Writing an outline is a tedious task.

It's a simple thing to fool around.

Some authors don't have a word of the outline, and they have a general idea in their minds, so they start writing the text directly, and some authors also write an outline, but they can get it done in an hour or two, which is too simple.

But obviously, Sun Quan, the outline of Daddy's new book, he definitely doesn't plan to be so perfunctory.

Since his rebirth, he has been quite serious every time he opens a new book, and it can be said that he is getting more and more serious.

Because he felt more and more that the principle of "sharpening the knife is not the wrong woodcutter" was so correct.

If you don't pay enough attention to the outline, it seems to save the preparation time before the book is opened, but it will definitely waste more time when the main text is longer and longer in the future.

And it's easy to write a good story crookedly.

He had already tasted the sweetness of the outline and the completeness of the outline, so he also attached great importance to the outline when he opened a new book this time, and did not give himself a time limit, and did not think about how many days he must get the outline out.

Of course, this probably has something to do with the fact that he doesn't have any life pressure now.

Not to mention a month or two, even if he doesn't open new books for a year or two, or even a lifetime, he won't starve to death.

When there is no pressure to survive, he naturally has no sense of urgency for time.

So, day after day, day after day, day after day, he was still writing the outline of his new book.

By the way, as for the name of the new book, he also took two for the time being.

One is "Dad, come on!"

The title of the book is taken from the child's standpoint, "Dad", is the identity of the male protagonist Huang Shan, "come on", implying that Huang Shan's life is very difficult, if he does not work hard, his life will be difficult to improve.

Another tentative title is "Yellow Mountain"

Taking this name, there is not much meaning, the main thing is to play a trick, which makes people curious and confused about the title of the book.

He thinks that once the name "Yellow Mountain" is released, it will definitely arouse the curiosity and doubts of many readers, and everyone will think: "Yellow Mountain" is the Yellow Mountain we know?

I will also think: Why is this book called "Yellow Mountain"? Is this a fairy tale? It can't be written by a sect of cultivating immortals established in Yellow Mountain, right?

I even think: Is there any special story that happened in this place of Huangshan?

Wait a minute.

With the current popularity and reputation of his pen name "Salted Fish My Old Sun", he believes that if this new book is named "Yellow Mountain", many readers who are curious and confused about this title should be interested in clicking on this book to try it, and he is confident that he will use the storyline of the text to retain most of the people who click on this book.

He liked both titles.

The first title of the book "Dad, Come On!" belongs to the urban style of the book, but in the current starting point Chinese website, it belongs to the non-mainstream book title style.

What kind of book titles are popular at the beginning of this year?

Not to mention anything else, according to Sun Quan's understanding, the current starting point book title rarely has punctuation marks, and occasionally there will be a book title with a question mark.

But the comma really rarely appears in the title of the work at the beginning.

Therefore, he prefers the second title of the book "Yellow Mountain".

Be!

The title of this book makes it difficult for people to tell at a glance that this is a daddy text, and even at first glance, many people will not be able to associate this book with an urban work.

is like the title of "Shushan", when many people see it, they subconsciously think that this is a work of fairy tales, which is related to "The Legend of Shushan Swordsmen".

Or "Kunlun", which will be reminiscent of Kunlun Mountain, and then think that this is also a Xianxia work.

Anyway, with the word "Yellow Mountain", it is difficult for people to think that this is a daddy essay with an urban theme.

In this respect, the title is a failure.

Square peg.

Sun Quan knows these things in his heart, but a big reason why he wants to name this new book is that he also wants every reader to think of the subject of daddy when they see the title of his book.

He did it on purpose.

Because he wrote this book, he not only wanted to capture the part of the readers who loved to read Daddy's text, he had greater ambitions, and he hoped that more readers, those readers who didn't like to read Daddy's text before, would also come to read his book.

So, he felt that he should make some fuss about the title of the book.

Either way, let's get as many readers into the book as possible.

After these readers enter the pit, there may be some readers who don't like Daddy's text to leave, but he believes that there will be some people who don't read Daddy's text in the first place to stay.

