Xiao Mengyue: "Write a manuscript quickly!" You've been writing a lot slower these days than before! Be conscious! ”

Zhao Yan glanced at her, squeezed out a smile and nodded.

Recently, selling songs and thinking about opening a website has really distracted him a lot, and he writes at least one chapter less every day, but now that I think about it, it really can't go on like this!

Closed the sword qi website, writer's garden, created a new document, called up the outline and read it for a while, Zhao Yan began to write, "Rebirth of the Great Sword" has been delivered two episodes, a total of 400,000 words, two days ago, the editor of Kyushu Reading told him that in view of the sales of a single episode of his book has exceeded 8,000 copies, he can publish a thin book in the future.

The so-called thin books are generally the patents of long-form bestsellers, and under normal circumstances, in order to save trouble, the publishing house will save about 200,000 words per episode, which not only saves a lot of work in printing and binding into a book, but also saves a lot of trouble in distribution. But there are exceptions!

For some best-selling books, in order to increase the stickiness of book fans and for more profits, publishers will choose to publish about 100,000 words per episode.

In the way of publishing an episode of 200,000 words, the time between two episodes of books to the market is generally one or two months apart, and if the author writes slowly, it is not uncommon for the interval between two episodes to be more than two months. During this period, it is normal for some readers to give up on pursuing the book.

In this case, one might ask, why don't all the books come out in one episode of 100,000 words?

This brings us to the question of efficiency!

According to the statistics of some publishers, most novels have 200,000 words per episode, compared with the cost in the publishing process, the benefit is the highest, only those works that sell more than 5,000 copies in a single episode, a single episode of 100,000 words will be more cost-effective.

Because of this, most of the Ming publishing houses set the number of words in a single episode at 200,000 words, and as for the thin book that publishes an episode of 100,000 words, the standard of each publishing house is different.

Some publishers require a single episode to sell 5,000 copies, while others require 6,000, 7,000, or 8,000 copies.

Generally, the stronger the publishing house, the higher the requirements for the issuance of thin books.

The word count of the thin book is not necessarily 100,000 words.

If the sales of a single episode are really against the sky, such as masters of the level of Long Yin and Guan Ying, the publishers they work with will often reduce the number of words in the thin book to 60,000 or 70,000 words.

To put it bluntly, it's all about efficiency!

Zhao Yan is naturally not qualified to release a thin book of 60,000 or 70,000 words per episode, but from the next episode, he only needs 100,000 words per episode.

There is no change in the income from manuscript fees, but it represents an honor! Honor to the best-selling author!

It's just that no amount of honor can eliminate Zhao Yan's boredom when he writes recently.

When he wrote "Full Moon Scimitar", the first fourteen chapters were copied from the original version in the dream, and only the last twenty-four chapters were really written by himself.

In the process of continuing, although there were all kinds of troubles and troubles, it was only the content of twenty-four chapters, and he gritted his teeth and passed, and the book "Full Moon Scimitar" was only about 250,000 words.

But now this "Rebirth of the Great Sword" is different, the two episodes that have been published are 400,000 words, Zhao Yan has never written such a long thing when he is so big, and the initial creative excitement of the book has long subsided without a trace, since 300,000 words, Zhao Yan feels more and more tired the more he writes.

After the excitement subsided, there was obviously no desire to continue writing in my heart, but for the sake of the future, and for the ideal I told Xiao Mengyue at the beginning, and the sense of responsibility after writing this book, Zhao Yan could only work hard to adjust his mentality and continue to write along the outline.

Until now, the plot of "The Great Adult Sword of Rebirth" has only advanced to about one-third of the time, and every time I think of this, Zhao Yan feels a headache.

In short, he's hit a bottleneck!

Anyone who has written a novel knows that every author will encounter one bottleneck after another in the process of writing, and if one bottleneck cannot be successfully passed, it will be difficult to continue later.

Zhao Yan's state is very bad tonight!

At the beginning of the new chapter, he stumbled and wrote for more than half an hour, and when he looked back, it was all nonsense, how he was not satisfied, and the number of words was only three or five hundred words.

Zhao Yan glanced at Xiao Mengyue, who was reading quietly in the video, gritted his teeth and deleted all the hundreds of words, and then annoyed at the empty document.

I know what plot to write in this chapter, but I can't find that smooth feeling no matter how I write it. Zhao Yan just frowned and looked at the document, and he didn't know how long it took, he suddenly heard Xiao Mengyue ask, "Hey! What happened to you? ”

With a turn of his eyes, Zhao Yan and Xiao Mengyue in the video looked at each other, and said helplessly: "I can't find the feeling, I don't know how to write!" ”

"That's ......"

Xiao Mengyue's eyebrows also frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, she whispered, "Otherwise, don't write tonight!" Go to bed early, maybe you'll sleep well tonight and write it tomorrow! ”

She hadn't written a long novel before, she hadn't encountered anything like this, and she could only suggest it.

Her suggestion Zhao Yan actually thought of just now, but after Xiao Mengyue put it forward, Zhao Yan's first reaction was to refuse.

"No way!"

As he spoke, Zhao Yan suddenly got up and said to Xiao Mengyue, "You don't have to worry about me!" I'm going to take a cold shower! I'll come back and write after washing! ”

Xiao Mengyue was a little stunned, Zhao Yan waved her hand, and had already gone to get a change of clothes, shampoo, and towels.

Everyone will encounter all kinds of difficulties in the process of doing things, and in the process of writing, everyone will encounter one bottleneck after another.

Some people, when they encounter a bottleneck, will doubt themselves and tell themselves in their hearts: It seems that I was not born to write books! Then choose to give up writing.

And some people, they will also encounter bottlenecks, and the previous kind of people are different, although they are also troubled by bottlenecks, they will choose to work hard to break through the bottleneck in front of them, so these people have succeeded, with the breakthrough of one bottleneck after another, they gradually become successful in the eyes of others!

In the eyes of many people, these successful writers are more talented in writing than themselves, and they were born to eat this business!

Is that really the case?

……

Zhao Yan has many shortcomings, but he has one thing that many people can't compare! That's the arrogance and stubbornness of his character!

Arrogance made him more eager to succeed than most, and stubbornness made him not allow himself to choose to retreat in the face of difficulties.

In the bathroom on the floor, Zhao Yan stood under the rain canopy with his face up, his eyes closed for a long time.

Cold water poured down his face, as if a comb was combing his thoughts, making his thoughts gradually become clearer, and distracting thoughts about selling songs, starting a novel website, etc., were abandoned by him little by little.

Time passed little by little, Zhao Yan stood there as if he had been clicked on the acupoint, letting the cold water continue to pour on his face and body, when his thinking became clear and pure, how to write how to write the new chapter content that he was not satisfied with finally gradually had a clue.

By the time he came out of the bathroom, more than half an hour had passed.

Zhao Yan, who returned to the front of the computer, although his state was not as good as when he was at his peak, his writing was finally not so painful, his hands were on the keyboard, and his thoughts continued, and lines of text jumped on the blank document.

Xiao Mengyue in the video looked at Zhao Yan who had entered the state, looked at it, and a faint smile escaped from her mouth.

(Thanks to Chen Da V5, Huoyu Xiao Xiao, Book Friend 130920174826384, and Minghui Tianxia for rewarding 100 starting coins, and thanks to cgm.586 for rewarding 200 starting coins.) ）