Red Heart Survey

This is a letter to you. I originally planned to wait until Chixin Xuntian became a high-quality product before writing it.

But by chance, today I saw another question about Chixin on Zhihu, so I wrote this letter ahead of time.

Forgive me for not having time to rephrase and write the text, I only moved the original text answered in Zhihu. Because I don't write novels anymore, the update the day after tomorrow will be dangerous...

But trust me, I mean it.

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The question is [One year has passed, how can the work "Sky Survey of the Red Heart" be fairly evaluated. 】

My answer, the full text is as follows:

Thank you for your concern and love for me.

But I didn't want to answer that question originally. There are three reasons.

For one thing, I really can't evaluate my works objectively, I prefer every word I write. My evaluation of my own work does not have any objective value. If I really want to say it, it’s still the sentence from a year ago—[The only thing I can be sure of is that I will type every word with my heart, and I can’t be sure whether they will be loved or not. I can be sure of my efforts, I can't be sure of my rewards. 】

To this day, I still can't be sure whether it will be loved by more people, and I can't be sure of my harvest.

But I think, I have used 1.8 million words in one year to prove my hard work and hard work.

Secondly, I am afraid of such questions. Needless to say, I was really scared. A year ago, when I was invited to answer the question of the Chixin Sky Survey, the novel had just written five chapters at that time, and the three answers to the question were blowing up.

I was very guilty, so I quickly put down the novel, and wrote an article with trepidation, but I didn't expect to find out that when I wrote the article, there were already a lot of criticism.

What impresses me deeply is [This novel can be signed, I will be considered a loser] [This is my son's elementary school level. 】【Only fancy writing, can't write stories at all】, and someone who taught me to use punctuation point by point.

I have been writing for some years, and to be honest, I have never accepted such "criticism". I am very uncomfortable and in pain. This pain lasted for a long time, and I couldn't sleep for a while, just thinking, am I really that bad? Is the praise I have received, the recognition I have received, all fake?

I have always firmly believed in myself, but that painful experience is also true.

Three, I write very slowly. Readers who follow Chixin know that the most commented chapters are always "very short"... When I used to write entities, I basically wrote when I felt it. Maybe I only write three or four days a week, 2,000 words a day.

After writing Chixin Sky Survey, at first there were two updates from Monday to Friday, and only one update on weekends, and then it gradually changed to two updates and 4,000 words a day. Although it is also at the bottom of the net among writers, in fact, I feel that it is already squeezing my energy to the extreme.

Why writing is so slow, I can explain to readers here.

I usually have to enter that situation when I write, and I have to put myself in that kind of emotion, so that I can write the plot more smoothly. Usually I have to sit in front of the computer for more than half an hour, going through various scenarios in my mind until I find the most suitable one. After writing a paragraph, there will be a feeling of being hollowed out.

The second is that I have text obsessive-compulsive disorder. Not only can I not see typos, but readers who are sincerely surveying the sky may be able to spot them. In my two adjacent sentences, basically the same word will not appear. This is a sequela left by writing poetry, and I think it will affect the sense of language. If you use the previous sentence, you must think of a different word for the next sentence.

I often struggle with a name for a long time. The names of people and places always want to fit the situation.

I also have my own paranoid demands. In this world of Chixin Sky Survey, not only every country and every sect has different systems, different national conditions, and politics. In this book, even every city is different. I will compile their histories, customs, Special snacks, even if they are not available sometimes. The reason for writing this is because in the real world, every city is different.

Because of the above broken habits, I write very slowly.

In the time it takes to write an article, I may be able to refine a chapter of a novel. (My daily writing is to write two chapters and refine the two chapters of the day before yesterday.)

The hundreds of thousands of followers of my Zhihu should also be aware that during the year of writing Chixin Sky Survey, I almost completely quit Zhihu. Sometimes I want to write something, but when I think about it, I haven't finished my novel yet. I can only close Zhihu in a desperate manner.

