Late at night, there were still people chatting in the signing god group of the Genesis Chinese Network.

The building has long been crooked, and the people of the water group are still happy to do it.

In the eyes of readers, they may be a great god standing tall above the stars.

In the kingdom of God above the starry sky, every late at night, they stretched out countless tentacles and crackled with their mechanical keyboards, creating worlds that seemed to be real and illusory, affecting the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of thousands of readers.

But in reality, they are just ordinary young people, some are homely, some are extroverted, some are lustful, some are shy, some like to eat tomatoes, some only eat potatoes, some dive as well as squid, some almost forget how to talk all year round, some drink coffee with sugar, some don't add sugar, and some like to add three spoons.

Perhaps the only thing they have in common is fat and baldness.

"By the way, I just saw Hemingway's new book, and his new book is a little incomprehensible. Is Haida here? Come out and talk a few words. @海明威" is a great god of the urban channel, with the pen name "salt and pepper shrimp", known as "water shrimp".

"Don't give him a damn, it's useless, he never chats in the group," said another great god, "garlic toast", "what's the subject of his new book?"

"He himself said that it was a novella, and the background was foreign. ”

"Fantasy City?"

"I don't know how to classify it, maybe it should be put on the reality channel, I look at it and feel...... Special Literature and Art. ”

"What do you mean? His writing has always been very good. ”

A great god named "Cherry Tomatoes" interjected, "Poor Dao has also read his new book, and it really is not a question of whether his writing is good or not." ”

"What's that?"

Cherry tomatoes: "He's really the kind, the kind that is rare......"

The great god water shrimp continued: "It is the way of orthodox literature, and the writing is too good to be imagined, just looking at those 3,000 words, you will feel that he is at the top of the chain of contempt for writers." You see, I can't say if this novella can be sold for money, at least after this one is written, he will be regarded as his own by those guys in the writers' association. ”

There was a brief silence in the group.

It is a long-standing topic that online writers are despised by traditional literary writers, and it has almost become a tradition in literary circles.

Traditional Literary Writers: The Internet is not literature.

Web Writer: Horror .jpg. When were we expelled from literature!?

Of course, there are not no online writers who are particularly active in the online circle and appreciated by traditional writers, but there are only one or two in the entire online literary circle.

Now, most likely, there will be one more.

And a great writer who rarely speaks and spends most of his time diving, "Fireworks Fade Away", suddenly posted a sentence at this time: "If he can maintain this level in the latter part of this book, I dare say that he has a chance to compete for this year's Poplar Literature Award." ”

After speaking, he also went through several heavyweight gods one by one.

This sentence was like a bomb dropped in the group, and those gods who were usually not very water groups came out one after another.

"Really, fake? Poplar Literary Award?"

"You're kidding, Internet writer and Poplar Literary Award, there's no correlation between that. ”

Poplar Literary Award...... What a holy grail in the minds of all Chinese writers!"

"I'm willing to pay my entire salary in exchange for a Poplar Literary Award!"

"When did you become a literary youth? I remember that you always took the comic route. ”

"You don't understand, in the heart of every comic youth, there is a deeply hidden dream of Wenqing. I was in the face of the cruel reality, and I had to nod my head and laugh uncontrollably and laugh until I burst into tears. ”

"I know you're showing off, I want to say, don't show it, it's embarrassing. Just now I glanced at Hemingway's old man and the sea, and I have to say that it is not the same level as our writing. People have a good foundation. ”

The chat in the group here is hot, and there are five gods who have opened a small chat group separately.

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "Fireworks, it seems that you can't keep the first place on your monthly ticket list this month, Hemingway's upward momentum is too fierce." ”

The fireworks faded away: "Actually, I don't care if I'm the first or the first." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "What did you say? Then I'll fight with you?"

The fireworks withered: "If you want to fight, you still need to say hello, you haven't fought with me for a month." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "I haven't seriously fought with you before, but this time I saw Hemingway also get up, and it's fun to fight." ”

Cherry tomatoes: "Hehe, who gave you the courage to contract the monthly ticket list privately?"

Salt and pepper shrimp: "Don't you want to fight too?" Anyway, your recent subscription seems to have declined, oh, write a big poisonous point. ”

Cherry tomatoes: "The monk can touch it, but the poor road can't touch it?"

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "It's good for you to fight, it's lively." Why don't you all fight together, bread, without sugar, and you all come together?"

Garlic toast: "I'm going with the flow." ”

Coffee without sugar: "I do it too." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "Hehe, I believe your ghosts, there is a kind of you don't open a single chapter to sell miserable tickets!"

