A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

The comic series of One Piece and Naruto has been warmed up and has been on the hot search list of major websites in Dragon Kingdom in just a few days.

With just two promotional posters, the popularity was beyond the market's imagination.

Beizhou Comics is now the number one comics company in the Dragon Kingdom. Its official website has more visitors every day than its peers. In the past two days, as the news spread that Xia Yan’s two new works will be published in Beizhou Comics, Beizhou Comics The number of views on the official website was more than twice the usual number.

For Xia Yan now, his work focus is basically in the fields of animation, games and their derivatives.

The reason is very simple. In the field of comics and light novels, Xia Yan does not directly control the publishing and distribution companies. It is unrealistic to get involved in this industry from scratch. The sales channels of the three major novel and book companies and the four major comic companies are all over the country. It would be impossible to establish such a huge sales channel and cooperate with paper book publishers and suppliers in various cities in just a few years. Xia Yan had the energy to run a new company and create more products. Several works such as One Piece are actually more profitable.

It is not a company that he fully controls, so in the past two years, Xia Yan has not paid much attention to the field of comics and novels.

It has been more than a year since I held a fan signing event to promote the stand-alone novel of Sword Art Online. All operations of the Hunter are basically handled by Mo Ran, who is in a hands-off position as shopkeeper. But even so, in the field of graphic novels, Xia Yan The popularity is still rising.

However, Xia Yan has basically been serializing one or two works in these two fields for several years, and fans are actually looking forward to his possible new works.

The UW chapter of Sword Art Online has been serialized to the later stage and will most likely be completed within half a year. The Hunter has been serialized for several years, and the plot has now entered the ant chapter.

At this point, the news that Xia Yan's two new comics will be serialized not only stimulated his comic fans, but also made his novel fans pay crazy attention to the relevant news.

The style of the whole forum changed suddenly.

"So in fact, there have been rumors that the old thief is so overwhelmed with work that he only sleeps for four hours a day, five hours to conceive comics, five hours to conceive novels, five hours to write animation scripts, and five hours to handle company operations. Is it fake news? Otherwise, the old thief would still have time to produce two comics?"

"This must be fake news. Are you all good at this kind of thing? The latest situation of the old thief is that his net worth has exceeded tens of billions. He has been listed on the Dragon Country Rich List. Moreover, the old thief holds tens of billions in cash and is not on the list. Other rich people get their wealth by going public and issuing stocks. Stock wealth, today's net worth is 100 billion, and it is very common for them to fall to [-] billion in a few months. Their ability to cash out is also low, and they are very empty. Do you think you are like an old thief who has no business pressure? , without financing, a wealthy person who has profit-making betting contracts, will he squeeze his lifespan and sleep four hours a day to work? To be honest, I am him, and I am so rich, so I can work four hours a day as a kindness to my fans. It’s normal to not go out to eat, drink, have fun and play mahjong.”

"But the old thief is now responsible for so many businesses. I don't think he can even work twenty hours a day, right?"

"Whether it's enough or not depends on the individual. A mediocre person can't come up with a work like Hunter even if he doesn't sleep all his life. A genius like Old Thief might be able to come up with the amount of comic plots serialized in a week in a few hours. "

"How many hours? You guys are so fake. I don't believe it. I have written light novels, and I know the pain of holding in two thousand words for seven or eight hours. When I wrote it, I looked like rubbish, so I deleted it immediately. I don’t believe that anyone could come up with the amount of a Hunter manga episode in a few hours.”

"So you are a mortal."

"But there is one thing to say. In the field of comics, the old thief and the hunter are 100% sure to be the third one. What about the novel field? Will the old thief also make new moves in the future?"

"I have the right to speak on this point. My wife is an employee of Liuli Bookstore. Their internal news has been spread. After the third comic of Lao Thief was released, the senior management of Liuli Book Club carefully consulted with Lao Thief about his intention to serialize a few more light novels. The novel has never asked about this before, because Liuli Bookstore itself feels that the old thief has no energy to produce more works, but the old thief used his strength to directly leave everyone speechless, and Liuli Bookstore did not hold back anymore and went directly When I asked about this, the news I got from the old thief was that he himself was also considering the idea of ​​a new light novel."

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"Really? This... this is too exaggerated."

"If this is true, is the old thief still human?"

"It's not scary to have a high output. What's scary is that almost seven or eight works are serialized at the same time. This kind of thing is unheard of."

"Forget about Naruto and that one Piece. Everyone knows now that these two comics only provide script outlines. The main artist and reviewer are Mo Ran, and then there are two comic studios doing the main work. But the light novel Surely he can’t do this?”

