Mito didn't write fast, not only because he wasn't used to Japanese, but also because the manuscript paper had to be written from top to bottom, which was another very unfamiliar way of writing, and there was no way, so you could write horizontally in daily life, and if you wanted to present the manuscript paper to the publisher, you had to write it vertically.

Japanese manuscripts are generally 20 by 20 squares, and the middle of the manuscript paper is separated by a butterfly print, which is convenient when the manuscript paper is folded in half, and 400 squares for one page is a common rule in the Taisho period.

Unlike Huaguo Publishing, which calculates the manuscript fee according to the number of words, the preliminary manuscript fee in the Japanese publishing industry is calculated according to the number of pages submitted by the author.

So if you use a 25 by 25 manuscript paper, it's a great loss for the author, isn't it?

The cost of a single page of manuscript material ranges from a few thousand yen, but of course this is just an ordinary writer.

For example, if a book has a total of 400 sheets of manuscript paper, and each manuscript material is 5,000 yen, then the preliminary manuscript material for the entire book is 2 million yuan.

In other words, as long as a book is favored by the publisher, even if a few books are not sold after the official publication, the publisher will pay the original manuscript to the author, and the subsequent sales dividend is another matter.

But the premise is that the content written should be favored by the publisher.

I don't know how many works are submitted to publishers every year, but only a few are finally able to be published.

However, Mito Moon is very confident in the words he writes, or rather, in the original work.

"The Mystery of Roger"

This is one of the masterpieces of the original world novel that Mito Moon is preparing to overturn, the mystery guru Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie can be called a master of reasoning, not only because Agatha's works are the best-sellers, but also because she can innovate when her predecessors have already written a bunch of works, creating a number of classic new modes and situations of reasoning.

And "The Mystery of Roger" is her famous work.

The story of "The Mystery of Roger" is very 'simple'.

A rich widow committed suicide, and as a doctor, I was called to do a simple help, and then I was invited to talk to the owner of a country house, and the owner of the villa told me that the widow had told the owner of the villa that she had murdered her husband herself, and that during this year the rich widow had been blackmailed by a mysterious person, during which she received a letter from the widow revealing the blackmailer, and asked me to leave before reading it.

When I got home afterward, I received a phone call more than an hour later that the owner of the villa, Roger, had been murdered......

Then the professional detectives come to the villa to find out, and call in and out of the villa that night and others who might have murdered Roger.

These people who were called all had suspicious reasons for killing Roger.

Roger's brother's widow is living on a tight budget and lacks money.

The adopted son's shoes were the same as the shoe prints in the vicinity of the scene, and he was heard talking unfavorably.

The housekeeper likes to eavesdrop on other people's conversations and has a history of extortion......

Everyone has a motive and reason for committing the crime, and they are suspicious of each other.

Up to this point, everything looks like an ordinary mystery novel, without much novelty, until the end, when the stroke of genius makes the whole work suddenly sublimated.

The detective finally pointed out that the real murderer is 'me'!

As a doctor, I killed Roger, the owner of the villa, and the mysterious man who has been blackmailing the widow for a year!

And I am also the main perspective of the whole novel.

"Sophistry, the pioneering work of narrative trickery." Mito Tsuki reflects on the significant impact this work had on the history of mystery fiction.

After the publication of "The Mystery of Roger", this method of narrative trajectory was used by countless people, and the work of its kind only has a huge shock when read for the first time, but this does not in any way hinder the great position of Roger Mystery in the history of mystery fiction.

Even though the case of the whole novel can only be said to be of a medium level, the final opening moment makes the work instantly sublimated.

This subjective perspective is the murderer's narrative method, which is undoubtedly a betrayal of traditional ontological reasoning.

As Mito Tsuki, who has a wealth of writing experience, knows very well that the main point of view of a book, or the 'focal character', is a way to convey feelings to the reader, and in the long sea of stories, the reader can only know what happened during the journey of the story through the focus character.

After all, in essence, all stories are subjective rather than objective, and since they are subjective, they need to have a strong direction like a human being, and this is especially true of mystery novels, as the focal point of the story's vision, the characters create feelings for the reader, arousing the reader's angry criticism or empathetic sadness and joy.

The ending of "Roger's Mystery" is the murderer, betrayal, innovation,

After reading a large number of famous works in the world of Kexue, Mito Moon found that there are still masterpieces by Conan Doyle, Edogawa Ranbu, and Agatha in this world, but among these masterpieces, "Roger's Mystery" has mysteriously disappeared.

Perhaps this narrative trickery is in conflict with the ontological and neo-bengeological worldview of the world of Kexue, just like the opposition between science and magic.

But since Agatha of this world has left out this masterpiece, Mito Moon doesn't mind re-showing it to the world.

However, the background of the work, the character design, etc., need to be modified, as well as the entire case......

After all, this is Japan as it enters the 21st century, not Britain as it did at the beginning of the 20th century.

"The name can't be called "The Mystery of Roger" anymore, let's call it "The Mystery of Rice Flower" ......, the one who was killed was a rich man with the surname Rice Flower."

Mito sometimes bites the tip of the pen, sometimes uses an eraser to wipe the pencil, and there are all kinds of annotations and transpositions on the manuscript paper from time to time, and now it is not an electronic office, these are inevitable things, if you see the manuscript paper of those great writers, it will make people feel even more messy, and there will often be large black messy deletions on it.

Fortunately, Mitotsuki's fonts more or less make up for the messy feeling caused by the revisions, but few people who can write on manuscript paper and then supply it to the publishing house should have poor handwriting.

After one night's hard work, Mito Moon managed to write twenty-eight pages.

On a page of 400 grids, his writing speed can be said to be amazing, after all, this is handwriting, not a keyboard or a typewriter.

"I'm already writing a tenth of the time, and at this rate, I can continue to write during the day when I'm at school, and I can finish it in less than a week."

He rubbed his fingers, and there was a crackling between his bones.

Mito checked the twenty-eight pages and nodded in satisfaction when she found that there were no grammatical errors.