"How is the sales of the single book of "Chess Soul" now?" Liang Yu asked along the topic.

"Well,The latest sixth volume has sold 800,000 copies.,And the highest sales of a single volume of "Chess Soul" have reached 1.17 million.,It can be said that it's in the limelight.,So I predict that after your animation starts,The highest sales of a single book will soon break 150W.,Anyway, you're also a popular cartoonist in Fantasy now.。

"Well, Editor Guo, what you said is really exaggerated." Liang Yu scratched his sideburns a little embarrassedly and said.

"Hahaha, don't be shy, don't be shy." Guo Pinyuan smiled and waved his hand: "I think you two can puff up your chest and accept this point that you are popular cartoonists, after all, the number on the bank card of the two of you every month will not lie, in this industry, although it cannot be generalized, but the author's income is indeed a strong proof of his own strength." ”

Liang Yu was also very happy to hear Guo Pinyuan's affirmation, although she had never confirmed what the monthly income on the bank card was, but according to her mother, she had to be startled when she sent a text message every month, afraid that the bank had put a few more zeros or something, and for the first time she went to the bank to ask.

Liang Yu persuaded his mother to use the money to buy something, or as living expenses, but her mother insisted on helping Liang Yu save the money.

But the matter of money is a digression, Chen Nan's reaction is much calmer than Liang Yu, her money has always been kept by herself, and she naturally knows what the specific situation is, and now she opened her mouth to correct the topic: "Editor Guo, let's talk about the serialization." ”

"Well," since Chen Nan asked for this, Guo Pinyuan also stopped the irrelevant topic, turned sideways to open the satchel he was carrying, and took out a form from it: "The score of this newspaper of "Chess Soul" this week is ninth. ”

"Ninth?" Chen Nan took the newspaper's watch and glanced at it, then frowned: "273 votes, 3 votes short of eighth place." ”

"That's a mediocre grade." Liang Yu took a sip of tea and said, in her impression, this result is not good, after all, the chess soul has been squeezing into the top 5 before, and rarely falls out of this ranking.

"Well, it's okay," Guo Pinyuan's reaction was more optimistic: "After all, the plot of Zuo Wei's great power on the Internet has come to an end, and now the plot of chasing Xiaoliang is not bad, but there is a slight gap with the previous plot arrangement, but this situation is inevitable in the long serial, and the eighth place is not bad, compared to other works, the ranking of "Chess Soul" in Fantasy magazine is still quite stable.

"Hmm." Liang Yu quickly accepted Guo Pinyuan's statement.

The serialization of "Chess Soul" will be a year in two months, Liang Yu also has a lot of feelings about the creation of comic plots, and it is no longer like a year ago that she was ignorant, all with the enthusiasm that she wants to fulfill the girl's wish.

In her opinion, most of the long-form comics serialized in Fantasy magazine follow the pattern of small paragraphs on large paragraphs. If the whole story is segmented, then the whole long story should be divided into several large paragraphs, corresponding to the human world, the demon world, the universe and other backgrounds, in the sports category is the district competition, the county competition, the national competition, the international competition, etc., and the large paragraphs are derived from many small chapters, these chapters are usually a short-term goal, an enemy, or an important conflict, around these, the author describes a small story with a beginning and a turn to promote the plot.

How to write a good story and arrange conflicts is not to mention, that is what every Fantasy magazine writer needs to consider.

It's just that from the perspective of deconstruction alone, as the part of the plot chapter foreshadowing, it is relatively boring in the entire story system, and the foreshadowing is too long** does not appear for a long time, at this time, some impetuous readers will lose patience, and some new readers will simply abandon the pit and change their homes, and the voter turnout and support rate will inevitably decline, and it will even be accompanied by many complaints, and the results will also plummet, which is a difficult hurdle for new authors and even many old authors.

But for Liang Yu, she has adapted to this state of mind. There have been many situations like this in "Chess Soul" before, but fortunately, they persevered and achieved today's results. Among them, it is naturally indispensable for them to edit Guo Pinyuan's credit, as a Bole who single-handedly promoted the cooperation between Liang Yu and Chen Nan, Guo Pinyuan has paid a lot in the open and secret, if it weren't for his original insistence, "Chess Soul" would have been ruined in a series of blows even if it was still launched, and there would have been no such thing as a popular writer today, with a single book selling more than one million and comic animation.

"But is that really good?" What surprised Liang Yu and Guo Pinyuan was Chen Nan's reaction.

"What's good?"

"I'm talking about the current plot direction." Chen Nan stared at the ranking list and said.

This time, Liang Yu was stunned: "Is there anything wrong with the recent plot?" ”

She hasn't come to Chen Nan much recently because she has been busy with exams and club activities, and the plot issues are all discussed by her and Guo Pinyuan, and then the latter will transfer the storyboard to Chen Nan, and occasionally contact her on the phone a few times, but she hasn't heard Chen Nan talk about it.

As soon as these words came out, Guo Pinyuan also asked strangely: "Chen Nan, do you think there is anything wrong with the plot, when I told you last time, didn't you think it was not bad?" ”

"It's good," Chen Nan admitted, but she tilted her head, but her gaze moved away slightly: "But it's obviously more popular Zuo Wei, isn't it, the last popularity survey was also, if I had been painting Ah Guang and Xiao Liang, I wouldn't say anything, but why put such a popular character and ignore it, but to portray those useless supporting characters, like these supporting characters in other comics, shouldn't they all set off the protagonist and exist, instead of spending so much effort to portray these irrelevant characters, It's better to focus on Ah Guang, Xiao Liang and Zuo Wei, so that they can play the game quickly, which is also what readers want to see, right? ”

“……”

Liang Yu understood as soon as she heard it, Chen Nan just thought that her foreshadowing was too long, which affected the results of the ranking, although she also understood that focusing on the protagonist, and even the popular characters, and letting them cause contradictions, was to be able to attract the attention of readers, but for the story she conceived, it was a bit of a taste of exhaustion.

Liang Yu thought about it seriously and felt that he couldn't back down on this issue, otherwise it would not only be irresponsible for the work, but also a harm to Chen Nan, who had been painting seriously.

"Chen Nan, I understand what you said, but stories always need a process of development, if there are only contradictions, conflicts and confrontations, it will only make readers feel bored and confused. Moreover, Go is a competition between two people, no matter how powerful a person is, if there is no opponent commensurate with him, then even if he wins, there is no joy at all. ”

"That's right, Chen Nan, the hero of this story is Ah Guang after all, you can't always draw how powerful Zuo is, defeat all opponents, a hero like this needs to grow up in a short time." Guo Pinyuan also persuaded from the side.

"But ......" Chen Nan still cares a lot about the ranking, in her opinion, there is obviously a chance to win the Fantasy pillar position in one fell swoop, but Liang Yu and Guo Pinyuan don't seem to have the intention of winning at all, as long as they can maintain their rankings, they can get by, and it doesn't matter how many places they drop.

"Don't worry, don't worry about that, if the animation starts showing, the results will be recovered immediately." In the end, it was Guo Pinyuan's words that played the role of a heart booster, and Chen Nan temporarily accepted such a result.