Chapter 588 The premiere of 'Scaring Step by Step'
After dinner, Sun Quan made a pot of tea, went to the study, turned on the computer, and prepared to rest for a while before starting to code. Although he had been to the capital for a few days recently, the update of "The Sword of the Clouds" did not cause diarrhea.
Still adding one chapter every day.
Although the extra chapter is not much, it is an attitude that proves to book fans that Sun Xun means what he says.
Today, although he had just returned from the capital, he did not think about spending time with his wife and children tonight, so he stopped writing.
Well……
Okay! He actually thought about it. After going out for a few days, who wouldn’t want to hold his wife to sleep after returning home?
But reason drove him to the study room, preparing to write two or three chapters before going to bed. Anyway, his wife was sure to sleep tonight and wouldn't run away.
Sitting in front of the computer, drinking tea, he opened the starting point, logged into the author's backend, opened the page of "The God-killing Sword in the Cloud", and glanced at the monthly ticket column. It turns out that the effect of adding updates is good, although in recent years
Only one chapter is added every day, but after a few days, "The Sword of Gods in the Clouds" is already ranked 6th in the monthly ticket list.
These are all voted in voluntarily by book fans. If he posts one or two chapters asking for votes, the effect will be much better.
After reading the monthly tickets, I also took a look at the number of people who rewarded today - 33.
Not bad. He remembered that before the update, the number of people who tipped that day seemed to be 9.
After that, he looked at the posts in the book review area a few more times, and he was satisfied with the content of the posts in the book review area. Most of them discussed the characters and plots in the book, and some were about his recent updates. There were very few posts anymore.
He's talking about the variety shows he has done.
Feeling a little relieved, and having enough motivation to update more, he opened the document and started typing without taking a long rest.
After finishing coding a chapter of the manuscript, he breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to relieve himself.
I opened the study door and as soon as I walked out, I heard a familiar singing voice coming from downstairs.
"You know it's a disaster, why are you still at a loss... It's best not to see you, and it's best not to miss you. Only in this way can I not fall in love with you. If you miss me one more step, you will fall into love step by step..."
Suddenly hearing this song, Sun Quan's footsteps stopped, and he turned around in surprise and looked in the direction of the hall downstairs, but he couldn't see the hall downstairs from his position. After a slight pause, he turned around and walked towards the stairs.
There was more than one bathroom upstairs, but he went downstairs and went to the bathroom downstairs to relieve himself.
When he came out of the bathroom, the singing in the hall continued.
"One thought, one persistent thought, and the moth is destined to fly into the flame..."
This lyric struck his ears, and it reminded him that the title of this song seemed to be "One Thought of Perseverance", a song he liked very much back then, the theme song of "Step by Step Jingxin".
It was a song many years ago, and when he heard it again, the familiar lyrics and the familiar singing voice made him feel a little dazed for a moment, as if he had returned to the time when he was following the drama "Step by Step" before his rebirth.
As an online writer, he needs to catch up with the latest trends and constantly learn the strengths of other works.
Not only do he have to pay attention to and learn about popular online articles, but he also has to pay attention to popular movies and TV series to learn the successes of those film and television works, such as the creation of characters, the weaving of plots, and some buzzwords
, famous quotes from movies and TV shows, etc.
Only by continuous learning can he barely grasp the popular trend and avoid being quickly eliminated by readers.
Before the rise of the second dimension, he had always been very confident in his grasp of popular trends. Although he might not write about the most popular themes, at least he always knew what was most popular in each period.
It wasn't until two-dimensional fan fiction suddenly emerged and quickly became popular that he felt powerless.
Because he was already in his thirties at that time, and the pressure of life had already overwhelmed him. He could still find time to read the most popular online articles, and watch the most popular movies and TV series, but the second
Dimension...
He has never seen animation from the island country before, but he also knows that the animation industry in the island country is very developed, with many successful works. Moreover, almost all successful animations from the island country have a large number of episodes, often hundreds or even thousands of episodes.
How can he find so much time to watch so many anime works?
But if he didn't look at the two-dimensional works that were rapidly rising and becoming more and more popular, he wouldn't be able to start and would never be able to write.
During that time, he often felt sad in his heart.
He knows that the readership of online articles has been changing, from the post-80s generation to the post-90s generation, and then to the post-00s generation.
