As the saying goes, if you are familiar with 30,000 novels, you will be able to write them if you can't write.

Although Liu Xing has never written a novel, after all, he has read novels for so many years, and he still has some experience in what kind of novels are good and what kind of novels are not good.

Therefore, he was able to provide Wang Lanlan with some constructive suggestions for revision.

More importantly, Liu Xing has a pair of book eyes, and can choose the idea of modification by monitoring the changes in the matching degree of the novel.

The higher the match, the higher the probability that the novel is a star novel.

If the match degree increases, the probability of the novel becoming a star novel increases, and when the match degree decreases, the probability of the novel becoming a star novel also decreases.

In general, adjusting the idea of revising novels according to the rise and fall of the matching degree is a way to create star novels with a high success rate.

Although the accuracy rate cannot be 100%, it is at least several times higher than the success rate of blind revision.

Of course, it is not easy to create a star novel, and it is impossible to do it in one step.

For the next ten days, Liu Xing would spend some time reading "Detective Wang Nan's Black Shadow Man" every day, and then discuss the idea of revision with Wang Lanlan.

In the past half a month, Liu Xing has watched "Detective Conan: The Black Shadow Man" dozens of times, and put forward a total of 198 suggestions for revision.

Among the 198 revision suggestions, Wang Lanlan will take the trouble to revise as long as she feels that it is reasonable.

Her efforts were not in vain, and at the end of each revision, there were some noticeable changes in the novel's match.

On the first day, the novel match rate was 4.8%;

the next day, 5.4%;

on the third day, 5.7%;

……

By the fifteenth day, the match had reached 8.4%.

During this period, the matching degree had declined, and Liu Xing adjusted the modified ideas in time, and the matching degree rebounded again.

The matching degree is approaching 10% little by little, or even more than 10%, but the detection results of the book show that the level of the novel is still not a star novel.

Although a 10% match does not mean that it must be a star novel, the probability of becoming a star novel is already very high.

Therefore, "Detective Conan: The Dark Shadow Man" may only be a step away from a star-rated novel, as long as some details are constantly revised, it may succeed at any time.

On the sixteenth day, Wang Lanlan handed over the revised draft to Liu Xing for review.

"Liu Xing, haven't you been annoyed by reading this novel so many times?" asked Wang Lanlan curiously.

"How can it not be annoying, I am on the verge of throwing up by now. Liu Xing said seriously, "But in order to train you to become a star writer, no matter how disgusting the manuscript is, you have to read it, anyway, you will get used to it if you vomit a few more times." ”

"......" Wang Lanlan pursed her small mouth, and stopped talking.

She was actually quite moved in her heart, since she grew up so much, Liu Xing was the first person to put forward suggestions for revision of her novel so seriously. Liu Xing has read the manuscript of this novel more than 20 times, how can ordinary people be willing to do such a boring thing?

"Liu Xing, if you can't stand it, don't watch it. Wang Lanlan said seriously, "I also want to become a star writer, but my strength may not be up to it, if you help me like this, it's too hard." ”

"Wang Lanlan, you don't want to repay the debt, do you?"

"No, the 198 revisions you gave me helped me a lot. Even if this "Detective Conan: The Dark Shadow Man" does not end up being a star novel, I will pay you 19,800 yuan. ”

"Since I don't want to repay the debt, I will stop talking nonsense and continue to revise the draft. ”

"Okay. ”

Liu Xing and Wang Lanlan discussed the novel for a whole day, and the two repeatedly discussed and analyzed the various problems in the new book, tossing from morning to evening.

At about twelve o'clock in the evening, Wang Lanlan returned to her room, although she was a little sleepy, but she was not ready to rest.

"Liu Xing is helping me so hard, I have to work harder, don't let him down!"

Thinking of this, Wang Lanlan immediately made a cup of strong coffee, took a big sip, returned to the desk, and continued to revise the novel.

She has actually revised this manuscript hundreds of times, and since the day Liu Xing became unconscious in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", Wang Lanlan has been revising this manuscript for more than a month.

Every sentence and every word of this manuscript has been corrected many times.

If it was before, Wang Lanlan would have given up a long time ago, because it is an extremely boring thing to revise a manuscript so many times. Many novelists would rather rewrite a new novel than revise the manuscript of the novel.

Wang Lanlan was also about to give up, but when she saw that Liu Xing was still reading the manuscript carefully every day and helping her make revisions, Wang Lanlan knew that she should continue to work hard.

Under the orange lamp, Wang Lanlan sat alone at her desk, silently writing the manuscript. Whenever she was tired, she took a sip of strong coffee, rubbed her eyes with her little hands, and continued to revise the draft.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the room was silent, except for the soft sound of thin strokes......

……

Early the next morning, the first floor of the book bar.

Liu Shiming was boiling milk at the bar, preparing breakfast for everyone, looked at the time, it was already nine o'clock, and asked, "Ah Xing, why hasn't Lan Lan gotten up yet?"

"This girl is probably sleeping, so I'll go upstairs and call her. ”

Liu Xing came to the door of room 204 on the second floor and knocked on the door a few times, but did not hear Wang Lanlan's response. He took out the key, opened the door, and walked in.

I saw Wang Lanlan lying in front of the desk at this time, her little hands on her head, her eyes closed, and she was sleeping beautifully.

