Chapter 721 The end of 'The Last Wish of the Undead'
late at night.
In front of the computer, after Sun Quan typed out the words "End of the book", he relaxed, exhaled, leaned back on the chair, took out a cigar and lit it, and looked at the document in front of him with a sense of loss.
It's a bit like entering the sage time.
"The Last Wish of the Dead" was finally finished today.
It should be finished so quickly, which should surprise many people.
In fact, in his original plan, this book would have taken at least one or two years to write.
But as he continued writing, he changed his plan and didn't want to write for so long.
There are many reasons, but there are only two main ones.
First, because this book was made into a web drama, in order to reduce the difficulty of adapting the book, Sun Quan consciously compressed some of the subplots of the book.
He simply deleted some irrelevant characters in the outline.
Otherwise, when the crew is filming, they have to find an actor to play. And his Salty Fish Film and Television startup has no reputation in the industry and no connections. It is actually quite difficult to find actors with good acting skills to guest star in a few scenes.
of.
It would be better for him to simply delete some unimportant characters.
Originally! As he was used to writing online articles, he was used to writing a few side plots to make up the number of words. After all, Internet articles were paid based on the number of words.
If you only write a few hundred thousand words for a book and finish it, you won't make much money at all.
The number of free words in the new issue is 200,000 to 300,000 words.
Add in the one or two months of preparation before a book is published, and it becomes even more uneconomical.
He is not the only one to do this. This is a common phenomenon in the Internet literary circle.
In recent years, there have been more and more works with three to five million words written at every turn, which is proof.
Even the great masters in the Internet literature circle are like this.
But it has to be said that it is extremely difficult to adapt an Internet article with three to five million words into a movie, TV series, or online game.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about such a long piece. How many of the screenwriters, directors, assistant directors, and actors have the patience to read the three to five million words of the original work?
This is simply embarrassing those people.
And how likely is it that screenwriters, directors and actors who have not even read the original work can make a TV series or movie well?
For the great masters in the Internet literature circle, it is uncertain whether their work can sell various copyrights when the book is published.
Even when I finished the book, I was still not sure.
All they can be sure of is... they can make more money by writing this book longer.
Even if you write it longer, you might have a greater chance of selling the copyright.
Because these days, to be able to sell online content for game adaptation rights or film and television drama copyrights, regardless of other things, the reputation and popularity must be large and high enough.
If a book is written long enough, it will naturally be exposed for a long enough time. Only when the exposure is high enough can it be possible to attract game companies or film and television companies to purchase the copyright.
Therefore, no matter whether you are a master or not, when writing a book, you hope to make it longer. There are so many benefits.
As for the word count, will it be too difficult for the adapter when it is adapted into a game, film or TV series in the future?
Then who will take care of it?
No matter how difficult it is, there is no need for the original author to bother.
This is a common choice resulting from different positions.
Sun Quan thought this way before, so the few books he wrote after his rebirth were quite long in word count.
But this time, during the filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish", he changed his inherent concept.
Because he no longer expects other companies to buy the film and television drama rights of his book, he can do it himself. Therefore, rather than writing millions more words to earn more royalties, he would rather keep the plot of this book.
Compress and re-compress, adding as little water as possible.
It is not only convenient for adaptation, but also convenient for actors to find time to read his book.
Second...
As Yuan Shuiqing became pregnant, gave birth to a baby, and started filming "The Last Wish of the Dead," he had much less time to code than before.
Especially after the filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish" started, he squeezed out the coding time every day. He stayed on the set all day during the day, and when he came back at night, he had little time to spend with his wife and children. He stayed in his study and coded until midnight.
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It's like this every day. Although this kind of life is fulfilling, it's also quite tiring.
At that time, there were three choices before him.
Or, choose a good writer in your own salted fish studio to be his gunman, and he will hand over the outline and details to the gunman to write.
In this case, he can concentrate on the crew of "Dead Man's Last Wish".
But if you do this, the negative effects are foreseeable.
He has so many fans now, and there are definitely many smart fans. If he writes with a gunman here, many fans will definitely be able to detect the change in his writing style at the first time.
