Gotta Go the Healing Route

"Mr. Xi, don't get me wrong. I had this idea before, but I was still in school at the time. I wanted to find time to talk to you about this matter for a long time. This time I will take advantage of it."

"Well, it's okay..." Kazama Xi nodded.

At the beginning of the year, when Toyama Kisaragi helped Kazama Xi to contribute to Nagawa Publishing House, he actually mentioned the matter of publishing a book.

At that time, as long as Kazama Xi was willing to sign a contract with Nagawa Wenhui, if the novel received a good response, it could be published immediately and sold as a physical book.However, Kazama Xi did not sign a contract because she valued the network communication channels at that time, and gave away the copyright.

What did he say then?

As long as the work is good enough to attract enough readers, it will be a matter of time before the book is published.But sooner or later, it only took half a year to come.

For being able to publish, Kazama Xi did not refuse.

In fact, not all writers have the opportunity to publish books.Compared with the single volume of comics, it is more difficult for writers to publish books.Especially the ones that didn't sign a contract with the publishing house.

However, whether it can be published is an important factor in auditing the influence of a writer.Therefore, many writers are eager to have their works published, even if they need to pay for themselves.

"Xi Jun, you were right at the time. Books that can be popular will definitely be popular no matter what. No matter how many books that are not popular, they will not be popular."

Yuan Shan Ruyue blushed, a little embarrassed.

At that time, she urged Feng Jianxi to directly sign a contract with the publishing house, and for this reason, she stated the pros and cons, saying that publishing would be difficult if she did not sign a contract, but now she took the initiative to find Feng Jianxi, which was a slap in the face.

Yuanshan Kisaragi went on to say: "Newcomers usually start to print 20 to 10 copies when they publish a book. But if it is the empty space, we plan to print [-] copies at a time. As for the royalties, we are willing to give you [-] copies. % royalties."

Hearing Yuanshan Ruyue's words, Feng Jianxi's expression became strange.

It's not that the conditions are not superior, but that they are too superior.

After all, text books are not as good as one comic book after another, and they are definitely not as good in terms of sales.The initial printing of 20 copies is already a lot.Generally only first-line writers can enjoy this treatment.

As for the royalties... After all, Kazama Xi is also the creator of the royalties. Although the manga and the novel are separated by a line, the author's royalties are almost the same, and they are all in the range of 5%-15%.

Kazama Xi naturally received 15% of the top royalties for the manga booklets, but this was because he was already a top manga artist in this industry.

If the author is a pure newcomer, or an author with little reputation, he will get a minimum royalty of 5%. The 10% royalties are already affordable for first-line authors.

Seeing Kazama Xi's expression, Yuanshan Ruyue thought that Kazama Xi was not satisfied with this condition, and said quickly:

"This is already the best condition I can get for you..."

"I know."

Kazama Xi interrupted Yuan Shan Ruyue's words.

"However, speaking of it, given me such a good condition, isn't Nagawa Publishing House afraid of losing money?"

"Loss?"

Hearing that Kazama Xi was not dissatisfied, Yuan Shan Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief, but laughed again when he heard Kazama Xi's words.

"How could it be... Whether it's from my personal feelings or reason, I trust Mr. Xi very much."

In terms of royalties, is Kazama Xi really a newcomer, or an unknown author?

of course not.

Toyama Kisaragi knew that the boy's literary ability was not inferior to that of manga.Whether it is the classic fairy tales or the science fiction novel "From the New World", it is not difficult for these written works to be published.And in Yuanshan Kisaragi's view, the sales volume is definitely not bad.

As for the issue of the number of prints... that's all right.

Isn't the grand occasion at Xingyueshe's booth not enough to prove it?

Yuanshan Ruyue has sufficient confidence in the audience and fan base of the Realm of the Sky.

Anyway, "The Realm of the Sky" is also a "new legend" novel.

That's right.

In Yuanshan Kisaragi's mind, this essentially popular and entertaining novel has such a status, a genre of urban magic that has never existed before.

Yuanshan Ruyue seems to be able to see that this kind of legendary novel in the future will change from adventure legend to daily magic on campus.

Those that can drive this style change and form a new genre can definitely be called 'new legendary novels'.

Moreover, this new genre has not yet come to an end in the hands of Kazama Xi after Kongjing.The story of Yue Ji should also belong to this type.

