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Today was December 5th.
Last year, December 5th, 2007, the first chapter of Devil's Law was published on Qidian.
In other words … today was the first anniversary of the serialization of Devil's Law. With this article, I commemorated the past year.
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There was a very interesting thing.
Last year, during the two months at the end of 2007, I was fighting with another author, Yue Guan, for last year's championship. I was doing my best to get votes, I was racking my brains to come up with a plot, I was even writing until my fingers were twitching.
During that time, my wife said a very classic sentence to me.
At that time, she said to me with hidden bitterness: Ever since Yueguan, you've been ignoring me.
Alright, this sentence seemed to be quite funny. Those who heard about this matter would find it very interesting. But the only person who didn't find it interesting was my wife.
Because during that time, I did ignore her, and it was two months before we were going to get married (I got married in January 2008).
Last year, I wrote a very melodramatic article titled "A Champion's Heart". In the end, it was very embarrassing. I lost last year and didn't get the championship, so the title "Forever Second" still followed me.
Even when I got married and Qidian gave me a wedding gift, an editor who had a good personal relationship with me joked with me that they should give me a plaque that didn't have "Eternal Love" written on it, but just "Forever Second" written on it.
Hehe.
Yes, I lost last year. Although I was very confident that I had a champion's heart, I never doubted myself.
Because I believed in one thing: perseverance.
I lost last year. This year, I spent a whole year fighting with almost no rest. In the end?
In the end, I didn't know whether I got the championship or not, but I was sure of one thing: I successfully turned myself into a workaholic.
Yes, workaholic.
This title was given to me by my wife.
We got married in January. Then, there was no honeymoon, no vacation, no wedding, because … I wanted to write.
Even on the morning of my wedding, I updated! This record was probably something that no other author on Qidian could achieve.
January 19th, the day of my wedding. On that day, I updated chapter 81 of the book at 7: 22 AM.
After updating the chapter, I put on my suit and went out to pick up the bride — all my friends thought I was crazy.
Hehe, I also think I'm crazy.
This year, for almost an entire year, I have continued this madness.
Yes, I don't have a weekend, I don't have a day off, I don't travel, and I don't go shopping. I've calculated that the number of times I've gone out to eat with my wife this year is less than five times.
A few days ago, my wife suddenly said to me, "You know what? You treat your readers better than you treat me.
After hearing this, I was speechless.
That's right, when I occasionally missed an update, I would immediately make it up. I update every day, write, and stay at home on weekends.
I can't remember how many times I've said to my wife, "I'll owe you for now. When I have time, I'll definitely go shopping with you, eat with you, and watch movies with you …"
As a result, I would always try my best to complete the updates that I owed the readers.
But the dates that I owed my wife … I would always owe her, and the more I owed her, the more I owed her.
So, when my wife said to me, "You treat your readers better than you treat me," it might have been a joke, but at that time, I really couldn't laugh.
Yes.
So, many times, there would be some people who would attack me, insult me for not being professional, insult me for not having a good character, attack me for fooling the readers, and even criticize me for not having a good writing attitude and so on.
To these attacks, I can confidently say to these people, "Scram! Because you don't have the right to say these things to me!
I know very well what I'm doing!
To anyone, I can firmly say, "I have a clear conscience! To the readers, I dance with a clear conscience! "
Well, the above words were actually not my original intention for writing this article.
This should be an article about the conclusion, some confessions and memories for himself, or some reflections and so on.
First, let's talk about one of my famous titles, "Forever Second".
It started in the second half of 2005. At that time, we were fighting for Qidian's monthly votes, and it was still Jiangnan, Blood Red, and Melancholy.
Now that I think about it, the atmosphere at that time was the best and most harmonious. It was a truly healthy competition. Because at that time, the top five monthly votes on Qidian had the same rewards. There was no competition for monetary benefits between us. It was the same whether we were first or fifth.
But we were still fighting. At that time, it was purely a desire to be the champion.
I remember that the closest I was to being the champion was a month ago. In the last two days, I was leading the second place by 700 votes (Jiangnan's Blasphemy was second at that time). But then, Yanyu suddenly exploded. Then, in one day and one night, he caught up to me by 1000 votes. From 700 votes behind me, he overtook me by 300 votes and took the championship from me.
After that, when Nan Yan came to Nanjing, I wanted to get him drunk at the table and take revenge. In the end, the cunning Nan Yan lied and said that he didn't drink … and then slipped away. Hehe. Actually, after we got to know each other better, I found out that this guy drank, and drank quite a lot.
In the current monthly votes rankings, it wasn't strange to catch up to 1000 votes a day. But at that time, in 2005, the champion only got 3000 to 4000 votes a month. It was a miracle that Nan Yan could get 1000 votes a day. It really made me feel that time wasn't on my side.
After I lost to Blood Red, Misty Rain, and Sad Ecstasy once each, and after I was in second place for three months in a row, people started calling me Eternal Second. This was the origin of my famous nickname.
This year, 2008 …
Actually, I don't need to say much.
A lot of people don't understand my obsession with being the champion. Actually, I just want to prove myself.
I won't write for a lifetime. No author will write for a lifetime. For an author, the golden age of their career is only a few years. I just don't want to have any regrets.
This year, a magazine interviewed me and they talked about a topic. The magazine did a random survey and asked some readers who had left a deep impression on them after so many years of web novels being popular today. Or rather, who were the authors or works that they liked?
The answers of the survey mostly focused on the earliest works, such as "The First Intimate Contact", "Ethereal Journey", "Feng Zi", and other ancient works. There were also authors like "He Zai Zai".
Then the editor of the magazine asked me: Dancing, you've been writing for four years. Do you have any goals for your writing career?
At the time, I gave him an answer that I wasn't aiming for much. I just hoped that in the future, years from now, when there was a similar survey, some reader would say, "Oh, dancing, that guy's book isn't half bad."
If there is such a result, I will be very satisfied.
Wild geese leave a sound when they pass, and people leave a name when they die.
In life, people should have some goals.
There is only one month left in 2008. It has been four and a half years since I started writing. I don't know how much longer I can write. Maybe I can write for a few more years. Maybe my next book will be a flop, and then it will be forgotten by most readers.
Actually, my work has always been to please readers.
When I put down the keyboard in the future, I might not be proud of how much money I have earned from writing books. However, I wish I could say with pride that my books have brought happiness to many, many people over the years.
If there is such a result, I will be very, very, very, very happy!
In this circle, one of my best friends, the Tang family's third young master, had something that made me very jealous.
There was once an occasion when a reader said to Third Young Master emotionally, "Third Young Master, I grew up reading your books!"
That "grew up reading your books" — this sentence was almost invincible.
God, at that time, I was really envious and jealous …
In the future, after I stop writing, if there are readers who occasionally remember me, they will say: Oh, Dancing, that guy's books have been with me for many years. They have brought me a lot of happiness.
Life is enough!
If, I mean if.
If I can get first place in the monthly votes this year, then I can give myself an explanation. I owe myself a proof of my success.
If I can get first place, I can say to myself: You have been second place for ten thousand years, but you have finally won first place! You have brought a lot of happiness to the readers and helped many people spend a lot of their leisure time.
For an ordinary person, to have this achievement in a lifetime is enough for them to enjoy these memories when they are old.
PS: This article is just to remember some things from the past, not to ask for monthly votes.
Of course, if you want to vote for me, I will support it with both hands and feet. Wahaha ~ ~
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