What should I do if the system forces me to copy books?

"Dragon Race" once again delivered a satisfactory answer for Li Chungang. According to the statistics of professional authoritative organizations, the sales volume of more than 420 million copies on the first day is an amazing record even among his own published works.

This does not mean that other works are not as good as "Dragon Race" in terms of content quality.

For one thing, when online novels such as "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern" and "Snowy Swordsman" are published as physical books, they will naturally be "shorter" than serious published literature.Because the vast majority of readers have already paid to subscribe to the content on the Longteng Chinese website, and they no longer have the sense of freshness and anticipation, so that most of the readers who buy back have a mentality of supporting the author. Most of them are bought back for collection or given away.

The second is that Li Chungang's personal popularity and word-of-mouth have accumulated all the way up, especially whether it is a year ago or a year later, from time to time he will "do something" and make a big news that goes viral on the Internet, and as time goes by People who know him, understand him, and like him are accumulating more and more.

It can be said that "Dragon Race" can achieve this first-day sales performance, which is also the best embodiment of his accumulation!

But to put it bluntly, the sale of physical books is actually a one-off sale. It is already very good for readers to have one copy per person. It is not a problem for some wealthy people to have two copies, but this is almost the ceiling of sales. The upper limit is reached, and it can be foreseen that after the first wave of buying subsides, the subsequent daily sales will gradually decline until it becomes a regular commodity on the shelves of major bookstores.

The sales of more than 8000 million copies on the first day does not mean that the potential of the book "Dragon Race" has been fully realized. It is just that Manjinghua Publishing Company's insufficient number of first prints, coupled with the limited production capacity of the printing factory, only can come out with this data.

It's as if a student with excellent grades got a score of "100" in an exam, and felt complacent just like the Xueba who took the "100" score, so he came to Xueba's side and showed off incomparably proudly: "Oh! ~ This time I played normally and got a full score in the test, just like someone!"

Such obvious words, coupled with the mocking tone and smug expression, anyone who is not a fool can tell who this so-and-so is referring to.

However, after this "Versailles" was done, he unhurriedly folded the 100-point test paper in his hand and stuffed it in half into a drawer. You can get 100 points in the test because your level can be tested, and I can get 100 points in the test because there are only [-] points in the test paper!"

The voice just fell.

The student who was still complacent in the last second instantly petrified on the spot, and then a crack slowly appeared from the middle of the Tianling Cap, and gradually expanded downward until it was completely... cracked!

And in the next few days, just as the publishers and sales channel dealers expected, the sales of "Dragon Race" not only did not drop from a high platform with time, but gave people a feeling of astonishing endurance. The daily sales volume is as stable as an old dog, and it is not empty at all!

More than 8000 million on the first day.

On the second day, it managed to break through [-] million.

On the third day, it fell back slightly to more than 400 million.

On the fourth day, the fifth day remained stable.

……

When Manjinghua Publishing Company and Wensiquanyong Company were celebrating the sales of "Dragon Race" breaking [-] million and [-], the person concerned was sitting in front of the computer and looking at the document in front of him with some confusion.

The story of the book "The Lord of the Rings" has come to the end of the third part, but Li Chungang feels that no matter whether it is the Chinese version or the original English version that he has read, the ending does not have the kind of touching and heartbreaking sense of tragedy !

If this last "Ending" ending plot is handled well, it will definitely become a classic that will be remembered by readers.

If it was the former Li Chungang, he probably would have written it out according to the content in his mind without hesitation at this time, but after he has accumulated more than 1000 million words of literary creation, he has gradually absorbed various kinds of writing from it. This kind of "knowledge" and integrate this knowledge into their own things.

So much so that when he wrote the end of the original text, he felt a little dissatisfied in his heart, especially when he went back and read this part of the content repeatedly after he finished writing, he realized that it was even more wrong!

The end of a book should be the sublimation point of the whole text.

He didn't want to regret that when he saw the book "Lord of the Rings" many years later, why he didn't strive for perfection when he wrote it. I discovered the problem and thought I had the ability to make it better. If I chose to ignore it, I would have no chance to do it again.

What is tested here is not the plot structure and layout ability, nor the vivid characterization of the characters, but the emotional resonance of the text at the end, which makes readers feel "recognized" for this ending.