Although Tsukihime is strictly a game, this type of game is also called a visual novel, which is an extension of the form of a novel.

Chapter 310 Two New Version

Yuanshan Ruyue's guest editors were rather sudden. Of course, the conversation between Kazama Xi and the other two about Kongjing's book publishing was quite casual, and it was decided between talking and laughing, as long as the follow-up formally signed the contract.

For Kazama Xi, this was also a surprise.Publishing a book is of course a good thing, it can make the work spread more widely, and at the same time can get rich rewards.Although Kazama Xi is indeed not short of money now, the more things like money, the better.

The topic returned to the discussion of literature, which can be regarded as one of the repertoires of the two.

"Is it Benguepie?"

Based on the reasoning novelist Kiyoo Miyashita we talked about before, the topic of the two came to the discussion of the "Benge School".

"Yes..." Toyama Kisaragi nodded.

"The design of the air environment has a taste of original reasoning design, so I thought about finding Mr. Miyashita."

"I'd like to know Xi Jun's thoughts when you created, did you really borrow from this genre?"

Regarding the question of the distant mountains like the moon, Kazama Xi raised her mouth.

In the final analysis, he is still a copywriter, so how does he know the creative idea of ​​the original author Nao Kinoko.

However, Mushroom did mention some of the Benedict’s views on a written talk show.It was a program titled "New Benge & New Legendary Mixed-Blood Talk", in which Mushroom and mystery novelist Ayano Xingren participated.

I happened to read that essay in Kazama Xi's previous life, so this time is just right for me to talk about it with Yuanshan Ruyue.

"It can be said to be yes, but it can also be said to be no..." Kazama Xi replied.

"What... what do you mean..." Yuan Shan Ruyue was a little confused by Feng Jianxi's words.

"Although it borrows from the Benge School, it is not a classical Benge or a social Benge."

Although this world has the original style, and has derived the second original form, the social original form, but it has not yet appeared the "third original form", which is the so-called "new original form".

Mushroom is indeed deeply influenced by Benge, but it is 'Xin Benge' who influenced him.

Although the new version advocates returning to the classical version, returning to a story based on thrilling and bizarre plots, intriguing tricks, and logical reasoning, there are still differences between the two.

The classic version is what you make up in reality, the trick is based on the real reality, the content caters to the public thinking, and finds points that people have not discovered.

And the new book is, you can write whatever you make up, and the trick is based on the world and rules you build, so that the public can accept your content, and find familiar points in areas that everyone doesn't know much about.

"Whether it is classical or social, when designing tricks, the reality of "whether it will actually happen" must be considered."

"In my opinion, it's a fairly narrow set of rules. A lot of ideas are limited to this framework and it's hard to develop."

"On the contrary, if the reality inside the fictional work can be used as the premise in a completely fictional story, the elements of "mystery", "logic" and "unexpected puzzle solving" can be displayed more."

"Pursue decryption in a completely fictional story?" Yuan Shan Ruyue's eyes lit up.

With the amount of reading she has read, she also has a very deep understanding of mystery novels, so she naturally knows that Kazama Xi's words are full of innovative insights.

"Although legendary novels are fictitious stories, there is nothing special about this. However, if you create mystery novels based on this premise, it should have a good effect." Kazama Xi said with a smile.

"And when it comes to borrowing from the book...it's better to say that the empty realm wants to fully use the imagination of the text."

The biggest difference between comics and novels...of course, is that one is concrete and the other is abstract.

According to Mushroom’s interview, he loved reading legendary novels in middle school and high school.But when I was writing, I felt the limitations of 'action drama' in literary novels.When writing an action and fighting plot, no matter how hard you try to express it in words, the first impression is always inferior to the visual effect of comics.

Kazama Xi agrees with what Mushroom said, because he wrote books in his previous life, and he knows the difficulty of creating fighting scenes.

Of course, there are many ways to overcome this.

Of course, the most direct way is to write fighting scenes, as long as the writing is awesome, it can still have a sense of picture.

An example is Jin Yong, as a representative figure of martial arts novels, whether it is the battle of Juxianzhuang, the battle of Yang Guo Jinlun Xiangyang City, or Linghu Chong, who is almost helpless.In the description of fighting moves, Mr. Jin Yong is already at the pinnacle.

