A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

The preparations for using the memory instrument are over.

Eva and Neil stopped searching aimlessly here. They couldn't find anything meaningful in reality.

Then they went directly to John's memory to ask him.

The two put on the machine and entered the deep sea of ​​John's memory. The first machine memory jump came to the memory timeline before John fell into a coma.

They directly asked the old man's memory during that time period.

"Why do you want to go to the moon?"

"I don't know"

The old man John thought carefully, and then looked at the two people in front of him with confused eyes.

He didn't know why his dying wish was to go to the moon.

But this wish is very important.

Very important.

"I just have to go." John said in an old voice.

Chapter 1, end.

Tang Yin blinked.

Is that the end?

"Xia Yan, your novel, the first chapter. I want to say something, it may be my taste. Are you sure that the content of the first chapter is just these, I feel that I don't see too many interesting points in the work? The setting of this memory machine is quite interesting, but in the development of the main storyline, is there a little problem with the rhythm?"

"Well, your reading experience is correct, the first chapter of this novel is like this." Xia Yan probably understood her inner thoughts.

In the parallel world, countless game players were discouraged by the pixel style and the fragmented flashback structure narrative in the original game.

It's okay to adapt it into a novel. Xia Yan directly omitted a lot of meaningless character dialogues and RPG game elements and went straight to the topic.

But

Even if it doesn't look so boring, I think Tang Yin must not have experienced any fun from the first chapter of the novel.

"I understand that the content you focused on in the first chapter may be foreshadowing. What paper rabbits, lighthouses, and the wish to go to the moon. But this is the "New God Ascension" selection!" Tang Yin hesitated for a while, but still said.

She didn't want to say more. After all, Xia Yan could write a light novel with an average sales volume of millions per volume, could she, Tang Yin, do it? Her proud editing experience might just be some poisonous suggestions to Xia Yan. However, she still couldn't help it.

"As for foreshadowing, you can bury it a little later. The first chapter of your novel is to attract people. You can put the interesting parts of the story in advance. Then, while writing, you can bury the foreshadowing. Now there is still time, and the manuscript of the first chapter can be revised."

"No way, I can't change this novel. It is a novel with a flashback structure, so I can't do this. Because one of the main plot lines later is to reveal and explore the meaning of these foreshadowings in the first chapter. Xia Yan smiled.

"."

Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan's serious face and sighed softly.

"Is this the confidence of a genius in himself? ”

As the saying goes, if you walk along the river, you will get your feet wet.

Anohana started off slowly, but later on, the novel became popular and well-known.

But no one can guarantee that their novels will always have such popularity in the later stages, right?

Who can control the market, the tastes of the audience, and the patience? If you are not careful, you may completely mess it up.

What's more, the first chapter of Going to the Moon is not only slow to start, but also full of foreshadowing, and the story structure is even flashback.

Tang Yin roughly realized that the main plot of this novel is to help "Old Man John" realize his wish to go to the moon.

From this starting point, the style of this novel is very different from the youth love and youth stories written by Xia Yan before. Spring friendship novels are completely different.

And to realize this wish, the protagonists Neil and Eva have to use this memory machine that can only jump across the timeline little by little.

From John's old age memory, to middle-aged and old age memory, to youth memory, and teenage memory, they have been looking back to find the motivation for his desire to go to the moon.

Slow heat plus flashback

And this novel is serialized in the national new novelist selection event "New God Ascension".

You are really good. Xia Yan.

"In the Xia Yan New God Ascension Selection event, all novelists who can get the seed competition quota are potential newcomers who have risen in Longguo in the past two years. Anyone in his region can be called a "genius novelist." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan with a serious expression.

"In fact, in previous years, except for the six people participating in the Magic City and the Imperial City, the 45 people from other regions were basically runners-up. "

"The ultimate goal of these 45 people is to enter the top ten of the selection, so that they can basically be selected by the top three book clubs with sales channels covering 17 provinces in Longguo, such as "Starry Sky Novels", "Qingze Library", and "Liuli Book Club". If they can enter the top 20, they can also be selected by the four large book clubs with sales channels covering more than 7 or 8 provinces in Longguo, such as "Nanyue Literature", "Liming Library", "Xuanzhou Library", and "Poyue Novels". Signed. "

Once Tang Yin opened the topic, she couldn't stop.

