Fleet Street.

The Times Headquarters.

In the editor-in-chief's office, Buckle was wrapped in a thick blanket and smoked his nose with the water vapor of hot black tea.

On the desk in front of him was a tabloid spread out—

The Daily Times.

At this time, Buckle was reading the article "Fake! Fake！ Fake！ The face became more and more ugly, white and shiny, and the tip of the nose was red because of the snot rubbing,

The red and white contrast looks like a clown.

At his desk, the clerk looked at him cautiously.

The room was horribly quiet.

It was a long time before Bakker spoke: "Who made you write that!?" Who made you write that!? ”

Because the nose is not breathable, the sound of the talking urn is a little ridiculous.

In order to ensure his majesty, he slapped the table,

Bang –

The table slammed.

At the same time, the black tea spilled out and landed on Bakker's hand.

He shivered, and quickly withdrew his reddened hand back into the blanket, pretending that nothing had happened.

On the other hand, the clerk is submissive,

"Editor-in-chief, you ...... That's what you told us to write. ”

Bakel: ???

"When? How come I don't remember? ”

The clerk replied, "You were in the rain yesterday, so when you came back, you set up a bed in the office and rested." I asked you about the Daily Times and what news it published on the first page, and you said a lot. ”

Bakker was even more confused,

"I ...... Do I have one? ”

The clerk nodded like pounding garlic, looking like a chicken pecking rice.

Buckle scratched his head,

"So, what exactly do I say?"

The clerk continued: "You said a lot. complained about the Mirror's sales fraud, complained about the Mirror's problematic articles, complained about the Mirror's ...... In short, it is to complain about the Mirror. ”

Ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped through Bakir's heart,

!

it!

He has no love,

"I ...... I had a fever yesterday. ”

In other words, those complaints are nonsense when you have a fever.

Clerk: "......"

He looked out the window and whispered, "It's a nice day." ”

The veins on Bakker's forehead burst out,

Isn't it raining outside!?

He didn't bother to say anything more, and continued to read the newspaper later, while complaining: "I don't know how to say hello to you." When I tried printing it before, you gave the article a more serious title, but this time it's good, and there is a "Fake! Fake！ Fake！ from one extreme to the other...... Hmmm......"

Halfway through the conversation, he stopped.

Buckle's eyes shrank,

"Is this article "Is everything suitable for serialization? What about some deep thoughts on "? ”

The clerk's lips squirmed,

"Forehead ......"

Bakr said: "Speak, you! ”

The clerk touched his nose in embarrassment and said, "Editor-in-chief, this is also your request!" You let us rub off on the popularity of "The Lord of the Rings", and you want to rub out new ideas......"

Bakker's face darkened,

"You...... I ......"

He cracked.

The clerk stepped forward, picked up the teacup and said, "Editor-in-chief, I'll change a cup of tea for you." ”

After that, I have to slip away.

Of course, Bakkel couldn't let the other party slip away like this, and scolded: "You wait first! ”

He shook the newspaper in his hand,

"Who's this 'Luser'?"

The clerk didn't say anything, just stared at Bakker with a strange gaze,

Silence is better than sound at this point.

Bakker was completely confused, he never thought that he would have this pen name,

He asked, "It can't be me, right?" ”

The clerk coughed lightly,

"Like...... Possible...... Probably...... Maybe yes. When you assigned us yesterday to rub off on the popularity of "The Lord of the Rings", you kept saying that this one is not suitable for serialization and must fail, and you kept saying 'loser'. ”

“Fxxk！！！！！！”

Buckle wanted to reward himself with a big mouth.

……

On the other side of Fleet Street, the Mirror's headquarters,

Office of the Editor-in-Chief.

Lu Shi stood in front of the window, looking at the newsboy waiting to pick up the goods in front of the newspaper office, and all kinds of noisy scrambling sounded through the window and poured into the room.

Natsume Soseki couldn't help but say, "It's selling really well." ”

Scott immediately picked up the conversation,

"Of course! Don't forget that there was a new serial of Lu yesterday! According to statistics, the daily sales of "The Mirror" have already rushed to 130,000, and when the printing press is in place, there is still room to continue to climb, and 200,000 is possible. ”

Two hundred thousand,

Not so staggering sales for London ten years later,

But it's 1901, and the two are very different.

Lu Shi didn't pick up the stubble, his eyes were far away,

Following his gaze, he saw the headquarters of the Times standing in the rain curtain, gloomy and gloomy, like the castle where the villain depicted in it.

