After school in the afternoon, Xia Yan bought a journal of "Instant Fanghua" at the bookstore at the school gate.

After all, it is the first issue of his novel serialized, and he must contribute a share of sales.

In the process, he also carefully watched the sales of these fiction periodicals in the bookstore.

The "Red Maple" of Red Maple Literature must be placed in the most eye-catching place in the bookstore, and "Instant Fanghua" is stacked not far from "Red Maple".

In addition to students, some office workers are also the main customers in the bookstore, taking advantage of the way home from work to enter the bookstore, go straight to the two periodicals and then pick them up and leave.

At first glance, this kind of guest is a regular reader of the two periodicals.

Xia Yan was actually a little apprehensive in his heart, he didn't know what the reputation of the first issue of the Youth Journey was in the Dragon Kingdom, and he watched in the bookstore for a long time, but he couldn't get any useful information, and in the end he just took the book and took the subway home.

"Huh? Yesterday's Starlight? ”

Xia Yan, who was looking at the catalog of the journal, noticed the familiar title of the book.

For a moment, he remembered the girl wearing a mask who had gone with him to submit a manuscript for Red Maple Literature a few weeks ago.

Unlike Song Lingyun, before the journal was released, he took the initiative to find Tang Yin to learn about the competitor's novels serialized in the same period.

It was only now that he realized that the novel was also serialized in Moment.

Out of curiosity, he started watching it right on the subway.

Ten minutes later.....

He couldn't get enough of putting down the books.

"That's so well written!" Xia Yan exclaimed.

The plot of the first chapter of Starlight yesterday was flowing in his mind at the moment, and although he finished the first chapter quickly, his curiosity for the follow-up plot was like a hook, hooking his heartstrings.....

"That girl seems to be about the same age as me, and she was waiting in line like me that day for Tang Yin to review the novel on the spot, which shows that she has no familiar editor to do internal submission, and she is also a newcomer like me. I didn't expect her to write such a great novel as a newcomer. ”

"Perhaps.... She is what everyone often calls a novelist genius..."Xia Yan sighed in his heart as he got up and left the subway.

Before I got to the house, my phone rang.

"Hey, Don..... Tang Yin...."Xia Yan paused and called out Tang Yin's name directly on the phone.

"Congratulations, Xia Yan."

On the other end of the phone, it was Tang Yin's calm voice.

"Congratulations? Congratulations on what? Xia Yan asked.

"As of 7 o'clock in the evening for the first chapter of the youth journey novel, the data of the votes and feedback from the readers of the journal on the company's official website, your novel ranks fourth in the number of votes, with a score of 9.2 points.... Ranked first. ”

There was silence on the phone for a few seconds, Xia Yan didn't speak, and Tang Yin also waited for Xia Yan's reaction.

"Isn't it amazing? This achievement...."

Xia Yan can realize from Tang Yin's tone that this result should be very good, but because he doesn't know the specific situation of other competitors' works, he doesn't have much real sense of this data, so he can only ask more carefully.

"Ah, that's amazing..... If you only look at the data of "Chapter 1 of the New Serialized Novel", it is the best data among the novels serialized in the journal "Instant Fanghua" in the past three years. And it is also the second best data for the "first chapter" of serialized novels since the journal was founded ten years ago. Of course, the final results will not be determined until nine o'clock tomorrow, but.... There is a high probability that there will be no change in the order. ”

Tang Yin said this, and Xia Yan understood.

Although Instant Fanghua is only the third best-selling journal of Red Maple Books, it also sells two or three hundred thousand copies per issue, and the novels serialized on it are naturally of high quality.

The first serial issue of Youth Journey has this achievement, which is really explosive.

"Who's number one?" Xia Yan thought about it and asked questions.

It's a romance novel called "First Moon", and when it was serialized on Instant Fanghua three years ago, the first chapter of the plot was very attractive, and the plot was similar to a social event in the Dragon Kingdom at that time, which resonated with readers. Therefore, the number of votes from readers in the current issue was as high as 2,900 votes, and the score of the novel was also as high as 9.3 points. ”

Tang Yin held her mobile phone, sat on her office chair, looked at the neon night scene outside the window, and said to Xia Yan on the other end of the phone.

"However, when the novel was serialized to the tenth chapter, the number of votes in the current issue dropped to 103 votes, and the score of the novel was also frantically depressed by readers, and finally the whole work was cut in half by the book club with a score of 5.4 points."

When Xia Yan heard this, his expression was stunned.

"Xia Yan, the novel results in the first chapter of the journey of youth are very good. However, this is just the beginning...... Don't be blinded by this achievement, a successful novel is always supported by readers on the day it ends, and that is called success....." Tang Yin said softly.

"I see. I know what you mean....." Xia Yan said after being silent for a while.

"Now that you understand, it's all easy." Tang Yin said.

"Easy to do? What's easy to do? Xia Yan asked.

"You... I really don't understand anything. Tang Yin said with a sigh.

"Do you think that the editor of our bookstore is responsible for collecting manuscripts from you every week and then handing them over to the bookstore for printing?"

"Or else?" Xia Yan paused for a moment and asked rhetorically.

"That's not that simple! As your editor-in-charge, I am responsible for reviewing the quality of your novel's plot, whether there are sensitive elements, and, to a certain extent, to help you control the direction of the plot..."

Xia Yan listened to Tang Yin's words, and after a while, he understood what she meant.

The responsible editor of the novel plays a role in preventing the "authorities", that is, the creators of the novel, from being "confused".

After all, many authors are easy to write to themselves.,Dead heroine,Dead protagonist's family,Cuckold,Send a girl,The plot of the male and female protagonists is all out.,Because the author knows the follow-up plot of the novel.,There is a way for the protagonist to break the game after the crisis.,So I don't feel depressed when I write.,Instead, I feel like I've come up with a wonderful plot.。

But the reader looks uncomfortable, and before you can reverse the plot, many people will abandon the book decisively.

The role of the editor is to intervene in the author's blind creation to a certain extent in the process of the creator's creation of the plot, so as to avoid the author falling into this state of self-congratulatory thinking, which will lead to the popularity of the novel and the collapse of the plot.

In fact, in the process of serializing many well-known works, the role of editors is quite large.

is like the fire work "Naruto" in the parallel world, why is the early plot masterpiece, and the later plot is difficult to explain.

A large part of the reason is that the editors in the later stages of the comics have been replaced.

How big is the role of the first editor of the Hokage?

The original case of the popular green-skinned character "Li Rock" was created by Kishimoto at the suggestion of the original editor. Of course, the role of "I love Luo" is also the result of discussions between the editor and the author Kishimoto.

And then the character of the second protagonist "Uchiha Sasuke", the painting style, and the character building, there is also the credit of the editor's participation in a lot of discussions.

And, in the beginning of Naruto, the third generation of Hokage is a very powerful pet dog raised by the second generation of Hokage, and it is rumored that it was also vetoed by the editor because it was too deviant, so the third generation of Hokage Ape Fei was born.

Even before the concept of the Hokage was born, the initial proposal for Kishimoto to create a manga about ninja was also proposed by the first editor.

A good editor, to a work, is a great help.

"And what are you going to do?" Xia Yan asked.

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