A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

"cooperate?"

Mo Ran was stunned when he heard this.

In fact, the idea of ​​asking her to find someone to collaborate with in creating comics was originally what Xia Yan had told her, and the first thing she thought of was Xia Yan.

But after calming down, I felt that this idea was too naive. After all, Xia Yan is not related to her, so why should he cooperate with her? So later on, I took the initiative to find a senior student in the light novel club who was rumored to be very powerful to collaborate on creating comics.

But it can only be said that it was rumored to be very powerful among the student community, but it was not enough for the public to read. The comic they collaborated with quickly collapsed after the first five chapters were serialized, until it was cut in half.

With such competition among a comic journal with tens of thousands of sales, it was hard for her to imagine what kind of competition Xia Yan was currently serializing in "Liu Li"?

Perhaps the quality of those so-called popular novels with sales of two to three million copies per volume is, for this journal, at a level where the results are poor and will be cut in half.

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

"It is not suitable to be adapted into a novel. So. I want to create it into a comic-themed work. But you also understand that I have no talent in comics. Let me draw a storyboard draft to express my vision of a work. The idea is okay, but if I want to draw exquisite and delicate cartoon pictures, I estimate that it will take me three to five years to learn comics. I can't spend so much time and hundreds of hours learning comics."

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

"Well, can I ask, what is the theme of the new work you want to create into a comic?"

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

"It's not some side comics, it's just ordinary sports and competitive works, about motor sports."

"Racing car.?"

Hearing this, a bunch of question marks flashed across Mo Ran's forehead.

Journey of Youth, Going to the Moon, Unknown Flowers and Parasitic Beasts.

It can be said that these works are completely unrelated in style. Mo Ran already feels that Xia Yan has enough imagination in the creation of works, but a racing work?

What the hell is this?

Wait, these works have one element in common, that is, there is a love element between the main characters, and the length is quite large.

"Well, let me ask you more, is this a romance work with racing elements?"

Mo Ran, I quite 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 drawing was not extremely outrageous, such as beauty or girl-girl love, or pure porn comics, it didn't matter what the work was. , she is willing to cooperate with Xia Yan.

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

Xia Yan shook his head and told an interesting joke 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 racing speed."

"." Mo Ran.

In the following time, Xia Yan gave her all the conditions and obligations for cooperation with her.

The copyright of the work belongs entirely to Xia Yan, but the comics royalties and comic book volume income are divided between the two of them 30/70, with Xia Yan taking 70/70.

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

There is no copyright, and the comic revenue is divided into 30% and 70%.

It's almost just helping Xia Yan work.

Mo Ran only thought about it for less than half a minute and accepted the proposal.

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 she helped Xia Yan last semester.

But this friendship only allowed Xia Yan to choose her as a partner under the same conditions, and it did not give her the capital to negotiate terms with Xia Yan.

Moreover, with Xia Yan's current status in the two-dimensional world of Dragon Kingdom, it is extremely generous to find someone to cooperate with in comics and give him such conditions.

The initial agreement on cooperation between Xia Yan and Mo Ran went smoothly beyond his expectation.

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

Xia Yan never procrastinates in doing things. After completing these preparations, he began to truly examine the work in his mind about Initial D.

Collaborating on comics is not as simple as Xia Yan just working on the plot, such as the proportion of a picture, the distance and close shots, the speed, tension, perspective of the vehicles in the comic, and the shaping of the atmosphere of the picture.

Readers don't care about whether comics are good or not good, but cartoonists need to study these things.

Xia Yan just gave the plot outline to Mo Ran, so the Initial D comic he created might look different from the original version. For example, if there is a drifting lens, the perspective is left view, right view or top view, there will definitely be a difference. Even though this picture is like this, a comic contains hundreds or even thousands of pages of content.

So the painting may indeed depend mainly on Mo Ran, but the content, direction, and storyboards of the painting must be determined by Xia Yan before Mo Ran processes them.

This workload is not small.

Over the next week or so, the plots of Chapters 22 and 23 of Parasite Beast were serialized one after another.

The plot of the two chapters of the novel is basically a life-and-death battle between the protagonist Xin Yi and the strongest parasitic beast Goto in the entire novel. It can be said to be a pure fighting plot.

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

But after the serialization of Chapter 23 ended, the serialization order of Parasite Beast in "Liu Li" also reached the fifth position.

However, whether it is Liuli Book Club or Xia Yan, they basically feel that the limit of the work Parasite Beast is here.

This is not to say that it is inferior to the works listed above, but a work of this type and subject matter can only attract so many readers.

Blood, curiosity, and cannibalism are indeed quite novel, and they can help Parasitoid quickly accumulate fans in the early stages of serialization. However, everything is a double-edged sword, and there are also a large number of people who do not like these elements.

but

Xia Yan was quite satisfied with this result.

He doesn't think that just any work from the parallel world that is at the top level and adapted into a light novel can overwhelm the Dragon Kingdom light novel world and directly reach the top. The Dragon Kingdom light novel world is not so fragile.

→

"Liu Li" magazine fifth.

For a novel author who was a newcomer in the light novel world until two years ago, and who was still competing in newcomer selection competitions such as New God Ranking last year.