Scott touched his chin,

"Speaking of sales, hum ......"

With a hint of excitement, he asked, "Lu, do you know that there is a new tabloid now?" ”

This thing is not unexpected,

Rather, the first tabloid after the Mirror has only now appeared, and the old foxes of London journalism are inevitably moving a little too slowly.

Lu Shi said: "I heard about it. ”

Scott chuckled,

"But I guess you didn't see it, right?"

As he spoke, he took out a copy of the Daily Times from his bosom and put it on the table.

Natsume Soseki lit the lamp with his hand, his eyes stayed on the front page, and he couldn't help but laugh: "Fake! Fake！ Fake！ 》？ This name has a flavor of "Mirror News", which can be regarded as a glimpse of the door. ”

Lu Shi leaned up,

Ten lines at a glance, the article was read quickly.

"This article isn't all without merit, at least, it's a reliable way to count actual sales," he said. ”

That sounds like a point.

Scott will,

"Hmph, the hero sees the same thing."

He took out a table and said, "Before, you drew a bar chart, a line chart, and a pie chart for Cooper and me, and we never found a chance to use it. ”

Natsume Soseki read the table, looked at the data, and only felt dizzy,

"What is this......

Scott replied: "The Times' sales analysis. ”

Pointing to one of the columns as an example, he said: "The last time The Times claimed that sales broke the 100,000 mark was on the day of the Queen's death. However, I contacted the bookstores and also asked a source to calculate the inventory of the Times warehouse, and found that the problem was huge. ”

"Sources?!" ×2

Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki spoke in unison.

Scott smiled,

"Don't ask, it's okay to ask."

Looking at this expression, it is not difficult to guess that it must have been spent a lot of money to buy commercial spies.

Lu Shi gave a thumbs up,

"You're ox X."

Buckle's accusation of falsifying the Mirror's sales is really unwise.

After all, it's an open secret in the industry, all newspapers are a piece of shit, and who's cleaner than whom?

So, Mobijing.

The corners of Scott's mouth hooked up a sinister arc,

"Bakr killed eighty enemies this time, and lost a thousand."

Lu Shi shook his head and corrected: "Wrong ~ Wrong ~ It should be 'kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 yourself', which is derived from "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Attacking". ”

Scott quipped, "I know it's your old Chinese saying, but I've changed it." ”

Lu Shi couldn't refute,

Because the other party changed it really more appropriately.

Scott's eyes looked at the Daily Times, sneered, and said, "That's it, Fake! Fake！ Fake！ What about it? I see, when we hit back and publish in the newspaper, the Daily Times will become synonymous with 'fake news'." ”

"Poof!"

Lu Shi laughed,

I really didn't expect this term to become popular one hundred and twenty years in advance.

Scott was puzzled,

"How?"

Lu Shi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's nothing." ”

Seeing him like this, Scott didn't want to ask again, so he turned a few pages back from the Daily Times and said, "Lu, look at this book review." Very aggressive~"

Lu Shi quickly finished reading the article "Is Everything Suitable for Serialization?" Some Deep Thoughts on ",

He couldn't help but chuckle,

"Nicely written."

Scott glanced at him and complained, "You're not in a hurry." You don't know, there are many readers now who feel that this article is written in a reasonable way, thinking that you should not serialize "The Lord of the Rings", or that detective reasoning is suitable for serialization. ”

Lu Shi spreads his hands,

"Is "The Mystery of Roger" suitable for serialization?"

After asking rhetorically, he pointed to the article and said: "This also takes "Roger's Mystery Case" as an example~"

Scott scratched his head,

"This ......"

Lu Shi said with a smile: "Those readers will have the saying 'detective reasoning is suitable for serialization', purely because they like this genre and want me to put aside "The Lord of the Rings" and switch to serialized detective reasoning." ”

Scott and Natsume Soseki laughed,

It is only the all-round author of Lu Shi who can say this kind of thing.

Natsume Soseki asked, "What type is suitable for serialization?" Is I Am a Cat suitable? ”

In fact, "I Am a Cat" was originally serialized,

After Natsume Soseki returned to Japan, he serialized it in the magazine "Cuckoo", and then compiled it into three volumes, the first, middle, and second volumes, and received considerable manuscript fees and royalties.

The advent of land time changed this fact.

He didn't answer, but instead asked, "Why are books suitable for serialization and not suitable for serialization?" ”

Scott said: "The article is written, and examples are given. The main reason is that I have been writing for too long, and I am worried about inconsistencies~"

Lu Shi smiled and did not refute.

