Cover news Xun Chao
"The Money of Rebirth Rolls In", 6.65 million words in 22 months;
"Global Gao Wu", 8.3 million words in 16 months;
"The Robbery of All Tribes", 8.33 million words in 12 months...
"I've always felt that my stories and writing are not the best, and that to be a god writer, I have to have my own characteristics. If I update twenty thousand words a day, readers won't have time to read someone else's book after reading my book. In this way, he will always chase after my books and become a loyal fan. On January 31, 2021, the latest masterpiece "The Robbery of All Races" by the writer Eagle Eating Chicken (hereinafter referred to as "Eagle") was completed, he said in an exclusive interview with the cover news reporter.
Eagles eat chicks
"The Robbery of All Tribes" began to be serialized on the starting point Chinese network on February 6, 2020, with a cumulative update of 8.33 million words in the past year, winning a total of 2.23 million monthly tickets for the whole year, and winning the first place in the 2020 Original Literature List Boys' Overall List. With an average of 21,000 daily updates, "The Robbery of All Tribes" has long dominated the top five lists of the starting monthly ticket list, recommendation list, best-seller list, reading list and tip list.
The average daily update of 21,000 is to "dominate the screen"
"Reading my book is very tiring, because my chapter is too long, and the people who can keep reading it are usually iron fans." Since the creation of "The Robbery of All Races", the eagle has sat in front of the computer for 6-8 hours a day, maintaining an average of 21,000 words of updates per day. Some readers once joked that the Eagle was a "ruthless code word machine", and he attributed this motivation to "life forced" - "solidifying powder" in a "masochistic" way. "Now everyone is busy, private time is limited, and if the reader spends more time on my book, he doesn't have time to look at someone else's work, and he will keep staring at my book."
For many people, this creative mode is monotonous and boring, and it is very difficult. But for eagles who have worked in the sales industry, writing is easier. "I didn't write a book before I was on sales, I went out at 7 a.m. every morning and didn't come home until 10 or 11 p.m. Comparing the two industries, I found that writing is a little easier. ”
Eagle first wrote a novel in 2013, just after going to college, he was influenced by his roommate and began to write online articles. "It took me more than 9 months to write my first book and I made 10,000 or 20,000 yuan." With the income from writing novels, eagles can be self-sufficient in college, and even tuition fees can be earned by themselves. "But after graduating from college, this salary will not work, I can't earn two or three thousand yuan a month by writing novels to save money to buy a house, buy a car and get married, the pressure is too great, I had to give up writing and run to Shanghai to do sales." 」 However, the hardships and bitterness of the sales made the eagle tired. At this time, he thought about the days when he used to write books. In 2016, he decided to return to online writing and created "The Money of Rebirth Rolling In".
"When I talk to some friends, I often say that it is a helpless move to go back and write novels, because I am too tired to do sales, and the leather heels are smoothed out several pairs." Restarting writing, Eagle's initial mentality was the same as when he was writing in college: make some pocket money. "My work in my hometown is relatively relaxed, thinking that I can earn hundreds of yuan a month by writing books, and doing it as a part-time job is also a hobby." In the years of sales, the Eagles were busy at work and would take time out to read novels.
"I love reading novels so much! I used to like to read martial arts novels, Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wen Ruian, all of their martial arts novels I basically read. I also like to read some history books, but not the history books of the Eight Classics, the history of Zheng'er is too tired to read, I like to read the wild history of a little gossip, or some stories adapted from wild history stories. However, the accumulation of reading is mainly from online texts, starting from 2003, and now it has been sixteen or seven years. ”
Like most online writers, Eagle's motivation for deciding to write is because he can no longer find the book he wants to read. "The Source of Rebirth", "Global Gao wu", "The Robbery of All Races", with a real and strong sense of substitution, humorous and funny writing, and amazing creative speed, Eagle has gained a batch of readers and praised by the department. The just-concluded "The Robbery of All Nations" alone has 827 "ally lords" (ally lords: readers who tip more than 1,000 yuan), which is the work with the largest increase in the number of alliance lords in 2020.
