A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 18 Phone
After school in the afternoon, Xia Yan stopped by the bookstore in front of the school and bought a journal of "Instant Youth".

After all, this is the first issue of his novel serialization, so he must contribute a share of sales.

In the process, he also carefully watched the sales of these novel periodicals in the bookstore.

"Red Maple" by Red Maple Literature must be placed in the most eye-catching place in the bookstore, and "Moment of Youth" is piled up not far from "Red Maple".

In addition to students, the customers in the bookstore are also the main force of office workers. They walked into the bookstore on the way home from get off work, went straight to the two periodicals, picked them up and left.

At first glance, this kind of guest is a regular reader of the two periodicals.

In fact, Xia Yan was also a little worried. He didn't know how the first issue of Youth Journey was in Longguo. He waited and watched for a long time in the bookstore, but he couldn't get any useful information. In the end, he just took the subway with the book go home.

"Huh? Yesterday's starlight?"

Xia Yan flipped through the periodical catalog and noticed the familiar title.

For a moment, he thought of the girl wearing a mask who went with him to contribute to Hongfeng Literature a few weeks ago.

Unlike Song Lingyun, he took the initiative to ask Tang Yin to learn about the competitor's novel serialized in the same period before the journal was published.

It was only now that he realized that this novel was also being serialized on Setsuna Fanghua.

Out of curiosity, he started watching directly on the subway.

10 minutes later
He put down the books without further ado.

"It's really well written!" Xia Yan exclaimed.

The plot of Starlight Chapter 1 yesterday was flowing in his mind at this moment. Although Chapter 1 was finished quickly, the desire for knowledge of the follow-up plot was like a hook, hooking his heartstrings.
"That girl seems to be about the same age as me, and she was waiting in line for Tang Yin's on-site novel review that day like me, which means that she does not have an editor she is familiar with for internal submissions, and she is a newcomer like me. I didn't expect that she would be able to Write such a great novel."

"Perhaps. She is the novelist genius that everyone often says." Xia Yan sighed inwardly, while getting up to leave the subway.

Before he reached the door, the phone rang.

"Hello, Tang Tang Yin..." Xia Yan paused, and called Tang Yin's name directly on the phone.

"Congratulations, Xia Yan."

On the other end of the phone was Tang Yin's steady voice.

"Congratulations? Congratulations for what?" Xia Yan asked.

"Youth Journey novel Chapter 1 is now at 9.2:[-] p.m., according to the votes and feedback data of journal readers on the company's official website, your novel ranks fourth in the number of votes, and ranks first with a score of [-]."

There was silence on the phone for a few seconds, Xia Yan didn't speak, Tang Yin was also waiting for Xia Yan's reaction.

"Is it very good? This result"

Xia Yan can understand from Tang Yin's tone that this result should be very good, but because he doesn't know the specific situation of other competitors' works, so he doesn't have much real feeling for this data, so he can only ask one more question cautiously .

"Ah, it's amazing. If you only look at the data of "New Serial Novel Chapter 1", it is the best data among the novels serialized in the journal "Instant Youth" in the past three years. And it is also the "Instant Youth" Ten years since the journal was founded, the serial novel "Chapter 1" has the second-best score. Of course, the final score will not be determined until nine o'clock tomorrow, but there is a high probability that the order will not change."

When Tang Yin said this, Xia Yan understood.

Although Shina Fanghua is only the third best-selling periodical of Red Maple Publishing House, each issue has sales of 30 million copies, and the novels serialized on it are naturally of high quality.

The first serialization of Journey of Youth had this achievement, it was really a blast.

"Who is No.1?" Xia Yan thought for a while, and then asked doubts.

"It's a love novel called "Chuyue". When it was serialized on Shan Na Fanghua three years ago, the plot of Chapter 1 was very attractive, and the plot was similar to a social event in Longguo at that time, which resonated with readers. Therefore, readers of this issue The number of votes in support is as high as 9.3 votes, and the score of the novel is also as high as [-] points."

Holding her mobile phone, Tang Yin sat on her office chair, looked at the neon lights outside the window and said to Xia Yan on the other end of the phone.

"However, when that novel was serialized to Chapter 10, the number of votes for the current period dropped to 103 votes, and the ratings of the novel were also crazily lowered by readers. In the end, the whole work was cut down by the book publisher with a score of 5.4."

Xia Yan was taken aback when he heard this.

"Xia Yan, the novel grades of Youth Journey Chapter 1 are excellent. But, this is just the beginning. Don't be fooled by the grades. A successful novel is always the end of the day, and readers will continue to support it , that's called success." Tang Yin said softly.

"I understand. I know what you mean." Xia Yan said after being silent for a while.

"Now that you understand, everything will be easy." Tang Yin said.

"Easy? What's easy?" Xia Yan asked.

"You really don't understand anything." Tang Yin said with a sigh.

"Do you think that the editor of our book club is responsible for collecting manuscripts from you every week, and then submitting them to the book club for publication?"

"Otherwise?" Xia Yan paused and asked back.

"It's definitely not that simple! As your editor in charge, I will be responsible for reviewing the quality of the plot of your novel, whether there are sensitive elements, and, to a certain extent, help you control the direction of the plot."

After listening to Tang Yin's words, Xia Yan understood what she meant after a while.

The responsible editor of the novel plays a role in preventing the "authority", that is, the creator of the novel from "confused".

After all, many authors are easy to be self-indulgent when writing. The dead heroine, the dead protagonist’s family, the green hat, the delivery of the girl, the separation and reunion of the male and female protagonists, etc. have all come out. Because the author knows the follow-up plot of the novel, there are protagonists who break the game after a crisis state Therefore, I don’t feel depressing when I write it, but I feel that I have come up with a wonderful plot.

But the readers seem to be uncomfortable. Before they wait for your plot to reverse, many people decisively abandon the book.

The role of the editor is to intervene in the author's blind creation to a certain extent in the process of creating the plot, so as to prevent the author from falling into this state of self-indulgent thinking, which will lead to the popularity of the novel and the collapse of the plot.

In fact, in the serialization process of many well-known works, the role of editors is quite large.

Just like the popular work "Naruto" in the parallel world, why the early stage of the story is a masterpiece, but the later stage is hard to explain.

A large part of the reason is that the editors in the later period of the manga changed.

What is the role of Naruto's first-generation editor?

The original plan of the popular green-skinned character "Locke Lee" was created by Kishimoto, the first editor.Of course, the role of "Gara" is also the result of discussions between the editor and the author Kishimoto.

Then the second protagonist "Uchiha Sasuke"'s character design, painting style, and character shaping are also credited to the editor's participation in the discussion.

Moreover, in the initial setting of Naruto, the third generation of Hokage is a very powerful pet dog raised by the second generation of Hokage. It is said that the third generation of Naruto Sarutobi was born because it was rejected by the editor because it was too deviant.

Even before the concept of Naruto was born, Kishimoto was asked to create a manga about ninjas at the very beginning, which was also put forward by the first editor.

A good editor is of great help to a work.

"Then what are you going to do?" Xia Yan asked.

(End of this chapter)