Then, it won't be long before the reputation of his pen name Sun Quan - Xianyu Anlaosun will be ruined.
Therefore, he was unwilling to choose this choice.
And the second option…
Even if he gave up going to the set every day and handed over full control of the set to Wang Zheng and others, or he would occasionally take a look, he would still focus most of his time and energy on the writing of the book "The Last Wish of the Dead".
This choice is undoubtedly the most beneficial to the book "The Last Wish of the Dead".
But the quality of the web drama "Dead Man's Last Wish" may be negative.
He does not deny Wang Zheng's directorial ability.
But he still felt uneasy. After all, Wang Zheng's main job before was as a variety show director on Blueberry Channel. In name, he was also an assistant director.
Variety shows and online dramas are different fields.
In addition, the reason why Sun Quan decided to film this drama in the first place was to imitate Bangzi Country’s TV drama shooting methods, enhance the rights of screenwriters, and allow screenwriters to control the plot direction of a drama, while weakening the director’s function and letting the director only
Responsible for shooting techniques and images.
Therefore, for Sun Quan, he did not want to choose this second option.
So what's left... is the third option - to compress the length of the book "The Last Wish of the Dead" and delete as many irrelevant side plots as possible.
It is with this decision that his book ends tonight.
Of course, because he still has tens of thousands of words of manuscripts on hand, the serialization of this book at Qidian can continue for about half a month.
But in his own case, the book ends tonight.
He remembered that this book was released on August 24 last year, during the Ghost Festival.
Until now...it's only been a little over half a year.
The serialization time is really not long, and the number of words is not very large.
It’s less than 1.5 million words. Counting the parts he hasn’t published yet, the total word count is just over 1.47 million words.
That's all.
This is because his book was updated very quickly in the early stage. At that time, it was updated with 10,000 words almost every day. Otherwise, the total number of words would not be that many.
This is the book with the smallest number of words among the several books he wrote after his rebirth.
He broke his habit.
Therefore, when he saw that the book was finished, he felt particularly complicated.
But he doesn't regret ending the book like this.
yes!
By finishing it so quickly, his online subscription fees and physical publishing fees will be much less.
But there are also benefits.
And there are many benefits.
First of all, book fans are lucky because they don't have to chase millions of words to finish reading this book and see its finale.
It saves both time and money.
Of course, there may be some book fans who feel that they are still unsatisfied.
But overall, this book has fewer words, which is really good for book fans.
Secondly, he and Sun saved a lot of time, which can be used in the subsequent filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish", as well as post-production and promotion, as well as the management of his company and studio.
You can even save some time to spend more time with your wife and children!
Thirdly, if this book is finished earlier, he can also prepare the next new book earlier.
As we all know, when the various copyrights of an online text are sold, the number of words in the book is generally not considered.
Just like the selling prices of various copyrights of the original "Ghost Lantern" in the original time and space.
"Ghost Lantern" is the top online IP of the original time and space. Whether it is game copyright or film and television drama adaptation rights, the price is among the top in the industry.
But in fact, the word count of the two original works of "Ghost Lantern" is not very long.
At least in the online writing industry, the length of the two "Ghost Lanterns" is considered short.
so……
For Sun Quan, it is actually cost-effective to finish a book early and start a new one.
Because even if he sells the copyright to "The Last Wish of the Dead", even if the word count of his book doubles, the selling price may not increase much.
And with his current fame and reputation, if he opens a new book, he will be able to sell another wave of copyrights.
I can easily earn back all the lost royalties from the book "Dead Man's Last Wish", and more.
Who doesn’t know that compared to the various copyright income of a book, the subscription and publishing fees are just a drop in the bucket?
In front of the computer, Sun Quan was smoking a cigar, thinking about these thoughts in his mind, and smiled lightly.
I casually put out the cigar in the ashtray, what should I write about the new one?
He hasn't thought about it yet and has no idea.
He plans to take a break for a month or two. He will take advantage of this time to finish filming the drama "The Last Wish of the Dead" and supervise the post-production of the drama. If the plan goes well, he should be able to finish it in time.
