The Astartes Family's Notebook

The collection only has 8 items, and the subscription-to-collection ratio is roughly 1:9, which is quite good.

If it were anyone else, they would probably have cut up the book and run away, but Wuneng will still keep writing, so everyone can rest assured.

Although Wu Neng always jokingly calls himself a newbie who has been writing books for ten years, he has actually spent at least ten thousand hours in the online novel industry. He basically understands what this industry is all about, so he is not discouraged by his achievements. On the contrary, he is grateful to all his readers for their support.

why?

Because the wind has changed, and youth never returns, but there will always be eighteen-year-olds. There are all sorts of ridiculous things that Yuewen does, but it is still very effective in developing new users.

So if you want your book to become a hit, the subject matter doesn't matter; what matters most is that it appeals to all ages.

The economy hasn't been doing well these past few years, and consumption is sluggish. I'm paying a few cents to subscribe to your articles, so why would I want to read them and have some fun, or do you expect me to lecture me on values?

Everyone understands the principles, but the problem is that they can't change their style in a short time.

The Unusual Warcraft Chronicles has ended, and some new readers have repeatedly left comments saying that it's so jarring and disjointed.

Dude, no, dude, that was a work from ten years ago. Back then, it was popular to pick books based on popular memes on Qidian. I wrote it that way, and it got 6 first-day subscriptions. That's what you call keeping up with the times! You guys are using the writing style from ten years ago to criticize the incompetence of today. What can I say? MAN!

That's how the internet is these days; you have to build up your armor before you can do anything. Please forgive me, it's not easy for anyone.

Although Wu Neng wasn't a rich second-generation or factory second-generation, his family environment was quite good from childhood. He had seen the world and money. Except for the two years after he was discharged from the army, he had basically never been confused in life. He knew who he was and what he should do.

So when I wrote the Abnormal Warcraft Chronicles, even by today's standards, I was considered a minor genius. Getting a high-quality copy in a month was a really good achievement.

But it's not making any money.

Back then, Wu Neng was in good health, and he could easily earn a fortune a month by doing anything. The time and money he spent writing online novels were completely disproportionate to his income.

So the reason why updates were frequently interrupted was simple: I was busy making money.

We're all adults, and living in this era of change, so there's no need to shy away from this topic—it's all about making money.

Now, I'll be forty by the end of the year, and at forty, I'm supposed to be free from confusion. The injuries I sustained during my military service are starting to bother me again, which is why I'm reconsidering writing books full-time.

So if I want to make a living from this, I have to change my writing style. This Warhammer novel is the whetstone to sharpen my knife.

The market is ruthless. Online literature is fast-food literature, a fast-moving consumer good, just like Guo Degang's Deyun Society. Readers each contribute a few cents to crowdfund your story.

I was incapable of writing Warcraft fanfiction, but I figured there were few competitors in this field, so I wrote it on and off for ten years and eventually built up a group of loyal fans.

According to them, they just love the kind of casual, chatty conversation that comes with friends.

To analyze it more deeply, it's actually a matter of user base and style solidification. Those who like it truly like it, while those who don't can't even finish ten chapters.

Especially in the Warcraft fan group, someone asked me about my income.

These days, there's no data that can't be found, so there's nothing to hide. I'll just say it straight, and then that guy asked the most profound question.

"So, with 4K updates per day and 1,000 average subscribers, that's 3600 per month?"

Not that much; the 3600 includes writing incentives.

If you treat writing as a side job, this number is quite good.

However, a harsh reality is that if you treat writing as a side job, and you're just slacking off after get off work or during the day, updating at 4K resolution can be incredibly frustrating, and more likely you won't even reach an average of a thousand subscribers.

Any job that seems to have a low barrier to entry actually has a very high hidden barrier to entry.

Here, I must give a shout-out to a certain famous chair king. If it weren't for his book "Steel, Gunpowder, and Spellcasters," I wouldn't understand how readers feel when following the Chronicles of the Strange.

Compared to the King of Chairs, even Wu Neng is considered a diligent author.

So it's not that you can't write something with a humanistic spirit in online novels, but you have to be able to reach a consensus with everyone. Otherwise, apart from self-indulgent self-pity, you can only accept the fact that your work will fail.

If Wuneng wants to make a living in this field, he must break free from the mindset of writing supernatural tales and embrace the current mainstream style.

