Chapter 7 The Way to Get Rich
Yes, writing a book is a business that requires almost no capital investment, and it can be called a "business without capital" like a roadblock. As long as you have the goods in your head and a story that can attract people, even newcomers can enter the industry! And is the "goods" in his mind a problem for Wen Xun? Don't forget, he has a "big killer" level ability that can see the future in his dreams! Even if he can't think of any attractive stories when he hears the news, he can still use a period of time to "dream", dreaming of a story that will sell well in a few years, isn't it?
Maybe just by memorizing the plot in a dream and then waking up and writing it yourself won't be a perfect copy of a blockbuster novel, but who says it has to be perfectly copied? Yes, in addition to good creativity, the best works also have very subtle points such as writing and wording. But who said that Wen Xun is going to write the best novels directly?
He heard the news to get rich, to avoid family tragedy, to treat his parents, not to be a writer! Even if the writing is not good, he has become a second-rate or third-rate young writer with only a good thinking framework and creativity, but as long as he can make money, he can do it!
It was because of the above reasons that Wen Xun finally decided to make money by writing books. But just when he was still thinking about whether he wanted to come up with a story that could sell on his own, it was time for him to dream again......
After Wen Xun, who was lying on the bed and tossing and turning until the early hours of the morning, fell asleep in a daze, he was surprised to find that he seemed to have entered a very high-end restaurant? No, it seems to be a very Western tea house again? Wen Xun only found that the scene in front of him made him not know where he was-
This place looks quite similar to the traditional tea house in Shuchuan, and there are many small square tables with tea and snacks on the small tables. But why are there sofas next to those little tables? Shouldn't it be a wooden chair? And the lighting of the whole store looks mild and dim, full of an atmosphere that makes people relax and then subconsciously whisper......
"Is this the legendary café?" Wen Xun, who had never been to a café, suddenly thought of something, "But why did I come to the café?" ”
Just when Wen Xun was wondering, he suddenly heard a voice from a table next to him, "Mr. Lin, this is the manuscript fee for the first three months of this year, a total of 30,000 yuan...... After hearing the words "30,000 yuan", Wen Xun suddenly became smart, he immediately turned his head to look, only to see a middle-aged man at the table next door taking out a check from the inner pocket of his suit and handing it to a young man.
The young man didn't look much older than Wen Xun, at most he was twenty-three or four. "So that someone who is not much older than me can earn 10,000 yuan a month?" Wen Xun was so surprised when he heard this that his jaw was about to dislocate. You must know that the salary of a 30-year-old intermediate technician is only 800 yuan or 900 yuan, not to mention the salary of a technician who has just graduated from college is only more than 300 yuan and 400 yuan! This person can earn 30 months' salary a month for a high-ranking student of the same age by writing a book?
You know, Wen Xun's father worked as a laborer and a mason in a construction site in the city, and then rode a tricycle every day to help others deliver goods, and then he was reluctant to buy high-protein things to replenish his body, which could bring more than 3,000 yuan of income to his family every month! If it weren't for the monthly subsidies from the county government and the municipal government, Wen Xun's family would not have been able to support his mother with severe kidney disease! But this young man, who is not a few years older than himself, can earn back 10,000 yuan a month by writing books?
If he can have the earning power of this young man when he hears the news, then he can support the whole family and let the whole family enjoy the joy of family together without worries!
Just when Wen Xun was thinking about what would happen if he could earn 10,000 yuan a month, he saw that the middle-aged man before handed the young man a paper bag again, and then said: "This is the sample book printed for you this time...... As soon as he heard this, Wen Xun suddenly stood up.
He walked quickly to the two people at the side table, and then looked at the young man who was carrying a paper bag with glowing eyes, and then said to the young man a little nervously and shyly: "May I ask you are Lin ...... Sir? I'm a fan of your books, I love your books, I wonder if you can sign me? ”
As he spoke, Wen Xun looked for the banknotes excitedly and panickedly like a real fan. This really can't be regarded as Wen Xun's talent as an actor, it was the first time for him to pretend to be like this to mess around, how could he be very calm and sophisticated when he got started for the first time? But his fledgling sense of youth just adds points to his current performance!
When the young man named Lin Changzhi, who wrote the book, looked at the young man in front of him in a daze, his surname Lin was still a little unresponsive to what had happened at this time. Fan? Signature? Becoming a star yourself? As soon as this thought appeared in his mind, it made Lin Changzhi feel fluttering. He didn't care about Wen Xun at this time, he didn't even say his name, and he didn't say what plot in the book he liked, but Meimei directly took a sample book of his own, and then wrote his name on the title page with a big stroke of the pen, and then excitedly gave the book to Wen Xun.