Some writers are good at using incomparably gorgeous rhetoric, but they can't give readers a sense of brilliance and variety. It's just that gold and jade are scattered outside, and they can't move people's emotions at all.

And Li Chungang does not want to become such an author himself. Although every work he has created so far does not have the exact same type, he hopes that he can learn from it——

Let your words change as you wish, simple and sincere when it should be simple and sincere, gorgeous and gorgeous when it should be gorgeous, no matter what kind of writing you use under any circumstances!

Li Chungang's original intention was not to let the pearl of "The Lord of the Rings" be dusted, and he didn't want a work that was enough to leave a strong mark in the history of fantasy literature to be ruined by himself, so he had already written it at the end of the May Day holiday. The content at the end is still repeatedly reviewed and revised today!

Due to personal habits, the English version has not been changed for the time being. After he completes the modification and confirmation of the content of the Chinese version, he can translate it synchronously, so as to save himself from doing useless work after translating it now.

And Random House didn't mean to urge at all, as long as the final delivery date didn't affect the "plan" that Caitlin made.

"It's been a while since I've seriously cultivated immortals, so I've decided so happily!"

Thinking that tomorrow is the weekend, based on the principle that inspiration will always come out if you squeeze hard like when you go to the toilet, Li Chungang decided to use the most stupid and practical method, which is to spend a lot of time to boil , It will be no problem to boil the ugly daughter-in-law into a mother-in-law.

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Chapter 564

Sometimes Xia Yu likes to come without saying hello.

Fortunately, Li Chungang has the attribute of "house" hidden deep in his body. Even if he is trapped at home due to sudden heavy rain, he will not feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, this rain came at a good time to wash away the increasingly hot temperature. Together with the dust and willow catkins that permeate the air, it also washes away the "troubles" in one's heart.

The picture of "the lead is as beautiful as washing is like a fairy" jumps out.

The progress of the editing work at the end of "Lord of the Rings" is much slower than expected, often because of the use of a word, I have to think about it countless times, and often I can't modify hundreds of words after sitting for a whole day!

Seeing that another week was going to pass, the time saved due to the early delivery of the second part gradually began to become tense, and his mentality became a little anxious.

This year's work arrangement has been very intensive during the Chinese New Year. Some of the pits that readers have promised to dig for a long time to fill have not been moved. "Lord of the Mysteries" is already too much, and it was released early A "smoke bomb" about the title and cover of the book was released, but readers waited for five full months. Looking at it now, it is estimated that half of 2021 will be almost over, and there may be plans to publish "Ghost" Thoughts on supplementing the follow-up content of "Blowing the Lamp" etc... I'm afraid the readers are full of complaints again.

If all the minds are put on the same work, it may produce a feeling similar to a blind leaf.

Therefore, Li Chungang would choose to let it go at the moment before his brain was about to fall into a "downtime", and then turned his head to open another code word page-the code word page of "Lord of the Mysteries".

Compared with modifying the content of "The Lord of the Rings", which requires brainstorming and constantly turning the mind to think, the work of coding online novels, which only needs to "read" the memory in the mind and come out according to the code, is extremely easy, which is also considered After a long period of high-intensity operation for the brain, it is a simple way to slow down the speed and relax the mind, and by the way, it can also code and save manuscripts.

"Why don't you ask Miao Miao and Lin Meng to try it out after the revisions are almost complete. As the saying goes, those who are obsessed with the authorities are those who are obsessed with bystanders, maybe they can give different opinions from the perspective of readers!"

It's not impossible to work alone behind closed doors, but sometimes it can seem slow and stupid, especially when you have "time" pressure, even the original Tolkien version of the Lord of the Rings. It has undergone countless revisions before it finally takes shape.

Try reading for relatives and friends around you, and set up a small trial reading meeting to call readers or professional book reviewers to give comments and opinions, apply these helpful parts to the work, and make it better and better in your own hands !

Just as there is no perfect thing in the world, there is also no perfect work in the world, which is inevitable.

Recently, his life is two points and one line between home and school. Sometimes inspiration comes or revisions are made to key places, and because of this, many "jokes" have been made in the school courses: in the first class in the morning, he still I went with the students in the class, but because of the inspiration, I was completely immersed in it and completely ignored the influence of the outside world. After he completely grasped this hint of inspiration, he pushed forward a large section of the revised content. , thinking that the class was over, he picked up the laptop from his seat and stood up. It was only when he stood up and looked around that he suddenly realized...

