Chapter 6 About Life, the Universe, and Everything

When Zhang Qiuxi crossed, the most popular in the original time and space was the online novel, there are many original websites of all sizes, and there is no threshold, as long as you learn the pinyin input method, you can create, some people say that this is the era of national writing.

Therefore, online novels burst out with whimsy and at the same time, the quality is also uneven, there are high-quality products that people can't bear to release, and there are also strange things that can't even be divided into paragraphs, and a large piece of a piece can't even use punctuation.

And in this time and space, there is no concept of online novels, although some people will post their works on the Internet, but they are all rejected, and the purpose is also to communicate with a group of literary and artistic young people, what are the shortcomings, as for readers, no one will be interested in works that can't even be published.

Zhang Qiuxi didn't want to lead the trend and create online novels, because people like to read on paper in this time and space, which is a good phenomenon, and even if she wants to, it is almost impossible to do it.

Looking up the number on the Internet, the total number of books published last year exceeded 10 billion, almost ten books per capita, while in the original time and space, this number was only about a fraction, and even the increase was also huge.

In this huge number, there are more than 200,000 kinds of books, which completely cover a variety of periodicals and all kinds of types, regardless of whether Zhang Qiuxi wants to copy ...... There are publishing channels for whatever type of writing.

Although she decided to write popular novels of entertainment and recreational nature, the scope is still very wide, mainly because she used to have a wide range of interests, and she has read a lot of all kinds of novels, and she is entangled with too many choices.

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"Ah Qiu, are you up?" When Zhang Qiuxi was thinking about washing, Li Yue's shout came from downstairs.

If the great Mr. Elephant didn't sneak away without saying hello, Zhang Qiuxi would be very willing to lie in bed and wait for Li Yue to call, and it is also very good to wake people up with a slap on his body, now, there is no need to maintain this bad habit.

"Get up, wait for me." Zhang Qiu responded with regret, and finally put on safety pants.

After wearing it, look in the mirror, the safety pants are still shorter than the school skirt, and if you don't encounter an updraft, you can't see it at all, and the absolute field is still the golden ratio of 4:1:2.5.

But this is where a man's beautiful dreams lie, and she doesn't seem to be happy about it at this time......

Carrying her schoolbag downstairs, Li Yue's first reaction when she saw her was to cover her skirt first, but Zhang Qiuxi had no intention of lifting her skirt today, but said a little lifelessly: "Let's go." ”

"Ah Qiu, you seem to be in a bad mood today, is it because of the rematch?" Li Yue's feelings are still so keen.

"It's not all, I received a call from the organizing committee last night, your sister is going to the magic capital for the semi-finals, isn't this intentional for men."

"It's really inconvenient to go to the magic capital."

"The point is that there is no reimbursement for board and lodging, and there is no payment for the publication of the work." Zhang Qiuxi was still a little depressed when she thought about it, and said, "So I decided to give up and let them play by themselves." ”

"You have a good chance to win the award, it's a pity to give up after being shortlisted." Li Yue had some regret on his face, and he didn't approve of Zhang Qiuxi giving up lightly, so Zhang Qiuxi said: "Well, it doesn't matter, this is not a driver's license test, you can't drive if you don't participate, and if you don't participate in the competition, you can be a writer." ”

"If you have that confidence, it really doesn't matter." Li Yue laughed again.

"I think so, but I haven't decided what to write about yet." Zhang Qiuxi was a little frustrated again, his eyes lit up and he asked, "That's right." Xiaoyue, what types of novels do you usually like to read? ”

Li Yue tilted his head, put his chin and index finger under his lips, and said while thinking: "There is no specific type, as long as there is something in the content that can attract me, no matter what type it is, I will like it, and it can also be said that no matter what genre, there are works I like." ”

Although Li Yue's facial expressions were cute to cheat at this time, he didn't give any constructive advice in this way.

Zhang Qiuxi shrugged his head and said, "My sister, can we chat without being cute?" ”

Li Yue smiled and said: "Although I don't know what you mean by selling cuteness, I've been interested in science fiction recently, but it's a pity that there are too few good-looking science fiction novels in China, almost all of them have annotations that are longer than the text, and the story is so thin that it's almost non-interesting." ”

Maybe annotations are the ontology?

