But three days after Guo Pinyuan finished speaking, he was slapped on the head.

The release of the new issue of the magazine was yesterday, and the statistics of the flash report are today, but when Guo Pinyuan took over the ranking of the flash report, was the first thought mistaken?

"No. 11 in "Chess Soul"?"

But he looked at it carefully several times, and even called up the statistical data, but the results of the ranking remained unchanged.

It's not a mistake in the editor's statistics, but it's really this shocking ranking, although this is just the result of the quick report, but Guo Pinyuan has been an editor for so long, and there has never been a work outside the top 10 in the quick report, and it can be ranked in the top 5 when it comes to this newspaper, in a sense, the quick report is a ranking estimate of this newspaper.

"It's not good, it's really not good."

No. 11,It's not an intolerable result in itself.,Ranked in the middle of the entire Fantasy magazine.,But the problem is.,It's still the second word.,From the first in the first episode to the current 11.,Will this speed be a little too fast?

What exactly causes such an outcome?

Guo Pinyuan has carefully read the original manuscripts created by Liang Yu and Chen Nan, and it can be said that the story of the second episode is a perfect extension of the first episode, and there is no sudden collapse of the plot or content that disgusts the reader.

"Sure enough." But after Ye Chuan glanced at the rankings, he didn't feel surprised.

"Mr. Ye Chuan, do you know what the reason is?" At this point, Guo Pinyuan can't care about the reservedness of the editor, not to mention that Ye Chuan helped Guo Pinyuan when he fought for Liang Yu and Chen Nan, and he is not so much an independent bystander as an accomplice.

Ye Chuan looked at the table and sighed lightly: "First of all, this issue of "Bad People", which has been suspended, has been republished, and there is a new serial, which is bound to take away part of the popularity, and secondly, it is also the biggest problem that "Chess Soul" is facing now. The first episode is not surprising because of the publicity of the previous Red Dragon Award winners, coupled with the novelty of the theme of Go, which has attracted a lot of attention from readers, but by the time of the second episode, a large part of the readers' interest has declined. As I said before the serialization, Go is quite a niche thing after all, and it is not easy to gain support, especially in the environment of Fantasy magazine, which is facing a halving without the support of readers, which is very serious. ”

How could Guo Pinyuan not know the truth of "......", but since he chose to believe them, there was nothing to complain about.

"Mr. Ye Chuan, what should I do now?"

"What should I do?" Ye Chuan lifted his glasses and asked: "You are the editor in charge of them, why do you ask me this question, I still want to ask you, what are you going to do?" ”

"I ......" If it's a question that can be answered so easily, there is no need to be so distressed.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, your previous ambition, insisting on letting these two little guys cooperate, although in the end two middle school students won the Red Dragon Award and won the serialization, but the editorial department and the senior management of the Hundred Birds Club are not satisfied with this matter, and many people are standing on a high place waiting to see your jokes."

How could Guo Pinyan not know this kind of thing, a wry smile appeared on his face: "Mr. Ye Chuan, don't say cool things, hurry up and give me advice." ”

Ye Chuan shrugged his shoulders: "What is there to think about, do you know Go, can you tell them how to draw tricks that can attract readers, can't you." So what else is there to say? ”

"Hey, you mean to leave the two of them to fend for themselves?" Guo Pinyuan was stunned.

"I didn't say that, but I think you're a little dazed right now and don't understand the role of an editor." Ye Chuan glanced at Guo Pinyuan, sighed, and said earnestly as if he were his own students: "We are editors, and we can never think about stories and draw on behalf of the author, if the editor can do it, why do you have to be an editor, can't you just draw comics by yourself?" ”

"I know, but ......"

"It's nothing, you have to figure it out, the author of this comic is now more talented in creation than you and me, which has been recognized by you and me, as well as the SD editor and the Red Dragon Award judges. Although the editor's opinion is sometimes different from that of the readers, as far as I am concerned, if I am the editor in charge of the two of them, I will not let them change the existing storyline and main line, but firmly let them continue to serialize at their own pace, after all, the charm of Liangyu story lies in the deep character creation and diversified plot. ”

"But if you don't rank well......"

will be cut in half!

