Today is January 2, 2022, and this year’s end of 2021 is a little late. When I was lying in bed recalling my key words for 2021, the first word that came to my mind was novel, and then I remembered that I got married. Then I found that my work output in 2021 was very low. Although I got an A in the performance assessment in the first half of 2021, my work output was really low.

To sum up, my key words for 2021 are: write a novel, get married.

On writing a novel

This is my first time writing a novel. It’s a piece of fan fiction called The Long Road. I started writing it in August and ended it in December. Now I think back on my fan-fiction essay and I want to cry. Why do I want to cry? I don’t know, but if I do cry, and there’s no tears, it’s a really weird feeling.

While chatting with colleagues at the office, I mentioned that I was writing fan fiction. Some of them looked startled. Others thought I had a strong taste. What they think of as homosexuals is two people of the same sex falling in love. In fact, fan-humanism refers to “fan-literature”, which refers to putting the characters in a work in a new environment on the basis of the original work and adding the author’s own ideas to show the author’s different ideas on the original work.

Fan fiction is a very old way of writing, for example: After entering the era of network literature, the creation of fan humanism is more widespread. In 2021, I got to know the concept of fan humanism, and I also joined the group of fan humanism creation, which is quite wonderful experience.

Why am I writing this fan fiction? Because I really like a character in a TV show, but that character is not with the person he likes, I feel sorry. In July, I read a lot of fan fiction related to him, but none of the articles I read satisfied my idea, so I decided to write my own, I have always been a strong action, which I am proud of.

Since I started writing the novel, I have been occupied by a lot of emotions, I even feel that my imagination is used up by the novel. I never read network novels before, and I read few literary works. Most of the books I read were technical books for programmers. I felt that writing a novel was much harder than writing an app, and I often lost sleep while I was writing it, as the images associated with the novel flooded my mind and kept me awake. I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror because of the heavy dark circles under my eyes. I spent the most expensive night wearing the most expensive eye cream.

I really admire the fact that some fan writers can write multiple fan novels for the same character or pair. By the time I finished “The Long Road,” I had used up all my imagination for that character, about whom I could never write another novel, or even write a sequel to “The Long Road,” as it had ended. I couldn’t help but sigh, some people’s imagination how so rich?

I started writing long Road in August 2021 and posted it on Baidu Tieba in October of the same year. At the beginning, I wrote it to satisfy my own imagination, commonly known as generating power for love. After it was published, I especially hoped that someone would read my article, but there were very few readers on Baidu Tieba, because no one read it, AND I lost about a week. After breaking more, I logged in baidu stick bar again, I found someone to comment to me, at that time my heart is like eating honey as sweet, sweet. There is a friend in Baidu post bar, he has been reading my article from beginning to end, I am really grateful to him, if not for him, “long road” I may not finish writing, during my update, I even feel that I am writing for him, in fact, careful analysis, I also write for myself. This year-end summary is written to the current position, my tears are down after all.

I have always prided myself on my execution and self-drive. Through writing novels, I found that my execution is strong, but my self-drive is not as strong as I expected.

Mo recently posted an article on his official wechat account titled “Why DO I Prefer to write full-length novels?” Some people say that in this day and age, who needs to read novels that are too long? The article ends: I will write this if there is only one reader left. How I feel now: Can I keep writing if I don’t have any readers? Maybe he can, but I don’t seem to be able to, though I was lucky enough to have a reader reading my post throughout my updates, and I finally stuck with it.

In addition to writing novels, I also publish articles related to front-end technology on my wechat official account and rare Earth Nuggets, which are not updated frequently, but updated once a month. I can keep Posting technical articles if no one reads them, but why not novels? This seems to be because I want my views to be shared by others, and when no one agrees with my views, I can’t stick to them.