It turned out that the students around him did not know when their classmates became his seniors and sisters, and even the teacher on the stage changed.

The teacher and the teacher are giving lectures seriously, and the classmates are listening carefully.

Then Li Chungang's getting up not only interrupted the atmosphere, but also instantly became the focus of the entire classroom.

The teacher who was giving the lecture stared at him with a slight frown, but most of the other seniors and sisters had smiles that they couldn't hide, because they had recognized "Li Chungang" from the moment they entered the classroom. Celebrities, there is no one in Tsinghua University who doesn't know them, it's just whether Li Chungang recognizes them or not, let alone the seniors and sisters of the Faculty of Arts, how could he not pay attention to such an awesome junior in his family.

At the beginning, when they saw Li Chungang sitting in the classroom typing on the keyboard as if no one else was around, they basically had an expression of surprise like seeing a star, and some bold seniors wanted to go forward to sign on the spot. It would be even better if you also have WeChat. Such a good opportunity to get in touch with God at close range cannot be wasted.

It was just stopped by a few classmates who were observant.

"Junior Chungang should have just been inspired, look at his eyes..."

"I see, it's so beautiful!"

"Bah! Superficial, I mean there is light in his eyes. It's better for us not to disturb each other at this time."

"I've heard of this state, is it the legendary epiphany?"

"I also suddenly realized, you big-headed ghost, you suddenly got inspiration during creation, and the whole person was completely immersed in it, so that you temporarily ignored the influence of the outside world."

"It's the first time to observe Junior Chungang from such a close distance, and the profile looks so handsome!!!"

"You've got it, who doesn't know that you have the best little wolf dog, as long as it's younger than you, it's suitable."

"Cut~ This old lady is not easy to kill just anyone."

"Yes, yes, it's not the kind of person to casually look at, I understand."

"..."

The good intentions of the seniors and sisters, and the teacher didn't notice it, so that Li Chungang got mixed up in the classroom so logically.

It's just that this group of well-meaning seniors didn't expect him to suddenly recover from that miraculous state, let alone stand up all of a sudden.

The teacher on the podium felt displeased because the student interrupted his lecture. He was about to reprimand him, but he suddenly realized that the student who stood up looked familiar. He was nine times like a student in his memory. Imaging, so I asked instead: "Are you Li Chungang's classmate?"

"I am, teacher."

Affecting the teacher's class, Li Chungang was still a little embarrassed. He bowed slightly to the teacher on the stage very sorry and explained: "I was a little too absorbed in the creation just now, and I didn't notice that it was already the next class. Oh, I thought it was still class time, I'm sorry teacher."

"It's okay, it's okay! If it's Li Chungang's classmate, it's okay. It's very rare for you to be completely immersed in your own creative world like you. The teacher can understand."

"I'm bothering the teacher, I'm leaving now."

After all, Li Chungang quickly fled the scene of the "crime" with the bag containing the notebook, only to hear the faint laughter of the seniors and sisters coming from the classroom behind him.

Chapter 565 End

Hard work pays off.

The end of the third and the whole novel of "The Lord of the Rings" took a total of six days and 17 hours, and it was finally fully completed before the second week.Of course, the completion of the revision of the Chinese version does not mean that Li Chungang's work is completed. Next, the revised content must be synchronized to the English version for processing. It is not like revising a fantasy masterpiece that requires such rigor and cooperation. Difficult, just need to follow the content and spend time to push it all the way.

After eating a meal called "Celebrating classmate Li Chungang's successful completion of "The Lord of the Rings", He Miao personally cooked a big meal, and he felt that all the countless brain cells that had died because of modifying the content during this period of time had returned.All ingredients such as abalone, lobster, and king crab are not let go. You must know that these ingredients are not only expensive to buy, but also very laborious to cook. This meal can be said that she has grown from a big After I came back from shopping in the morning, I was busy until dinner, and the effort was not easy.

Anyway, it is absolutely impossible for him to admit that it is because He Miao's outfit of a cook and stockings today is too "healing" and "spiritual".

