Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 7 Keyboard, I miss you!

After choosing to be Wenchaogong, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly discovered that he didn't know much about the cultural industry of this era, especially about various platforms.

After all, this is not the age of the Internet. You can’t type a word on the Internet and then find a website to publish it.

So his method is very simple, that is, go to the post office first, and look for well-known magazines with large sales volume and high reputation.

It is definitely not bad to find a magazine agency of a well-known magazine to contribute.

After establishing this principle, he quickly selected several magazines and recorded the submission addresses of the magazines.

Next, is the actual writing.

In the beginning, relying on his vast knowledge reserves in his previous life, he honestly recalled all kinds of romance and science fiction short stories he had read in his previous life, and then wrote them down based on his memory, and then contributed them to various well-known magazines he chose.

However, since it is impossible for him to clearly remember all the specific content of the works he has read in his previous life, he always plagiarizes the plots, ideas and characters of the novels in his previous life, and then recreates them with his own embellishment.

So strictly speaking, the works he contributed to major magazines in the early days cannot be regarded as plagiarism, but can only be regarded as in-depth reference.

I have to say that Cao Zhiqiang really met a good time. It can be said that his road of copying was really at the right time.

At this time in China, entertainment methods are very scarce, and the reform has just begun. It has been suppressed for more than ten years, and many people's desire for literary works has suddenly flourished.

Reflection literature, scar literature, and all kinds of dirty literature and pornography are everywhere, and those text reviews and publication supervision are almost non-existent, and they are in name only.

Unless your work is too explicit and obscene, and someone reports it, or the order to sweep it up is issued, otherwise no one will care about you.

Therefore, in the early 80s, because the domestic cultural industry was still in the early stages of reform, there was a lack of real supervision, and various trends of thought flooded.

In this case, it is easy to produce poisonous weeds, but also easy to become famous.

For example, the one who later won the Nobel Prize in Literature basically had a high-yield period during this period.

There is also the guy who won the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier, but became a French-Chinese guy because he became a French citizen early. His award-winning works were also created in the early 80s.

The reason is very simple, this is the same reason that it is easy to become famous in the Warring States Period.

When supervision is strengthened and controls are tightened in the future, there will be fewer people like this.

In fact, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang was more prolific, focusing on sensational bosom friend style and shocking short stories.

After all, there are many similar works in the previous life, and the impression is deep, and the memory is clear.

He has contributed to various famous magazines.

For example, Reader's Digest, Story Club, Science Pictorial, Science Literature and Art, etc., he has written a lot of corresponding manuscripts to contribute.

Those magazines basically accepted his manuscripts, and basically gave them different amounts of manuscript fees.

However, he later discovered that this way of writing short stories and popular science articles in various magazines still made too little money, and if it continued like this, I am afraid that he would run out of talent in a short time.

After all, he is not a real writer, but just a writer.

The manuscripts he submitted before were all well-known short stories that he accidentally memorized in his previous life, but the number was not many, and most of his memories were rather vague, so his knowledge reserve was very limited.

Then one day, when he went to a nearby Xinhua Bookstore to find inspiration and observe market trends, he found many people queuing up to buy "Legend of the Condor Heroes".

That guy, the queue is long.

That's all, the key point is that the set of "Legend of the Condor Heroes" they snapped up is not cheap, it only costs 40 yuan for two volumes!

Two books for 40 yuan, which is more expensive than his monthly salary.

But even so, everyone still had to line up to buy it, and it was sold out quickly, so there was nothing to buy if it was too late.

This scene is not much better than the situation of queuing up to buy Apple phones in the early hours of the later generations when Apple phones were hot.

Seeing this situation, while taking a breath, he finally thought of writing a martial arts novel.

Nothing else, but when it comes to martial arts novels, he remembers a lot. At least the storyline and characters are all impressive, and he won't remember it wrong.

The works of martial arts novels have not yet flooded the country at this time, and belong to the ascendant period.

As long as the content does not involve politics or pornography, martial arts novels are relatively safe, and as long as the writing is decent, they can be sold.

Also, martial arts novels are called fairy tales for adults.

In an era when entertainment is still scarce, martial arts novels are very popular.

Especially young people, they are very fond of martial arts novels, and they are quite hardcore.

Authors of new martial arts novels like Jin Guliang are now popular all over the country, and everyone knows it.

There are also many other martial arts novels written by Wolongsheng, Zhuge Qingyun, etc., and the market is also very wide.

That is to say, at this time, ordinary people love to read these martial arts novels, which can be called the best era of martial arts novels.

Also, martial arts novels can be published, and the publication of books depends on the sales volume. The higher the sales volume, the higher your income.

More importantly, the domestic printing factories at this time have not been liberalized. They are basically state-owned and collective.

Therefore, except for a few shameless collective printing factories in the south, and some even more shameless township enterprise printing factories with small printing presses, most regular printing factories basically do not engage in piracy.

If it was later, especially in the 90s, after the printing factory was responsible for its own profits and losses, it would be the real rampant piracy.

So in the early 80s, it was really the spring of original literary works.

At this time, if you have a book that becomes popular, you can sell it for five to sixty thousand or even hundreds of thousands of millions. It is no exaggeration to buy a car and a house and earn enough money for a lifetime.

Hey, it seems that the future generations are also like this?
In short, after understanding the situation, he, Cao Zhiqiang, also wanted to gain some enthusiasm.

Just when Cao Zhiqiang hadn't figured out which famous novel he was going to copy and adapt later.

Early the next morning, he suddenly signed in and drew an unexpected item.

"Three Hundred Selected Modern Martial Arts Novels"!
As the name suggests, there are [-] classic martial arts novels by famous modern masters, including Jin Guliang's works of course.

Well, since there are other people's complete ready-made works, there is nothing to say, of course I chose to copy them.

So he chose again and again, and finally decided to copy Huang Yi's "Shattered Void" first.

This novel is only more than 20 words, not many words, but the plot is compact, majestic and imaginative.

Especially the concept of shattering the void and sublimating to the Tao simply broke the ceiling of the original martial arts.

He believes that as long as everyone reads Shattered Void, and then reads other martial arts novels, it will be like chewing wax.

No way, the boundaries of thinking have been broadened, and the threshold of happiness has increased.

After all, in this period, most of the martial arts novels still stay on the routine of jumping off a cliff or jumping into the sea, and getting through the two veins of Ren and Du is often the ceiling of force.

How does this compare with "Shattered Void", which has half-stepped into fantasy?

It's a pity that in this era, he can't afford a personal computer, and he doesn't have a keyboard to code words, let alone a reliable Chinese character input method, so he can only write by hand.

In addition, he had to go to work in the factory, and he had to greet and send off his fellow workers. There was a lot of shit about this and that, and he couldn't write fast at all.

Generally speaking, at the beginning, his speed is more than 3000 words a day, and then he speeds up, that is, 4000 words a day, and on average, he only updates [-] words a day.

No more than that, and your hands will get sore.

This made him miss the days of typing on the computer keyboard.

If he was typing on the keyboard, he could write out an average of [-] words a day. In less than a week, he could finish copying "The Shattered Void".

It's like now, with an average of more than 4000 words per day, and the writing is extremely painful.

Alas, what year and month will he be able to resume his life as a tentacle monster?

Keyboard, I miss you!

In short, after nearly two months of painstaking handwriting and ballpoint pen copying, the 20-word "Shattered Void" was finally finished.

Then he discovered that the book was copied, but he didn't know how to publish it.

In other words, I don’t know which platform to publish on.

(End of this chapter)