There’s some fan fiction that has its literary merit, but fan culture is a lot like enclosure, in general, it’s hard for people in the group to get out, it’s hard for people out of the group to get in, and people in different groups can get into a war of words, and they can say insulting things, and it’s horrible. In the second half of 2021, I entered a fandom and became a fan fiction myself. The Long Road can be regarded as my answer for withdrawing from the fandom.

About marriage

I didn’t worry much about getting married. Before the wedding, some people said: Weddings are too much trouble, too many things. I did not feel that things, also did not feel trouble, inadvertently, I became a beautiful bride, trouble for parents to do.

Married less than a few months after I began to write novels, and I often immersed in their own imagination, love a little distant to me, even on regardless, but he’s very support me, he never said my words, don’t hit me, when I was writing a novel, he sat next to me, the weekend he will cook a meal for me, but he doesn’t want to see me to write a novel, This also reflects the enclosure of the fan culture from the meng.

After my marriage, I got two more people to support me, they are my wife’s parents, especially my mother. When I posted my novel to Lofter, she specially registered the Lofter account to like my article and send gifts to me. Her practice let me particularly moved, in the mind flattered, I inadvertently harvest a fan.

My partner and I will be moving to a new home in 2022, and he can imagine our new life much more than I can imagine our new life. Maybe my imagination is really exhausted by novels. I really appreciate him supporting me. He doesn’t read my novels, but I feel like he has my back, and I guess I have his back.

About work

There are so few things I can summarize from my work. In the first half of 2021, I was doing well at work, producing some output beyond my daily iterations and getting an A on my performance review. The complexity of my extra output is not high, mostly due to the technical debt I found in the development process. For example, the responsibilities of the plug-in are not clear. I modified the code of the plug-in to make it clear and decoupled from other plug-ins. Reduce the size of code packages; Sort out the communication logic between pages and standardize the communication protocol. Anyway, these are little things, and there’s a lot of research value if you want to go deeper into these little things, but I didn’t go deeper, just better.

In the first half of 2021, I communicated with Manager about what I had done, and he said, “These things can be done or not done, but if you stand up and do them on your own initiative, it will be different.” AT that time, I was a little happy. The communication between me and him also made me realize that I do not pay attention to quantifiable things, such as: how much can I improve the development efficiency? How much traffic is saved per day? How much did the first screen render improve? Anyway, I don’t have data to back up what I do.

In the second half of 2021, I work on the daily iteration complexity compared with the first half rose, this is good, but I don’t have the routine iteration of output in the second half of this is because I was writing a novel, weekends and after work all the time with to write novels, writing a novel really very fee energy, in the meantime I often mixed.

In November 2021, an editor of a publishing house contacted me through rare earth Nuggets and invited me to publish a technical book. After communicating with him, I accepted the invitation. The topic of the book was: Developing a low code system with React. I had written nearly a chapter, and I felt that writing a novel took more effort than writing a technical book.

I didn’t want to make a lot of money writing this technical book. I heard from some of my predecessors who had written technical books: ‘The input/output ratio of a programmer writing a technical book is not high, and it’s not as profitable as recording an online course or writing an online brochure.’ In writing this technical book, I mainly want to systematize my knowledge and structuralize my way of thinking. In the book, I will first introduce theoretical knowledge, then analyze requirements, and finally realize requirements with codes. As far as my current knowledge level is concerned, this is a bit of a challenge for me.

Every month I will write a technical article published at least to my WeChat public, so to write a single technical articles I also calculate a little experience, after watching the press to the requirement of content organization, I find them to structured requirement is higher, a book is like a tree, each chapter can be viewed as a branch, also can be seen as a small tree, This kind of structure is unmatched in my previous technical articles, so it is also a challenge to organize content.

conclusion

Today is January 3, 2022, and the year-end summary for 2021 is finally finished. Looking back on 2021, I feel very happy. I did something new, even though I wanted to give up in the middle, I finally finished it. And my wife is very supportive of me. He supports my writing and my work. He loves me and I love him, too.