"In the beginning, there weren't many changes. The main change was the female anchor LuLu's storyline."
"Tell me about it."
"Originally, this character was designed to be one of the most important companions of the main character. It described how a timid girl who had just entered the apocalypse learned how to survive and slowly grew to become a strong person."
"But when it was written that she was scared on the balcony and didn't wake up Liu Gan and Pan Hua in time, the comments section was flooded with all sorts of curses. They said that this girl was a pig and if she didn't die, she would abandon the book. At that time, the main character abandoned her and Pan Hua, and then prepared a plot for them to receive their bento boxes. "
"At this time, there were many readers in the comments section who asked for mercy. They didn't want LuLu to die. They said that if LuLu died, they would abandon the book. So they changed the plot and made her come back to life. They killed Pan Hua. Anyway, no one cared about Pan Hua's life."
"Considering that LuLu wasn't well-liked at the beginning, but she had a certain number of fans, so the main character taught her some survival skills before abandoning her. All the scenes that were originally designed for her were deleted."
"This change made her story inexplicable. She didn't please either side, so it became the biggest flaw in the book."
"Actually, what I want to say is that a normal girl in the real world, after the apocalypse, can't be as omnipotent and calm as the main character Liu Gan. But the readers don't give these people the chance to grow." The author shook his head.
Liu Gan didn't say anything for a long time. He couldn't believe that LuLu's fate had such twists and turns. He also couldn't believe that the reason why he abandoned LuLu and Pan Hua was so absurd!
"Are there any other similar changes?" After a while, Liu Gan asked the author again.
"Yes, another character that was changed was Zhang ShengLi. Originally, after he was stabbed by the wooden spear, he received his bento box. But in the comments section, a large number of readers scolded the main character for being a jinx. Whoever met him would die. They said that if the main character was written like this, they would abandon the book. So, we had to bring him back to life." The author replied.
Liu Gan shook his head. He felt worse and worse.
"Speaking of which, the biggest change in the book isn't this." The author carefully looked at Liu Gan.
"Oh? What's that? "
"The initial outline of [The Trembling World] had ten million words. The first stage consisted of Nin Jing City, Permafrost City, Wild Sand City, Green Prairie City, Cinderclast City, Huang Bi City, and the main city. Here, each section had about one million words."
"NinJing City is covered with dark clouds, Tungsten City is a world of ice and snow, Wild Sand City is filled with sand and stones, Green City is like spring all year round, Fire Rock City is lively, and Barren Wall City is full of caves. The main city has all the characteristics of each city."
"In the original outline, the protagonist would travel to six isolated island cities, experiencing the different natural sceneries and different types of zombies in each island city, gathering all six scepters to reach the main city area, and from the main city's space laboratory, enter the energy world. The energy-converted world has about two million words, and the great universe has about a million words, so the total is ten million words. "
"Why only NinJing City and Tungsten City? What about the contents of the other isolated island cities? " Liu Gan felt inexplicably annoyed. He didn't believe that everything he had experienced was designed by the wretched man in front of him. However, after listening to what the man said, he had to suspect the truth behind the scenes.
"It's hard to write a zombie apocalypse novel for a long time. When the protagonist is weak, it will make the reader feel the pressure and tension of the apocalypse. However, if the protagonist doesn't grow and become stronger, the reader will quickly get bored and feel unhappy."
"When the protagonist of the novel is extremely strong, killing zombies like playing peerless games, the novel can't be written anymore. If I continue to write, it will be a repetitive peerless game, and the reader will scold me for running a nonstop account. Therefore, I designed the outline so that every time the protagonist enters a new isolated island city, he will be completely refreshed and start all over again. Only then can I continue the stressful feeling of a zombie apocalypse novel. "
"However, the refreshed design of Tungsten City made many readers unhappy. They scolded in the book review section, and the subscriptions dropped drastically. I reckon that if I followed the original outline and wrote the refreshed points of Wild Sand City, Green Prairie City, Cinderclast City, Barren Wall City, and the main city area after Tungsten City, I would be scolded to death. Therefore, I skipped the few isolated island cities and the main city area, and directly entered the energy-converted world from Tungsten City."