This is also the main reason why I dare to assure everyone that this Warhammer novel will not be discontinued.

The author knows what he is doing and what he is writing, and accepts the consequences of doing so.

Next, let's talk about why this book is written this way.

I wonder if any of you have read "The Nation's Witch 1994".

That was also the first book by a new author. The writing was immature, but the style was very distinctive. Those who didn't like it couldn't stand reading it, while those who liked it loved it.

After watching the whole thing, I had only one feeling: this track has potential.

To be honest, there are some well-written Warhammer novels on Qidian that have achieved great success, but if you can't switch perspectives and read them from the viewpoint of a Warhammer fan or reader, the feeling just isn't right.

Why, why, are there so many regrets?

Therefore, domestic fanfiction must involve fighting against heaven and earth, and must also be filled with family joy.

Just like one of the book review comments in the first chapter said, with such a huge cheat code, what's the difference between the Purgatory Galaxy and the Nine Levels of Hell? They're both just big brothels that legendary professionals can wander around in at will.

But if you dare to be dark and brutal, you're definitely going to fail miserably.

So what to do?

The solution I couldn't think of was the same as the writing style of Han Maomao in "The Witch of the Nation," which started with a lot of small details to build a world that looked real and reasonable.

This is actually the style of Lobster's videos. Aside from the content about drinking lobster soup, the fact that a bowl of lobster soup can stand out among many Warhammer content creators is that it has done a good job of filling the fictional Warhammer universe with flesh and blood.

So there are plenty of official books and online fanfiction about the grand narratives of the Astartes, so could Wuneng talk about the trivialities of the demigods?

After much deliberation, the author concluded that it was possible.

It might not become a huge fire, but it certainly won't die a violent death.

So we got right to it, and that's how this book came about.

I've been writing Warcraft fanfiction on and off for ten years, from early lighthearted jokes to mid-period traditional adventure narratives, and then to later prose-like writing. My incompetent writing style has been trapped in this book, "Tales of the Strange," for too long.

Transformation is painful, and I believe that even if readers haven't noticed it, they've probably sensed it. So far, the overall style of this Warhammer novel is quite strange.

Because of my inability to find a suitable style and writing method, I have some vague ideas but haven't finalized them yet.

Unfortunately, the weather in Sichuan is just too perfect. The coolest time of day is from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., and the temperature is still 22 degrees Celsius at 4 a.m. What a chosen furnace! It's so annoying.

Unfortunately, starting from the fourth day after the new book was released, my best friend got divorced. Neither of them cheated; they just couldn't keep up with the trivialities of daily life and their relationship fell apart.

So every day after midnight, the phone would ring.

"Hey, you're still awake? Want to chat for a bit?"

Wow, that humble tone from my buddy was heartbreaking.

Alright, I won't even use the computer for my midnight chat with the confidant anymore; I'll just start listening to what he has to say.

This conversation lasted at least two hours, and I didn't dare hang up, afraid my buddy wouldn't understand. He lives on the eleventh floor, and I've never been there.

As the saying goes, it's better to tear down ten temples than to break up one marriage.

But the sight of a middle-aged man hunched over under the weight of family responsibilities is heartbreaking and brings tears to the eyes of anyone who sees or hears of it.

The wife doesn't want children and is indifferent to her husband. When he has a cold and works the night shift, he wants to walk and chat with his wife, but she tells him that she has plans to go hiking with friends early the next morning and needs to go to bed early.

So what does it feel like when love disappears?

I want to let go, but I can't bear to. Ten years of relationship, how can I let go so easily?

But buddy, I only call him sister-in-law because of you. I care about you as my brother, not your family. I can't bear the weight of your fate, just like your spine was crushed by your family.

Therefore, Wu Neng strongly advised him to get a divorce.

If this drags on any longer, we'll die.

I don't care what other people think, but I don't want to attend your funeral in two years.

Doing good deeds without asking for reward.

It's easy to say, but incredibly difficult to do. What will my friend's parents think if they found out I was the one who orchestrated their divorce? And what will they think of me when my friend regrets it later?

There's always a reason why old sayings are passed down from generation to generation.

But while society as a whole is urging me to be a strong and upright man, all I want is to have the chance to eat skewers and drink with you at a barbecue stand again.

