Apocalypse: Last Traveler

The book will be released at noon tomorrow, and I'm starting to sell it pitifully (laughs).

To be honest, this book's initial performance was quite poor. I don't know if it's because I asked the Grass God for a bit of poison, but the trial run failed and the data was terrible.

Some friends advised me to drop it, but I felt I could still write, and I really wanted to write this book. Plus, there were gradually more positive reviews in the comment section, and more and more recommendation and monthly votes, so I stuck it out.

Even after the smart push, the initial results weren't great. The influx that usually comes in three to four days didn't happen.

Fortunately, I persevered. After a few more days, the results started to show. The number of collections gradually increased, and there were enough continued reads for further recommendations.

So it was pushed step by step to where it is now.

So first, I want to thank all of you readers for your support, which is my motivation to continue and also my antidote.

Without you, I might have been poisoned to death by the Grass God long ago (laughs).

I also want to thank the gods like the Grass God and Cat God for giving my book a push. Thanks to them, I had my first trial run, although it soon failed.

Then I must thank my editor, Time. Without him, this book wouldn't exist.

Someone in the comment section has already uncovered my alias. I used to write in the entertainment genre, and then last year, a job change and a car accident caused me to stop writing. Now I'm changing accounts, partly because the genre has changed, and partly to change my luck.

Last year was genuinely unlucky. The job change is nothing to talk about; it was just a period of irregularity. There were also incidents like a broken computer and daily and work accidents, which were either costly in time, money, or energy but resolved.

But it was the car accident that really got to me.

Last year, I rode a bicycle twice and had two accidents.

The first time, I bought a mountain bike, but the seat wasn't tightened properly. While riding at high speed, the seat tipped up, and as I slid backward, the handlebars turned due to my hands, causing the bike to stop suddenly. Due to inertia, I was flung out and fell hard, but luckily, it didn't affect my ability to write.

The second time was worse. While on a business trip, I got hit by a taxi while riding a shared bike, injured my tailbone for over two months, and my fingers were incapacitated, which caused me to stop writing.

Earlier this year, as I returned, I initially planned to write another literary adaptation. I wanted to revise what I had previously written, though I had lost much of the enthusiasm for this category. However, given past successes, any achievement seemed feasible.

When discussing with my editor, he said: The literary adaptation genre has staying power, and writing excitingly can achieve success. There's an idea: post-apocalypse + travel. If you can create that "Finch" feeling, a road novel, about growing close in the apocalypse, loneliness away from the group, focused more on exploration and daily life, with less of the usual blood and darkness of apocalyptic stories, I think it could be a path, though it requires balancing certain elements.

I went to see "Finch," and immediately liked the atmosphere and feeling, so I wanted to give it a try.

After repeatedly reading "Finch," I started trying to write the beginning, at first in the normal cross-genre, wake-up, discovery of events and dilemmas style, but after reviewing it myself and with friends, it still didn't feel right.

So I abandoned that start and tried another approach, focusing on atmosphere and feeling, rather than conventional character introductions, special abilities, and emerging dilemmas, writing in a diary style for the beginning.

It's unconventional, but I felt it worked. After showing it to my editor, who also approved, we discussed the direction and points to pay attention to in the story going forward.

Then I opened the book and have persisted to the present, where it got on Sanjiang.

However, even having made it to Sanjiang, the book's performance isn't particularly great; the tracking reads aren't very high, and it barely got there by coincidence.

Luckily, my expectations for this book weren't very high to begin with. Considering the niche genre and such a non-mainstream opening that's more about atmosphere than excitement, I would be satisfied with 500 subscriptions.

Looking at it now, the results should surpass this expectation.

Alright, enough idle talk, now onto business.

All these words above were mainly to show that I'm seriously and diligently writing this book, having discussed the plot framework with my editor, and I will undoubtedly finish it, no guarantee needed.

The book goes live at noon tomorrow, and I've prepared five updates totaling ten thousand words, and will continue to work hard after coming back from work tonight.

I originally thought of doing ten thousand words daily for a while, but yesterday's attempt showed that as a working dog, both physically and mentally, it's a bit overwhelming.

So I'll ensure at least six thousand words daily, and with an easy workday and if I'm feeling good mentally, I'll strive for ten thousand.

Of course, with some motivation and goals, I should manage, so here's a promise:

Starting from the second day of release, based on at least six thousand words daily, for every additional hundred subscriptions over a thousand, I'll add one more chapter.

The monthly votes are now at 1000, so don't put too much pressure on over 1500, for every additional hundred votes, I'll add one chapter.

The character star rating is still six stars, each upgrade will add one chapter.

The cute master adds one chapter.

That's it.

Of course, even without all the above, I'll strive for ten thousand daily.

Thank you all for your support, see you in the VIP chapters.