Reborn great writer

Wang Ni and Wang Jiaxuan reached an agreement. .

If the method that Su Shichen said came from someone else, it would definitely be a fantasy.Don't talk about others, even if it comes from Su Shichen's mouth, it still seems a little unbelievable.

But this incredible method seems to be the most suitable at present, and the publicity cost is basically zero.

This is a zero-cost publicity plan that can explode with great power. Of course, this plan has very high requirements for strength.

What kind of plan is this?

——It’s actually very simple, that is, Su Shichen came up with a wonderful and Japanese-style mystery novella in a short period of time, and submitted it to participate in a very popular mystery novel award, which is the aforementioned Memphis special prize.

The Mephisto Award, this award is very special, it is specially used to discover new writers.Free submission, no limit to the length of the article, and then select the best one through fierce competition, probably the rules are like this.

The influence of the Mephisto Award is not small. If Su Shichen wins the first place, he can definitely restrain a large part of his popularity in a short period of time, and then release the Japanese version of "The Detective Sherlock Holmes". Case Collection".

This is definitely a perfect and zero-cost publicity plan.And the benefits of this kind of publicity are not only that, think about it, when the Chinese mystery novels are not as good as the island country, a Chinese author beats many island country geniuses in the important competition of the island country and wins the first place, This kind of plot is much more interesting than watching TV dramas and movies.

This kind of action is definitely something that can boost our country's prestige, and it is definitely very helpful to Su Shichen whose popularity development is already at a bottleneck.

But the crux of the problem is that this kind of award is not something you can get just because you think about it.

The Mephisto Award is dedicated to the discovery of talents in island countries, and it already has a very strong national limitation. In addition, there are not a few classic novels that emerge from the Mephisto Award every year.Another point is that there is only one best Mephisto Award, and each time there is no distinction between the best short story and the best full-length novel.

It is really not an easy thing to get No.1 in such a major award.

Wang Jiaxuan has no doubts about Su Shichen's talent. If someone can write a book like Sherlock Holmes and Murder on the Orient Express, why is there any doubt in the mystery novel industry?

The only problem is the style, so Wang Jiaxuan added a sentence: "Su Da, if you really have any difficulties, don't force it, we will use all our efforts to promote "The Collection of Sherlock Holmes"!"

The same author, writing a novel to promote another novel, this method has not been tried, so it is still unknown whether it will be successful.

In fact, this method Su Shichen is very sure, don't you see when Su Shichen first debuted on the network.At that time, mortals were struggling with data, so Su Shichen serialized "The First Intimate Contact" on his blog, using intimate contacts to promote mortals, and then successfully achieved the desired effect.

So this kind of method is already within reach for him, and it will definitely succeed...

[Appropriate date] This event ended successfully, of course, it is not considered complete, because Wang Jiaxuan did not finish dinner with him at all, Wang Jiaxuan booked the plane back to the island country, and left directly, she is also a publishing house As the president, he should be so busy.

Su Shichen went home honestly by himself: "Mom, is there anything else to eat at home?"

"Didn't you say, Ah Chen, that you don't need to wait for you because you're eating out today?" Mother Wei Xin said, "The cold food at home has already been poured out, or I'll get you a bowl of egg noodles?"

"Okay, mom, hurry up, I'm starving to death." Su Shichen rubbed his shriveled stomach.

A bowl of noodles was ready soon, and my mother came out with hot egg noodles: "Come on, eat quickly!"

The noodles are steaming white, and they are delicious. In fact, everything smells good when you are hungry.

Su Shichen was really hungry, and he ate a big bowl of noodles in a few seconds: "Mom, your cooking skills are really getting better and better!"

"Okay, don't be poor!" Wei Xin packed up the dishes and went back to the kitchen.

And Su Shichen naturally went back to the bedroom, and first lay down on the bed for a while, and now his stomach was a little bit propped up, and it was difficult to move for a while.

After lying down for about half an hour, he slowly moved his body, got up and began to promote the great cause.

Both short and long stories are accepted for the Mephisto Award. Su Shichen did some calculations. The ratio of the award-winning novels to novels is about the same. The longest award-winning novel is more than 120 million words, while the shortest is only [-] words. Words, so the length of the text has no direct relationship with the award.

However, the length of the novel has something to do with Su Shichen. Now he has no time to write a novel of the length of "The Matrix". challenge...

So he set his sights on the short novelette, and Su Shichen decided on the genre.

The more concise the entry, the better, and must not exceed 15 words. Of course, the more exciting the plot, the better, and the stronger the island style, the better.

Combining all of Su Shichen's conditions is actually short, classic, and Japanese style!

Su Shichen listed all these three requirements on the paper, and then bit his pen and meditated.