When the majority were born in the 1980s, he knew what this group liked to read. When the majority were born in the 1990s, he did not feel that there was a generation gap between himself and the readers.
But when the post-2000 generation became the main force in online writing and the second dimension became more and more popular, he finally felt the existence of the generation gap.
There is a big generation gap between him and the post-00 generation group.
Many of the things he watched and experienced when he was young have not been experienced by those born in the 2000s. It seems that many people born in the 2000s grew up watching anime, which led to the sudden rise of the two-dimensional genre.
But someone like him cannot write in that type of writing.
He once thought that maybe one day he would be eliminated from the online writing industry, either because his writing was not good enough, or because his ability to structure the plot was not enough...
He only did not expect that the reason would be the generation gap between himself and the readership.
This is why he feels sad.
This is also a major reason why he decided to give up his original writing method and try a commercial writing method.
Because he is afraid that if he doesn't make some money quickly, he will be eliminated from this industry in a few years.
It should be said that his sense of crisis is correct.
Because when his book "My Decathlon" achieved a monthly income of over 10,000, he also noticed that many new books by veteran masters were flooding the market.
What is the collapse method?
To put it bluntly, they are rushing to the streets in droves.
Groups of level 5 authors open new books, and even their mothers don’t recognize them. Great god-level and platinum-level authors open new books, but they spend a lot of money and get few results.
The more he saw similar things, the more pessimistic he felt.
Although he hadn't pounced yet, and even bucked the market trend, the book "My Decathlon" had better results and made more money than any of his previous books, but he knew that it would be a matter of time before he was eliminated.
The results of it?
He has not yet welcomed the departure of his readers, but has welcomed 404 first.
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Standing outside the bathroom door, Sun Quan listened to the TV singing coming from the hall, his mind wandering a little far and thinking too much.
It wasn't until the song ended that he came back to his senses, smiled lightly, and walked towards the hall.
As expected, his wife, children, old man, old lady, Xu Mei, Cai Yanan, Mrs. Wang and others were all there watching TV.
What was playing on the TV was "Bu Bu Jing Xin", and what surprised him even more was that what was being broadcast at this time seemed to be the first episode of this show.
Because the scene broadcast on TV at this time was the heroine played by Liu Shishi walking on the neon-lit city street, Sun Quan remembered that this was the plot of "Bu Bu Jing Xin" before the heroine traveled to the Qing Dynasty.
He still remembered that the way the heroine traveled through time was very vulgar. Anyway, that method of time travel has long been used in the Internet literature - being electrocuted and then traveling through time.
Is it burnt on the outside and tender on the inside due to the electric shock?
This thought flashed through his mind for no reason, making him want to laugh.
"Dad...Dad..."
Sun Jiexin saw Sun Quan first, opened her arms happily and ran towards him.
Then the eyes of Yuan Shuiqing and others were also attracted. Seeing Sun Quan smiling and picking up his daughter, Yuan Shuiqing smiled and said, "Has the manuscript been written?"
Sun Quan kissed his daughter and shook his head, "Not yet, I'll write it later. If I hear the sound of your TV here, come down and take a look!"
The old lady smiled and interjected, "How about you watch it with us?"
Sun Quan shook his head.
Yuan Shuiqing said: "When I watch TV recently, I keep seeing the trailers of this drama. Since you own the copyright of the novel of this drama, I just tune in and see how it goes."
Sun Quan glanced at the picture on the TV with a smile and nodded, "Well, looking at the quality of the picture... it should be a good shot! Take your time and watch!"
Before he finished speaking, on TV, the heroine played by Liu Shishi had already stepped on the wires scattered on the ground, and a burst of arc flashed around...
Yuan Shuiqing: "..."
Xu Mei: "..."
old lady:"……"
The old man: "..."
…
Sun Quan seemed to smell the aroma of barbecue. After a while of silence in the living room, the nanny Wang's sister-in-law forced a smile and praised: "It was indeed a good shot! Very good!"
Everyone was a little embarrassed, except Sun Jiexin who couldn't understand it at all.
Fortunately, the scene on the TV soon changed. The heroine woke up and found that she was sleeping on an antique flowerbed bed, and there was a maid in ancient costumes beside the bed.
This sudden change in style of painting stunned most people in front of the TV.
