Chapter 246: The First Step to Conquer the Island Country
Wang Ni and Wang Jiaxuan reached an agreement.
The method that Su Shichen said, if it came out of someone else's mouth, it would definitely be fantastic. Don't talk about others, even if it comes out of Su Shichen's mouth, it still seems a little unbelievable.
However, this bizarre method seems to be the most suitable at present, and the cost of publicity is basically zero.
This is a zero-cost, but it can burst out with a powerful Liliang propaganda jihua, of course, this jihua has very high requirements for strength.
What kind of jihua is this?
- Actually, it's very simple, that is, Su Shichen rushed out a wonderful and Japanese-style novella mystery novel in a short period of time, and submitted it to participate in a very popular mystery novel award, which is the previously mentioned Mephistopheles Award.
The Mephistopheles Award, this award is very special and is dedicated to discovering new writers. Free submission, no limit on length or short, and then select the best one through fierce competition, and that's probably the rule.
The influence of the Mephistopheles Award is not small, if Su Shichen gets the first place, it will definitely be able to gather a large part of the popularity in a short period of time, and then take advantage of this trend to launch the Japanese version of "Sherlock Holmes".
It's definitely a perfect and zero-cost promotional jihua. And the benefits of such publicity are not only that, think about it, in the case that Chinese mystery novels are not as good as those of the island country, a Chinese author beats many island country geniuses in the important competition of the island country and then wins the first place, this kind of plot is much more interesting than TV series and movies.
This kind of move is definitely something that can enhance the prestige of our country. This is definitely a huge help to Su Shichen, whose popularity development is already at a bottleneck.
But the crux of the matter is that this kind of award is not something you can think of.
The Mephistopheles Award is an award for the discovery of talents in island countries, which has very strong national limitations. In addition, there are many classic novels that emerge every year from the Mephistopheles Awards. Another point is that there is only one best Mephistopheles Award, and there will be no best short story and best long story each time, that is, if you want to be famous, you must get the strongest, and there is no third place and second place.
To get first place in such a big prize. It's really not an easy thing to do.
Wang Jiaxuan has no doubts about Su Shichen's talent, if he can write a book like the murder of Sherlock Holmes and the Orient Express, what else is there to doubt in the line of mystery novels?
The only problem is style. Therefore, Wang Jiaxuan added: "Su Da, if there is really any difficulty, don't force it, we will use all our strength to promote "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection"!" ”
The same author. Write a novel to promote another novel. No one has tried this method yet, so it is still unknown whether it will succeed.
In fact, Su Shichen is very sure of this method, you don't see Su Shichen when he first debuted on the Internet. At that time, the data of mortals was struggling, and Su Shichen serialized "The First Close Contact" on his blog, using close contact to promote mortals, and then successfully achieved the expected effect.
So this kind of method is already handy for him, and it will definitely succeed......
[Suitable date] This event ended successfully, but of course, it was not a success. Because Wang Jiaxuan didn't finish eating with him at all, Wang Jiaxuan booked a plane back to the island country. left directly, she is also the president of the publishing house, so she should be so busy.
Su Shichen went home honestly by himself: "Mom, is there anything to eat at home?" ”
"Ah Chen, didn't you say that you were eating out today, so you don't have to wait for you?" Mother Wei Xin said, "The cold meals at home have already been poured, or I'll give you a bowl of egg noodles?" ”
"Haode, mom, hurry up, I'm starving." Su Shichen touched his shriveled stomach.
A bowl of noodles was quickly ready, and my mother came out with hot egg noodles: "Come on, eat quickly!" ”
The noodles are steaming white and fragrant, but when you are hungry, you smell everything.
Su Shichen was really hungry, and he could eat a big bowl of noodles in a few clicks: "Mom, your skills are really getting better and better!" ”
"Alright, don't be poor!" Wei Xin packed up the dishes and chopsticks and returned to the kitchen.
And Su Shichen naturally returned to the bedroom, first lay on the bed for a short while, and now his stomach is a little supported, and he has some difficulty moving for a while.
After lying down for about half an hour, he slowly moved his body, got up and began to promote the great cause.
The Mephistopheles Award can be both long and short, Su Shichen roughly calculated, the proportion of long and medium novellas of the award-winning novels is about the same, the longest award-winning novel is more than 1.2 million words, and the shortest is only 15,000 words, so the length of the article is not directly related to the award.
But the length of the article has something to do with Su Shichen, and now he doesn't have time to write a novel of this length like "The Matrix", after all, he still has a lot of pressure on him, and the biggest pressure is naturally the challenge with Chu Xing......
So he set his sights on the short novella, and Su Shichen still determined the type.
This time the entries are as concise as possible, they must not exceed 150,000 words, and the more exciting the plot, the better, and the stronger the island style, the better.
Combining all the conditions of Su Shichen is actually short, classic, and Japanese style!
Su Shichen listed all these three requirements on the paper, and then bit the pen and pondered.
For other authors, it is very difficult to write a novel with such requirements in a short period of time, but for Su Shichen, it is very simple, and he found a lot of them in his head.