It's just that......

In the end, he has not yet made up his mind whether to use this title or not.

Anyway, the above two titles are his tentative titles.

It can be replaced at any time.

......

More than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye.

The outline for his new book has finally taken shape.

He began to write the outline section.

As the outline took shape, his overall impression of the story became much clearer.

Compared to an outline, the outline section is more difficult to write and requires more patience.

That afternoon, in his office on the second floor of the Salted Fish Studio, he frowned and wrote the content of the outline little by little, and the reason why he frowned was ......

It's just a habit of thinking about things.

The phone in hand rang suddenly.

The train of thought was interrupted, Sun Quan's brows furrowed even tighter, but when he glanced over, he saw that the caller ID was Xue Zihan.

Recently, they have been in contact frequently, and Xue Zihan has recently been running major video websites in China, trying to find a suitable website and sign a contract with the other party for the web drama "Wish of the Dead".

But it's not quite done yet.

It's not that several major video sites are not interested in this drama.

In fact, these days, Sun Quan learned from Xue Zihan that the three video websites she has been to have purchased this online drama are all interested in buying this web drama.

Here's the problem!

The cooperation plan given by the three video sites is all purchased!

To put it simply: it's a one-time buyout.

Give them a copyright fee for Salted Fish Film and Television, directly buy out all the rights and interests of this drama, and after paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, the future profit of this online drama has nothing to do with their Salted Fish Film and Television.

There is only one right of authorship left.

Sun Quan has no interest in such a form of cooperation.

The key is the purchase price given by those three video sites...... It's not enough for the production cost of their show.

One bid 1 million.

One bid 1.5 million.

The highest bidder is only 2 million.

But how much did they spend on Salted Fish Film and Television to produce this web drama? 6 million!

So at a price of one or two million, I want to buy out all the copyrights of the web series "The Last Wish of the Dead", and Sun Quanneng agrees?

Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan, can they agree?

Many people do business, when they realize that the real value of what they sell cannot meet their psychological expectations, they will choose to sell at a loss, not for anything else, only to lose a little, and to recover a little cost is a little cost.

But the drama "Wish of the Dead" ...... Has it reached the point where it is going to be sold cheaply?

Sun Quan thinks no.

Xue Zihan: They don't think so!

What is the quality of this drama, after all the post-production is completed, Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan have all seen the finished product, and they all think that the quality of this drama is good.

Under this premise, it is definitely not so easy to let them sell this drama cheaply.

No, Sun Quan hasn't urged Xue Zihan here, Xue Zihan took the initiative to say that he wanted to go to another video company two days ago.

Therefore, seeing her calling at this time, Sun Quan subconsciously thought that she was here to report the results of the trip.

This matter is important.

Therefore, Sun Quan immediately picked up his mobile phone and connected the phone.

Xue Zihan: "Ah Quan, Youku has seen our sample film here, the cooperation method, we have just communicated, they are different from the previous three websites, they agree to the cooperation method we proposed, guaranteed distribution!"

Guaranteed issuance.

It was Sun Quan, Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan, who discussed a new idea half a month ago.

Until then, what Sun Quan wants is a share.

Just like he wrote on the starting point Chinese website, the manuscript fee is divided with the website, and the income depends on the quality of his work.

He likes this way of distributing benefits based on quality.

But after Xue Zihan went to two video websites before, he found that the pure sharing method was not good.

Because of the current domestic video websites, the mainstream is still free to watch.

Even the duration of the ads implanted in the video is not too long.

To put it simply, audiences watch movies and television dramas on these video sites, which are generally free.

In this mainstream environment, there is not much room for manipulation when it is completely divided into schemes.

Viewers don't have to spend money, how do you share with video sites?

What's the point?

Advertising costs?

The advertising duration in each movie and TV series is so short, how much can the advertising fee be shared?

In reality, Sun Quan and others had to think of a different way of cooperation.

Eventually, they came up with a ...... It's a guaranteed release.

To put it simply, the video site must give them a copyright fee first, no matter how popular and word-of-mouth the show is after the show is launched on the video site, this copyright fee will not be refunded to the video site.

