I finished it yesterday and I have been in a state of excitement and feel nothing.

But when I woke up this morning, my whole body felt bad. I really felt empty, as if a best friend I had known for nine years had suddenly left forever.

To me, he is the best friend.

He spends more time with me every day than my wife. In the past nine years, more than 3,000 days and nights, I have devoted all my energy and thinking every day, and the focus of my life has been entirely on it.

Many readers said, "When it's over, my youth is over", "When it's over, my youth has another scar"...

In fact, the person who suffered the most was me.

For everyone, it may be just those ten minutes every day, a small expectation before getting up in the morning and before going to bed, and a habit that has been with you for several years.

For me, it is everything I have had in the past nine years.

After sitting there all morning, my energy finally came back, and it was only at four o'clock in the afternoon that I finally started writing this final statement.

Where to start?

Let’s talk about the growth process first. It was released on the Chuangshi Chinese website on July 3, 2015, and went on the shelves in August. It was the first most ordered book on QQ Bookstore at that time.

A few months later, on March 1, 2016, the single-day sales exceeded 30,000, breaking the highest sales record of QQ Bookstore at that time.

A few months later, in October 2016, the sales exceeded 30,000.

Why I remember it so clearly is because I posted it on WeChat Moments to show off. In 2016, the daily sales volume was 30,000 yuan and the average order was 30,000 yuan, which is still very valuable.

In the same year, with the achievements of this book, he became one of the first twelve kings of Yuewen.

The following year, I got a great contract.

In 2018, it was launched on the QQ browser and quickly topped the best-selling list.

Later, it was put on WeChat Bookstore and mobile Baidu, and almost always ranked first. It was not the best-selling book on New Media, but it was one of the best-selling books.

According to one editor, as long as you go to a new channel, you are basically killing people randomly.

According to a friend who is a platinum author, he has basically scanned every traffic bonus from China Literature Group.

2021 and 2022 are considered to be the peak years of performance. Almost all search platforms on the entire Internet rank first in the most popular searches of the year. It was also this year that I received a platinum contract.

Anti-theft should start in the second half of 2022, and the subscriptions of QQ Bookstore and Qidian will begin to increase significantly. It will reach the peak by the end of 2024, and subscriptions will become the first on both platforms.

Of course, after anti-theft, there is also a place for readers who may not be so well-off to read books for free, that is, the QQ browser. I think the number of readers followed by the QQ browser is more than the second to tenth place combined.

many.

Recording finished!

There is some showing off, but not much.

Let’s talk about the most criticized update…

In fact, before 2017, updates were very stable, at least 6,000 words per day.

From 2017 to 2020, it was relatively stable, although the interruption was more serious. On average, there were 5,000 words per day.

The most severe interruption was after the surgery in 2023, which basically meant one chapter in two days.

I have analyzed why this is happening more than once, and I have also talked about it before.

I am really exhausted both physically and mentally!

From the time I started writing the book in 2011 to 2017, in the past five or six years, I never took more than a day off.

I know, everyone will not believe it, but this is the fact.

At that time, I wrote at least 9,000 words almost every day, finished one book, and started publishing new books the next day.

With my coding speed, anyone who has watched the live broadcast knows that writing 9,000 words means that all the time of the day is spent on it.

Friends around me envy us the free time we have to write books, but I envy those who have the opportunity to take two consecutive days off a year, and those who can relax a little after get off work.

When is the happiest time as an author writing a book?

That’s when I finish writing today’s updates.

Physical fatigue, secondly, and more importantly, psychological fatigue.

What I feel now is that I can never write another book with more than 10 million words. It is too tiring. Various characters, various settings, and various details have been piling up in my mind... more and more.

,more and more……

This feeling of exhaustion really gets more and more serious the longer I write a book.

In the eighth and ninth year of writing, I really... To be honest with you, I just looked at the royalties and persevered. So, you don't have to sympathize with me, I just dared to finish the book and share it with you.

When writing a new book, I think that if it is completed with four to five million words, it will be written more briskly, and it will basically be completed in two years. When it reaches six to seven million words, it is estimated that updates cannot be guaranteed to be stable. Eight to nine million words,

It is estimated that it will take five or six years to complete.

In fact, Wan Ben's strongest emotions were three years ago.

That year, I had nightmares several times, always realizing that I had finished my book.

Some readers felt that the finale came too quickly.

But in fact, this book started to come to an end three years ago. Except for a small dungeon in Dihuang that must be opened for reincarnation, no characters or maps were added, and no new plot was expanded. The overall development of the plot is just the beginning.

