A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 144 Intention Achieved
"Cooperation?"

Mo Ran was taken aback when he heard this.

In fact, it was Xia Yan who suggested her to find someone to co-create comics with her, and Xia Yan was the first thing she thought of at the beginning.

But after calming down, I felt that this kind of thinking was too naive.After all, Xia Yan and her are not related, why should he cooperate with her?That's why I took the initiative to find a senior sister who was rumored to be very capable in the light novel club to collaborate in creating comics.

But it can only be said that the rumors in the student group are very powerful, but they are not enough to be seen in the society. The manga that I collaborated with quickly collapsed after the first five episodes were serialized until it was cut in half.

A comic journal with tens of thousands of sales is still competing like this. It is hard for her to imagine what kind of competition is Xia Yan's serial "Liu Li" now?
Maybe the quality of the so-called popular novels with sales volumes of two or three million volumes, for this journal, belongs to the level of poor performance and will be cut in half.

"Yes, cooperation. I have a good work recently." Xia Yan considered his words while watching Mo Ran's reaction.

"It's not suitable for adaptation into a novel. So... I want to create it as a comic-themed work. But you also understand that in comics, I have no talent. Let me draw a storyboard draft to express my picture of a work It’s okay to conceive, but I want to draw exquisite and delicate manga pictures. I guess it will take three to five years to learn it, and I can’t spend so much time and hundreds of dollars to learn manga.”

After listening to Xia Yan's words, Mo Ran immediately understood what he meant.

"That... May I ask, what is the theme of your new work that you want to create as a comic?"

Xia Yan looked at the curious look in Mo Ran's eyes, and said directly.

"It's not some frivolous cartoon, it's just an ordinary sports and competitive work about motorsports."

"Racing.?"

When Mo Ran heard this, a bunch of question marks flashed across her forehead.

Youth Journey, To the Moon, Unheard Flower Names and Parasitic Beasts.
These few works can be said to be irrelevant in style. Mo Ran already felt that Xia Yan was already unconstrained in the creation of works, but racing works?
What is this ghost?

Wait, at least these works have one common element, that is, there are love elements between the main characters, and the length is not small.

"That... ask me more, is this a romance work with racing elements in it?"

Mo Ran, I still like this type of work.

In fact, when Xia Yan asked her if she wanted to cooperate, she knew the answer very clearly in her heart. As long as the content of the painting is not that outrageous, such as Danmei or female love or pure meat comics, it doesn't matter what the work is , she is willing to cooperate with Xia Yan.

"Love." Xia Yan actually hasn't read the content of the initial D in his dream memory, but combined with the online reviews of this work in Yuan Qing's memory.

Xia Yan shook his head, and said an interesting stalk he saw in Yuan Qing's memory.

"There are relatively few romantic elements in this work. "After all, drivers don't need women", that will only affect their speed."

"." Mo Ran.

In the following time, Xia Yan gave her all the conditions and obligations of cooperating with her.

The copyright of the works all belonged to Xia Yan, but the manga manuscript fee and the income from the manga booklet were divided between the two, and Xia Yan took seven.

If Mo Ran agrees, then in a few days Xia Yan will come with the storyboard of the initial D.

There is no copyright, and the profits of comics are divided into [-]-[-]%
It's almost just a part-time job for Xia Yan.

Mo Ran accepted the proposal after thinking for less than half a minute.

She knew very well that Xia Yan would ask her to cooperate more or less because they knew each other, her painting skills were really good, and because she helped Xia Yan last semester.

But this kind of friendship can only make Xia Yan choose her as a partner under the same conditions, and it is not the capital for her to negotiate terms with Xia Yan.

Besides, with Xia Yan's current status in the two-dimensional world of Longguo, it is extremely generous to find someone to cooperate with in comics and give the other party this kind of condition.

The preliminary agreement between Xia Yan and Mo Ran went smoothly beyond his expectations.

In the next day or two, he immediately contacted a well-known law firm in the Modu area, told the other party about his situation, and asked the other party to help him draft the contract.