On the table, there is a coffee cup that has bottomed out, and next to the coffee cup, there is a thick stack of manuscripts.

"This girl revised the draft again last night?"

Coming to the desk, Liu Xing picked up the manuscript on the desktop, looked at it, and found that there were indeed many traces of new revisions in it.

Flipping through the manuscript from beginning to end, a stream of information flooded into my mind.

Title: Detective Conan: The Shadow Man

Genre mystery fiction

Rating: 1 star

Matching: 9.9%

Liu Xing was slightly stunned.

One star?

He was skeptical, and quickly turned over the manuscript of the novel again, but the test results remained unchanged.

This "Detective Conan: The Shadow Man" has really reached the one-star level!

"This girl should have had a burst of inspiration last night, taking the novel up a notch. ”

Seeing this, Liu Xing finally understood why Wang Lanlan was sleeping so hard now, this girl probably hadn't slept well in order to revise the draft these days.

"Detective Conan: The Dark Shadow Man" has now reached one star, which should be the best reward for Wang Lanlan.

Liu Xing wanted to tell her the good news, but seeing that she was sleeping so soundly, he decided not to wake her up for the time being.

With the manuscript of the novel, Liu Xing went down to the first floor.

"Ah Xing, Lan Lan still can't get up?"

"She stayed up late last night to write a novel and was still sleeping. Leave her alone, let's eat first. ”

While talking, Liu Xing, Liu Shiming, and Lu Yuxin sat around the bar and ate breakfast together.

"By the way, Ah Xing, the business of our book bar has not been good recently. ”

At this time, Liu Shiming took out a document from the drawer of the bar, handed it over, and said: "This is the sales report of the book bar for the first half of the month, and the situation is not very optimistic. ”

Liu Xing took the document and looked at it carefully.

It has been fifteen days since the opening of the Meteor Book Bar, and judging from this sales report, the sales of the book bar are now declining every day, and the single-day sales are getting less and less day by day.

On the first day of opening, the single-day sales were 27,700 yuan;

the next day, 26,800 yuan;

the third day, 25,200 yuan;

……

By the fifteenth day, the sales were only 19,600 yuan!

Although the book bar is still profitable and can still earn thousands of yuan a day, if sales cannot rebound, sooner or later there will be a loss.

"How could sales drop so much?" Liu Xing wondered.

Liu Shiming explained: "It should be that the traffic was stolen by other book bars. In the past half month, six book bars on Novel Street have held price reduction promotions, including Cai Fugui's Fugui Book Bar. ”

After her explanation, Liu Xing basically understood the situation, there are ten book bars in the novel street, and in terms of software and hardware facilities, the meteor book bar has no advantages.

The only advantage of Meteor Book Bar is that its price is relatively low.

Nowadays, old bookstores such as Fugui Bookstore have carried out price reduction promotions, and Meteor Bookstore has lost its last advantage, and the customer flow is naturally easy to be snatched away.

"What now?" Liu Shiming was a little uneasy, "Are we going to continue to reduce the price so that the guests don't run out?"

Lu Yuxin took a sip of hot milk and reminded: "If we reduce the price, other book bars should continue to reduce the price, these old book bars are obviously preparing to suppress Liu Xing's book bars." If we really set off a price war, we have no chance of winning, and the liquidity of Meteor Book Bar is only a few hundred thousand, which we can't afford to spend at all. ”

Liu Shiming frowned: "Can you only sit and wait for death?"

"It's a really tricky situation, the opponent is stronger than you, and it's obviously coming at you, we're going to be very passive. If you have enough liquidity, you can spend it with your opponents. Lu Yuxin re-opened her mouth and proposed, "Liu Xing, it's better to be like this, I still have some money in my card, you can use it as liquidity for emergencies first?"

"Mr. Lu, I appreciate your kindness, don't use it for the time being. ”

"Liu Xing, you don't have to feel embarrassed. Lu Yuxin said, "I have also put a lot of thought into this book bar, I don't want to watch it go out of business, and I will have to move then." ”

Liu Xing smiled and said, "Don't worry, the Meteor Book Bar is not so fragile, and I will solve the problem of the Book Bar." ”

The Meteor Book Bar is indeed facing a severe challenge now, and the six old book bars are working together to encircle and suppress it, and the Meteor Book Bar will become more and more difficult.

However, for Liu Xing, it is not difficult to solve the problem at hand.

The most important competitiveness of a book bar is not the hardware facilities or price, but the quality of the books.

Customers come to the book bar to read, and as long as there are good books in the book bar, it will naturally attract customers.

The ten book bars in Novel Street are all purchased from the book wholesale market, and their sources are almost the same. If you want to beat them, you need to find new sources.

This new source of goods is the most neglected, but the most massive—waste books!

There are a lot of good books buried in the waste books, and they are out-of-print good books, which are no longer available on the current market. As long as these good books can be found from the waste books, then the Meteor Book Bar has the capital to reverse the situation.

Finding good books in waste books is Liu Xing's strength.

"Yikes!!"

As he was talking, at this time, a girl's scream came from the room on the second floor, and after a while, I saw Wang Lanlan rushing down the stairs in a hurry, and said anxiously, "Liu Xing, something is wrong!"