A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Xia Yan himself did not keep too many secrets about his actions. After all, he only had new plans. Whether these information were leaked or not would not affect his plan. There were even some covert information leaks that made it easier for the public to spread the news.

So much so that in his fan base, many people heard a little bit of information from some relevant people in the industry, and began to spread all kinds of news all over the Internet.

"Brothers, I heard news from employees within Lao Thief's company that Lao Thief seems to have a new plan?"

"Haha, today is September, and it's not April Fool's Day. Don't play such tricks. Who believes it? The old thief is currently serializing three works of Hunter, Sword, and Slam Dunk at the same time. The company also has other works to be released in October. The Pokémon game and the Doraemon animated bd will be released in November, and his previous works are also being adapted into movies and games. Does he still have the energy to work on new works? Stop spreading rumors like this."

"A friend of mine told me that the old thief seems to be recruiting some industry professionals in the name of the company in the field of comics and light novels. It is said that the old thief himself knows that his energy is limited, so he is preparing to start some new work projects, and he is responsible for controlling them. Where the story goes, let the recruiter take care of the details.”

"? I don't understand. What's the difference?"

"Just like some novels are made into several versions of TV series in succession, it is equivalent to providing an outline of the story and letting these recruited employees fill in the details."

"Ah? So this kind of work is still created by an old thief?"

"That's for sure! Many cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom also work in a studio mode. The main creator provides the story outline, and most of the drawing is done by his assistants. Then the cartoonist will supervise it himself. As long as the staff hired are high enough, sometimes they can produce it. The quality is even higher than what the original author could have done alone.”

"It's true that some martial arts novels from the last century have been adapted into different versions of TV series. If the director is high-level, it will make people feel that the TV series surpasses the original work, but if the director is low-level, the original work will be ruined. The old thief really wants to It’s not impossible to do this. He is too busy to control everything in detail, but as long as he can grasp the key details, the quality of the work will not be too bad. The premise is that the plot quality of his new work cannot be low.”

"Do you still have doubts about the plot ability of the old thief? He is married now. He will probably earn money for milk powder in a few years. His attitude will definitely be more serious than before. There is no need to worry about this."

"So now that no news has been exposed, you are already discussing this issue. If it is false news, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

"That's right, don't get too excited. This kind of news is most likely false news. No matter how perverted the old thief is, he is already working as a model worker. Is there any creator in the Dragon Kingdom who spans novels, comics, movies, and games like him? In the animation field? That's it, you still think about him releasing new works, don't be too whimsical, he will be exhausted and the old thief can't even do it."

On the Internet, Xia Yan's fans were arguing over some unfounded news, but in reality
In the Xia Tang Animation office building, starting from this Monday, a large number of people came to Xia Yan's office for interviews every day.

There are many half-truths and half-false news on the Internet. It is true that Xia Yan is interested in publishing more comics, but it must be nonsense if the light novel industry is also looking for a ghostwriter.

With that little time and so many ghostwriting explanations, Xia Yan has already finished the code himself. Twenty thousand words of updates a week are nothing to Xia Yan now. The plot is all in his brain, and it only takes a few hours.

His recent interviews were with a series of comic studio members that Mo Ran had found through her connections in the comics industry.

In the Dragon Kingdom, there are some talented people who shine in the field of comic assistants, but are a complete mess when it comes to creating original works.

Often these people are active in the fields of adult comics and illustrations of [-]+ light novels.

When it comes to painting skills, they are impeccable, but ask them what masterpieces they have in their comic lives.

In fact, there is none at all.

In fact, strictly speaking, Mo Ran also belongs to this category of cartoonists, but her drawing skills are indeed versatile and outstanding, and she is lucky.

In the early stages of Xia Yan's development, he established a good relationship with him and gained Xia Yan's friendship and trust. Although Xia Yan only gave Mo Ran a royalty share of the comics, excluding other copyright changes and peripheral income from the created works, it was only In this way, Mo Ran has become the top earner in the Dragon Kingdom comics industry, and the combination with Xia Yan is recognized as the number one existence in the history of the Dragon Kingdom comics industry.

Therefore, in the small circle of the industry, when Xia Yan asked Mo Ran to release the news that he was interested in setting up a comic studio, Xia Yan would provide the script outline, and other cartoonists would create new works according to Xia Yan's requirements, Long Guo had a large number of this The cartoonist took the initiative to find Mo Ran.

No author signature?What does it matter? It was Xia Yan who provided the outline of the script. People like them who are good at drawing but are not satisfied in the comics industry don't care at all.

Anyway, if you help Xia Yan draw comics, you know you won't suffer a loss. Xia Yan and Xia Tang Animation's high salary is famous in the industry. The average salary for the position is more than two or three times that of the same position in other companies.