Xia Yan has never procrastinated in doing things. After completing these preparatory activities, he began to really examine the work about Initial D in his mind.

Collaborative comics are not as simple as Xia Yan just making plots, such as a picture, the ratio of the distant view and the close view, the speed of the car in the comic, the tension, the angle of view, and the shaping of the atmosphere of the picture.
Readers read comics based on whether they look good or not. They don't care so much, but cartoonists need to study these things.

Xia Yan just gave Mo Ran the outline of the plot, and the created Initial D comic may look different from the original version, such as a drifting shot, whether the perspective is left view, right view or top view, there must be a difference, a Even if Zhang Tu is like this, a manga can contain hundreds or even thousands of pages.
So the painting may indeed be mainly based on Mo Ran, but the content, direction, and storyboard of the painting must be determined by Xia Yan before Mo Ran can process it.

This workload is not small.
Over the next week or so, the plots of the two chapters of Parasite No. 20 and 23 were serialized one after another.

The plot of these two chapters of the novel is basically the life-and-death battle between the protagonist Xinyi and the strongest parasitic beast Goto in the whole work, which can be said to be a pure fighting plot.

After serialization, the number of readers' votes for Parasite also increased, but not as fast as before.

But after the serialization of chapter 23 ended, the parasitic beast's serialization position in "Liu Li" also came to fifth.

But whether it's Liuli Publishing House or Xia Yan, they can basically feel that the limit of the work of Parasitic Beast is here.

It’s not that it’s inferior to the works listed above, but works of this type and theme can only attract so many readers.

Bloody, novelty, and cannibalism are indeed quite novel, and they can help the work of Parasitic Beast quickly accumulate audience fans in the early stages of serialization, but everything is a double-edged sword, and a large number of people do not like these elements.

but
Xia Yan is quite satisfied with this result.

He also doesn't think that just any quasi-first-tier work taken from the parallel world can be adapted into a light novel, which can beat the light novel world of Longguo and directly reach the top. The light novel world of Longguo is not so fragile.

"Liu Li" journal fifth.
For a novel author who was a newcomer in the light novel world until two years ago, and who was still in the newcomer selection competition last year.
It's already extremely exaggerated.

At least among the large group of novel authors who competed for Xia Yan in the New God Ranking Journal last year, except for Xia Yan, none of them has serialized their works in the three major light novel journals so far.

late March
Xia Yan came to the comics club with the first three chapters of the first three episodes of Initial D that he had drawn.

Mo Ran frowned after taking Xia Yan's storyboard.

Although she knew that Xia Yan was a "little genius" in painting, it was beyond her imagination that her standard was so poor.

The doodles she made when she was four years old are more layered than Xia Yan's ghost drawing scripts.

Mo Ran began to carefully read the plot of this work.
In the fictional world of comics, there is a region called Island Country.

Because the setting of Initial D is still very regional.

For example, in the island country, because of the small area, there will be some racing driver exchange competitions between counties, and the driver goal of dominating the road races of the island country.

Do you try changing Dragon Kingdom?

You may not be able to visit all the cities in the Dragon Kingdom in a lifetime, let alone drive a car to conquer local racers from city to city?
The territory is too big, and this kind of rhetoric is basically unrealistic.

So the background of the initial D... Xia Yan will not change it, and directly set the island country as an overhead world relative to the Dragon Kingdom.

There are also 86, fd, fc and other cars, Xia Yan has not changed.After all, the comics are set to be an island country in the overhead world, and some top sports cars from the Dragon Kingdom world are included in the comics, which is actually even more abrupt.

Just use the vehicle model, age, technology, and settings from the original work, and when the time comes, list the horsepower, torque, and vehicle parameters of these vehicle models in separate tables and attach them to the comics. Comic fans who know cars will study what these cars belong to. The existence of levels, comic fans who don't understand cars, don't understand whether you change these things or not, these people must only pay attention to the plot.