The first thing he thought of was Jin Yong.

There are generally three versions of Jin Yong's martial arts:

The earliest serialized version,

The most familiar triptych version,

A newly revised edition revised in later years.

Among them, the biggest difference is between the serial version and the triptych version, because the serial version has a large number of inconsistent plots, the triptych version has been modified.

There are many contradictions in this category,

For example, Guo Jing in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the initial description was "smart and clever", and he could retell the scene of the battle between the two armies clearly, but later Jin Yong figured out Guo Jing's character design, so he changed it to an elm head.

This is the characteristic of serialization, even if there is an outline, the author will inevitably have new ideas.

But the chapters that have been sent can't be recovered, so I can only eat books.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, the author is influenced by the reader,

Lu Shi remembered that the little dragon girl in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was originally dead, but because of the opposition of readers, Jin Yong forced Jin Yong to pull the little dragon girl up from the bottom.

Natsume Soseki said, "I don't think there's any need to worry, isn't "The Lord of the Rings" already finished? ”

Scott frowned slightly,

"No, Lu only finished writing the first part."

He was worried that Lu Shi would start serializing, and it would be easy to control it later.

However, of course, it is impossible for the traverser to be affected by this.

He is not a "creation", at most it can be regarded as "addition and change", which is about the same as "copying".

What's more, what he "copied" was "The Lord of the Rings".

Tolkien spent more than ten years writing the Lord of the Rings trilogy,

Moreover, after his death, his descendants often sorted out his manuscripts and continued to excavate various background additions to Middle-earth, which shows how complete the system he had constructed at the time of creation.

Lu Shi chuckled, "It's okay. ”

Scott hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Lu, you are a great writer, and your creation does not allow me to put my beak, but I still think that serialization is ...... Alas......"

Sigh deeply.

Lu Shi said: "Serialization is just a formality. ”

Scott immediately retorted: "You are the founder of the Mirror, and you should understand a truth, the medium of literature and the way of media have always been very important to the influence of literature, and even bring changes to literary creation. ”

Lu Shi was silent.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Scott continued: "Now let me ask you, when you have a lot of words, and you want to write where to write the serial, how do you ensure that it does not collapse?" ”

Natsume Soseki couldn't help but look at Lu Shi,

Writers and writers in this world, I'm afraid there is no one who doesn't want to know the secret of Lu Shi's ability to serialize long stories with high quality.

Unexpectedly, Lu Shi actually said: "In fact, when you write 10 million words, no one remembers what happened before." ”

Natsume Soseki: "......"

Scott: "......"

10,000,000 words of God's special meow!

Both were speechless.

However, Lu Shi looked serious,

He had heard of some online articles, such as "Starting from X", not to say 10 million words, they were all written to 30 million words, and then they even began to fight aliens.

What else is "School X's Sticker Master" and the like,

I really read the back, and I forgot all about the front.

But this kind of thing certainly can't be said to people in the early 20th century.

Lu Shi chuckled: "Just kidding~Just kidding~"

Natsume Soseki breathed a sigh of relief.

Scott on the side complained: "I don't even know which of your words is true and which is false." Alright, you should be serious and answer my question well. ”

Lu Shi thought about it and said, "Delay." ”

Natsume Soseki: "......"

Scott: "......"

The two were speechless again.

But Lu Shi was very serious this time,

"Procrastination means writing slowly, and writing slowly is not prone to mistakes."

There are a ridiculous number of writers who have used this tactic,

Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings,

George Martin and his "A Song of Ice and Fire",

The rich thief and his "Full-Time Hunter" (this one doesn't count).

Lu Shi said: "Delaying the manuscript is really easy to use. ”

Scott asked, "So are you going to put it off?" ”

Lu Shi shook his head,

"Me? How could I possibly procrastinate? ”

Scott's head is full of black lines,

￣□￣｜｜

"Please. My dear, great, wise and martial Lu, can you answer my question seriously? ”

Lu Shi groaned,

After a while, he said, "Actually, there are still many techniques. For example, the Great River, which is based on historical changes as the basic clue to create, Balzac's ...... Not...... Natsume? ”

I saw Natsume Soseki out of nowhere with a pen, just like an elementary school student listening to a class, burying his head in notes.

Scott chuckled, "You'll have to allow him to do that." After all, not everyone has the privilege of listening to the dear, great, and wise and martial Lu. ”

Lu Shi glanced at the other party,

"You're not going to run me, are you?"

After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "That's it, I'll write an article and talk about it in detail." ”

(End of chapter)