"Matsumoto Kiyohari's "Testimony", Nishimura Keitaro's "Atsumi Swindler", Yokozo Masashi's "Mysterious Pentagon Silver Coins", etc., these novels all meet these three conditions, especially the turning point of the ending of "Atsumi Swindler" Zuihou can be described as an unusual classic, but which one should I choose?"
On paper, there are more than 30 articles that meet these three conditions, and these more than 30 articles are all celebrity works. It is not a work known as the Five Tigers of Japanese reasoning, or a cutting-edge work in the literary world.
Looking at the many articles on the paper, it's really hard to choose.
People are like that. If there is only one choice, you will choose without hesitation, but often when faced with a lot of choices, you will be overwhelmed. Now Su Shichen is like this, in the face of so many classics, he feels a trace of hesitation.
"By the way, let's see what the level of this Shijie island country mystery novel is, and then make a plan."
Thinking of this, Su Shichen opened the official website. I found the works that have won the Mephistopheles Award over the years, and then selected a few of the award-winning short mystery novels to read.
In the previous life, the earth could find the electronic version by searching for the title of the book on the Internet, which is the legendary pirated version. But not here.
bought the electronic version on the Internet, five short mystery novels, Su Shichen calmed down and quickly read the five, and exhaled heavily. When he is stressed, Su Shichen always likes to use this way to soothe it.
"The level of this Shijie island country mystery novel is definitely not low. It's very difficult to get the best out of it without coming up with a little bit of dry stuff. ”
What is dry goods, it is a mystery novel that has a protrusion in a certain aspect, such as "The Murder of the Black Cat Hotel" can be said to be a novel that gives full play to the dismemberment of the faceless corpse; "Silent Alibi" is a very typical social mystery novel that exposes human nature......
"Otherwise, move out of the four strange books of the island country?" This idea suddenly appeared in Su Shichen's head, there are five tigers in Japanese mystery novels, but on top of this, there are more classic mystery books "Murder in the Black Death Hall", "Brain Hell", "Offering to Nothingness", and "Lost Happiness in the Box".
These four books are absolutely earth-shattering, look at the titles of these books...... One of the two giants of mystery heretical literature ("Murder in the Black Death Hall"), the highest masterpiece of Japanese detective fiction ("A Gift to Nothingness"), a novel with higher artistic value beyond the mystery novel genre ("Brain Hell"), and a mystery novel that can make you doubt your own eyeballs ("Lost Joy in the Box"), you can't get the first place if you don't believe in any of these four books.
"Forget it. A novel of this caliber should not appear as propaganda for another novel. Su Shichen shaved the four books off the list. These books are to be written separately and separately.
Zuihou Su Shichen chose among the names on the paper, and Zuihou felt that the two were very suitable - "Knock Dong Suspension Bridge Falling" and "Incomplete Crime".
These two novels are known for their logic, the former "Dong Dong Suspension Bridge Falling" This novel is called "Crazy Word Game Reasoning", after reading this novel, you definitely have the idea of never reading this author's novel next time, because from the text of "Dong Dong Suspension Bridge Falling", you can realize that the author Ayatsuji pedestrian is completely a little cheap look of "I just pit you", Su Shichen likes this kind of teasing readers, making readers love and hate.
And the latter's perfect time, perfect place, perfect human and physical evidence, is called the pinnacle of challenging the limits of reasoning, well, in fact, there is another reason, "Incomplete Crime" is one of the incidents of the Ghost Police Department, and the Ghost Police Department is known as the strongest police detective in history, and it is a series that claims to be able to confront the Sherlock Holmes detective collection, this kind of series Su Shichen does not want to give up.
Su Shichen is reluctant to give up these two parts, how can he have both fish and bear paws?
Is it "Knock Knock Suspension Bridge Falling" or "Incomplete Crime"? Su Shichen hesitated.
It's an ordeal!
Zuihou Su Shichen gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, in order to win the Mephistopheles Award for insurance and accumulate popularity for "Sherlock Holmes", Su Shichen made a very difficult decision......
Su Shichen started the hard work, which can be described as a hurry, but it is worth it to be tired. For the first place in the Mephistopheles Award, everything is worth it, and the first step in conquering the island nation cannot be sloppy.
Su Shichen also heard a good news during this busy period, the Honghuang series of dolls designed according to his description can finally be born, when Su Shichen heard the news, it can be said that he was quite excited, and the opportunity to spread his influence has finally come.
"Aunt, did you do what I said?"
"Well, it's already done," Wang Ni hesitated for a moment and asked, "Xiao Chen, is it really such a big fanfare?" ”
"Of course, it is necessary not only to make a big splash, but also to make a big noise, preferably all over the city, I want to create a culture this time!!" Su Shichen's gaze was firm and categorical.
It's like Liu Tianwang's song, I waited for a long time and finally waited for today, and after a dream for a long time, my dream finally came true, and this time I want to play a big ...... (To be continued......)
PS:Ps:Modified some Mephistopheles Awards.,After all, this is another world.,In addition, there was an accident with the notebook today.,So a chapter in the Internet café.,It's hard to save the manuscript.,Something happened to the update and it was delayed.。
The kitten is really unlucky.,Yesterday just revised the update time.,Today there was an accident.,It's a slap in the face again.,It's so painful.。
I ask for your understanding. Above!