Another way is to describe from the side, such as the ancient one who is as famous as Jin Yong.If it is said that Jin Yong has tricks, Gu Long chooses no tricks, and he focuses more on the description of the environment, artistic conception and atmosphere.Once the artistic conception is reached, readers can also make up the picture in their brains.

When it came to Mushroom, he was troubled by the difficulty of creating a "fighting drama" with words, but after reading the mystery novel, he thought of another way.

"Actually, the space environment mainly borrows from the narrative trick design in mystery novels." Kazama Xi said to Yuanshan Kisaragi.

The so-called narrative trick, as the name suggests, is a trap set by the author on the reader at the narrative level.This is a ruse only possible with a novel written purely in words.In most cases, once a picture or video is taken, the trick will fail.It can also be said that such a trap is set up by taking advantage of the small amount of information given by the text media and the large space for imagination.

Just like playing a flop game, the normal linear narrative is to turn the cards in order until all the cards are turned over.

The narrative trick design is to open the cards in a wrong order, although when all the cards are opened, the full picture of the story can still be obtained.But before the cards are fully turned over, all the reader gets is a wrong composition.

In this way, Mushroom learned of this clear example of "only novels can do" and its power, and wanted to integrate this technique into the legendary works that he had been creating in the past, but gradually felt the limit.The first work "The Realm of the Sky" was born after the combination of the two.

"The Realm of the Sky" did use such a technique in particular when writing.On the one hand, using separate chapters in the style of romance novels, introducing incredible mysteries and unexpected solutions to the story flow of this reasoning style.On the other hand, the dazzling change of perspective, the intricate time sequence, the character background and the world structure are revealed bit by bit.It is this technique that further draws a clear boundary between "The Realm of the Sky" and other works of the same type, and successfully stands out.

Therefore, Kongjing is not only a new legendary novel, but it also contains the blood of Xinbenge.

Of course, these latter words are Kazama Xi's inner monologues. Before the new genre appeared, it would be too shocking to say such words in this different time and space.

An idea half an era ahead is a genius, and an idea an era ahead is a madman.Even if you are a public copyist, you can't copy blindly, but choose according to the characteristics of the times.

Because Kazama Xi didn't finish speaking completely, Toyama Kisaragi was still thinking about Kazama Xi's previous speech.

But before Yuanshan Ruyue took the initiative to ask questions, Kazama Xi had already smiled and said:

"But you asked to come to CM. The exhibition is more important, and this kind of literary discussion will be held in the future."

After finishing speaking, Kazama Xi took a step forward and said, "It seems to sell novels over there, let's go and have a look."

Seeing this, although Yuan Shan Ruyue still wanted to say something, she still closed her mouth and hurriedly chased after her.

Chapter 310 Three Giants with a Good Reputation

For many fans, the important 'Holy War', the summer comic market ended successfully on August [-]th.

Since there are only three days, if you want to participate again, you have to wait another four months. By the winter CM in December, many participants left with reluctance.However, most of them are more than satisfied.Or he made a fortune by selling his works during this jihad, or he bought the item he had been waiting for for a long time.

Kazama Xi naturally belongs to the former.As for CM, he was a drunkard, except that he accompanied Toyama Kisaragi to the exhibition for a while on the first day, and on the second and third day, he just inspected the stall before returning to the manga studio.

Speaking of Yuanshan Ruyue, the efficiency of this senior is quite fast. After discussing the publishing matter on the first day, someone from Nagawa Publishing House came to the door to carry out the formal signing process on the third day.

When it comes down to it, you only need to confirm the cover, and it can be printed immediately after the layout is arranged.After about a month, Kazama Xi will be able to see the sample booklet.Then it will be published the next month.

Backed by the nationwide chain of Nagawa Bookstores, Nagawa Publishing House is one of the few giants in the publishing industry, needless to say about its sales channels.According to Yuan Shan Ruyue, Kazama Xi will be able to see her book in various places soon, and get a rich manuscript fee.Yuanshan Ruyue even guarantees that this book will definitely become a book on the bestseller list.

It's not like Yuanshan Ruyue is holding the wind, as the first "new legendary novel", it will definitely become popular just because of this gimmick.In addition, Air Realm has already withstood the test of the market when it was serialized.Losing money is definitely not going to lose money.