Jia Yun plans to reduce "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" to one million words.
One million words is already a masterpiece in this world, unlike the online novels in previous lives, many of which were several million words long, and some even had more than 10 million words.
The number of words in the books published in this world is very limited. Unlike the previous life, each published book can hold 20,000 to 300,000 words or more. The million-word "Dream of Red Mansions" can be published in a thick volume.
In this world, the publication of a great work will be divided into many volumes, and sometimes every few volumes will be packed in a book box.
Jia Yun plans to write fifty chapters of the one-million-word "The Eight Tribes of the Dragon", and publish each chapter into one volume, for a total of fifty volumes. Each volume is about 20,000 words. In fact, the original work is exactly fifty chapters.
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Twenty thousand words in a book is already a lot.
You must know that among the four books, "The Great Learning" has less than 2,000 words, "The Analects" has only more than 10,000 words, "Mencius" has more than 30,000 words, and "The Doctrine of the Mean" has only more than 3,000 words.
The "Sun Zi" to be tested in the martial arts examination only has more than 5,000 words, "Wu Zi" has less than 10,000 words, and "Sima Fa" has less than 10,000 words.
Why is the word count of each book in this world so small?
Because movable type printing is mainly used, the printed fonts are larger.
There are many books in this world that are printed with woodblocks, but it is impossible for "Dragon and the Eight Parts" to be printed with woodblocks.
The cost of block printing is too high. It is estimated that no bookseller would be willing to use block printing to print the one million words of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon". Even if it is printed, not many people can afford it. The full set of fifty volumes of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" is absolutely
It will be shockingly expensive.
In fact, even if movable type printing was used, a paperback edition cost half a tael, and fifty volumes would cost 25 taels. It was already very expensive, and not many people could afford it.
It doesn't matter, not many people can afford it, but some people can still afford it.
What's more, if you can't afford the whole set of books, you can still buy part of it. Even if someone only buys one volume, Jia Yun will still make money.
Jia Yun plans to write an average of 2,000 words a day, 60,000 words a month, and 1,000,000 words of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" in ten months. Even if the time for transcribing with a brush is included, it won't take much more time.
And writing two thousand words a day with a pencil only takes one or two hours a day.
Of course, Jia Yun will not finish the entire book before publishing it. His plan is to finish the first five volumes, that is, the first 100,000 words. In this way, even with the addition of brush writing, it will take two months.
Then I took it to a bookseller.
Jia Yun not only has to study at Jing's martial arts school, but also writes books. Is she tired?
Of course he will be tired, but Jia Yun is a person who can endure hardships, and don't forget that he has a golden finger of physical fitness, which can make him more energetic than normal people.
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Today is September 22nd. It is the day when Jia Yun made friends with Ni Hu and enrolled in Jing's martial arts school. It is also the day when Jia Yun started writing "The Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon".
At night, it was dark and quiet outside the window, and the firelight shrouded the little boy Jia Yun. He held a pencil in his hand and wrote "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" on the white paper.
When he first started writing, he wrote slowly and it took him two hours. Jia Yun just finished writing 2,000 words. She was not satisfied and needed revision.
It was already midnight. Jia Yun got up from the small desk, tiptoed out of the small bedroom, and went to the main room to pour tea. She didn't want to wake up Bu Wuniang, but she found that there was light in Bu Wuniang's bedroom.
Jia Yun walked over and knocked lightly on the door, and Bu Wuniang's voice came out: "Is it Yun'er?"
"Mom, it's me." Jia Yun said.
Bu Wuniang opened the door. Jia Yun checked and found that Bu Wuniang was doing needlework: "It's already midnight, why are you still doing needlework?"
Bu Wuniang responded awkwardly: "You spend a lot of money for martial arts exams, so my mother wants to earn more money."
Jia Yun felt warm in her heart and said: "It doesn't have to be like this. Even if you don't sleep every day, how many more taels of silver can you earn throughout the year?"
Bu Wuniang worked hard at needlework, but she could not earn more than ten taels of silver in a year.
Bu Wuniang was even more embarrassed: "It would be good to earn a few more taels."