These words should not be said by her, the current "in-service editor of Hongfeng Literature", otherwise it would be almost clear to Xia Yan that if you are more stable in this selection activity and get a good ranking, you can switch to the seven top book clubs.

But she still said it because she would regret it if she didn't say it. Xia Yan might be young and didn't understand the power relationship. As a friend, she had to make it clear so that Xia Yan wouldn't regret his actions in the future. →

"Everyone, in order to make your resume as a novelist a highlight, or to broaden your path as a professional novelist, you must do your best to compete for rankings. No one will do any slow-burning novels. Besides, in this selection, you, plus Magic City, Imperial City Those six, seven in total, all have historical achievements of selling over one million volumes of single novels.”

"Once the "New God Ascends" journal is released, you will inevitably be compared with those six people by a group of book fans and book reviewers in the Dragon Kingdom. Once a novel with a slow-burning and flashback structure like "To the Moon" enters the competition, either, just If you can find a path to fame like "Unheard Flowers", it will become a big joke in this year's "New Gods" selection event."

Tang Yin made all her concerns clear to Xia Yan, hoping to see even a trace of hesitation and wavering in Xia Yan's eyes.

How could an example of the rise of a work like Unheard of Flowers be the norm?

Although she believed in Xia Yan's strength, she was also worried that Xia Yan would be blinded by unheard-of results and be blindly confident in herself.

But after looking at Xia Yan for a long time, I found that his eyes did not waver.

Tang Yin took a deep breath, closed her eyes and thought for a few seconds, then looked at Xia Yan and smiled.

"I understand, and I respect your choice. I will submit this chapter of your novel to the editorial department tomorrow, and they will handle the matter of serializing your novel in the "New God Ascension" journal."

"Actually, it's a good thing to seek stability." Xia Yan picked up a small bag of snacks from Tang Yin's table and put it in his mouth.

“But the greater the risk, the greater the reward!”

In the memory of the girl Yuan Qing, there were actually many interesting works that appeared in this year.

But looking at the overall quality, in Xia Yan's heart, those works are as good as going to the moon.

Those who write works seeking stability may only get mediocre results in the "New God Ascension" activity.

And if you want to be a blockbuster, you still have to take risks and write high-risk works like going to the moon.

"For me, if I get a general term in this selection event, it is actually the same as getting the last place." Xia Yan finally said.

The next day, Song Lingjun came to Tang Yin's home with his new work.

After reading the first chapter of her new novel, Tang Yin was in a happy mood and chatted with Song Lingjun until late in the evening.

It is obvious that she is very satisfied with Song Lingjun's new novel.

Late November.

The novels of the three contestants "Yuanqing", "Ningyun" and "Nanze" from the Southern Province region were all submitted to the Imperial Capital region.

In the past few days, the organizers of the "New God Ascension" event in the Imperial City region have also received a total of fifty-one novel submissions from various provinces in the Dragon Kingdom.

"Wang Yong", "Sun Xiao" and "Chu Li" in the Imperial Capital area.

"Kang Ning", "Jiang Jing" and "Chen Yi" in the Magic City area. The novels submitted by others have entered the review stage.

Compared with people like Xia Yan and Song Lingjun who use pen names, the novelists in the Magic City area all use their real names.

After all, after becoming famous, using their real names can make readers more impressed with them, and it also has huge commercial value.

The review of novel submissions from other regions is slightly slower.

However, when the organizer reviewed the novel submitted from the southern province, "To the Moon" by "Yuanqing"

The reviewers all looked weird.

They are actually reviewers, but in fact they are professional editors temporarily transferred from the seven major book publishers. They have read many novels, and naturally they can tell at a glance that the first chapter of this novel is crazy about setting up the plot.

Everyone started chatting immediately.

"That "Yuanqing" from Southern Province, right? He's really bold enough to dare to write this kind of novel in the selection of the "New God Ascends" event."

"Other novel authors wish that the first chapter of the novel would reveal all the highlights and explosive points of the story. It would be better for her to write such a work that only a great master in the novel world would dare to write."

