Opening with science fiction and using wuxia as its vehicle.
This is my first attempt at writing. My limited talent may well make readers want to throw their phones away before they even finish three chapters. But I keep writing anyway, refusing to give up after each setback, and putting it out there despite my shamelessness.
I want to write something like the works of the great Jin Yong and Gu Long, something readers will remember and bring up over tea after a meal.
But that's the state of online fiction these days: adapt or perish. There's nothing to be done about it. I don't have the talent to dash off ten or twenty thousand words a day without a hitch, nor can I keep up a steady update schedule. I'm destined to be swallowed by the waves. Even getting a contract has become a distant dream.
Traditional wuxia has been in decline for years and is now slowly fading away. In today's vast sea of online novels, it has no place to stand. The reason, after all, is that Jin Yong and Gu Long's works are so masterful that later writers can hardly hope to match them. They left not a single flaw to exploit, and traditional wuxia has never recovered since.
I know my own limits. My literary skills are nowhere near those of the greats, and I can't bring back the genre's golden age. Naturally, I wouldn't dare compare the stars to the bright moon.
Still, I've loved wuxia novels since childhood and have always admired Jin Yong and Gu Long. I couldn't hold back my enthusiasm, so in my spare time from work, I've come here to make a fool of myself!