"Why not?"

"For the novel, you have already figured out the outline, so you don't need to spend a little time coding. And if you have enough time to set up a novel studio and finally check it, the old thief has probably written it himself. He is going to start a new novel, and he must have written it himself, so his workload is terrifying."

"Is this old thief going to rebel? He is already No. 1 in the industry, why are he still working hard?"

"Help, brothers, this is the first time I'm driven crazy by a creator. I have to follow Lao Zhi's Slam Dunk, Hunter animation every week, Hunter comics, and Sword Art Online novels are also must-buy issues every week, and his previous works I will also follow the comic series and dramas of these works. I will collect the derivative peripherals of these works as long as the price is right. Now the old thief has two new comics and a new light novel. If this continues, I feel that I will not be able to follow it. It’s the work of an old thief.”

"Haha, the student party feels the same way. I am in my senior year of high school. I originally wanted to take the time to read the works of the old thief, but now I find that I can't finish them. I can't finish them at all."

"Just take one or two hours a week to read through these works of an old thief."

"I'm usually very busy, so I can't spare an hour or two!"

"It's useless to say so much. Who knows whether it is true or false."

"That's right, there are a lot of fake news on the Internet now, and I don't really believe that the old thief will come up with other new works."

For several days, various rumors about Xia Yan have been circulating on the Internet.

Xia Yan is naturally also paying attention to related topics.

And from an objective perspective, Xia Yan himself knew that his behavior was indeed a bit too perverted.

Many creators in Long Kingdom may not be able to create masterpieces in their lifetime, but he serialized as many as seven or eight at the same time.

But even so.
"It's too slow, but I can't help it. This is my limit at this stage." Xia Yan sighed.

He can make comic storyboard drafts very quickly. After all, the plot is all in his head, and the rest is easy. The same is true for light novels. The plot is all in his head. He only needs to concentrate and be a ruthless coding machine. , in addition to Sword Art Online, which has progressed to the later stage of the plot, he has also written a lot of text for the Fate series of novels he is preparing to publish, and is preparing to publish them after the start of the new year.

Small tasks add up to a huge workload.

Xia Yan now has to stay at the company until seven or eight o'clock every day before going home from get off work.

"Okay, that's it for now." Xia Yan put down the manuscript in his hand and locked it in the password box.

The serialization of One Piece and Naruto comics basically clearly laid out Xia Yan's actions in the comic industry in the next ten years.

If the fate novel series insists on being serialized, it can be serialized for a year or two.

For Xia Yan, this big move at the end of this year will be his only big move for a long time in the future.

From now on, in the Dragon Kingdom, as time goes by, he will become a fossil-level existence like Akira Toriyama, Osamu Tezuka, and Hayao Miyazaki in the parallel world.

"Or we can say that we will wait until we adapt to this work model in the future, and then we can serialize Pirates and Naruto and see if there is any chance to produce some medium-length works, such as Clannad, Haruhi Suzumiya, Giants, and Tokyo Foodies." Xia Yan I sat in a chair and thought for a moment, then got up to go home.

It's useless to think so much. Even if Xia Yan is exhausted, it's impossible to bring all these works to this world anyway.

The night view of the Magic City was dazzling. As Xia Yan drove, his eyes were slightly focused on the city and what could be seen from time to time on both sides of the road. There were slogans about the serialization dates of his new works Naruto and One Piece, and even his personal photo posters.
After all, it is Dragon Kingdom’s current traffic king in the entertainment industry, and Beizhou Comics will definitely not waste it.

Xia Yan, who has been living a three-point and one-line life, has no great sense of his actual influence. Even subconsciously, he still feels that he is the same high school student who was desperate because of family changes.But now, my mentality has changed a little bit.

"From the age of 16 to 25, from high school, college, to marriage, it really flies by." Xia Yan smiled at the corner of his mouth.

In nine years, he went from poverty to present, and in the next few decades,
Xia Yan thought of this, and there was another motivation brewing in his heart.

In the first week of November, the much-anticipated first issue of Naruto manga was released in Dragon Kingdom with the discovery of the issue of Beizhou Comics.

In fact, many comics will abandon a lot of logic at the beginning of the plot in order to show tension.

For example, in the first episode of Naruto, from Naruto stealing the forbidden scroll, to Iruka's arrest, to Mizuki's conspiracy being exposed, the secret of Naruto's nine-tailed demon fox is revealed, his distrust of Iruka to trusting him, and learning from him The plot of ravaging Mizuki after the Shadow Clone Technique
When you watch it for the first time, you will feel that it is so burning and passionate.

But in fact, after the Naruto plot is serialized a little more, you will look back and find that Naruto's cheating is too outrageous.

