A perfect life starting from 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 simple. In the field of comics and light novels, Xia Yan does not directly control the publishing and distribution company. It is unrealistic for him to get involved in this industry from scratch. The sales channels of the three major novel and book publishers and the four major comics publishers 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 serialized 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 excited 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 make 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, and 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 issuing stocks on the market. It's common for them to have a net worth of 10 billion today, but it will fall to 1 billion in a few months. Their ability to cash out is also low, and you feel like an old thief who has no business. Will a rich man who has pressure, no financing, and profit-making betting contracts squeeze his life and sleep four hours a day to work? To be honest, I am him, and I am so rich. I can work four hours a day because of my kindness to my fans. . It’s normal to not go out to eat, drink, 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 a Hunter comic plot 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 three. What about the novel field? Will the old thief also make new moves in the future?"

"I have the right to speak on this. 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 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’s going to start a new novel, and he must have written it himself. From the looks of it, his workload is terrifying.”

"Is this old thief trying to go against the will of heaven? He is already the number one in the industry, why are he still working hard?"

"Help me, guys, this is the first time a creator is driving me crazy. I follow Slam Dunk and Hunter anime every week, and I buy Hunter comics and Sword Art Online novels every week. I also follow the comic adaptations of his previous works. I will collect the derivative peripherals of these works as long as the price is right. Now Lao Zei has two new comics and a new light novel. If this continues, I feel that I will not be able to follow Lao Zei's works."

"Haha, students feel the same. I am in the third year of high school. I wanted to take time to read Lao Zei's works, but now I find that I can't finish them. I can't finish them at all."

"It only takes one or two hours a week to finish reading Lao Zei's works. . "

"I'm usually very busy, how can I spare an hour or two!"

"It's useless to say so much, who knows if it's true or not."

"That's right, there's a lot of fake news on the Internet now, and I don't believe that Lao Zei will have other new works.

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

Xia Yan naturally also pays attention to related topics.

And from an objective point of view, Xia Yan himself knows that his behavior is indeed a bit too abnormal.

Many creators in Longguo may not be able to create masterpieces in their lifetime, but he is serializing seven or eight works at the same time.

But even so.

"It's too slow, but there's no way, this is my limit at this stage. "Xia Yan sighed.

He made the comic storyboard draft very quickly, after all, the plot was in his head, so the rest was simple. The same was true for light novels, the plot was in his head, he only needed to concentrate and be a ruthless coding machine. In addition to Sword Art Online, which has already progressed to the later stage of the plot, he has also written a lot of text for the Fate series of novels that he is preparing to publish, and will wait until the beginning of the year to publish them.

Small tasks will eventually form a huge workload.

Xia Yan now has to stay in the company until seven or eight o'clock every day before he can go 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 basically arranged Xia Yan's actions in the comics industry in the next ten years.

If the Fate series of novels must be serialized, they can also be serialized for one or two years.

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.

In the future, he will become a fossil-level existence like Akira Toriyama, Osamu Tezuka, and Hayao Miyazaki in the parallel world as time goes by in Dragon Country.

"Or you can say that when you get used to this working mode in the future, when you serialize One Piece and Naruto, see if there is a chance to take out some medium-length works such as Clannad, Haruhi Suzumiya, Attack on Titan, and Tokyo Gourmet. "Xia Yan sat in the chair and thought for a moment, then stood up and prepared 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 is dazzling. Xia Yan drove on the road, his eyes slightly gazing at the city and the slogans about the serialization dates of his new works Naruto and One Piece that can be seen from time to time on both sides of the road, and even his personal photo posters.

After all, it is the traffic king of the entertainment industry in Longguo now, and Beizhou Comics will definitely not waste it.

Xia Yan, who has always lived a three-point one-line life, has no great texture for his actual influence. Even subconsciously, he still feels that he is the high school student who was desperate because of family changes.

But now, his mentality has changed a little.

"From sixteen to twenty-five years old, from high school, college, to marriage time, it really passed by in a flash. "Xia Yan smiled.

In nine years, he has gone from being penniless to where he is now, and in the next few decades

When Xia Yan thought of this, he felt motivated again.

In the first week of November, the first issue of the much-anticipated Naruto manga was released in Longguo with the discovery 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 the nine-tailed demon fox in Naruto's body was revealed, his distrust of Iruka turned into trust, and the plot of him ravaging Mizuki after learning the Shadow Clone Technique

When you read it for the first time, you will feel that it is very exciting and passionate.

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

Looking at the settings of all Naruto works, there is only one person who can easily perform the Shadow Clone Technique on dozens or hundreds of people.

Kakashi, a master, dares not use this technique to save chakra.

Before the death of the Third Hokage, he only dared to use two Shadow Clone Techniques to fight Orochimaru, while Naruto's Shadow Clone Techniques started with ten people, and in the first episode, there were hundreds of people.

But there is no way, for the tension of the plot, the logic is still sacrificed a little.

Naturally, after the serialization of the first episode of Naruto comics, it unexpectedly came to the second place in the popularity ranking of the first issue of the Beizhou magazine, second only to Hunter.

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

The first episode of One Piece is full of late plot b, and one move of God Dodge instantly kills the 3 billion bounty giant pirate Kidd. 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 eight million smashed his face with a wine bottle, and had his arm bitten off by something like the King of the Offshore.

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 the domineering power of knowledge and color. He can predict the short-term future, but he can't predict himself. It is 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 bit cumbersome, it can turn a big bug in the original work into a small bug. Such changes are still worth it.

In fact

Wait until this issue of One Piece manga is serialized.

On the entire Internet, discussions about Xia Yan's two new comics exploded 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 with just one look. It’s obvious that he is stronger, but why is his arm 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."

"Aren't 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 22 million copies.

From a stable sales volume of 19 million copies last month, in the past two weeks, the number of journal buyers has increased by 3 million.

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 20 million copies.

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

Beizhou's comic readership group, that is, basically will not fluctuate much. It is self-evident where these three million new journal users come from.

Xia Yan, you can just make a group of fans who usually only read novels, animations, or TV series pay your bills and buy comic periodicals, right?