In the same way, the place names of Qiu Mingshan will not be changed.
As long as it can not be changed, Xia Yan will not change it, otherwise it will be easy to correct bugs in the work, and it will not be logically self-consistent.

But regarding the name, considering the reading habits of readers in the Longguo area, Xia Yan changed it.

For example, the protagonist Fujiwara Takumi became Tu Hai, and the two brothers Takahashi Ryosuke and Takahashi Keisuke changed their names to Gao Liang and Gao Qi. As for the heroine Natsuki.

A high school boy in a tofu shop.
Drivers from the Red Sun team came to conquer Qiu Mingshan
Gao Qi, who had abused the local drivers of Qiu Mingshan, was driving his top sports car fd, but was easily crushed by an outdated model ae86 with low horsepower on the downhill section that night
From this incident as an introduction, Gao Qi and the Red Sun team behind him, in order to wash away the shame, made an appointment to fight 86 of the tofu shop. Everyone thought that the driver of this car was Tu Wenta (Fujiwara Bunta), the owner of the tofu shop.
But no one thought that the person who drove this car and passed Gao Qi's car fd that night was the son of the owner of the tofu shop, that high school student Tu Hai who didn't even have a driver's license
After Mo Ran carefully read the drafts of the first three episodes of Initial D.
Her expression has changed from disliking Xia Yan's painting skills at the beginning to a dazed expression in the back, with bright eyes.

"Is there any more?" Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan expectantly.

The content of the first three episodes is extremely rough. The protagonist Tu Hai (Fujiwara Takumi) was replaced by a character with a big round head in the draft of the storyboard.

But Xia Yan's control over the camera sense surprised Mo Ran.

Because Mo Ran knew that if she drew the comics according to this storyboard, the effect would be almost a professional-level comic draft.

If you split the mirror, that's fine.
But this sense of anticipation in the plot, what is going on?

The storyboard script Xia Yan gave was hanging at the place where Tu Hai drove the 86 up the mountain to meet the challenger for the temptation of a tank of gas.

It’s just that this kind of garbage storyboard draft has such a sense of expectation, what will happen after it is drawn into a real comic?
"Is the content of the three chapters not enough?" Xia Yan asked doubtfully.

"Isn't it the custom in the Dragon Kingdom comics industry to decide whether to serialize based on the content of the first three comics? If there are too many comics, people won't read them."

"." Mo Ran froze, but hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice.

"I mean, I want to know the sequel of this work."

"Oh, forget it, let's not talk about this for now." Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan with clear eyes.

At this time, the two had only initially reached a cooperation intention, and the contract had not yet been signed.

Mo Ran took a deep breath, showing a trace of nervousness on her beautiful fair face, and asked again for confirmation.

"Xia Yan, are you sure that this work is going to be handed over to me and cooperate with me?"

"Yeah." Xia Yan quickly responded to her.

"I understand. The cooperation contract or something, I will sign it with you as soon as possible." Mo Ran looked at the draft of the storyboard on the table.

"It may take me more than a month to carefully draw these three episodes of comics into finished comics."

"Will it take so long for more than a month?" Xia Yan asked, blinking.

"Of course, I don't have a comic assistant. Although I draw comics with both speed and quality, the work of Initial D" Mo Ran paused.

"It's very interesting. I have to spend a lot of time designing the character image, determining the style of painting and so on."

Xia Yan nodded slightly upon hearing this.

In fact, the original work is good in everything, but its painting style looks too old now, and Xia Yan himself feels that if this work is serialized in Longguo, the painting style needs to be changed to a certain extent.

The realistic atmosphere of the original work can be retained, but at least the female characters in this work have to be drawn cute.

No one else comes out with a pouty mouth, two big sausages hanging on his mouth, it's quite a show.

Of course, it is acceptable to make the painting style beautiful to a certain extent, but not too much.

It's too iconic, and that doesn't fit a motorsport comic.

And this specific speed needs to be discussed by Xia Yan and Mo Ran.

(End of this chapter)