Chapter 030: The First Step Succeeds
The second editorial group of the starting point, Lu Yang heard about it before he was reborn.
The editor-in-chief is Lao Z, and the editors in charge are Brother Tian and Xiaoli.
However, a few years later, Lao Z was transferred to the girls' channel, and Brother Tian took the position of editor-in-chief. But now, the editor-in-chief of the second group is still Lao Z, and Brother Tian is still his responsible editor, responsible for tail number 4.
At this time, it came at eight o'clock in the morning, and the editors at the starting point seemed to have just gone to work, Lu Yang had just applied for Brother Jia Tian as a friend, and within a few seconds, he agreed to be a friend, and Lu Yang estimated that Brother Tian thought that another signed author had added him.
It's unlikely that he would have guessed that the guy who added him this time was a guy who was going to go through the back door.
A smile appeared at the corner of Lu Yang's mouth.
I had heard that Lao Z and Brother Tian of the second group had a good temper, which was very beneficial to what Lu Yang was going to do today.
So, Lu Yang sent a passage in the past.
"Hello Brother Tian! I am the author of "Doomsday Wasteland", "Doomsday Wasteland" has been published at the starting point of 30,000 words, and there are almost 300,000 words of manuscript at hand, I am very confident in my work, but I heard that a new author's new book released at the starting point does not exceed 100,000 words, and it is almost impossible to sign a contract, I heard that Brother Tianren is very good, so I hope if you are free, can you help me review the manuscript later? After reading it, if you think the quality is okay, sign this book, if you feel that the future of this book is not easy to say, then when I didn't hand you the manuscript behind, I sincerely hope that Brother Tian can help, thank you very much. ”
The first text message sent by Lu Yang in the past explained his intention.
I didn't ask "hello" or "are you there?" and other nonsense, because of the experience of dealing with the editor of the starting point for many years before the rebirth, Lu Yang told him that the editor of the starting point is very busy at work, and I don't know how many authors contact them through guòQQ every day, if they chat with every author and say those nonsense, then an editor can just talk about QQ a day is enough for him to be busy and dizzy, and don't want to do other work.
Brother Tian's personality is indeed as good as Lu Yang knew before, and less than two minutes after Lu Yang's text message was sent, Brother Tian replied with a message.
The content is like this: "Hello! Just now I have gone to the page of "Doomsday Wasteland" to take a look, to be fair, the title and introduction of this book are OK, some new ideas, as a newcomer and a new book, can accumulate about 30,000 words to the current popularity, indicating that the quality of the first tens of thousands of words in this book should still have some, if you want me to help you review the manuscript, just sort out the manuscript behind it, and send it to my QQ mailbox! I don't have time to read it during the day, but after work at night, I can help you see, your author's tail number is 4, which happens to be the author I should be responsible for, as an editor, I also hope to go through my hands, discover more excellent works and authors, I hope your book can surprise me. ”
After silently reading the text message replied by Brother Tian, Lu Yang smiled slightly, this time take the back door and take a shortcut, this first step is considered a success, and the next step is to see if his manuscript can impress Brother Tian and make him agree to sign the contract in advance.
The sooner or later a new book is signed, and the growth of the popularity of the new book is very different.
Before signing a contract, a new book, no matter how high its quality, will not be recommended by various recommendations on the website, and without the recommendation arranged by the website, it may only appear in the reader's sight for a few minutes a day.
Think about it, how can a work that can't enter the reader's sight be allowed to be read by the reader?
If you sign a contract and have the recommendation of various recommended positions on the website, the effect will be completely different.
With a recommendation position, no matter what the quality of the book is, it can at least appear in the sight of countless readers, just like a commodity on the supermarket shelf, and its attention is naturally not comparable to the goods placed in the warehouse.
Lu Yang wants to sign a contract in advance, and this is what he wants.
Relying on updating two new chapters a day, "Doomsday Wasteland" will only appear on the front page of the website for about ten minutes a day at most, and then it will completely sink into the tens of thousands of books at the beginning, and a hundred readers, not a single reader will be able to discover it.
Lu Yang smiled and sent all his current manuscripts to Brother Tian's QQ mailbox, and after that, all Lu Yang could do was to wait for Brother Tian's news on the premise of updating it as usual every day.
If Brother Tian said that the future of the book was not good and did not agree to sign the contract in advance, Lu Yang could only rely on two chapters a day to update the popularity of the work little by little.
In that case, if the first 100,000 words are sent, there will be tens of thousands of clicks, thousands of recommendation votes, and hundreds of favorites.
In the future, it will be much more difficult for this book to become popular.
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After breakfast, Lu Yang changed into sportswear, sneakers, and went to the martial arts club to practice boxing with gloves.
According to Lu Yang's observation during this time, there was basically no one in the martial arts club classroom in the morning, and when Lu Yang liked to practice boxing, there was no one around.
In the afternoon, Lu Yang went to two classes.
Two classes in college are equivalent to four classes in high school, and each class is 90 minutes long.
After two classes, the afternoon was almost over.
After cooking some food in the rental house in the evening, Lu Yang first turned on the computer, uploaded a new chapter, and then began to log on to the familiar novel websites in his memory one by one.
The landscape of novel websites in 2003 is very different from that in 2013.
In 2003, the starting point Chinese website was still just a cutting-edge website with rapid growth in popularity, and the Phantom Sword Book Alliance was the leader of the industry, and then there were excellent popular websites such as Tianying Literature, Climbing Library, Cui Weiju, Golden Book House, Xilu Literature and so on.
At that time, there was far from a certain horizontal, a certain k, and a certain world.
It will not be until a few years later that the starting point will become a well-deserved hegemon in the online literature industry.
Lu Yang wandered around the websites that he often landed on in these memories, and saw the names of the works that he was once very familiar with and had read, and some of the past memories gradually came back to me.
This is a great era when online literature has just emerged and a hundred flowers are blooming.
Lu Yang has witnessed it, but now that he has come to this era again, he is no longer willing to be just a bystander, he also wants to become a popular god author.
This should be the biggest dream of every online writer.
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When surfing the Internet, time will always pass quickly, Lu Yang feels that time has not passed for long, in fact, the night has been dark for a long time.
When Lu Yang remembered the time and remembered what he was going to do tonight, he found that the time had come to more than nine o'clock in the evening.
"It's time to go!"
Lu Yangxin said.
Then I turned off the computer, went to change into a set of clean clothes and shoes, and went out with two sample books from the first and second episodes of "Doomsday Wasteland".
Yes, the means he wants to use tonight is to throw these two copies in front of Cao Xue and let her understand that his Lu Yang's works are not as rubbish as she imagined.
What he writes, there are publishers willing to pay for it to be published!
In 2003, an author who was able to publish a novel was still very good in the eyes of ordinary people.
In 2003, before the rebirth, Lu Yang took down Feng Tingting shortly after the successful publication of the first work.
Originally, Lu Yang hadn't planned to tell Cao Xue about this matter so soon.
But the current situation is that if he doesn't reverse Cao Xue's impression of his writing, he can't continue with Cao Xue, which is a naked failure for Lu Yang!
After being reborn, what Lu Yang wants to gain is success, whether it is in writing or in love, rather than being full of cups and utensils like in the ten years before rebirth.