For other authors, it is very difficult to write novels with such requirements in a short period of time, but for Su Shichen, it is very simple, and he found quite a few by searching in his head.

"Testimony by Matsumoto Seicho, Nishimura Kyotaro's "The Honest Fraudster", Yokomizo Masashi's "Mysterious Pentacoin" and so on, all these novels meet these three conditions, especially "The Honest Fraudster" The twist at the end is an exceptional classic, but which one should I choose?"

There are more than 30 articles listed on the paper that meet these three conditions, and all of these more than 30 articles are works of celebrities, either the works of the so-called Five Tigers of Reasoning in Japan, or the works of cutting-edge literary figures.

Looking at the many articles on the paper, this is really not a good choice.

People are like this, if there is only one choice, they will choose without hesitation, but often when faced with so many choices, they will be at a loss.Now Su Shichen is like this, facing so many classics, he feels a little hesitation.

"By the way, let's see how the level of mystery novels in this world island country is, and then make plans."

Thinking of this, Su Shichen opened the official website, found the Mephisto Award-winning works over the years, and then picked a few award-winning short mystery novels to read.

In the previous life on the Earth, you could find the electronic version by searching the title of the book, which is the legendary pirated version, but not here.

I bought the electronic version on the Internet, five short mystery stories, and Su Shichen calmed down and quickly read five of them, and took a deep breath. Su Shichen always likes to use this method when he is under great pressure. Take it easy.

"The level of mystery novels in this world island country is definitely not low. It is very difficult to get the best without some dry goods."

What is dry goods is a mystery novel that is outstanding in a certain aspect. For example, "The Murder at the Black Cat Hotel" can be said to be a novel that fully displays the dismemberment of a faceless corpse; Revealing the surname, a very typical social mystery novel...

"Why don't we move out of the Four Great Mysteries of the Island Country?" Su Shichen suddenly had this thought in his head. There are five tigers in Japanese mystery novels, but on top of that there is the more classic Four Great Mysteries of Mystery Book "Black Death Museum Murder", "Hell of the Brain", "An Offering to Nothingness", "Lost Joy in a Box".

These four books are absolutely shocking and weeping ghosts and gods. Look at the titles of these books... One of the two giant peaks of reasoning and heresy literature ("The Murder in the Black Death Hall"), the highest masterpiece of Japanese detective novels ("Dedicated to Nothingness") The gift of "), novels with higher artistic value than mystery novels ("Hell of the Brain"), mystery novels that can make you doubt your own eyes ("Lost Joy in the Box"), sacrifice any of these four books If you don't believe it, you can't get the first place.

"Forget it, a novel of this level should not be used to promote another novel." Su Shichen shaved these four books from the list, and these books had to be written separately.

In the end, Su Shichen chose from the names on the paper, and finally felt that two works were very suitable - "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime".

These two novels are both known for their logic. The former "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" is called "a crazy word game reasoning". After reading this novel, you will definitely have a feeling that you will never read this again. The idea of ​​the author’s novel, because from the text of "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falls", you can feel that the author Ayatsuji Xingren is completely like a little bit of "I am cheating on you". Su Shichen likes this kind of To amuse readers, to make readers love or hate.

And the latter's perfect time, perfect location, and perfect personal and physical evidence are called the pinnacle work that challenges the limits of reasoning. Well, there is actually another reason. "Incomplete Crime" belongs to the incident of the ghost police department. The Ghost Gap Police Department is known as the strongest detective in history, and it is a series that claims to be able to compete with Sherlock Holmes' detective stories. Su Shichen doesn't want to give up this kind of series.

Su Shichen is reluctant to give up these two, how can he have both?

Is it "Dongdong Suspension Bridge Falling" or "Incomplete Crime"?Su Shichen hesitated.

This is a torment!

In the end, Su Shichen gritted his teeth and stomped his feet. In order to securely win the Mephistopheles Award and accumulate popularity for "Sherlock Holmes", Su Shichen made a very difficult decision...

Su Shichen started to work hard. It can be said that he was in a rush, but it was worth it.For the Mephisto Award, everything is worth it. The first step to conquer the island country cannot be sloppy.

During Su Shichen's busy period, he also heard a piece of good news. The Honghuang series of dolls designed according to his description could finally be born. The opportunity finally came.

"Auntie, have you followed my plan?"

"Well, it's already done." Wang Ni hesitated for a moment and asked, "Xiaochen, is it really necessary to use such a big fanfare?"

"Of course, what's necessary is not only to make a big splash, but also to make a big noise. It's best to make it known to everyone in the city. I want to create a culture this time!!" Su Shichen's gaze was firm and resolute.

It’s like Liu Tianwang’s song. After waiting for a long time, I finally waited until today. I dreamed for a long time and finally realized my dream. If I want to play this time, I will play a big one...