and 1,600 first subscriptions.
Although I was a bit discouraged at one time, because I found the direction, I was still full of confidence to start expanding the outline, perfecting the worldview, and wanted to write a doomsday that I thought was a doomsday.
And my impression of the doomsday is The Wandering Earth, The Three-Body Problem, Interstellar, Independence Day, Pacific Rim, Mad Max...
Influenced by many excellent works, I think the doomsday should be serious, heavy, a process of all mankind from panic to struggle, from confusion to resistance. It should be a major test of all human civilization, a magnificent baptism, and a hymn of courage!
Even so, I was very worried, because in my opinion, this way of writing might not have "cool points."
Because I have read relatively few web novels, I shallowly think that the good points lie in being cool, showing off in front of others, slapping faces, grabbing treasures and upgrading, being invincible, being selfish, and having advanced information. And these, I am not good at, or rather, I wrote like shit, so the cool points I wanted to write in the early stage were seen as poison points by readers, and the reversals I wanted to write turned into shit...
So the question is, if web novels don't have these, how can this doomsday novel be good?
I don't know.
But the problem is, when I started to deeply unfold this desperate doomsday, started the life-and-death escape, raced against time and the night, started to change the protagonist's lone wolf perspective to the human population perspective, started not to open a cheat just for the sake of opening a cheat, and seriously and seriously faced the despair brought by the doomsday, the collections and subscriptions including monthly tickets increased instead...
Then it rushed to the boutique in 20 days after it went on the shelves. That was the result obtained by many readers who watched the book silently, supporting this doomsday story from the Apocalypse Day with one vote and one chapter after another. It is precisely because of this that I realize that this kind of doomsday is also a direction. As long as you write the story well, there will still be people who like it.
Just like a reader commented to me after reading the esper evaluation section:
【Cola, you just write your doomsday world well. I have other candidates for watching people show off and slap faces.】
Me:...
Then, I insisted on unfolding this doomsday from the perspective of a movie (because I like watching movies, not comparing this book with those classic masterpieces, it can't be compared at all). The results skyrocketed with the support of all the bosses, increasing by more than 2,000 average subscriptions every month (but there were still some problems with the plot in the middle, otherwise it should have reached ten thousand subscriptions in February, which I mentioned before.)
To be honest, ten thousand subscriptions is very exciting and happy, and it will soon reach 200,000 collections. I didn't expect that the first book could have such results. Cola is extremely grateful to the bosses who support this book.
Because it is the first book written to one million words, the worldview, settings, outline, including materials, mechas, maps, etc., are getting more and more, which led me to work on an excel document to 30m. It is precisely because of this that there are inevitably loopholes, bugs, etc. In this regard, I hope all the bosses will bear with me. I will correct the errors and typos pointed out in the book reviews and paragraph comments as soon as I see them, striving to improve everyone's reading experience.
Another thing is pictures. Cola likes to match pictures. Sometimes there are two or three pictures in a chapter. I personally like to describe the story content with sound and emotion, just to make the story more immersive. Because it is considered to be rubbing the edge of science fiction, I like to find some pictures of those strange mechanical settings, unknown creatures, and doomsday environments. I saw comments saying that they don't like looking at pictures. Regarding this, I can only say bear with me, haha.
At the very end, taking the opportunity to say these words, I kneel and beg for a wave of monthly tickets from all the bosses! I am very grateful!
The updates owed for asking for leave when I returned to my hometown before will also be made up before the end of the month!
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