Contraction.

It can be said that the two to three million words of the plot in the past two to three years are all plots that serve the ending.

This year, on the surface, only the last few chapters are the finale. But in fact, all the plots written this year are the plot of the finale, and they are all written around the final battle, which is always the acceleration period of the finale.

Some readers may not believe that this is an acceleration period. They think that many places are still under water.

Let me just say this. Every time I write a chapter this year, I almost have to go through several previous places to fill in the gaps in the previous chapters to connect the previous and subsequent plots. But most readers have actually forgotten these gaps, and they are basically forgotten.

Won't care.

Just like the final battle, the plot and functions of nearly a hundred characters were written. But the ones that everyone will care about may only be a few.

There are too many readers. As long as a character is not written, some readers will call for it to be written. But if it is actually written, 80 or 90% of the readers will complain because they have forgotten that character.

Writing the finale like this is my own insistence, allowing most of the characters to show their faces, which can be regarded as a collective curtain call.

Just like many readers, they have no impression of Lin Lingshan, Zi Qian, Qi Feiyu, and Yu Lingshen, but I must write about the ending.

Because I know there must be readers who remember it.

At the same time, I also have to give an explanation to the character in my mind: this is your youth, and it is also my youth.

Other important characters can still appear in the extras, but they will definitely not appear in the extras.

Many readers think that Huang Yanchen is not included in the finale, but in fact, I put a lot of energy into it.

For example, this sentence says, "I think back to when I was young, my heroic spirit was soaring through the sky, thousands of waters were fighting with swords, and the phoenix tower was like a rain of gold and jade leaves, and the whole building was full of red sleeves and moves."

In fact, what is described is the most important moment of Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yanchen. How many people remember Qianshui County, Fengwantai and Jinyuye?

The finale is written back to the Liangyi Sect, Changshengyuan and Zixialing Mountain where Zhang Ruochen and Ling Feiyu live. Do you still remember the story of Zhang Ruochen, Mu Lingxi, and the talented girl with the holy book?

Behind every description of a specific location and every detail is a long story from the past.

I want to write about Si Xingkong, Chang Qiqi, Zhenmiao, Ao Xinyan, I want to write about Yuntai Zongfu, I want to write about Martial Arts Academy, I want to write about Jiuyou Sword Master and Red Star Envoy of Black Market Yipintang, I want to write about Zhang Ruochen Gang

The grave where Han Xue buried her mother wanted to write about Lei Jing’s descendants...

I wanted to write about the old Chen Wutian and Pei Yutian, and see the young talents in the new generation of "Heroes" in their prime, accompanied by beautiful women, singing drunkenly, and reminiscing about their past. But in the end it only turned out to be a simple finale.

That simple sentence.

There are so many things I wanted to write, but in the end I selected and deleted them all, so I can’t procrastinate too much.

We need to find a balance between the fullness of the plot and the fast and slow pace.

Because there are already enough, I have already written ten chapters based on what everyone thinks is the finale of "a fierce or tragic fight, the protagonist kills the enemy forcefully, and most of the team dies". It is already enough, there are already quite a few

Readers feel dragged out because they have forgotten those characters and those people, so there is no point in writing these plots.

But I remember that it made sense to me.

The author writes the book for readers, but this finale is the end of my youth. I have to give myself the most important confession. I take it more seriously than anyone else.

In the last one or two months, in order to write the finale, I almost never went out for a party. I postponed all gatherings and postponed everything.

In the finale, I gave spring to Baiyigu and the wonderful Zen girl, but I didn't expect that everyone had forgotten the sea water.

I gave summer to Huang Tian, ​​Yu Yao, and Bai Qing'er. They lived a miserable life and deserved such a warm and peaceful summer.

Give autumn to those of the Liang Yi Sect and the Moon Worshiping Sect, because many old friends have withered like leaves in the wind!

The winter was left to Zhang Ruochen, and he finally emerged from the misery and misery in his life.

Through the spring, summer, autumn and winter, Zhang Ruochen's life has gone backwards. When he reached the opening of the winter solstice, he ate the hot venison soup and everything in the past was gone forever.

For me, this finale took all my efforts and was worthy of my nine years of dedication.

All the holes were filled in these two or three years. Everyone gave their explanations in these two or three years.

Readers who are pursuing a complete story should consider it over after the six paths of reincarnation are established!

Reincarnation itself was intentionally established by the protagonist when Lin Lan died.
To be continued...