If Xia Yan can be so generous to his comic workers, then his income will definitely be more promising than drawing bad works in unknown comic magazines.

Xia Yan, who spent her honeymoon after her marriage, returned to work in just over a month.

As for his wife Tang Yin, she is still responsible for the large and small business of the company's cooperation with external parties. After all, Xia Yan's own energy is not enough to focus on creating work scripts. The company's management aspect really does not have the time to focus too much on it.

Xia Yan was in the office, and Mo Ran, who was wearing a green skirt, was sitting next to her. The two of them were looking at a large pile of comic manuscripts on the table and kept talking.

"Look at this Zhou Qing, his artistry is relatively mellow. At first glance, he was good at drawing cute works in the past. His characters are not distinctive enough and not impressive enough."

"And this Xu Mu, um. His comic skills are pretty good, but he didn't have a good reputation among the fan community in the past, and he was said to have questionable character. He was financially strapped in his early years and was detained for stealing."

"This guy named Qin Yu is actually my favorite, but he is too old. He is already 40 years old. I don't know if he can meet your requirements Xia Yan when he has enough energy at work."

Mo Ran had heard before that Xia Yan seemed to have more than two new comics, and now she was working with Xia Yan to select a suitable comic writer.

Of course, no matter how you choose, Xia Yan's new comics are all under the pen name of the cartoonist "Xia Yan. Mo Ran". When it really enters the serialization stage, it is Xia Yan who provides the script, and Mo Ran is responsible for the overall direction of the comics. Mirrors, etc., these selected employees are responsible for drawing some details. Once the work becomes famous, Mo Ran will be mainly responsible for the series of operations and publicity of the work.

Xia Yan's expression gradually became serious as he listened to Mo Ran's introduction to the lives and professional qualities of these cartoonists.

The two comics he plans to serialize are Naruto and Pirates, both of which span more than ten to twenty years. If possible, he hopes that the comic's creative team will not change during the serialization process.

Otherwise, slight changes in painting style and other aspects will have an impact on the enthusiasm of fans of the work.

The most intuitive thing is that in my memory, there are two versions of the Hunter animation. Although the voice actors of Hisoka in the Hunter animation are very good, Xia Yan likes the old version of the animation for no reason. Doraemon comics have been serialized for dozens of years. In [-], Xia Yan also liked the comics with the old style more, and the same was true for the animation of Tom and Jerry. The animation style of the old version was very comfortable, and I didn’t want to watch anything that came out later.
It’s not that the later ones won’t work, but that the inertia of preconceived ideas is too strong.

Since Xia Yan is planning to serialize these two long novels, he has to think about the serialization span within decades.

You can't form two teams. If you have some achievements, the people below will make various demands, and then leave to work alone. In the end, Xia Yan found someone again, but the fans must not adapt due to problems such as the change of painting style.
"By the way, is it really possible for Xia Yan to endure comic books and pirate-themed comics? Isn't he thinking too far ahead?" After Mo Ran and Xia Yan discussed these interview comic drafts, they leaned back in their chairs. Go up, looking at him with a curious and puzzled expression.

It is normal for a new power system in a comic to have various new terms.

For example, the "Hunter" in Full-Time Hunter.

The "alchemist" in steelmaking.

But that ninja had such a strange professional name, but according to Xia Yan's introduction, he was just a mercenary armed group.

That's okay, who is that Pirate King!
A pirate as the protagonist?
Something doesn't feel right, even though Xia Yan said that the protagonist is adventuring on the sea as a pirate, and what the protagonist basically does is rob other bad pirates.

But even so, will the audience like the story of a pirate protagonist who is evil and evil?
Of course, Mo Ran also knew very well that Xia Yan had basically been surrounded by doubts along the way. In fact, those who doubted him were often slapped in the face by reality.

It's not that Mo Ran has no confidence in Xia Yan, he's just curious.
How would Xia Yan describe these two themes in his works?

"Be brave enough to innovate. Longguo didn't have works of this type before, but from now on, there will be." Xia Yan looked at Mo Ran beside him and smiled.

"Okay, after studying the information of other cartoonists tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we can start to form a drawing team for the two works." Xia Yan's eyes became solemn.

"Mo Ran, you understand, I am currently involved in many things, and I can no longer discuss everything with you in detail and discuss it clearly like I did in the previous series of Hunters and Initial D. I can only provide a general idea and two specific works. The final effect of the comic is mainly controlled by you."

"But let me make it clear first. These two works are both very long works. If everything goes well, we will be at least 40 years old by the time the serialization of the two works ends."

"Pfft" Mo Ran almost spilled the tea cup she was drinking from, and looked at Xia Yan in disbelief.

40 years old?
"Hey, are you serious? Are you saying that these two comics are both long-form comics that can be serialized for more than ten years?"