Jia Yun looked serious: "If you do this, you will be ruined. It is not worth it to ruin your body for such a small amount of money."
Bu Wuniang was ashamed and silent.
Jia Yun said: "You don't have to worry about money. Yesterday, two adults, Guard Ni Hu and Wu Tan Hua Jing Zhanyao, said that if I take the martial arts examination, I will definitely pass the high school."
"Both adults have said that if I need money in the future, I can borrow it from them anytime."
"In addition, not to mention the Zhongwu Jinshi, in the future I will be a Wuxiucai, Wujuren, the Zhengtai of Xifu will see me again, and then he will give me money, and the branches of the Jia family will have no reason to continue
There’s a fuss.”
This statement is either true or false. The false part is that Ni Hu and Jing Zhanyao did not say that Jia Yun could borrow money from them at any time if she needed money in the future.
Bu Wuniang became happy immediately after hearing this.
Jia Yun solemnly warned: "Mom, you don't need to work hard. You really won't make much money. Instead, you will be in bad health. It's not worth it. If you have something wrong, you won't have the chance to enjoy your son in the future."
Being filial will also affect my martial arts exam."
Bu Wuniang nodded: "Mom, I listen to you."
In addition to being kind and gentle, Bu Wuniang also has the advantage of not being rigid.
Jia Yun believed that Bu Wuniang would listen to him if he expressed his stance this time and would not try his best to avenge her again.
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Obviously, Jia Yun deliberately did not tell Bu Wuniang about making money by writing novels.
At first, it was hard for Bu Wuniang to believe it.
Although there are some scholars in this world who make money by writing books, for ordinary people, this kind of thing is rare. What's more, Bu Wuniang knows that Jia Yun did not study well before and she is still a young boy. How can she make money by writing books?
Secondly, this matter needs to be kept secret now.
Jia Yun makes money by writing novels, and she writes martial arts novels. There are also many love scenes in the novels...
Even though Jia Yun was being cautious and planned to briefly mention the erotic scenes in the original work, such as the scene between Xu Zhu and Meng Gu in the ice cellar, just like the erotic scenes in "A Dream of Red Mansions", there were many love scenes that Jia Yun
Yun can still write it out.
If the old-fashioned Jia Zheng knew about this, he would think that Jia Yun was not doing his job properly and might come to stop him.
Not only that, it may also cause the entire Jia family to stop it, including Jia's mother.
After all, Jia Yun is a child of the Jia family, and the Jia family is a noble and wealthy family. If a child of such a family is a young man, writing such novels to make money will be considered to be evil.
Ridiculous? But it’s true.
In the original work, Jia Baoyu said something about Lu You's poem, "The scent of flowers makes people aware of the warmth of the day", and was scolded by Jia Zheng: "It just shows that Baoyu is not doing business properly, and only works hard on these rich words and poems. The evil beasts are not here yet."
go out!"
Even "Hui Zhen Ji" was a banned book in Ning Rong's second house. Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu secretly read it together. Lin Daiyu also said that Jia Baoyu "made this lewd poem and song very good".
Although Jia Yun is only a side branch with a slight blood relationship with Rong Guofu, if the entire Jia family came to stop him, including Jia Mu and Jia Zheng, it would be difficult to write "The Eight Parts of the Dragon".
When Jia Yun has achieved enough through the martial arts examination, such as winning the martial arts examination and being awarded the title of military attache, then even Jia's mother and Jia Zheng will not do anything to him if they know that he wrote "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", let alone that
By this time, this one-million-word masterpiece had been completed.
Therefore, Jia Yun's decision to make money by writing "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" needs to be kept secret now.
In fact, Jia Yun has planned to keep it a secret and never let people know that he is the author, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. Anyway, he did not write this book to become famous all over the world and to be famous throughout the ages.
Although Bu Wuniang has a strict mouth, she may say it accidentally.
Even if Bu Wuniang won't tell her, if Jia Yun tells her this matter, she needs to be told to keep it secret. She will ask why she needs to keep it secret. If Jia Yun tells her the reason, Bu Wuniang will inevitably be worried.