"That's right, because Fantasy is a highly commercial comic magazine, so it won't wait for the original work to work slowly, and there are many authors who have obviously thought about a lot of interesting settings and plots that may have just started and been cut off, so the question now is not how to improve the ranking and attract more readers, but how to stabilize these readers who still vote for "Chess Soul".

"That is to say......"

"Solidify the reader's expectations and draw what they want to see." Ye Chuan said.

At first glance, this may sound like nonsense, but there is a philosophical point in the words of actual taste.

Ye Chuan further explained: "The so-called quick report, in fact, at the beginning, was to let the author understand whether his latest sentence was popular with readers, so as to make adjustments, if the quick report is not satisfactory, then quickly cut off the boring plot, start a new story This is the usual practice." ”

Guo Pinyuan didn't interject and listened patiently to Ye Chuan's explanation.

But this method is not suitable for "Chess Soul", because it is an unpopular genre of story comics, so the initial low tide is predictable. If too much unnecessary content is prevaricated in order to compete for popularity, it will accelerate the death of this work, don't think about what better rankings to strive for, just play honestly and steadily, attract those who are willing to vote for the soul of chess, and prevent the results from continuing to decline. ”

Guo Pinyuan suddenly realized: "Fantasy has 3 optional places for popular works in each reader survey form, although it seems to be equivalent to one-seventh of the serialized works of Fantasy, but the vote rate of the average work is far lower than this probability, there are special statistics, as long as two out of ten readers fill in, it can become a popular serial, so as to avoid being cut in half." ”

"That's right,Combat comics like "Dragon Pig",Because the audience is extremely wide,The competition is very fierce among the first favorite and second favorite works,Among them, those pillar-level comics are significantly ahead,Occupy most of the votes,According to the habit of ordinary people voting,Usually not all three choose the same type of comics,Instead, the third favorite work is voted for those funny comics or works that perform well in this issue,Therefore,Although many partial works do not get high votes,But the ranking is quite stable。

"In other words, we must seize the votes of these readers and stabilize the popularity of "Chess Soul" first!"

"That's right." Ye Chuan nodded with a teachable look.

Guo Pinyuan held his chin and thought for a long time: "So what should I do?" ”

With a bang, Ye Chuan fell head-on and turned over on his back.

When he finally got up from the ground, he said seriously: "Listen, Lao Guo, I know that you are under a lot of pressure now, but as an editor, you must resist it and calm down." If even you are in a hurry and have no confidence, how can those immature middle school students keep their calm, do you understand? ”

“…… I understand. ”

Not long ago, he said to Liang Yu and Chen Nan, "It's a good job, just continue to work hard according to this momentum", but it's only been a week, why did the score drop to 11, it felt like a slap in the face, and he kept swelling his face.

I can't say it, I can't say it decisively, but as the editor in charge, there are some things that I can't escape, is it really like Ye Chuan said, don't do anything, just look forward to the improvement of my grades, I'm sorry, this Guo Pinyuan can't do it even if he has a big nerve.

So what should I do, Guo Pinyuan scratched his scalp and didn't come up with a solution.

It was Thursday, and the editor was supposed to go to the author to receive the manuscript on this day, but the work was still suppressed by Guo Pinyuan, and the time was postponed, and he called Liang Yu and Chen Nan respectively to ask if they would find time to meet together this week. For Chen Nan, who is still unfamiliar with this place, she can't go anywhere no matter how far she goes, she usually wanders around, and the person who is really responsible for answering this question is Liang Yu, after all, it takes four hours to go back and forth from her Cangnan Women's College to the studio where Chen Nan lives, which is not counting the time spent in the middle class.

"Okay, I'll come over on Saturday morning."

"Well, let's leave the specifics until we meet." Guo Pinyuan hung up the phone casually.

In front of him was a copy of the results of this week's readers' popularity survey, and the final ranking of "Chess Soul" was 9th, up two places from the flash report, and barely squeezed into the top ten.

But for Guo Pinyuan, this is only a life-saving rather than a relief.

We must not be careless, in fact, there is no way back.

His eyes fell on the stacks of cardboard boxes ready to be mailed next to his heels, and it was up to him whether he lived or died.