Under the kind guidance of a "loving reader", Li Chungang successfully learned to split his monitor into two halves. Instead of just opening a document on the left and right sides and lying there like I did at the beginning, I lied to myself to split the screen.

The area on the left is the Chinese version that has just been revised, and the area on the right is the English version that is full of densely packed "English letters". He is killing countless brain cells with his thoughts.

"The normal translation of this sentence seems to be a bit inappropriate. If you use an interpreter's accent, it does have a Western feel, but foreign readers will look a little awkward."

Not only the dialogue of the characters, but also the description of some specific environments, etc., especially the problem of poetry, which also needs to be subdivided into the influence of different ethnic languages.

In the works of "Lord of the Rings", there is a lot of poetry, and if you want to present it with the best effect, you must combine it with music!

Fortunately, Li Chungang has the biggest cheating tool [Literary Encyclopedia System], and he only needs to spend "111 million" to quickly improve his mastery of music theory knowledge, and he can conditionally select suitable songs from the massive song library. .From this, it is not difficult to see that he actually has great ambitions for the book "The Lord of the Rings", even if it has not been officially published and sold, even if it has not been recognized by readers all over the world, even... I have already recognized this book. The book will definitely be adapted into a big movie!

Therefore, the music that is now spent to unlock is just a preparation for the future when the Lord of the Rings is made into a big movie.

Even if no film production company is interested, when he has money, he can write and direct himself.

On another plane, Earth, Tolkien, the original author of "The Lord of the Rings", wrote a very long article before his death, stipulating that no matter what kind of translator he is, when encountering his entire mythology The names of people and places in the world must be translated according to their meaning.

Some words need to be translated, not simply transliterated.

Some words need transliteration instead of free translation, and these are specially explained.

The word (Orcs) means half-orcs, who are the minions of evil forces such as Sauron and Saruman.

When Li Chungang read the Chinese translation, the word was translated as half-orc.

However, the translation guidance given by Tolkien strongly requires that this word should be transliterated, because (Orcs) reads like the strange feeling that this race brings to people, and many versions directly translate it as "Orcs"!

It's just that Li Chungang thinks that the name Orc can make readers more intuitive in reading. If it is translated as "Ochs", no one knows what race it is without reading the notes at the bottom of the book.

So he wasn't exactly following Tolkien's lead.

Li Chungang is different from ordinary translators. He is actually a kind of re-creation, trying to present his own style and language in this story.

The task of translation is to bring readers to the original to read its original content, so the translated works should not have the translator's style of "I", only Tolkien's style!

"Lord of the Rings" is not modern, nor is it classical, so this size is difficult to get right.

It took Tolkien 2 years to write The Lord of the Rings, and then another 4 years to add details.

If Li Chungang wanted to take it out completely in such a short time, he had no choice but to repeatedly toss and squeeze himself!

The most fascinating part of Middle-earth lies in the details of the world, how the mountains go, how the roads turn, and there are pictures in the head when writing.

After obtaining the system for such a long time, Li Chungang generally would not take the initiative to contact poetry unless necessary.

Although he once wrote the two sentences "Heaven did not give birth to me, Li Chungang, and the way of writing is like a long night", but it was just because of his will, after all, he didn't specialize in that line of work.

This time, the poetry in "Lord of the Rings" made him suffer a lot!

I know every word and the meaning of every sentence, but it is more difficult to convert from Chinese to English than to write another poem.

As a reader, of course, he can be amazing, but as a writer, it is not easy for him to express every meaning he understands.

These poems in the book come from different characters and different races.

Even if it is the same character, it is sung under different circumstances.

He must match the character's identity and the atmosphere at the time, this must be the most important!

If you can't sing a poem that represents joy and relaxation in a sad atmosphere, the sense of disobedience will inevitably burst.

Likewise, one must also consider whether the poem was recited, recited, or sung.

There is a big difference between the three!

If it is recitation, then Li Chungang has to pay special attention to its sonorous and powerful rhythm.

The words of reciting have some tones, some rhymes, and there will be differences in the length of the sentences, which are uneven and have a blurred beauty.

These days, Li Chungang's mobile phone has recorded a lot of poems he himself recited.

Writing on the computer cannot fully understand the meaning of the poem, so he tried to find the feeling in the process of reciting.