Garlic toast: "...... A single chapter is still to be opened, which is a sign of respect for the reader. ”

Coffee without sugar: "I don't sell miserable, I wear women's clothes." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "You are ruthless." ”

The fireworks faded away: "Anyway, let's all fight for it." "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" You all know that there were 180,000 collections on the first day of the book, and now it has only been a week, and there are already 450,000 collections, and there are almost zero negative reviews in the book review area. Anyone with eyes can see that this is a masterpiece, and when that book is on the shelves, we will all directly raise our hands and surrender. It's just that "Ghost Blows the Lantern" has not yet been put on the shelves, and we can still compete with "Zhu Xian". ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "You are too much to raise the morale of others." ”

Garlic toast: "It's a fact. ”

Coffee is unsweetened: "It's a fact +1." ”

Cherry tomatoes: "It's okay to lose to the ghost blowing the lamp, and I'm convinced, but Zhu Xian, hehe, the poor road must be fought for, if you don't fight for anything else, you will fight for a breath." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "Okay, then the eight immortals will cross the sea and show their powers!"

Cherry tomatoes: "Fireworks, everyone used to say that you are the most recognized online writer in the online literature circle, and you are also the first among us to join the National Writers Association. But in the future, the most recognized online writer by traditional writers is estimated to be a different person. ”

The fireworks faded away: "It's better to let a hundred flowers bloom." I would love to make friends with him, but he is said to be very introverted and not very talkative. ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "You say, is he really Lin Ke?"

Garlic toast: "I didn't believe it. But this time he was so targeted, and I believed it. ”

Salt and pepper shrimp: "When he took the photographic incident, I was still young, and I never had the opportunity to get resources. Do you have the resources? Send me one. ”

Cherry tomatoes: "Poor Dao is not this kind of person. ”

Garlic toast: "Hehe, I have a girlfriend and never look at that kind of thing." ”

Coffee without sugar: "Don't look at me, I can't have it, I'm an innocent male college student." ”

Salt-and-pepper shrimp: "Made, one by one, pretend to be pure here." ”

The fireworks faded away: "I have a full set, send it to your mailbox." ”

Cherry tomatoes: "I didn't expect you, a thick-eyed and big-eyed person, to betray the revolution! I just want to say three words!

......

Du Caige went to sleep after releasing the first 3,000 words of "The Old Man and the Sea".

He didn't think about how readers would react, what the industry bigwigs would do, and whether it was appropriate for a serious literary work like "The Old Man and the Sea" to be published on an online platform.

He just wanted to show his attitude to those people.

Never compromise, never say die.

Then, Hemingway, who does not have "The Old Man and the Sea", has no soul.

It's as simple as that.

The next day was April 22.

Du Caige gets up normally in the morning, and now his life is becoming more and more regular. This is due to the time when Du Yuanqi lived at home, and he had to get up on time every day to make breakfast for his sister.

After washing, Du Caige went to the small room to practice equipment for forty minutes, watered the flowers and plants, and then ate a simple breakfast - toast slices, fried eggs, milk.

Then I sat down at the table and listened to a few tunes to brew my emotions.

While listening, I thought, although Azure Star also has a lot of good music. However, the development of music in modern times seems to lag slightly behind the earth.

I still have to find time to carry all the hundreds of pure music I love to listen to.

Even if you don't publish it, when you have the money, you can buy a set of equipment to make the song yourself and put it on your computer to play it on a loop.

After listening to it for a while, Du Caige turned down the volume of the speaker and prepared to start carrying "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

The current situation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is very good, he uploaded more than 20,000 words on the first day, and then uploaded 30,000 words every day in the past few days, so far there are only more than 40,000 words in total, but there are already 450,000 collections, which is definitely an unprecedented record in the literary world of Azure Star Network, as for whether there will be anyone in the future?

At least on Earth, until 2021, there hasn't been a single book that is hot enough to be this hot.

The popularity of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" to this extent is the result of a combination of factors.

On the one hand, the "Immortal" he carried has good enough quality, and it is being serialized to a place that makes people want to stop, so it naturally attracts a lot of fans of "Immortal"; on the other hand, the publicity of his book on the Genesis Chinese Network is also unprecedented, and the publicity has been opened before it has been officially uploaded, and immediately after uploading, it is "blown by the wind" (recommended on the cover of the home page), and the quality of the book is solid enough, and the reputation is very good.

This has led to the emergence of a myth in the online literature industry that is difficult to replicate.

After Du Caige's revision, the current version of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is more streamlined than the original version, with less valuable dialogue, and the number of words in the environmental description has also been reduced.

Therefore, with more than 40,000 words, the plot progressed very quickly, Hu Bayi had already left the novice copy, left the army, met the big golden tooth, and was about to enter the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army.

Judging from the readers' comments, the book has always firmly grasped their emotions, made them want to stop, and also made Du Caige satisfied with his adaptation, without losing the essence of the original "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".

After posing, Du Caige was just about to turn on the handling mode, when suddenly the mobile phone began to vibrate.

At first glance, the caller ID is Xiao Jiang.

"What's the matter? early in the morning!" Du Caige said angrily.

"Brother," Jiang Youxi said pitifully, "'First Time' is about to be released on the shelves, I don't have a score in my heart!

Du Caige said lightly: "We have all thought of the way to think of it." What we could, we did. I also see the effort you put into this song, and I don't think there's anything to regret and regret. Now, wait quietly for the results. ”

Jiang Youxi said with a shy face: "Brother, you can comfort me! I am a poor brother!"

