On May 8, Li Yuntao's new book "My AI Girlfriend" has been on the shelves for a week.

After a week of growth, the highest subscription has exceeded 10,000, the average subscription has reached more than 7,500, two chapters are updated every day, and the number of new daily subscriptions has steadily exceeded 15,000. Overall, it can rank about 100 on the daily sales list of the starting point APP, and it can even rank in the top 10 in the science fiction genre classification.

Of course, with China Literature's larger QQ reading and other channels, Li Yuntao's book is not enough to read on the daily sales list.

The library on QQ reading, although it is updated synchronously with the starting point library. However, the books on the rankings are quite different from the ones at the starting point. The difference in readers' preferences and styles determines that this book is too niche on the QQ reading side, and may not be able to get the results at the starting point.

In addition, Li Yuntao's book chooses the starting point of the signing platform, so the recommended resources are also the starting point. QQ reading and other group platforms, unless the performance is extremely good, otherwise, it is difficult to get recommended resources.

In the Internet era, getting traffic is not as easy as you think.

A book, a movie, an anime, even if the quality is very good, but without advertising diversion, it is difficult to become a hit.

When a movie in the film and television industry has not yet been released, and the audience doesn't know what it is, they need to continue to dig out selling points and gimmicks, and continue to promote until it is released, so as to realize the benefits of traffic and eyeballs in the short term. Or, the director and starring of a movie are very famous, with their own traffic diversion, and the remuneration given by investors to famous directors and actors is not so much about their ability, but rather because of their own fans and traffic, which saves the cost and time required to promote the work.

"The book "AI Girlfriend", I have been chasing it, it is not a cool text in the traditional sense, and the reader's requirements are not the number of words, more importantly, the delicate writing, the style of writing is very different from other works, and it initially has a unique style. The editor-in-charge said emphatically, "The daily update of 4,000 words is already good." Don't deliberately explode the word count for short-term subscriptions, monthly pass rankings, etc., write better!"

"Got it!" Li Yuntao said.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you, QQ Reading also gave a recommendation to test the waters, however, the results over there are average, according to the current sales, you can ignore it, and the proportion of your manuscript fee should not exceed 5%!" Mo Mo said, "By the way, the editorial department of China Literature and Tencent Animation have already negotiated a cooperation." The comic version of "My AI Girlfriend Xiao Wai" can be released and launched at any time. Publish it when you think it's right. Give you the contact information of the editor-in-charge of Tencent Animation, however, in the future, the manuscript fee will be settled, and China Literature will be sent to you. Essentially, the book is still communicating with Tencent Animation through China Literature. If the book is popular, even if Tencent Comic doesn't pay attention to it, China Literature also has a comic channel, and it will give you more recommendations!"

"Okay, no problem! I'll discuss with the cartoonist, and I need to wait until the comic has a lot of saved manuscripts and can be stably updated, and then I will start uploading. ”

Li Yuntao's mentality is also very stable, as long as his grades are better than his past, it is good to follow hundreds of platinum and god-level authors in the reading system, and almost every week and every month, there will be a dark horse of newcomers who are against the sky. If you compare this with that all day long, and compare this with that, I'm afraid your mentality will collapse.

Only by calming down a little bit, slowly managing your own works, and continuing to make progress compared to yourself yesterday, last month, and last year, this is enough.

Of course, Cang Shuhong can be regarded as half an author, so Li Yuntao has been reporting his results to Cang Shuhong after the results were released. In addition, it is also to inform Cangshuhong of the achievements and readers' feedback from this world. Let her improve the novels and comics in a targeted manner.

Thinking about it carefully, Cang Shuhong has to help Li Yuntao polish the novel and improve the scum writing by a few levels. In addition, he also has to create novels and comics, and now at the suggestion of Li Yuntao, he founded the hamster home BBS, which is estimated to be much harder than Li Yuntao.

"It's great to have a sister who works hard and helps you revise your manuscript for free, right?" said Teacher Cang Shuhong proudly.

"Of course!" Li Yuntao said. "Without Sister Cangshuhong, I wouldn't have the results I have now. ”

Then Li Yuntao asked Cang Shuhong about the comic serialization.

In fact, that is, Cangshuhong's creative speed, it is necessary to decide the update rhythm and release time on the Tencent animation platform according to Cangshuhong's creative speed.

"If you don't have an assistant, you can probably draw more than 60 pages a month! If you release it, I won't send it for the time being, and I'll talk about it next month!" Cang Shuhong thought for a while and said, "If the "Young JUMC" in the world on my side can be serialized, the editorial department will ask the assistant to help, in that case, you can create more than 100 pages per month at most. ”

To a certain extent, Li Yuntao is more envious of the cartoonists of "Young JUMC". After signing a serial contract, the editorial department will even help them establish a comic studio, and even a suitable comic assistant will be introduced by the editor. And most of those comic assistants are cartoonists who failed to serialize "Shonen JUMC". Some of them have not grown to the point where they can be serialized, and some of them lack the talent of serialized cartoonists and can only be assistants.

The assistant is not intended to reduce the amount of labor of the cartoonist, so that the cartoonist himself only needs to conceive the most critical storyboards and characters. Other less important backgrounds, props, costumes, and even some passers-by and other characters can be left blank for assistants to do.

And the assistant helps the serialized cartoonist, on the one hand, to learn some experience of the serialized cartoonist and lay the foundation for his own serialization. The other is to build relationships. Many cartoonists have a bunch of cartoonist friends and industry editors who have just debuted, and this is because they started as assistants. Many assistants, even if they are serialized, will respectfully call the cartoonist who once taught him a teacher.

In essence, the mechanism of professional cartoonists and assistants can also be regarded as mutually beneficial.

Sometimes, Li Yuntao also thinks that the introduction of this assistant system in the novel industry may be able to solve the problem that some writers have a lot of brains, write not fast enough, and often procrastinate.

Of course, Li Yuntao is just thinking about it, the comic industry can professionalize assistants, that is because the RB comic industry concentrates cartoonists all over the country in one city in Tokyo, so this special mechanism is naturally formed.

Web novels, on the other hand, are scattered all over the country. If you want to go to another city to work for others, the income may not be very high, so why not change your career? Originally, I chose writing as a profession for the freedom to write anytime and anywhere, without the supervision of the boss. Once the greatest advantage, freedom, is removed, it is really an unattractive career.

What's more, how can the assistant be so powerful as Miss Cang Shuhong? Not only can he improve Li Yuntao's scum writing after polishing, but also - free!