Chapter 99
  The book is about to hit the shelves.

I have been writing online novels on and off for ten years.

The first time I wrote online novels, it was more of a self-pleasure. I just read a lot of online novels and started to have some ideas of my own, so I wrote and played in my spare time.

In 2015, I saw a call for essays on realism.

Then that year, the topic of e-sports was also very hot, so I suddenly had the idea to write a realistic novel about e-sports and participated in the essay competition.

In 2016, I really received the award notification unexpectedly.

Before that, I had never thought that my novel would win an award.

When I was in school, I didn’t even win any prize for writing essays.

My dad is a person who likes writing very much. When he was young, he published many short stories in our local newspaper.

As a result, my composition writing was not good when I was a child, and I was criticized by my dad in various ways. So much so that I didn’t dare to show my dad the compositions I wrote when I was in school.

After winning the award, I immediately told my dad that it was probably the first time in many years that my dad was proud of me.

Now go back and read the winning book.

Gao EQ said: Writing at that time was very young.

Low EQ said: The writing is indeed not good.

However, winning the award did give me a lot of encouragement. In addition, there were several famous masters who won the award at the time. At that time, one of the masters gave me advice and thought that I could try writing rebirth articles.

Then I saw the article about nanny, which was very popular at the time, on the website.

I followed the trend and tried a novel about a father who travels through a parallel world.

That was the first online novel to make some money.

However, the subsequent books fell into all kinds of weird attempts, and then all kinds of flops.

Until the book "Hardcore Chef Dad".

When I wrote this book, I may have been different from other food writers.

They may have read books like "The Food Supplier" or "The Game of Life" which were very popular at the time.

Go try to follow the trend and write food articles.

I wrote "Hardcore Chef Dad" because I saw the video of "Old Fan Gu" on the Internet at that time.

I saw various cooking teachings shared by the old man and his second uncle at that time.

Especially after watching several videos of "Lao Fangu", the uncle and the aunt taught knife skills together, how to whole chicken and debone it?

Alas, I am really crying as I write this, and I miss my uncle a little.

Readers who may have read "Hardcore Chef Dad" should be able to see many shadows of the professor in the "Old Fan" video from many details in the book.

The book "Hardcore Chef Dad" was indeed a success, and I received a good amount of royalties.

It's just that the book didn't balance the synergy of characters, plot, and cooking.

Therefore, the characters in that book were not well drawn, and the plot was not well connected.

As a result, because the plot was not sorted out and all aspects were coordinated, the entire book actually collapsed in the later stages.

After "Hardcore Chef Dad", I stubbornly wanted to transform, and then I fell into the street one after another.

I even went to other sites to try writing, and tried all kinds of topics I wanted to write about.

Eventually, I was back to square one.

Back to the starting point that really started my journey of writing online novels.

Realistic themes.

Many readers have left messages in the book review area, saying that my book does not feel like a rebirth, but more like a grassroots story in the 90s, starting from selling box lunches on the streets and slowly growing up.

Everyone’s comments are correct. I didn’t originally intend to write about rebirth in this book.

At first I even thought about posting it in the reality category. It is to write about the step-by-step growth experience of a little chef, from the end of his apprenticeship to the closure of state-owned restaurants in the 90s, from setting up a stall on the street to selling lunch boxes, making money and opening a shop step by step, then getting some opportunities, gradually emerging, and finally Become a real celebrity chef.

But I am afraid that if I write like that, my grades may be very poor.

So I used the more compromise writing method now.

It can be regarded as writing an imaginary background of the 90s.

The protagonist is not so much reborn as traveling to a parallel time and space.

There is no golden finger for the protagonist, and the protagonist does not have any prominent family background. He just starts from selling lunch boxes and becomes a famous Chinese chef step by step.

The reason why I chose Shandong cuisine.

It’s because before writing this book, I watched a series of videos called “Master and I Cook Shandong Cuisine” UP.

In the video, we can see Master Chen Zongming teaching Shandong cuisine without any reservation.

Teach the details of various cooking techniques of Shandong cuisine.

I was really moved by Master Chen's sincerity and persistence.

Through Master’s video teaching, I learned a lot of cooking techniques and even principles of life.

So maybe I am overestimating my capabilities and want to use this novel to help promote Shandong cuisine.

The first thing that came to my mind was that this book was called "Lu Zi Lu Wei".

Later I thought maybe I should give the book a simple, clear and down-to-earth title.

And I also feel that I am not qualified to use such a lofty book title. I have only learned some superficial knowledge from the video and cannot fully demonstrate the essence of Shandong cuisine.

I have written a lot, and I have finally written down the entire journey of writing online novels for so long.

This book is now recommended to Sanjiang, and it can be said that it has achieved very good results before it was put on the shelves.

I really want to thank every reader who supports this book.

Without your reading, voting, and rewards, this book would not have achieved what it has today.

I do have certain ambitions in writing this book, and I am also making some changes and attempts.

I want to write each character more fully and make the characters more vivid, like a living person.

Of course, my writing skills are still a bit poor.

The portrayal of many characters is still not full enough.

The presentation of some plots was also not done well enough.

In particular, some characters are not well described, so when those characters are used to promote the plot, it often seems very stiff.

There are many problems, big and small. I will try my best to correct them slowly and polish my writing skills in the future. I will try my best to portray each character better and make the arc of the characters fuller.

Make this novel more exciting.

Having said so much, I still want to talk about the key point of "remarks on the launch".

The book should be on the shelves around [-] noon.

Today’s update will also be placed after [-] noon.

I promised you that there will be a lot of updates when it is released, and I will update all ten chapters at once.

At the time when I am posting my acceptance speech, I am still writing new chapters.

If the number of subscribers exceeds 24 in the first 24 hours of the book’s release, that is, from the day I open VIP today to the same time tomorrow, I will update it with ten more chapters.

After it is put on the shelves, we will try our best to ensure an update volume of about [-] words per day.

Please support by subscribing.

I will try my best to write this book well and try to give you as many updates as possible.

(End of this chapter)

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like