Chapter 284: Thoughts on Going on Sale

Thoughts on Going on Sale

Tomorrow the book goes on sale; this is my first time writing thoughts on going on sale, and I'm a bit unsure what to write, so I'll just share with everyone how I came to write this book.

In reality, I am a programmer, and I've been in the industry for several years. When I first entered the field, I was very passionate about writing code; I remember that back then I always had a passion to "change the world with code."

But later my code failed to change the world, yet the world changed me, and I gradually lost that passion for programming and code. Although I still treat my work seriously and responsibly, the feeling in my heart has changed; to use a programmer's self-mockery, daily work is like "moving bricks."

One day in September 2021, I rewatched the HP movies, then continued opening my computer to fix bugs; looking at the functions I had written, I suddenly had a wild idea:

In the world of code, am I not a wizard?

Computer functions are my spells!

The keyboard is my wand!

The plaid shirt is my wizard's robe!

The functions I write one by one are the casting effects of my magic!

Baldness is... (uh... I haven't thought of that one, facepalm; mainly, the author isn't bald)

In short, this is an extremely romantic idea to me.

If you read this and think I'm going to tell the story of a lost programmer rediscovering his original intention, you are wrong; an adult's mindset isn't so easily changed by a single idea...

But this did spark another idea in me—to write a web novel with that idea at its core.

Once this idea appeared, it occupied my brain and couldn't be cleared out no matter what...

Because I am an old bookworm who has read web novels for over ten years, a heavy user of Qidian, spending one or two hundred every month on Qidian, and I have over ten recommendation tickets every day.

I believe every old bookworm has a dream of writing their own book, and I am no exception.

After the preliminary "technical research"—reading many posts and watching many videos about writing web novels.

I decided to realize this idea of mine.

I decided to write an HP fan fiction, because fan fiction has a lower creation difficulty, is very friendly to newcomers; additionally, the magic within HP fits my idea quite well; most importantly, I am an HP fan, having read the original work seven or eight times in middle school, and watched the movies one or two times.

Then I started making various settings, introducing the concept of programming into the magic within HP according to my idea at the time.

The next problem was how to let the protagonist use his programming advantage to gain an unfair advantage.

And the main function of programming is to handle various complex logics and massive amounts of data.

And this function fits the Transfiguration spell very well, so this book cuts in from the aspect of Transfiguration.

But this is not enough; I need more things to attract readers.

The work I do requires reducing randomness in various aspects; perhaps it's that extremes meet, but I personally like randomness very much, although I don't wish my own life to be full of randomness.

Transfiguration + Randomness = Random Transfiguration.

With these core settings in place, I finally began formally writing this book.

Throughout the entire process, I received much encouragement and help from many readers. I personally have also been constantly learning; both programmers and web novel authors are professions that require constant learning, and I believe my learning ability is not bad.

To this day, my ideas about this book have changed greatly compared to when I first started writing, but these changes are all for the better; the story in my heart now is more exciting than when I first started.

I can't wait to write them out for you to see; since I can't change the real world, then I'll change my favorite magical world!

I'll stop writing here; I haven't prepared my explosive update for tomorrow yet. Tomorrow I should be able to update five chapters, ten thousand characters. I also hope friends can support the first subscription; I heard the first subscription is quite important. The book's current favorites are 5,100; if the first subscription reaches 100, I'll be satisfied (facepalm).

That's it; thank you all for your support!

Finally, I wish everyone a Happy New Year!