Before he started his new book, he saw this drama being broadcast on a video website.
…
At this time, it was still early than 12 o'clock midnight, just a little after 11 o'clock.
It was so early and Sun Quan was not sleepy.
Years of coding career have already made him develop the habit of going to bed late.
In addition, "Dead Man's Last Wish" ended tonight, and he felt empty and sleepy. After thinking about it, he logged into the author forum.
I just wanted to take a look at the recent trends in the industry and see if anything happened in the industry recently, just to kill some time.
He came to the Jianghu section of the author forum.
But I saw more than a dozen posts about his son’s full moon wine today.
He was a little surprised.
And the titles of these posts…
"My thoughts after watching the full moon wine: I am the salty fish, Lao Sun, who should be the best online writer currently, right?"
"Can Xianyu, who has a company with a market value of hundreds of millions and a studio and a film and television company under his name, still be considered an online writer?"
"Haha, I hosted dozens of tables for my son's full-moon banquet. A certain master is really high-profile!"
"I'm also a writer. I also gave birth to a son this year, but I only held two tables for my son's full moon banquet..."
"It's really a drought and a flood. We don't even have enough to eat, but some great gods are worth hundreds of millions..."
"The winner takes all. Internet articles are indeed winner-take-all! How much money did I, the salted fish, make?"
"I just read the full moon wine scale of a certain great god's son, and I decided not to spend money to read his books in the future!"
"Xianyu Sun must be the real winner in life, right?"
"The twin sons of a certain great god really won at the starting line! Isn't this how social classes are formed?"
…
Sun Quan casually looked at similar post titles and saw a dozen of them.
After reading a few items, he frowned slightly.
He felt something.
His son's full moon drink today seems to have aroused some people's hatred of the rich.
He had seen this phenomenon many times before his rebirth.
For example, when Shenji attended an annual meeting of authors, he made a string of golden Buddhist beads made of pure gold and wore it on his hand. When attending the annual meeting, he held it in his hand and fiddled with the string of golden beads like an old monk.
And he is envied and hated by many writers in the industry.
For example, Third Young Master once went abroad and spent tens of thousands of yuan on a glass of wine, which made the news and was criticized by many peers in the industry.
For example, Broad Bean revealed on a TV variety show that he bought a building...
They are all examples!
This industry seems to have always been like this.
When everyone is on the street, it is easy to make friends, and generally no peers will criticize you. Hello, I am ok, everyone.
But when there was someone in the street fighting team who didn't follow the rules, he actually became successful.
Then it's easy to get jealous.
If people who become successful are more high-profile, they will be more likely to attract attacks.
Sun Quan had actually been expecting this.
This was also the main reason why he liked to keep a low profile in everything before, because he knew that most people had a hatred of the rich, and he had a bit of it before.
If someone is so much richer than me, it is easy for others to hate the rich.
If wealthy people take the initiative to show off their wealth, it will more easily arouse other people's hatred of the rich.
In recent years, he has been consciously keeping a low profile, trying not to be in the limelight or show off his wealth.
But this time, he seems to have stimulated some people's hatred of rich people.
In response, he smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say.
What can be said?
This time he really didn't want to show off his wealth or anything, he just wanted to hold a decent full moon party for his two sons who were just one month old.
He already has three children, and he probably won't have a fourth child in this life. When his daughter was born, she had already dealt with it easily.
But this time, whether it was his wife Yuan Shuiqing, Yuan Shuiqing's grandfather or grandmother, or his own parents, or even relatives and elders, they all advised him to have a good full moon party.
He really didn't want to show off his wealth. Even when he came to the stage to speak with his child in his arms, he announced that the banquet was open in just a few words.
The reason why so many people are invited...
Many people came on their own initiative.
For example, the great gods present.
For other branch store managers, he just wanted to take advantage of his son's full-moon wine party to win over people's hearts and deepen their relationship.
In inviting those book fans to participate, I also want to give back to everyone for their support over the past few years.
But in the eyes of some colleagues, these things turned out to be someone from his grandson showing off his wealth?