Looking at the settings of the entire Naruto series, Naruto is the only one who can shadow clones on dozens or hundreds of people at will.

A master like Kakashi would not dare to use this move in order to save chakra in combat.

When the Third Hokage defeated Orochimaru before his death, he only dared to show two shadow clones. However, for Naruto, the shadow clones often start with ten people, and in the first episode, hundreds or even thousands of people were produced.

But I have no choice but to sacrifice logic a little for the sake of plot tension.

Naturally, after the first episode of the Naruto manga was serialized, its popularity ranked second in the first issue of the magazine Beizhou, second only to the Hunter.

The same problem also exists in One Piece, which started serialization in the second week of November.

The first episode of One Piece is about the later plot B Graman, who evades and kills the giant pirate Kidd with a bounty of 30 billion in one move. The great pirate red-haired Shanks, one of the four emperors.

On a small and weak island in the East China Sea, the bandit king with a bounty of 800 million smashed his face with a wine bottle, and had an arm bitten off by something like the offshore king.

This plot has been complained about by Hai fans in the parallel world for many years. It is an absolute plot bug.

No matter what the "I'm betting my arm on the new world!" thing.

Or for a bunch of other reasons, the red-haired man would have his arm bitten off by the King of the Offshore. It's bullshit. Moreover, his settings in the later stage are even more outrageous. He is a top user of Haki, and he can predict the short-term future, but he can't predict himself. It is also impossible to be attacked by the offshore king.

Xia Yan himself couldn't tolerate this kind of bug, so certain adjustments were made in the Dragon Kingdom version of the One Piece comic.

Shanks' broken arm will definitely be broken anyway, but he must give Shanks a bunch of negative buffs. For example, use a page or two of comics to describe that Shanks ate some inappropriate food before this day. , leading to illness and total collapse.

Furthermore, things like the King of the Near Sea have been directly replaced by behemoths like the Sea King.

At least a hundred times the size of the offshore king in the original comics.

Coupled with drinking too much, the drunken buff causes slow movement.

Letting Shanks break his arm here would make a little sense.

Even if fans complain about Shanks' broken arm in the later stages of the series, they can still barely justify it. Moreover, the setting of One Piece is that Shanks only became the Yonko four years before Luffy went to sea. At this time, he was still just a The big pirate is not yet strong enough.

Although the plot seems a little long-winded, it can turn a big bug in the original work into a small bug. Such changes are still worth it.

And in fact
Wait until this issue of One Piece manga is serialized.

Discussions about Xia Yan's two new comics exploded across the Internet in an instant.

"The plot of the second episode of Naruto and Konohamaru is a bit boring. It's not as interesting as the first episode. But the first episode of One Piece, my god, it made me cry."

"The scene where the redhead broke off his arm to save Luffy really brought tears to my eyes. This is the strength of the old thief. He created such a touching plot in just one sentence."

"The characterization of the old thief is really great. Naruto in Naruto and Luffy in One Piece. I really like these two at first sight."

"And compared to Hunter, the plot is much faster and more intense."

"I just have some sensory issues. In the first episode, Naruto can transform into hundreds of shadow clones. This seems to be cheating! And Shanks in One Piece scares away the Sea King type with just one look. Obviously he will be stronger, but why would his arm be bitten off so easily?"

"Don't worry about this kind of problem, just read on."

"Chase, chase, chase, three comics at the same time."

"It's really good-looking. The beginning of this new work by the old thief is really interesting."

"I feel like Shanks will definitely appear again later on."

"Are you talking nonsense?"

In mid-to-early November, the Dragon Kingdom comics community was in a state of carnival.

Although Naruto and Pirates comics are still not as ranked in the journals as Hunters, which has been serialized for several years, in fact, the entire comic circle is full of discussion posts about these two works.

After all, it’s normal for a new comic to be very popular at first.

On the other hand, the Beizhou Comics Journal in mid-November released another data. The latest issue of the comic journal "Beizhou" has a circulation of more than 2000 and two million copies.
From a stable sales volume of 1900 million copies last month, the number of journal buyers has increased by 300 million in the past two weeks.

This is what shocked the comics industry.

After all, Beizhou will be the first comic journal in the Dragon Kingdom with a circulation of over 2000 million copies.

The popularity brought by Xia Yan was so effective that it frightened everyone.

Beizhou's comic reader group, that group of people, will basically not fluctuate much. It is self-evident where the extra 300 million new journal users come from.

Xia Yan, you can just get a group of fans who usually only read novels, animations, or TV series to buy comics and periodicals from you, right?

(End of this chapter)