May 2026 · 6 min read
I've always loved Song Ci poetry. The rhythm, the imagery, the way a few characters can paint a whole world. It was never about money — just a quiet passion I carried with me.
Then one day on Douyin, I saw ordinary people making money from songwriting. Turning words into music. Doing something they love and getting paid for it. It hit me: I have years of poetry practice. Why not try turning classical lyrics into songs?
I committed. Day after day, I wrote lyrics, revised them, polished them. I started a Douyin account and posted consistently. I thought: if I keep working at it, the audience will come.
They didn't. After a month or two of regular posting, my views were going down, not up. Fewer likes. Less engagement. The algorithm had decided I wasn't worth showing. I was putting real effort into every piece, and fewer people were seeing it than when I started.
That hollow feeling — when you work hard on something and it just... disappears into the noise — that's a special kind of defeat.
I didn't give up. Instead, I thought: I need to differentiate. If everyone is just posting covers, maybe I can build my own AI music generation tool. Something unique. Something that makes my content stand out.
I spent hundreds of yuan of my own money. Two full weeks of every spare moment — learning, tinkering, debugging. I stayed up late figuring out how to make it work. Problem after problem, I slowly chipped away until I had a working AI music generator.
The moment the first fully AI-generated song came out... I felt hollow. The quality gap between what I'd built and professional music was huge. The texture, the completeness, the production value — none of it was there.
Money spent: hundreds of yuan. Time invested: countless nights. Passion poured in: everything I had. Money earned: zero.
Another failure. Douyin gave me no traffic. The algorithm didn't care about my Song Ci poetry or my AI music tool. Passion, it turns out, doesn't beat reality.
But here's the thing I've learned from all these failures: nothing is wasted.
I still love Song Ci. That didn't change. I learned how to build an AI tool from scratch — that skill didn't disappear just because this project failed. The persistence I built during those late nights? Still with me.
Slow is fine. Zero results now is fine. The ordinary person's persistence will eventually find its echo.
This was just one small chapter of my entrepreneurial journey. There will be more.
— Kuang Shan, still keeping the poetry alive
2026年5月 · 阅读约6分钟
我一直很喜欢宋词，偏爱古韵文字里的温柔与风骨，原本只是单纯的热爱，从没想过要靠它谋生。
前段时间刷抖音，看到很多普通人靠写歌创作变现，把文字变成作品，既能做喜欢的事，又能有收入。我瞬间动了心，想着自己有宋词积累，何不试着把古韵填词做成原创歌曲，当作一份副业、甚至小事业去深耕。
下定决心后，我全身心扑进了这件事里。日复一日填词、改词、打磨作品，认认真真更新账号，满心期待能慢慢做起来。可现实狠狠泼了我一盆冷水。坚持更新一两个月，流量不涨反跌，点赞越来越少，热度一点点流失。明明作品用心打磨了，却越来越少人看见，那种无力感，真的让人特别挫败。
不甘心止步于填词发作品，我想着突破自己、做出差异化。于是我自掏腰包，花了几百块，整整耗了半个月的空闲时间，一点点摸索、搭建专属的AI音乐生成工具。那段时间熬夜琢磨、反复调试，遇到问题就慢慢攻克，好不容易把工具打磨成型，能够独立生成歌曲。
可真正成品出来的那一刻，我又陷入了失落。对比市面上成熟的音乐作品，自己做出来的成品差距依旧明显，质感、完整度都远远不够。
从头到尾折腾这么久，投入了金钱、大量时间和全部热情，熬了无数个夜晚，最后一分钱收益都没有。满心的创业憧憬，最后还是失败了。抖音根本没有流量。
原来热爱真的抵不过现实，看似简单的写歌创业，背后藏着无数普通人摸不到的门槛。这段时间的坚持没有结果，难免会迷茫、会沮丧。
但我始终觉得，所有付出都不算白费。我守住了对宋词、对文字的热爱，也靠自己摸索出了全新的技能。慢一点没关系，暂时没结果也没关系，慢慢来，平凡人的坚持，终会有回响。这只是我创业的很小一部分。
—— 况山，还在写词