119 Building a House (1/2)
Su Yan's excitement only lasted for a few moments. There was one big question he still needed to find the answer for: How many tasks did he still need to accomplish to fill that last bit of the graph?
He tried clicking the thing but there was no further information to be found. In the end, Su Yan could only purse his lips and return to the front page. For the passive tasks, he could only wait until another one was accomplished but he still had his main task. The main task was much more important than the passive tasks so normally he should also get closer to the next level faster if he did those, right?
Su Yan wasn't sure but it sounded quite logical to him. He had managed to accomplish one before anyway so it was time to have a look at the follow-up. He clicked on the title in the list.
[You've successfully published the first part of your very first story. The first step on your path to becoming a successful author has been taken. Now, it is important to keep going.
As an author, writing a good story is the base but that base is nothing if no house is built on top. This will rely on your skill and is something that can only be done slowly through gaining experience.
However high you want to build your house, it is important to always keep those living in the house in your mind regardless of whether they live in the basement or in the floor you just finished building.]
Su Yan blinked and read again. He had the strange feeling that … this Lovely Writing System liked to use metaphors. And even such weird ones! First, it likened writing to building a relationship, now it switched to building houses. What was this supposed to mean? Had the system missed its calling as a construction engineer?
He shook his head and clicked for the next part. There still hadn't been anything that resembled a task after all.
[As the residents of the author's house, the readers want to be engaged. Exploring the floors already build and watching how new floors are constructed afterward is certainly the most fun thing to do!
With your base established, it's now time for you to build your first floor. Set a schedule and start releasing the remaining chapters of your short story to give your new-found readers an opportunity to explore at least one floor!
Hint: Take some time to plan your release schedule. You shouldn't publish everything at once but since this is a short story and your first project to boot you shouldn't let your readers wait too long for the next part.]
Su Yan didn't think any further. He went to grab his notebook and sat down next to Nie Chang again. He had felt nervous before because this story was his first time writing in another genre but it seemed like the readers like it so he had nothing to fear. Instead, he had gotten back to that happy feeling he had had before whenever he published a new chapter for his readers.
Thanks to that experience it wasn't hard for him to think about a suitable release schedule either. The story only had five scenes. How long could he stretch publishing such a pitiful amount? Especially since they weren't even long.
Well, he could stretch for nearly a week if he only published one scene per day but that would somehow feel shameless. After all, the whole story was already written and the first scene had had only about five hundred words.
No, the best thing to do was probably publishing everything in one day. Looking at how he'd have to get up tomorrow morning and then go to work with Nie Chang where he might not be able to check on the progress depending on how many customers there would be he even felt that publishing everything tonight would be for the best. Thankfully, there was a timer on the website so he could just save them and then have them automatically posted.
The best thing was that when he got up tomorrow morning he could go through all the comments and reviews he had gotten! Ah, just imagining it made him giddy with excitement!