In the history of the Dragon Kingdom comics industry, there are very few, if any, super-long works of this kind.

The reason is very simple. A long-form work must be a popular comic.

Without this kind of popularity and this kind of fan base, it is impossible for the market to buy this work after it has been serialized for hundreds of chapters. If the plot is not particularly exciting, with this kind of length, the fans will have gone away long ago. .

"Yes, as expected, the ratings of these two works may not necessarily be higher than those of The Hunter and Initial D. But in terms of commercial value, they will be several times, or even ten times more than them." Xia Yan said softly.

But the weight of Xia Yan's words made Mo Ran dizzy.

The hunter has made the two of them more than hundreds of millions, several times, or even ten times more than the commercial value?
What it is?
The relaxation on Mo Ran's expression also disappeared.

She knew very well that Xia Yan was not the kind of person who liked to brag, and even judging it afterwards, Xia Yan, who was once thought to be bragging, was actually conservative.

I originally thought that Xia Yan only started a new comic book because of his excessive desire to create, but if he had such confidence.

Mo Ran took a deep breath and looked at the comic submissions on the table.

The studios for these two comic works need to be more carefully selected and established.

In the next few days, Xia Yan was busy with this matter.

At the same time, he also informed Beizhou Comics about his new comic.

Xia Yan knew that once he confirmed the candidates for the studio, the finished comics would be produced very quickly.

You have to say hello to Beizhou Comics Club in advance and reserve a seat for serialization in the comic journal.

In this regard, Beizhou Comics Club was naturally very surprised.

Since the development of the journal "Beizhou", the sales volume has stabilized and ranked first in the Dragon Kingdom, but in fact it is not that advantageous.

Xia Yan is indeed very popular, but his one work only plays a key role in the sales of Beizhou Comics, not all of it.

There are twenty works in a comic journal, and the quality of other works is equally critical.

But if Xia Yan has two more works to be serialized, it will be different.

The quality doesn’t have to be as good as that of Hunters. As long as there are Hunters and Initial D, [-]% to [-]% of the excitement is enough.

Of course, the requirement that Xia Yan's new comics require a studio to be created and full copyright is not a problem for Bei Zhou.

Being able to rely on Xia Yan's works to stabilize the position of the No. [-] comic book club in the Dragon Kingdom is already very good. If greed forces Xia Yan to leave at this time, then the gain outweighs the loss.

So in this regard, everything went very smoothly, and Beizhou Comics even recommended several unknown, but strong, financially distressed cartoonists to Xia Yan to serve as references for the studio's candidates.

September flies by like this
In early October, the original Pokémon game was released.

Unlike the mediocre results expected by the outside world, the sales of Pokémon games far exceeded everyone's expectations.

It is true that not many players buy this game among teenagers, but among primary school students
This pet-raising adventure game is a god!
In less than two weeks after its release, the game’s total sales in Dragon Kingdom exceeded 150 million, and worldwide, it exceeded 300 million.

This result is nothing in the history of the gaming industry, but considering that this is Xia Yan’s first game,
That would be outrageous.

Xia Yan didn't expect the Pokémon IP to take off all over the world just by relying on the first-generation games. Anyway, it was a slow process, so he had to take his time and he had plenty of patience.

The first generation game was just about building a fan base.
A real big investment, big money, and stunning game graphics, the second-generation Pokémon game is now being developed by the company's game department.

By mid-October
Xia Yan's comic studio team has been established here, and
Xia Yan has already handed over the preliminary scripts of One Piece and Naruto to Mo Ran.

He also requires his subordinates to follow him in terms of character design and painting style. In other aspects, Mo Ran takes the lead and is responsible.

And Beizhou Comics Club finally announced it to the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of comic fans in Dragon Kingdom in October.

In the first week of November's "Beizhou Comics", Xia Yan has two new comics.

The first chapters of "Naruto" and "One Piece" will be serialized simultaneously.

These two works, in the parallel world, are tied with the God of Death as the top three migrant cartoons.

In the Dragon Kingdom, Xia Yan also let the two of them compete simultaneously, spreading the battle between the sea of ​​fire in the parallel world to the Dragon Kingdom.

As for the God of Death.
After the hunter is finished, if Xia Yan still has enough energy, he may let him join the battle.

Let Death in the Sea of ​​Fire have also become the three pillar works of this period in the history of the Dragon Kingdom comic industry.

Fans of Beizhou Comics and Xia Yan are still unclear about what kind of changes the two new comics that will be serialized in November will bring to the Dragon Kingdom comics industry.
Xia Yan's fans simply reacted after seeing the news.

On this day, there was a collective carnival.

The news that has been floating around on the Internet for two months is actually true?

Is the old thief Xia Yan really planning to start a new work?

(End of this chapter)