She has always liked a theory – treating her pen name as a seed.
Choose a suitable growth environment, sow, fertilize, and then look forward to it sprouting… Although this process can’t guarantee avoiding disasters that might cause it to wither, at least the necessary steps must be completed.
Now, she has planted “Ji Rou” in the fertile soil where forests and flowers bloom. Although inconspicuous, she’s still receiving the nourishment of this land. Although growing slowly, she’s still surviving. Although she currently struggles to overcome her turtle-speed writing method, the more so, each work is extra precious to her. Because it can exist and be presented, it’s a compilation of many people’s efforts. What Ji Rou obtains is not just the manuscript fee. Besides the publishing house granting the opportunity and taking risks, most importantly, she needs readers’ generous support to continue her survival space.
For a small author who might face extinction at any time, each reading is so worth cherishing, and worth more gratitude. This is something only those in the situation can understand.
Entering the romance publishing world, she has had many feelings and thinks that authors’ survival is truly not easy now, especially for new authors. Readers often read books by established authors, so if no one reads a new author’s book, under the current rental bookstore system, the book will be returned. If persisted, it will naturally cause new blood to flow away. For herself, when reading, she considers both new and old authors and even likes picking works of different styles, which keeps her taste from getting boring.
So she also hopes everyone can give new people more chances, making this land more diverse and more beautiful.
As for herself, to say something more explosive, she doesn’t know when she might fall in battle. What? So pessimistic?
