I want to be a salty fish and go further and further in the entertainment industry

"Sister, you just said the first thing, what is the second thing?" Luo Jiuxing asked curiously.

"Several major domestic websites and writers associations jointly hold a novel contest every three years. Each company will send people to participate. I would like to ask if you are interested?"

Hearing the elder sister's words, Luo Jiuxing was stunned for a moment.

Novel contest?

Luo Jiuxing only started writing novels last year, so I really didn't know there was such a large-scale joint activity.

But thinking that there was still a novel in hand that was being updated, Luo Jiuxing didn't want to read any more. It would be too tiring.

"Sister, why don't you just let other people in the company participate in this kind of thing?" Luo Jiuxing said.

On the other side of the phone, Luo Nanyan's face instantly dropped after hearing this.

I originally thought that my brother would be interested, but it turned out to be the opposite. It seems that I still need to spend more time.

"This event has an age limit. There are many great writers in our company, but there are very few great writers who meet the age limit."

"This event is restricted to those under thirty years old, and no one over thirty is allowed to participate." Luo Nanyan said with a look of helplessness.

"Is there an age limit?" Luo Jiuxing looked confused.

"Hmm, the age limit has been specially added this time, mainly to encourage more young writers, and the prize money for this competition is particularly generous." Luo Nanyan said in a persuasive way.

Luo Jiuxing's eyes lit up when he heard that the bonus was huge.

Although he already has a lot of money, Luo Jiuxing is still interested in this opportunity to make money.

"How much is the prize?"

"The company will give each participant a reward of 300,000 yuan, regardless of whether they rank well or not."

"Of course, if I can get a ranking, the prize money from the Young Writers Cup will be the bulk of it."

"The bonus for entering the top ten is one million, the bonus for entering the top five is two million, and the bonus for entering the top three or four million."

Luo Jiuxing became interested and blurted out: "What is the prize for first place in the Writers Cup?"

Luonanyan didn't give in, "The first place prize is a full 10 million."

Luo Jiuxing's eyes shone, this is good!

He had to write anyway, and he was very happy to get so much more money if he wrote early.

Luo Jiuxing didn't consider the second or third place at all. A writer who doesn't want to take first place is definitely not a good writer.

"Okay, I agreed. When can I sign up? And when will the event start?"

On the other end of the phone, Luo Nanyan danced with excitement when she heard that her brother had agreed.

"Since you agreed, I will help you with the registration. As for the event, which will only start in about a month, you can prepare in advance."

"I will send you the method and time of the competition and all the detailed information on your mobile phone later. If you have any questions, please call me at any time."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Luo Jiuxing received a text message from his elder sister a few minutes later.

Luo Jiuxing carefully read the competition rules of the Young Writers Cup.

The works of all writers participating in the event will be uniformly posted on various major novel platforms.

Finally, the selection is based on comprehensive data such as the popularity of the work, ratings, and updates. This part accounts for 60% of the overall proportion.

The other 40 points are awarded after review by a professional jury.

Many times, hot and popular works may not be able to get into the eyes of the jury.

The professional jury focuses more on the literary nature of the novel and whether it has educational significance.

On the other hand, readers only care about whether the story is exciting or not. The educational significance, literary nature, philosophical nature or other aspects are not important.

Therefore, Luo Jiuxing had to choose a work with an exciting story that could attract readers and make the jury appreciate it. This required a little more effort.

Luo Jiuxing deliberately found all the works in the Writers Cup three years ago, as well as some novels that were rated as outstanding works in the past.

It took several days of hard work for Luo Jiuxing to figure it out.

It took several days for Luo Jiuxing to roughly figure out the current literary situation in the Water Blue Star Dragon Kingdom.

To be honest, if it weren't for Luo Jiuxing's creation of fairy tales and tomb robbing themes in Aqua Blue Star Dragon Kingdom, martial arts novels would have probably occupied at least about 50% of the market share.

However, in the past six months, there have been a lot less martial arts movies on the market, and there have been an endless stream of fairy tale and tomb-robbing works.

This situation was still influenced by Luo Jiuxing.

The book "Fairy Sword" immediately made Xian Xia popular, followed closely by the book "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which also made the theme of tomb robbing popular.

After much deliberation, Luo Jiuxing finally chose "Murder on the Orient Express".

Detective novels are still a very unpopular subject in this world, and not many people write them.

Luo Jiuxing likes this work very much. Not only is the story particularly exciting, but it is also very literary.

The most important thing is that there are not many words, only about 120,000 words.

After deciding on the novel, Luo Jiuxing began writing silently.

Luo Jiuxing spent two days writing it all down first, and then checking whether the story needed to be modified. After all, the situation on Aquamarine was still different from that on Earth.

Of course, Luo Jiuxing will not touch the overall framework of the story.

Ren Xiaoyao noticed that Luo Jiuxing had been typing on the computer recently, sitting there all day long, so she asked out of curiosity: "Xiaojiu, why are you always sitting next to the computer recently? It's not like you!"

"Honestly, are you possessed by a ghost?"

Luo Jiuxing typed on the computer and said without looking back: "This is not because my sister comes to me for something, I just help out and make some extra money."

"Pfft." Ren Xiaoyao couldn't help laughing, "I'm just telling you, when did you become so diligent? I feel like your sister needs your help."

"By the way, it's not easy to make extra money. If you write a few more songs for the company's singers, the money will just go into your pocket."

Luo Jiuxing was speechless and said calmly: "If you want me to write a song, just tell me."

"By the way, I've written a lot of songs recently. Bai Leying's album hasn't been released yet. You don't want to continue to urge me to write songs for other people?"

"You said this yourself, I didn't force you." Ren Xiaoyao laughed.

"Come on, I still have things to do, and you should have a lot to do too." After saying this, Luo Jiuxing stopped caring about his aunt.

A week later, Luo Jiuxing finally finished writing "Murder on the Orient Express".

He immediately sent the message to his sister's mailbox, and then sent a message notification.

After getting up and stretching, Luo Jiuxing took a deep breath and could finally continue his salty life.

The novel activity will only start in nearly a month, and the end of the activity is estimated to be two months later. I hope there will be a bumper harvest by then.

Luo Jiuxing doesn't plan to write a song in May, after all, Bai Leying's album is waiting.

However...dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

One phone call shattered his dream.

PS: I wish everyone a happy new year and may all your dreams come true.