Du Caige pondered for a while, and felt that Jiang Youxi was the first friend he had made in this world, maybe he should give some preferential treatment, so he said: "I'm not very good at comforting people, how do you want me to comfort you?"

"You can predict the number of downloads in the first week of the 'first' period. ”

Du Caige didn't think twice: "1 million." ”

"Haven't you woken up yet, brother!" Jiang Youxi blurted out.

"You think I don't understand?" Du Caige asked rhetorically.

"No," Jiang Youxi said, "but last year, Sister Xiaochen's new album was released, and the digital version was released simultaneously, and the title song was downloaded only 710,000 times in the first week." Brother, she's the queen of songs!"

Du Caige said lightly: "I know." I even know that last year's digital version of the new song had the highest number of downloads in the first week at 770,000. ”

"Then you dare to say 1 million casually!" Jiang Youxi's tone was resentful like a concubine in the cold palace.

Du Caige still looks very bland. "First of all, people are the first release on a single platform, and your song is the first release on almost all platforms; secondly, people have to pay to download, and the first time is free for a limited time, do you forget? We don't rely on the 'first time' to make money, the 'first time' is used to manage word of mouth, and the 'fairy tale' after that is the time to make money. If the songs I write are free on all platforms, and they don't reach 1 million downloads a week, it means that you are too wasteful, and I will never write songs for you in the future. ”

Jiang Youxi cried: "Don't brother, I'm talking about playing! Your song, getting 1 million downloads a week is not like playing! But, after all, I'm still young, ignorant, and lacking, you set me a goal of 1 million, it's too difficult for me, it's still 300,000, okay? 300,000." ”

Du Caige said: "Are you still nervous?"

"Uh, I'm more nervous......"

"That's good, keep getting nervous, don't bother me, I'm going to write. After Du Caige finished speaking, he didn't give Jiang Youxi a chance to gag again, and hung up the phone directly.

Looking at the computer screen intently, Du Caige was actually distracted. Will he be able to get 1 million downloads in the first week?

After all, Huayu does not have much money to invest in publicity.

As far as Du Caige learned, he only put new song auditions and other activities in the music columns of the entertainment channels of several provincial TV stations, and then advertised in several music forums, and also carried out public relations for several music critics, and also gave benefits to several opinion leaders in the music field.

This has already spent the 2.7 million publicity budget.

In fact, Huayu has tried its best, after all, Huayu Entertainment is just a small company, and it has invested 2.7 million in publicity expenses for a new singer's new song, to be honest, it is already on Du Caige's face.

After all, the first week of the "first time" is to be released for free, and then even if it is charged, 2 yuan to buy it once, it needs to be purchased 5 million times, and the income reaches 10 million yuan.

And in the current music scene, how many songs can reach 5 million purchases during the charging period?

So "the first time" is probably not the opponent of that Zongsheng new song.

After all, Tianyi Entertainment has invested at least 15 million to promote Zong Sheng and those little fresh meat's new songs, and the advertising spaces in the subway, shopping malls, and elevators in various buildings can be seen everywhere Zong Sheng's handsome face, as well as the name of his new song "Boy with a Mask".

Du Caige sighed lightly and began to concentrate on moving.

By the time he stopped and got up to move, it was already 1 p.m.

If memory serves, the "first time" should be on sale on all platforms at 12 o'clock.

So what about sales so far?

Du Caige clicked on his usual "Philharmonic" player.

On the Philharmonic music platform, the number of first-time purchases in the first hour was: 792.

"Philharmonic" is one of the largest music platforms in Dahuaguo, and the number of purchases and downloads here is very representative.

The number of purchases here is not high, and it will only be less on other platforms.

If a new song is released on a single platform, it usually talks about a higher sales share and higher listing pricing.

But Jiang Youxi is just a small shrimp in the music world, others are not interested in him, and Huayu Entertainment would rather take the route of small profits and quick turnover, first make Jiang Youxi famous, and then choose a single platform to release singles.

Huayu Entertainment originally thought that with the advertising slogan "created by the queen musician of the singer and queen", coupled with the limited time free of charge, it could attract many passers-by.

As a result, passers-by don't pay at all. Even if it's free, not many people choose to buy it.

However, Du Caige was not surprised.

The reality is that the appeal of musicians is far less than that of popular singers.

If it was in that year, when a new song was released, the name "Lin Ke" was used to promote it, it might still have some appeal.

For example, on the earth, if a singer invites Fang Wenshan and Lin Xi to write songs, it should still attract a wave of attention.

But now, the full-level tuba "Lin Ke" has been scrapped, and the trumpet "Hemingway" is still in the novice village, not developed, and can only call for rain in the field of online literature.

Although there is an overlap between netizens who read online articles and netizens who like to listen to songs, after all, the pertinence is not so strong.

On the other hand, even if Huayu Entertainment had several interactions with singers such as Su Rui, Peng Sizhang, and Duan Xiaochen, so that the fans of these singers and queens barely knew about such a person as "Jiang Youxi", it is obvious that other fans will not do their best to cheer for Xiao Jiang's new song.