People like Xu Mei, the old man, the old lady and the nanny Wang Sister-in-law had never heard of time travel before? Suddenly I saw such a plot on TV. I couldn't figure out what happened. Wasn't the heroine electrocuted?
?Why did it become ancient?
Only young people like Sun Quan, Yuan Shuiqing, Cai Yanan and Sun Jiexin were not surprised.
Sun Quan writes a lot of time travel novels.
Yuan Shuiqing was influenced by him and read similar novels.
Cai Yanan may not have read similar novels, but as a young person, she has heard of the concept of time travel. As for Sun Jiexin... she is too young! She is too young to understand it at all, so she is naturally not surprised.
So: It’s better to be young!
Sun Quan didn't stay downstairs for long. He held his daughter and played with her for a while, then handed her back to Yuan Shuiqing, said hello to everyone, and went back to the study upstairs.
Before he left, everyone in the hall, including Yuan Shuiqing, except Sun Jiexin, was attracted by the novel plot of "Bu Bu Jing Xin".
A modern woman travels to the Qing Dynasty, and the novelty is enough to make them curious enough to watch several episodes. Moreover, the costumes, makeup, props, and picture quality of the TV series are all very good, at least currently, they are ahead of most TV series.
Coupled with the beautiful scenery and handsome men and beauties in the play, they are all pleasing to the eye!
Returning to the study room upstairs, Sun Quan picked up his tea cup and took a sip. He was still thinking about the premiere of "Bu Bu Jing Xin" tonight. This drama... has not changed much compared to the version in the original time and space.
Not much affected by his rebirth.
Apart from the copyright of the original work being acquired by his Xianyu Studio and the fact that it was released a year or two ahead of schedule, there are very few other changes.
The original plot has not changed.
The production company is still Tangren Film and Television, and the main actors are basically the same people as before. The biggest change may be the members behind the scenes of this drama.
Such as directors, screenwriters, etc.
He didn't remember who wrote and directed the original version of "Step by Step", so when this drama was cooperating with Tangren Film and Television, he had to rely on Tangren Film and Television to arrange the director and other positions.
He is now not sure how much impact the changes in the behind-the-scenes team will have on the show. Is it a good change? Or a bad change?
He is not sure!
From the few casual glances he had just watched downstairs, he felt that the quality of the show seemed to be okay.
The character modeling, costumes, props, etc. are all OK.
Of course, he is not so superficial as to think that the success of a drama depends entirely on the beginning of the drama.
Just like an online article, a good beginning can make a book gain good popularity in the early stage, but it does not mean much in terms of subscription results when it is put on the shelves.
Because if it is just a wonderful beginning, by the time a book is put on the shelves after 20,000 or 30,000 words, the readers who were attracted by the beginning will have already left.
The same goes for TV series.
The first one or two episodes are indeed very helpful in attracting the audience, but if the plot after the beginning is bad, or the characters are broken, then... wherever the plot is bad, the audience will be lost, and the characters will be lost.
Location, where the audience will also be lost.
The advantage of TV series over online novels is that if a TV series has a good beginning, it can be sold at a good price when sold to TV stations.
What about online articles?
Unless it is the kind of buy-out online article, if the profit is written, whenever an online article collapses, the author fee will plummet.
This is also one of the main reasons why it is extremely difficult to make a lot of money by writing online articles.
You have been writing online articles for three years and have already mastered the 300,000 words at the beginning of a book?
Well, not bad! Then when your book is on the shelves, you should be able to get a good first order, and the royalties in the first month after it is on the shelves will also be good.
But what happens after that?
Your plot collapsed? Did it collapse after 300,000 words?
That's a pity. For you, the peak is when it is published. After that, every additional month of writing is going downhill, and your royalties will become less and less.
Well, you have been writing books for five years, and you have already mastered the first one million words of a book?
Then you can earn a little more, and be ready to finish it after 1 million words!
What? One million words is too few, and you can’t make much money?
That’s okay! After writing 1 million words, you can still earn some living expenses.
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In front of the computer, Sun Quan thought for a while, gathered his thoughts, adjusted his state, and continued to code. Whether this version of "Bu Bu Jing Xin" can be successful, he will be able to see it after tomorrow. This drama can be found online every day.
You can also check the ratings of the latest drama series by viewers every day.