Ming Dynasty 1627

Chapter 34 This book will definitely be completed! I'm making this promise!
Early readers may know that I am a complete novice, and this book was started on a whim.

However, writing this book was very painful, and this pain came from two sources:
1. You need to find a lot of historical materials, and it's not enough to just find them. You need to compare and contrast the exaggerated claims in the Qing Dynasty's revised history of the Ming Dynasty and the notes of literati before you can accept them as reliable.

2. I'm afraid I won't write this story well, after all, I'm a newcomer, and that would be letting down those really great historical figures.

In fact, today is the 19th day since I started reading this book, and I still don't know if it's any good or not.

It's not that it's bad, but my friends have been showering it with monthly tickets, tips, and comments. It's even among the top performers of new books released at the same time.

It's good-looking, but it collects very slowly, only adding 100, 50, or 130 items a day, fluctuating around that.
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The most frustrating thing is that making money through writing books is not a cost-effective way for me.

I've worked in the internet industry for over a decade, and now I'm semi-retired. I do some projects and manage my finances occasionally, so at least I don't have to worry about starving.

However, since I started writing this book, I have gradually stopped almost everything I was doing.

Although my wife is very supportive of me doing what I like, I sometimes can't help but wonder if I should continue.

This book has at most 2000 subscriptions?
So, that works out to about 10,000 a month?
The return on investment is too low. Do I really want to spend one or two years doing this?

Do you really want to turn your hobby into your career?

So almost every day when I open my eyes, I'm wavering between being a eunuch and not being a eunuch.

Then, seeing those monthly tickets, tips, comments, recommendation votes, and so on, I mustered up my courage and continued writing.

Or perhaps a wonderful plot idea suddenly comes to mind, or I come across some great historical figures who are unknown to the public, and I start writing with renewed passion.
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However, just now, I became 100% certain that I will definitely complete this book with high quality (to my utmost). Because!

I've discovered it!
The author of my favorite historical novel is also reading this book!

To avoid any suspicion of "piggybacking" on someone else's popularity, I won't say who he is.

But it's true! I'm not making this up to embellish this book.

He might not even really like the book; perhaps it's just a professional habit to check out new books.

I didn't mean anything like, "You see, everyone reads my book, so it must be great."

This is just too shocking for a bookworm like me who's been reading for over a decade TT
It's like you love to sing, so you go to the street to perform, and suddenly you realize that the person listening attentively on the roadside looks like Jay Chou!

Then he'll say to you, "Hey, not bad!"
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That's settled, I'm writing this as proof!

This book will definitely be completed!

If you don't finish this book, you're not Chinese!

(End of this chapter)