A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

After school in the afternoon, Xia Yan stopped by the bookstore in front of the school and bought a copy of "The Moment of Youth".

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

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

"Red Maple" by Hong Maple Literature must be placed in the most eye-catching place in the bookstore, while "The Moment of Youth" is stacked not far from "Red Maple".

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

At first glance, this kind of customer will be a regular reader of the two journals.

Xia Yan was actually a little uneasy. He didn't know what the reputation of the first issue of Journey of Youth was in Dragon Kingdom. He waited and looked in the bookstore for a long time, but 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, who was looking through the journal catalog, noticed this familiar title.

For a moment, he remembered the girl wearing a mask who went with him to submit an article for Red Maple Literature a few weeks ago.

Unlike Song Lingjun, he took the initiative to find out about Tang Yin's competitor novels serialized at the same time before the journal was released.

Only now did he realize that this novel was also serialized on Setsuna Youth.

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

ten minutes later

He put down the books and periodicals without finishing.

"It's so well written!" Xia Yan praised.

The plot of the first chapter of yesterday's Starlight was flowing in his mind at the moment. Although he finished the first chapter quickly, his curiosity for the subsequent plot was like a hook that hooked 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 like me that day, which means that she doesn't have a familiar editor to do internal submissions, and she is a newcomer like me. I didn't expect that she would be able to do this as soon as she was introduced as a newcomer. Such a great novel.”

"Perhaps she is the novelist genius that everyone often talks about." Xia Yan sighed inwardly as he stood up and left the subway.

Before I even reached the door, my cell phone rang.

"Hello, Tang Tangyin." 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.

"The first chapter of the novel Journey of Youth. As of seven o'clock in the evening, according to the voting and feedback data of the journal readers on the company's official website, your novel ranked fourth in the number of votes, and the score ranked first with 9.2 points. "

There was silence on the phone for a few seconds. Xia Yan did not speak. Tang Yin also waited for Xia Yan's reaction.

"Is it great? This result"

Xia Yan could tell from Tang Yin's tone that this result should be very good, but because he didn't know the specifics of other competitors' works, he didn't have much real sense of the data, so he could only ask more cautiously. . ♦♦  ♦♦

"Ah, it's amazing. If you just look at the data of "The First Chapter of the New Serial Novel", it has the best data among the novels that have been serialized in the journal "Snapna Youth" in the past three years. And it is also the best data of "Snapama Youth". In the ten years since the publication of this journal, the serial novel "Chapter 1" has the second best performance. Of course, the final results will not be determined until 9 o'clock tomorrow, but there is a high probability that the ranking will not change. "

When Tang Yin said this, Xia Yan understood.

Although Setsuna Youth is only the third best-selling journal of Red Maple Books, each issue has sales of two to three hundred thousand copies, so the novels serialized in it are naturally of high quality.

The first serialization of Journey of Youth has achieved this result, which is really a blast.

"Who is the first place?" Xia Yan thought for a while and asked his doubts.

"It is a love novel called "The First Moon". When it was serialized on Setsuna Youth three years ago, the plot of the first chapter was very attractive, and the plot was similar to a social event in the Dragon Kingdom at that time, which aroused the resonance of readers. So the current issue Readers voted for it with a high number of 2,900 votes, and the novel’s rating was as high as 9.3.”

Tang Yin held up her cell phone, sat on her office chair, looked at the neon night scene outside the window and said to Xia Yan on the other end of the phone.

"However, when the serialization of the novel reached the tenth chapter, the number of votes for the current issue dropped to 103 votes, and the ratings of the novel were also crazily lowered by readers. In the end, the whole novel was cut in half by the book publisher with a score of 5.4."

Xia Yan was stunned when he heard this.

"Xia Yan, the results of the novel Chapter 1 of Journey of Youth are excellent. But this is just the beginning. Don't be blinded by the results. A successful novel will always be the same as when it is finished. The readers will be the same as before. Support is what counts as success." Tang Yin said softly.

"I understand. I know what you mean." Xia Yan was silent for a while and said.

"Now that you understand, everything will be easier to handle." Tang Yin said.

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

"You... really don't understand anything." Tang Yin sighed.

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

"Otherwise?" Xia Yan paused and asked.

"It's definitely not that simple! As your editor, I am responsible for reviewing the quality of your novel's plot, whether it contains sensitive elements, and to help you control the direction of the plot to a certain extent."

Xia Yan listened to Tang Yin's words, and after a while, he understood what she meant.

The editor-in-charge of the novel plays a role in preventing the "authors", that is, the novel creators, from being "confused".

After all, many authors tend to be self-indulgent when writing, and the plots of the heroine's death, the protagonist's family's death, cuckoldry, sending the girl away, the hero and heroine's separation and reunion, etc. are all out. Because the author knows the subsequent plot of the novel and the protagonist's way out of the crisis, he will not feel depressed when writing, but feel that he has come up with a wonderful plot.

But readers feel uncomfortable, and many people decisively abandon the book before you wait for the plot to reverse.

The role of the editor is to intervene in the author's blind creation to a certain extent during the creator's creation of the plot, to prevent the author from falling into this state of self-indulgent thinking, which leads 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 the editor is quite large.

Just like the popular work "Naruto" in the parallel world, why is the early plot a masterpiece, but the later plot is hard to describe.

A large part of the reason is that the editor of the comics was replaced in the later period.

How big is the role of the first editor of Naruto?

The original design of the popular green-skinned character "Rock Lee" was created by Kishimoto at the suggestion of the first editor. Of course, the character of "Gaara" was also the result of discussions between the editor and the author Kishimoto.

Then the character design, painting style, and character shaping of the second protagonist "Uchiha Sasuke" also had the credit of the editor's extensive participation in the discussion.

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

Even before the concept of Naruto was born, the first proposal for Kishimoto to create a ninja comic was also proposed by the first editor.

A good editor can help a work a lot.

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