It's already extremely exaggerated.

At least last year, among the large group of novel authors who competed with Xia Yan in the New God Ranking Journal, except for Xia Yan, no one has had their works serialized in the three major light novel journals.

late March

Xia Yan came to the comic club with the storyboard drawings of the first three chapters of Initial D that she 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 skills were so poor.

The graffiti she made when she was four years old are more layered than Xia Yan's storyboards of ghost drawings.

Mo Ran began to read the plot of this work carefully.

In the fictional world of comics, there is a region called Island Country.

Because the setting of Initial D is very regional.

For example, in the island country, due to the small area, there are racing driver exchange competitions between various counties, and drivers' goals to dominate the island country's road races.

Would you try changing to Dragon Kingdom?

You may not be able to visit every city in the Dragon Kingdom in a lifetime, let alone drive a car to conquer the local racers in one city after another?

The area is too big, and such grandiose ambitions are basically unrealistic.

Therefore, Xia Yan did not change the background of Initial D, and directly set the island country as an imaginary world relative to the Dragon Kingdom area.

There was also the 8th class train, and Xia Yan didn't change it. After all, the comic is set on an island country in an imaginary world, and some of the top sports cars from the Dragon Kingdom world are included in the comic, which is actually more out of the ordinary.

Just use the vehicle models, age, technology, and settings in the original work. When the time comes, the horsepower, torque, and vehicle parameters of these vehicle models will be listed in separate tables and attached to the comics. Comic fans who know about cars will research what these cars belong to. The existence of levels, comic fans who don’t understand cars, they won’t understand whether you change these things or not. These people must only pay attention to the plot.

In the same way, the names of places like Qiu Mingshan will not be changed.

Xia Yan would not change anything he could not change, otherwise it would be easy for bugs to appear in the work and the logic would not be consistent.

But considering the reading habits of readers in the Dragon Kingdom area, Xia Yan changed the name.

For example, the protagonist Fujiwara Takumi has become Tu Hai, and the two brothers Takahashi Ryosuke and Takahashi Keisuke have changed their names to Gao Liang and Gao Qi. As for the heroine Natsuki, she has not changed, and she has the same surname as Xia Yan.

A high school boy in a tofu shop.

Red Sun Racing Team riders come to conquer Akina Mountain

Gao Qi, who had tortured the local riders in Qiu Mingshan, was driving his top sports car FD, but was easily crushed by a low-horsepower old obsolete model AE86 on the downhill section that night.

Taking this incident as an introduction, Gao Qi and the Red Sun Racing Team behind him decided to fight 86 in a tofu shop in order to wash away their shame. Everyone thought that the driver of this car was the tofu shop owner Tu Bunta (Fujiwara Bunta).

But no one expected that the person who drove this car over Gao Qi's car FD that night was the son of the tofu shop owner, Tu Hai, a high school student who didn't even have a driver's license.

After Mo Ran carefully read the storyboard drafts of the first three episodes of Initial D.

Her expression has changed from being disgusted with Xia Yan's painting skills at the beginning to a confused expression later, with bright eyes.

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

The content of the first three episodes was so rough that the protagonist Tu Hai (Fujiwara Takumi) was replaced by a big round-headed figure in the storyboard draft.

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

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

If the storyboarding is good, then forget it.

But what’s going on with this plot expectation?

The plot of the storyboard given by Xia Yan, where Tu Hai drove an 86 up the mountain to challenge the challenger for the temptation of a tank of gas, was so well-chosen and natural that Mo Ran almost wanted to curse after reading it.

Just this rubbish storyboard draft has such a sense of expectation. What will happen when it is drawn into a real comic?

"Aren't three chapters enough?" Xia Yan asked doubtfully.

"Isn't it a common practice in the Dragon Kingdom comics industry to decide whether to serialize the comic based on the content of the first three chapters? People won't read it if there are too many comics."

"." Mo Ran's expression froze, but he hesitated and whispered.

"I mean, I want to know the follow-up plot of this work."

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

At this time, the two had only reached a preliminary intention to cooperate, and the contract had not been signed yet.

Mo Ran took a deep breath, with a hint of nervousness on her beautiful fair face, and asked again to confirm.

"Xia Yan, are you sure you are ready to hand over this work to me and cooperate with me?"

"Yeah." Xia Yan quickly responded to her.

"I understand. I will sign the cooperation contract with you as soon as possible." Mo Ran looked at the draft storyboard on the table.

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

"Does it take so long for more than a month?" Xia Yan asked with a blink.

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

"It was fun. I had to spend a lot of time designing the character, determining the style, etc."

Xia Yan nodded slightly when he heard this.

In fact, everything about the original work is good, but its style of painting looks too old now. Xia Yan himself also feels that if this work is serialized in Dragon Kingdom, the style of painting needs to be changed to some extent.

The realistic atmosphere of the original work can be retained, but at least the female characters appearing in this work need to be drawn more cutely.

Everyone comes out with a pouty mouth and two big sausages hanging on their lips. This is very dramatic.

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

It's too idol-like, and it doesn't fit in with the motorsport comics.

This specific degree requires Xia Yan and Mo Ran to discuss it together.