As you get older, you really can't bear to see life and death. I'm genuinely afraid that if I say the wrong thing, my buddy will suddenly explode.

This long phone call was more exhausting than trying to extract intelligence in a spy drama.

This situation continued for three days this week.

Wu Neng almost always works until 11 a.m. before going to sleep, then wakes up at 8 or 9 p.m., eats something, and writes for two hours. Then the phone rings again, and the first thing he says when he answers is, "I hope I didn't disturb your rest."

Sorry to bother you, buddy, but it's okay. If you're afraid to tell your parents anything, just tell me. I can handle it.

Perhaps the mark of maturity is compromising with one's mediocrity.

The only thing the author can be proud of right now is that, after asking himself honestly, he can say it with certainty.

I am a good person.

Warhammer Musings (Part 5)

Hi, let me start with a side note unrelated to Warhammer, about everyone's bug-fixing.

For some chapters, it's not that I don't want to revise them, but I've already skimmed through most of your incompetent chapter reviews.

Instead, now that it's almost two hundred chapters in, at least a third of the chapters have been locked in the background.

To borrow a comment from a certain YouTuber, Chinese Warhammer fans have overhyped Warhammer 40K. For GW, 40K is still a niche title, and not even the main revenue-generating product for these British guys, which is why they are so arrogant.

However, in the country, Warhammer is undoubtedly the most popular among niche IPs.

That's ridiculous.

While everyone has their own interpretation of Hamlet, it's hard to write Warhammer fanfiction without getting involved with the government's censorship. Getting locked up is deserved, there's no hope, I've already given up.

By the way, the so-called "evil political metaphor" is short for a malicious political metaphor. Let me explain it to those who don't know it.

Now, back to the casual chat about Warhammer 40. For topics gathered from book reviews, I'll provide some background information for those I don't know the answers to, and for those I don't, let's just chat about them.

The first topic is about spirit bones.

It's worth noting that even in the profound and complex Chinese language, the problem of worrying about loved ones still exists. I really can't be bothered to comment on how many meanings the English word "GHOST" has.

For the Eldar, especially the Ark Eldar and the Savage Eldar, spirit bones are a type of building material. They have a profession called Bone Singers, whose ability is to directly multiply spirit bones, a material with super psionic affinity, through the warp to construct buildings and warships from scratch.

So for the Eldar, spirit bones refer to this kind of thing.

However, for humans and other psionic races, spirit bones are truly the bones of the spirit race, especially the spinal bones of the great psionic beings of the Ark race. They are rare and precious treasures that can truly enhance one's personal strength.

In the Astartes short film, the thing behind the two aliens that the Punisher Chapter's Raider squad was fighting was the Spirit Bone.

After explaining this thing, I can't help but complain.

A reader left a message telling me that the Spirit Race doesn't have bones. I shouldn't mislead others; I should do some research before writing the book.

Ok?

Although my first reaction to this comment was a bit off-putting, I'm still a newbie author with ten years of work experience, so I'll go check it out.

Then, Wu Neng discovered an unbelievable fact.

DS has been so polluted by junk sources that it's unusable.

If you don't believe me, go search for "[who was the Ultramarines Chapter Leader before Calgar]", and the AI ​​will tell you it was Sigismund Trajan.

Holy crap!

Okay, DEEPSICK, I hereby declare you the winner.

If AI doesn't work, try searching through old documents on the internet or looking up videos on Bilibili; you'll find something there.

Unfortunately, there are still no relevant entries.

Whether it was the official novels I read before, or the brief articles in the White Dwarf magazine, the remains, skeletons, and skulls of the Adalin race were mentioned more than once.

Even more than ten years ago, he was incapable of seeing anatomical comparisons of Eldar and humans in paper books.

Is it the Mandela Effect that's causing people to love China not fifty-six things, but fifty-six constellations?

That can't be right.

No matter how powerful the Spirit Race is, they are still war machines created by the ancient saints. They have no skeletons to support them and are all shape-shifting monsters.

Well, thorough research ultimately cannot answer questions with questions.

Finally, Wu Neng found a few words in a post on Tieba from several years ago.

The general idea is that the Eldar have highly developed arm muscles, with powerful muscles and connective tissue replacing the function of bones, allowing them to perform incredible feats.

Ironically, this post wasn't even from the Warhammer forum; it was a discussion on the topic that led to a chain of comments on other forums.