"I've decided, just write science fiction, satisfy your interests first, and then save the Celestial Empire science fiction." Zhang Qiuxi clenched his fists and decided, Li Yue gave another expression of believing in you, and said, "Then I'll start looking forward to it." ”

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For Zhang Qiuxi, who is equivalent to carrying a storage disk, history, a subject that only needs to be memorized by rote, is particularly special and stressful, so after the class bell rang, she took out the lattice paper and began to copy it...... Write novels.

First, write the words "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky Way" in the middle of the first line, and then load the original text in your brain while wondering what needs to be changed.

The original author of this book is an Englishman, and the English version alone sold more than 14 million copies in the original time and space, which is an absolute bestseller, which meets Zhang Qiuxi's requirements to make money.

But because it's written by an Englishman, the whole novel is full of British humor, and the work of a little girl who was born and raised in Qingxi has not even been out of Qingxi is full of British humor, no matter how you look at it, it's very inconsistent.

Therefore, it is necessary to change the words to Chinese, rather than the style of the translated work at a glance, and Chinese humor is not necessarily lower than British humor, especially those wise jokes and quotations on the Internet, Zhang Qiuxi has always thought that it is the highlight of the Internet culture of the Celestial Empire.

has been on the Internet for so long, and he also thinks that he is a person with a great sense of humor, so it should not be a problem to rewrite it at all, Zhang Qiuxi is full of confidence in this.

Another point is that this novel was published in the original time and space in 79 years, and although the whimsy in the book is still amazing after decades, some things have become different from people, so they still need to be revised.

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At the end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way, in the unmarked silent void, hangs a tiny yellow sun that goes unnoticed. About 98 million miles from it, in orbit, is a completely insignificant blue-green asteroid.

The life forms that evolved from apes on this planet are so primitive that they think that mobile phones are a very remarkable idea.

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It can be seen from an introduction that the style of the whole novel is full of irony, no matter how Zhang Qiuxi plans to modify it, this must be retained, otherwise the novel will be meaningless.

The protagonist's surname is Deng, and his name is Dent, which comes from the fact that his parents, like most people, think that it is more expensive to take a foreigner-like name, and they call it foreign.

Originally, Dent was supposed to be called Deng James or Deng Michael, but due to the rule that the name between father and son in the family must cycle between two or three words, he had no choice but to give up the more foreign four-character name under the opposition of his father's father.

Dent had not found a job for several years after graduating from college, and his only possessions, the house left by his parents, were facing demolition because of the need to build a road.

At the same time, the Vogon people are preparing to build a hyperspace fast track, and the Earth is listed in the scope of the planned demolition, this bill has already shown fifty Earth years in the planning department on the main planet of Centauri, which is only four light years away from the Earth, but the earthlings have not complained about it......

With the "acquiescence" of the earthlings, the earth is destroyed, and Dent, with the help of his alien friends, hitchhikes a ride with the Vogonians and embarks on a magical interstellar journey.

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The original translation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was thirty-five chapters, with a total of more than 80,000 words, and the number of words after Zhang Qiuxi revised it was about the same.

80,000 words is not long, if it is an online novel, 8 million is very common, 80,000 words can only be regarded as the beginning, but if it is handwritten, this is enough to torture people, Zhang Qiuxi wrote until his hands were sore, and it took a week to get it done.

"This is the final part, how's that?" The first time I finished writing, of course, was to offer treasure to Li Yue, and Zhang Qiuxi would let Li Yue see it first every time he finished writing a part.

"I don't have any esoteric science, but it's much more interesting than the science fiction novels I've read." Li Yue first gave a pertinent answer, and then said: "But you still haven't said, why is the answer to the ultimate question about appointment, the universe, and one qiΔ“ 42?" ”

"Well, well, we'll talk about it when I write a sequel."

"So you're just talking nonsense, and you haven't thought about how to get round at all?" Li Yue made a rare complaint.

Who knows how he came up with the idea of using the number 42 jΓΉ as the answer, and in the end he didn't give an answer, but just said that to understand the answer, we must first figure out what this exact question is, and it is also seamless.

This answer has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the original time and space, and if you type this question into Google and some other websites, the website will respond with the answer 42.

"It doesn't matter anymore, anyway, look forward to my sequel, I'm going to write five books." Zhang Qiuxi blinked, if you use the vision of the boys in the same class, you will find that she is both naughty and amorous now......

"The next thing is to submit, it's a pity that I can't accompany you, but it doesn't matter, the result must be the same, and it will definitely be able to pass guΓ²." After reading the novel, Li Yue's blind confidence in Zhang Qiuxi has increased a lot.