"On the other hand, have any of you seen her "Unheard Flower Names"? Do you know this person's writing style?"

"I haven't seen it."

"Me too."

"In addition to the Magic City, the Dragon Kingdom has fifteen provinces outside the Imperial Capital area. Each province has several large-scale bookstores. The number of popular novels in these provincial-level areas adds up to hundreds of serials at the same time. Who can read them? That’s it, I’ve been able to scan through the excellent novels from the Magic City area. It’s a big deal. I’m really not interested in reading novels from other provinces.”

"Me too."

"But this novel can actually sell more than one million copies per volume, and it is an achievement achieved under the operation of the seven major book publishers in the Feilong Kingdom. This author "Yuan Qing" must have something real, don't underestimate her "Go" Moon”.

"Haha, when she becomes really famous in the Dragon Kingdom novel world, I will watch that "Unknown Flower" movie. I don't have time now."

"I haven't read it, but I have read the first chapter of "To the Moon". I feel that with this plot, the results will not be good after serialization."

"Old Li, we are all acquaintances, don't be subtle. Seriously, I feel that the popularity of the first issue of "To the Moon" series, even with the support of some of her "unknown" fans, should be the same. It will be among the bottom three. Whether this novel will become popular depends on the plot of the following chapters."

"Well, it's actually another submitted novel from the Southern Province. This one, "The Destiny of Rainbow" written by Ning Yun, is so well written!"

"Let me see"

The editors were silent for a few minutes, and soon the review room became lively.

"I'll go, it's quite interesting."

"Really, the plot of the first chapter is really attractive. This guy's writing skills are very good."

"As far as I know, Ning Yun seems to have been working on youth fantasy romance novels since her debut. She is a smart person, unlike Yuan Qing. I just searched and looked at her career as a novelist. Her first novel was about youth romance, her second novel was about youth friendship, and this "To the Moon" is about science fiction. It's really good."

"But it depends on how the plot turns out. It's not easy to tell a good story in a novel with a ten-issue serialization period and ten chapters."

"On the other hand, the novelist named "Nan Ze" in Nan Province has mediocre novels. Among the works selected for the "New God Ascension" this time, the quality seems to be average."

After the review of the submitted novels in Nan Province was completed, a group of reviewers immediately reviewed the submitted novels in other provinces.

A few days later.

The committee confirmed that all 51 novels had been reviewed.

And the titles and author information of the 51 works were announced on the official website.

Except Xia Yan and Song Lingjun, most people are still willing to disclose their real information.

Fans of Yuan Qing and Ning Yun were naturally disappointed to see that neither of them was willing to reveal their identities until this moment.

But immediately, excitement surged in their hearts.

The title of Yuan Qing's new novel was known. "To the Moon".

Although only the title of the work was announced, no other information about the novel was revealed, but.

This did not affect the instant activity of "Anohana" fans on the official website of the "New God Ascension" event.

Each entry actually has a sub-forum set up on it, allowing fans of each participating author to discuss freely on it.

Normally, fans of each author will not go to other sub-forums and bring bad things to their own authors.

But on this day. Many people suddenly found that although this official forum was opened, the style was a bit strange.

Many fans of Anohana have not yet walked out of the plot, and they will not forget to act as tap water for this novel when they see the opportunity. .

And since everyone is a competitor, there is no need to talk about face, and they will take the initiative to go to other places to promote it.

[The heartwarming novel of the year, the healing masterpiece Anohana, the single volume is hot selling in major cities in Longguo! 】

[Anohana, the masterpiece of the top light novel writer in Southern Province, Genkiyo, is a top comedy masterpiece! 】

[Anohana, you will be healed after reading it, and you will regret it if you don’t read it! 】

Such promotional posts are everywhere on the official website of the "New God Ascension" event.

This situation makes many novel fans in other regions full of questions.

I thought that the fans in Southern Province were rude.

But when I looked at the IP addresses of these posters.

Although the most in Southern Province, there are also fans in Mo Province, Yun Province, Shanghai, and the Imperial Capital.

There are so many die-hard fans of this Anohana? Even the official forum of the novel "New God Ascension" is not spared, and it is forced to promote like this?