"On the one hand, the readers want the stressful feeling of a zombie apocalypse novel. On the other hand, they want the thrill of the protagonist constantly becoming stronger. These two points are really difficult to satisfy. At least, I haven't found a way to satisfy both sides. No matter how I write, I can't please either side."
"In order to increase the interest of the story, I painstakingly designed some plots such as the Howling Zombies, the Nightmare Jellyfish, the six siblings, and so on, during the process of the protagonist becoming stronger. I designed them very carefully, and I thought that these plots would be very exciting."
"But the fact is, these few plots were the chapters that received the most scolding and subscriptions in the book. The Nightmare Jellyfish was scolded halfway through, and it could only end early. The plot of the six siblings was written under the scolding, and the subscriptions were all over the place. This made me feel like a failure and very disappointed."
"When I write novels, I don't like to write things that are the same. I like to constantly seek new and change, adding different elements. Every story needs to be imaginative and give people a fresh and strange feeling. However, most readers are not used to and do not accept this way of writing. They only like to level up and fight monsters, from weak to strong, and finally unify the universe."
"I remember that when the NinJing City plot ended and the Tungsten City plot began, there were a lot of comments in the book review section. They said that they could not understand what the author was writing, and they scolded and abandoned the book. Later on, every time I tried to seek new and change, the book review section would scold and abandon the book. Moreover, it was from the full-subscribed readers. It was really frustrating. "
"Horror novels are my best genre, but the current generation of readers is so timid that I can't even imagine it. As long as there is a little bit of horror content, subscriptions will drop like crazy. This forced me to control the degree of horror in the plot. In the later stages, I didn't touch on it anymore. In this aspect, I also made a lot of changes and adjustments."
"I didn't dare to change anymore. I couldn't write about horror. I burned my brain and dropped subscriptions. The universe was my last attempt, but I was scolded badly. I didn't know what else I could write, and I knew that no matter what I wrote, there would be people scolding me." The author stopped here.
"The readers scolded you, and you changed? The entire [The Trembling World] was changed again and again until it became like this? "Liu Gan didn't know what to say.
"I had no choice. In the past, when I wrote books, I was always stubborn. I wrote whatever I wanted to write, so I was always poor. This book learned to cater to the readers, and if the readers were unhappy, I would correct them in time. Finally, I earned some money. "
"Then why don't you continue writing now?"
"After changing again and again, I changed it beyond recognition. It deviated from the original outline, so I couldn't continue writing anymore. There was no point in continuing to write. I understand now. In the future, I won't write these strenuous and unrewarding things anymore. I will specialize in showing off and slapping people's faces. I won't use my brain anymore. I will just keep writing the same face slapping routine over and over again. I don't need to use my brain, but the readers will enjoy it, and I can earn a lot of money. "The author sighed.
"I can't believe that [The Trembling World] was written by a wretched and disgusting fatty like you." After Liu Gan confirmed everything, his heart was inexplicably angry.
"I'm sorry …" The author looked at Liu Gan with a face full of fear. After realizing that Liu Gan was angry, he knew he was going to be unlucky again.
"What will happen if I kill you?" Liu Gan picked up a scalpel and played with it in his hand. If everything in [The Trembling World] was created by this wretched and disgusting fatty, then killing him would cause the entire world to collapse.
If [The Trembling World] didn't collapse, then it meant that this wasn't the final truth. He had fallen into a trap.
"Don't kill me! This is a legal society! Killing people will be punished! One look at you and I can tell that you are rich and have a high status. Killing a trash like me, a life for a life isn't worth it! "The author begged loudly.
Liu Gan slashed the scalpel across, and the world suddenly became quiet.
The author looked at his neck in disbelief as blood spurted out like a fountain. After a moment, his eyes became slack, and his head tilted to the side as his body went limp.
"My fate isn't up to you to decide. It is up to me to struggle and create." Liu Gan stood up and threw the phone on the floor. He stepped on it, and the phone screen made a squeaking sound. The cover of [The Trembling World] quickly dimmed.
Walking out of the warehouse, the sky suddenly started to rain.
Liu Gan reached out to catch a drop of rainwater. He discovered that it was actually red. The red was bright and glaring, just like fresh blood.
(End of book)
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