Chapter 135: Strong Contrast
Although "Dragon's Head" is a work recommended by Wang Defu, but because Hang Shuitao, a senior editor, naturally does not trust the newcomer author, what kind of "ink", he has never even heard of it, how can his works be compared with the works of powerful authors such as "The Beauty of the Country" and "The City of Love"?
So he thinks that "Dragon's Head" can only win a consoling bronze award if it is dead, and this rookie author can win the bronze award of the "Magic Capital Popular Award", and he feels that the other party should be satisfied, so that he can also give Wang Defu face.
In Hang Shuitao's mind, Wang Defu recommended the work "Dragon Head" to him, which was nothing more than because of human affection, otherwise his attitude would not be so ambiguous, and only said that he should evaluate "Dragon Head" objectively and fairly, rather than asking him to let "Dragon Head" win any awards.
The possibility of the Gold Award is basically zero, just because the capital power behind "The Beauty of the Country" and "The Devil's City" is quite strong, and various public relations expenses, as well as the momentum for their respective works, clearly make this year's "Magic City Popular Awards" a stage for the confrontation between these two works.
Even if the final winner of the Gold Award can only be one of the two, the sales of another work will definitely not be bad, and there is a great possibility of achieving a win-win situation in the end.
Among the two works of "The Beauty of the Country" and "The Devil's Love", Hang Shuitao personally prefers "The Devil's Love", because this work is more suitable for male readers to read, telling the story of a small citizen of the Devil's City, how to hunt for beauty in this urban world.
Xu Tianxiao, the author of this "Love Obsessed with the Demon Capital", is not very good at writing, but it is very down-to-earth, whether it is the description of the environment or the dialogue of the characters, it will make the readers living in the magic capital feel intimate.
And the YY degree of this work is also relatively moderate, and readers read it with a special sense of reality and substitution, which shows that its author Xu Tianxiao has rich experience, and the work he writes is not the kind of castle in the air, so exaggerated that he can't see it.
Perhaps the biggest flaw of "Love and Demons" is that the main line is not clear enough, the idea is not high enough, and the subject matter is not novel.
It's just that the online texts of later generations will basically have a system of customized gold fingers, and they can also directly release various tasks to keep the main line clear, but "Love and Magic Capital" lacks such a gold finger, only the implicit gold finger "good luck", which makes the counterattack of the protagonist of the whole work rely on his good luck, at first readers may feel quite enjoyable, but after a long serialization, it will definitely make readers feel refreshed and repeated, and the follow-up is weak.
Therefore, "Love and Magic City" is actually a work that relies on the intriguing and fascinating early stage to win, and its later stage may not be satisfactory.
is often hated to sing "The Beauty of the Country", as an overhead ancient romance, its plot layout gives people a very grand feeling, as if it is a dynasty based on a dynasty in the history of the world, but the female author's defects are also typical, that is, no matter how grand her plot layout is, "The Beauty of the Country" still tells a love story.
Of course, the heroine is like the title of the book.,It's a beauty who has captivated the country and the city.,It's just that her life experience is also very miserable.,Step by step to become a concubine or even a queen.,But a small country where she is located was destroyed.,And then saved by a talented and strategic-minded male protagonist......
"The Beauty of the Country" probably tells such a story of the male and female protagonists calculating the countries while falling in love in the context of troubled times, and the prototype character of the male protagonist is probably equivalent to Wolong Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms, anyway, the monarch who wants to compete in the world wants to get his assistance.
This story is still very exciting for readers who like ancient backgrounds, but compared to the more exciting romance part of the story, the strategy part is a bit child's play, childish, the male protagonist said that he is the first strategist in the world, but the strategy is not a yang scheme, it is all a variety of conspiracy methods, it can only be said that the female author wants to write a more good at yang conspiracy, the general trend of the strategist, it is really difficult.
Therefore, for male readers, the overhead ancient romance like "The Beauty of the Country" is not so attractive, even if they go to replace the male protagonist, they will not feel so cool, after all, the heroine of the beauty of the country has too many ambiguous objects, like the kind of loyal dog who loves the heroine deeply, may be the standard configuration of this kind of female romance.
In any case, "Love Lost Magic City" and "The Beauty of the Country" are indeed very suitable for readers' pastime Mandarin duck butterfly pie, one is more suitable for men to read, and the other is for female readers, in fact, there is no huge competition between the two, so the hype behind their respective capital forces is conducive to both of them selling good sales.
Hang Shuitao looked at "The Dragon's Head" at this time, and he didn't have much sense of expectation, but he just felt that there would no longer be any suspense in this year's "Magic Capital Popular Awards".
However, what he didn't expect was that he was just casually watching such a "newcomer's new work" at the beginning, and he was accidentally fascinated!
He just read the beginning, and he felt that the work "Dragon Head" was simply everyone's work, and the kind of text full of pictures made him feel like he was watching a blockbuster shot by a big director!
Of course, the background of this blockbuster is also in the magic capital, but compared with the magic capital in "Love Lost in the Demon City", the magic capital in "Dragon Head" is undoubtedly more textured!
For example, the magic capital in "Love and Magic City" is like a photo taken casually by ordinary people with an ordinary mobile phone, and the magic capital in "Dragon Head" is like a photo taken by a photography master with the top SLR, and then it has been refined and polished in the later stage, and finally the most perfect film is presented to all audiences.
Hang Shuitao's feeling is obviously not wrong, after all, "Love and Demons" is a long serial, it is still in creation, and the author with the pen name "Xu Shi Saburo" has to submit the manuscript every week, and the creator cannot always maintain the best state, sometimes he must have a transition of water and water, such a "Love Obsessed Demon Capital", how can he finish writing with Wang Defu in one go, and the carefully revised "Dragon Head"?
Therefore, as the senior editor of "Monthly", it didn't take long for Hang Shuitao to see how terrifying the creative strength of "Dragon's Head" was!