In addition, try to strive for a part of the profit share that has room for upside.

For example, when the total number of clicks on this drama is exceeded, the video site still has to pay them how much.

It's a pity that they thought it was beautiful, but none of the three video websites that Xue Zihan went to find before agreed.

is only willing to give one or two million copyright fees to buy out their show.

"What is the reserve price?"

Sun Quan asked.

Xue Zihan: "1 million!"

Sun Quan: "......"

This price is much lower than Sun Quan's psychological expectations.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "What else?"

Xue Zihan: "More than 2 million total broadcasts, for every more than 1 million broadcasts, the other party will give us another 1 million copyright fees, Ah Quan, I have calculated, according to the terms they currently promised, if we want to recover the cost of this drama, the total broadcast volume must exceed 7 million, if you want to make money, then you need more broadcasts, you ...... Do you think you can agree to this condition?"

Sun Quan frowned and was silent.

2,000,000 total views...... A few years later, it's nothing for a hit TV series.

Sun Quan remembers that I don't know when the original time and space began, and the number of broadcasts of a TV series on the Internet is often hundreds of millions of people.

TV series with tens of millions of broadcasts are all popular.

But he knows it's not a few years from now, it's 2011.

And his drama is not the kind of traditional TV series, its "Wish of the Dead" is just a web series, and the total number of episodes in this first season is only 14 episodes.

The attraction of online dramas to the audience is naturally smaller than that of traditional TV dramas.

In addition, this drama is a supernatural theme, and this theme is a niche theme.

If you want to accumulate a total of 2 million views for 14 episodes, the average number of viewers per episode is more than 140,000.

That doesn't seem like a lot.

But he has written online articles himself for many years, and he knows how difficult it is to have more than 10,000 subscribers to an online article.

And his online drama has no big stars, almost a pure rookie lineup.

How difficult is it for such an online drama to attract hundreds of thousands of viewers in so many film and television dramas on video websites?

When he thought about it, he knew it.

Of course, there is also a good side, the subscription of online texts requires money, and the film and television resources of video websites are basically free at present.

It's free, and it's obviously easier to attract an audience.

Therefore, he is confident that this drama can finally achieve 2 million views.

But it takes 7 million broadcasts to recover the total investment of this drama, and he is not so sure in his heart.

Unless he can farm the data.

But this is obviously impossible!

Since the copyright fee of this drama is linked to the number of broadcasts, as long as they choose to sign a contract with Youku Video, as soon as this drama is launched, there will definitely be professionals on both sides who will stare at the data of this drama.

Neither of them will relax.

In this case, brushing the data is to hand the other party a handle, and it must be them who will suffer in the end.

As long as the other party has evidence of their salted fish film and television data, and no longer pays their copyright fees later, what can they do?

Sun Quan wanted to say: Try another video site.

But he couldn't say that.

Because he knows that there are only a few larger video websites in China, almost all of them have been run by Xue Zihan these days, and the cooperation conditions given by Cool Video are already the best among the major video websites.

Unless someone else plans to invest in a video website by himself, there are not many options for them to be salted fish film and television.

"Ah Quan, you say...... Shall we sign up with Youku?"

Seeing that Sun Quan didn't respond for a long time, Xue Zihan asked again on the phone.

Sun Quan smiled faintly, "Sign it!" However, before you sign the contract, try to fight for a few more recommendation positions with the other party, which is good for the broadcast volume of our show, you know?"

Xue Zihan: "Really signed?"

Sun Quan: "Well, if you don't sign it, which video site can you find?"

Xue Zihan was dumbfounded.

Sun Quan: "Remember to ask for a few more recommendations!"

Xue Zihan: "Well, I know! Don't worry! Since the cooperation method can be negotiated, there should be room for negotiation in the recommendation position, and I will do my best!"

After a pause, she hesitated and asked, "But, Ah Quan, it is difficult for us to make money by signing such a contract, right?

Sun Quan: "Well, I know, don't worry! I know in my heart, we still have room to operate." ”