And Wen Xun, who deceived a book for free so easily, politely thanked him, and had to forcefully "refuse" the invitation of the writer Lin Da to invite him to dinner, and then quickly walked out of the café. Wen Xun walked to the street, found a corner where no one was, and began to study the free deceived book in his hand.
When he looked at it, he saw that the name of the book was "Diary of a Sand Monk". "Talking about Journey to the West?" When Wen Xun saw the title of this book, his heart sank violently - he didn't study Journey to the West too deeply, this time he didn't pick up cheap things and found something that couldn't be imitated!
Thinking of this, Wen Xun couldn't wait to open the book and began to look at the first diary. As a result, it doesn't matter if you look at it, you just look at Wen Xun stupidly! It turns out that this first diary is about Sha Seng and his two senior brothers secretly hunting game to eat every time they go out to make a relationship, and only after eating will they give the leftovers and cold rice to the master to eat.
Then on this day, the three of them "felt guilty", so they secretly minced the rabbit meat and mixed it in the rice and took it back to the master to eat. It turned out that the master Tang Seng was secretly hiding in the cave and eating roast chicken wings......
"What is this Ge Laozi?" Wen Xun originally thought that this book would start with the character of Sha Seng, and then begin to analyze the entire "Journey to the West" step by step. How could he have thought that this was the kind of thing in this book? What is this? A collection of jokes? What do you mean in terms - postmodern nonsensical deconstructionism? Retelling a story with an image that subverts traditional ideas?
Just this kind of mess can bring Mr. Nalin an income of 10,000 yuan a month? For the first time, Wen Xun began to feel that he couldn't understand the world. He flipped to the bottom of the book, looked at it, and found that it was the second printing! And the print run is 50,000 copies!
"Now everyone likes to read this kind of book?" Wen Xun thought in confusion that when he was a child, when he and his father were looking for bookstores and books in the county, they read martial arts novels. Wen Xun has been renting martial arts novels with his father since the first grade of primary school, and has been watching until he graduated from primary school. In 6 years, I saw at least 20 rental bookstores that went out of business! But no matter how you look at it, those martial arts novels can be regarded as telling a complete story seriously, not like this "Diary of a Sand Monk" is a collection of fragmented jokes!
The confused Wen Xun subconsciously glanced at the time of the first printing, but found that the time of the first printing should be the time when he was just in his third year of high school - that is, two years later! That is, in the real world, the book should not have been written yet?
Thinking of this, Wen Xun immediately threw out his head the confused thoughts about the market just now - he is in urgent need of money now, what does the market like! What the market likes, even if he doesn't like it anymore when he hears the news, as long as he can write it out, make money, and save the whole family!
So, Wen Xun immediately put aside his evaluation of the book and immediately began to memorize it from the first diary. Within five minutes, Wen Xun had the content of the first article firmly in his head - thanks to this "Sha Seng Diary" is a collection of Ge Laozi's postmodern nonsensical deconstructionist jokes, so basically there is nothing between each diary, and even the text is not very particular, the only highlight is "creativity"!
Isn't that easier to remember? Wen Xun only needs to memorize the order of the stalks and burdens in this joke, but what are Chinese students best at? Isn't it just rote memorization! When he was preparing for the political exam, Wen Xun was stunned and spent half a year memorizing all the questions and answers in the exam syllabus at one time! That's 16 pages and more than 100 pages!
After the test of politics, Wen Xun is still afraid of carrying things? And memorizing this stuff doesn't have to be the same as being a political topic, requiring every word to be wrong, as long as you remember the general plot. In this way, a diary of three or four hundred words can be condensed and summarized in almost ten or twenty words!
When Wen Xun woke up, he had memorized nearly ten diaries in his dream. After getting up, he didn't even bother to wash up, so he rushed to the desk and recorded the things he had memorized in his dreams with a pen and paper. As the saying goes, a good memory is better than a bad pen. What you write down on paper is guaranteed - how can you say that this is also a first draft? Even if you fight for copyright in the future, this is also very favorable evidence......
So for the next few days, Wen Xun was living this kind of life in his dreams every night and recording in the morning. After a few days like this, it is time to go to the school to collect the books and recognize the classroom......