For the above three reasons, I would have ignored this question invitation.

But after seeing @Gongsun Xun's answer, I think I should write something.

Gongsun Xun is my Zhihu follower, because I like his "Fu Han" very much, and it has a rare heroism.

Going back to the question itself, how to fairly evaluate "Red Heart Survey"?

I think the best I can make is—

It is a work that has poured my heart and soul into it, and it is my confession to my fairy dream. It has witnessed my strength and fragility, made me softer, and made me stronger.

As for how this work is going to be, I think we can only leave it to time.

Might as well look at it ten years later.

And what I want to say is that Chixin Xuntian has been written until now, because I didn't understand the rules of online articles at all at the beginning, and I didn't know how to deal with the new issue. It was on the shelf of Streak, the only big recommendation so far, and it was only free for one million words. At that time, it happened to be free for the whole site...

Except for a reader who is the leader of Qing Sui, who helped me to py with Qing Sui, I don't have any other py. Readers keep saying Ash, go py, good books need to be promoted, but I am really socially incompetent.

What I am good at and passionate about is probably only writing.

It can be written step by step from sixty to the present. There are six alliance leaders (two of whom have rewarded three alliances), and the monthly ticket can finally hover at the starting point of two hundred.

I am most grateful to my readers.

I will never forget, in the midst of scolding, Uriel, who gave me a reward for the first leader, made me strengthen my confidence in myself.

I would like to thank the leader Huahua, as a female video author, who bought a house on the basis of manuscript fees, for giving me a lot of pointers on online articles.

I would like to thank Chen Zeqing for following Chi Xin all the way while studying in the United States. I was asked once if it was possible to add one update to 10,000, but I didn't dare to answer, I really couldn't add it.

I want to thank Chai Chai, he has a bad temper, but he can listen to reason. I rewarded the lord myself, and brought me Manxi.

I would like to thank Manxi, the living dictionary of plots, he can blurt out any settings or plots that readers don’t remember. Some of them I have to turn over the settings myself... Thank you Manxi for putting the most energy into the book Chixin Sky Survey.

Besides his girlfriend, it's just me.

I would like to thank Shancha. Shancha is the reader who followed me when I was writing short stories. It's not a year or two, but the whole university time. After it was put on the shelves, I built a building to seek alliances. I didn't expect Chixin to be so unpopular... It took so long to build a thousand buildings.

Writing this, I seem to have completely strayed from the original question.

But it seems not. A fair evaluation is that the book Chixin Sky Survey is just my insistence, and it is difficult to write it until now. It is the support and love of so many readers that make me firm.

I still remember a tip from a reader.

He said sorry, he had no money, and the book was beautiful, but he could only tip five yuan.

He ate a meal for four yuan, but tipped me five yuan.

(There is a screenshot here, you should be able to find it in the boutique post in the book review area.)

When I saw that book review, my eyes were sore.

I told my mother how much he loved this book, how could I not write it?

How can I not write it?

I want to thank too many people, thanks to the readers who followed the online article from the physical, thanks to the readers who silently voted for me every day, thanks to the readers who praised me every day, and thanks to the readers who seriously helped me recommend this book to my friends... …

I remembered again.

Chi Xin serialized not long ago. I was losing my hair, I was anxious, I couldn't sleep all night, I was suffering.

Some readers said, Ah Shi, come on, sooner or later, those sunspots will be trampled underfoot.

A few days ago, another reader said this.

But my answer never changed.

I said, I wrote the Chixin Sky Survey, not to defeat anyone, not to prove to anyone.

At first, I just wanted to write a long novel completely and unfettered, and write a real world in my heart, just like I said in the introduction, this is the world of fairy tales with so much love, you are welcome to come.

I still do.

I don't want to knock anyone down.

Resentment won't get me any farther.

What supported me from the beginning to the present and will continue to the future is the love you have given me.

Thanks again.

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