To avoid the reader's aesthetic fatigue, we must create a new system
Compared with the previous works of cultivation and fantasy, "The Scourge of All Races" presents readers with a more grand and complex world: from the human world to the ancient world, from the gods, demons and immortals and other ethnic groups, to the human race, the new creative structure and setting make people shine and their hearts flutter. "To be honest, there is no pioneer, but it is 'new bottle of old wine'." For his own creation, eagles gave their own understanding. "Times are changing, and some old system readers have seen too much, too tired, and too cheesy. So I did some simple small changes, micro-innovations. ”
When creating "Global Gao Wu", the eagle would use the human acupuncture points in Chinese medicine to make changes to the cultivation system; "The Robbery of All Races" also avoided the original cultivation modes such as Tsukiji, Jindan, and YuanBao, and used Kaiyuan, Tengkong, Shanhai, Sun and Moon to divide the hierarchy. "I want to avoid an aesthetic fatigue. What we often say about Zhu Ji and Jin Dan is used too much in traditional Xiu Xian novels, so common that all readers have an inherent impression that Yuan Bao must be stronger than Jin Dan, and vice versa is wrong. And I didn't want to do it, so I built a new system myself, and I said who is strong is who is strong. ”
Interestingly, Eagle usually didn't make an outline before creation, "I don't have an outline or a detailed outline, but I will make a whole idea, a main line — everything, all the copies, all the things, are in the service of the final main line." 」 For example, in "Global Gaowu", the main line is to defend the country and fight against those alien races that are unfriendly to mankind, and the final result will definitely be to eliminate the enemy and defend justice. In this process, all the quests are made to make the protagonist stronger, and some partners and friends accompany the protagonist to become stronger. For example, when writing urban business essays, I set a goal from the beginning: the protagonist should become the richest man in the world. Start with big goals and break down into small ones, step by step. I don't set short-term small goals, I set an ultimate big goal, and all the processes in the middle I will slowly fill in by myself. ”
As the 2020 annual champion, when "The Robbery of All Tribes" was completed, even the eagle eating chicken himself said, "The achievements of the Ten Thousand Tribes are beyond imagination, breaking many records, including daily sales records." "The endless stream of comments, subscriptions, and tips also intuitively reflects the fan satisfaction of "The Robbery of All Tribes". It is understood that "The Robbery of All Tribes" is the work signed by reading its own platform in 2020, with the largest number of total comments by boys and the highest rewards from readers, and has refreshed the starting point boy monthly pass record with a single monthly pass of 410,000 monthly passes.
Position yourself as "making commercial films"
Many people wonder why the work of eagles eating chickens is so popular, but the writers themselves are not clear. "Very few authors know exactly why they are on fire. If the author knew everything, wouldn't every book keep the fire on fire? In my opinion, it is my work that captures the hearts of some people. I also said before in the book review section of the starting point that my work is not a classic, and it is difficult for me to write that kind of work. What I write is only content that makes the reader happy and the viewer happy. ”
Eagle said that his own writing is to "grasp the core part of the people": "The reading age group I set for myself is from 18 to 35 years old. It is impossible for an author to write a book that will be well received by everyone, not everyone will read your book, and not everyone will like to read your book. What I want to grasp is the people who are really interested in the style and content of my work, and the number of this crowd is large, and I am naturally on fire. ”
Eagle clearly knows that no matter how classic and good a book is, there are still people who don't like and disagree. "From the perspective of sales, I am targeting my customer base. I write books that are purposeful, targeted, and not all of them are my clients. Just like movies, there are commercial films, there are also literary films, if I were a director, I would position myself as a professional commercial film. Many people worship directors who make literary and artistic films, I am not, my favorite director is Wang Jing, there are many people who scold him as the king of bad films, the work is too vulgar. But I don't think so, in my opinion he is a peak of commercial film directors. Because everyone's personality, hobbies, and ideas are different, I can't make everyone satisfied with my work. ”
With this mentality, Eagle does not care very much about some readers' small complaints, "For example, buying something on the e-commerce platform, if 1%-2% of the customers who buy this product feel bad, I think it is nothing, because the praise rate has reached more than 98%." But if more than 5% of people think the product is not good, then it is necessary to reflect. Eagle said that when he writes, he often has to calculate an account, "For example, there are tens of thousands of readers reading my works, and three or five out of ten thousand people say that the works are not good, I think it does not matter, I will stick to my ideas." But if there are hundreds of people at the same time who say it is not good, it must be a problem with the work. ”
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