If you just fool around with it, it's actually a very simple matter.
Some authors don't have a single word in their outline. They have a general idea in their mind and start writing the text directly. Some authors also write outlines, but they can finish it in an hour or two. It's so simple.
But it's obvious that Sun Quan doesn't intend to be so perfunctory about the outline of Sun Quan's new book.
Since his rebirth, he has been very serious every time he opens a new book. It can be said that he is becoming more and more serious.
Because he feels more and more that the principle of "sharpening the sword does not waste time chopping wood" is so correct.
If you don't pay enough attention to the outline, it may seem like you save time in preparation before starting the book, but it will definitely waste more time in the future when the text gets longer and longer.
And it’s easy to distort a good story.
He had already tasted the benefits of a complete outline and detailed outline. Therefore, when he opened a new book this time, he also attached great importance to the outline and did not set a time limit for himself. He did not think about how many days he must have to complete the outline.
Of course, this is probably related to the fact that he doesn't have much pressure in life now.
Not to mention a month or two, even if he doesn't open new books for a year or two, or even for a lifetime, he won't starve to death.
When there is no pressure to survive, he naturally has no sense of time urgency.
So, day after day, time passed by, and he was still writing the outline of a new book.
By the way, he has temporarily chosen two names for his new book.
One is "Dad, come on!"
The title of the book is taken from the child's perspective. "Dad" is the identity of the male protagonist Huangshan. "Come on" means that Huangshan, the father, has a very difficult life. If he doesn't cheer up, it will be difficult for his life to improve.
Another tentative title is "Huangshan"
There is not much meaning in choosing this name. It is mainly just to make people curious and confused about the title of the book.
He feels that once the name "Huangshan" is released, it will definitely arouse the curiosity and doubts of many readers. Everyone will wonder: Is "Huangshan" the Huangshan we know?
I will also wonder: Why is this book called "Huangshan"? Is this a fairy tale? Isn't it about a sect of immortality established in Huangshan?
You may even wonder: Is there any special story that happened in Huangshan?
etc.
With the current popularity and reputation of his pen name "Xianyu Anlaosun", he believes that if this new book is named "Huangshan", many readers who are curious and confused about this title will be interested in clicking it.
This book is for trial reading, and he is confident that the storyline in the main text will retain the most people who click on the book.
He liked both of these book titles.
The first title, "Come on, Dad!" is an urban style title, but on the current Qidian Chinese website, it is a non-mainstream title style.
What kind of book titles are popular these days?
Apart from anything else, according to Sun Quan's understanding, very few of the current Qidian book titles contain punctuation marks, and occasionally there will be a book title with a question mark in it.
But commas rarely, if ever, appear in the titles of Qidian’s works.
Therefore, he prefers the second title "Huangshan".
yes!
This title makes it difficult for people to tell at a glance that this is a novel about dads. Even at first glance, many people will not be able to associate this book with an urban work.
With a book title like "Shu Mountain", when many people see it, they subconsciously think that it is a fairy tale and related to "The Legend of Shu Mountain Swordsman".
Or "Kunlun", which reminds people of Kunlun Mountain, and then they think that this is also a fairy tale work.
Anyway, the word "Huangshan" makes it difficult for people to think that this is an urban-themed daddy novel.
From this point of view, this title is a failure.
Not suitable.
Sun Quan knew this in his heart, but a big reason why he wanted to name this new book with these two words was because he wanted every reader to think of Dad when they see the title of his book.
article on this topic.
He did it on purpose.
Because when he wrote this book, he not only wanted to capture the readers who like to read Dad’s articles, but he also had greater ambitions. He hoped that more readers, those who did not like to read Dad’s articles before, would also come to read him.
This book.
Therefore, he felt that he should do something about the title of the book.
No matter what, let's first attract as many readers as possible into this book.
After these readers join the trap, some readers who don't like Dad's articles may leave, but he believes that some people who originally didn't read Dad's articles will stay.
only……
In the end, he has not yet made up his mind whether to use this title or not.
Anyway, the two book titles above are both his working names.
It can be replaced at any time.
…
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
The outline of his new book has finally taken shape.
He began to write the detailed parts.
As the outline took shape, his overall impression of the story became much clearer.
Compared with the outline, the detailed outline is more difficult to write and requires more patience.
That afternoon, he was in his office on the second floor of Xianyu Studio, frowning and writing down detailed content bit by bit. The reason why he frowned...
It's just a habit he has when thinking about problems.
The cell phone at hand suddenly rang.
His train of thought was interrupted, and Sun Quan frowned even more, but when he glanced over, he saw that the caller ID was Xue Zihan.
They have been in constant contact recently. Xue Zihan has recently been visiting major domestic video websites, trying to find a suitable website to sign a contract with the other party for the web drama "The Last Wish of the Dead".
But it's not completely done yet.
It’s not that the major video websites are not interested in this drama.
In fact, Sun Quan learned from Xue Zihan these days that the three video websites she had visited all had intentions to purchase this online drama.
The problem lies here!
The cooperation plans given by those three video websites are all for purchase!
To put it simply: it’s a one-time buyout.
Give them Xianyu Film and Television a copyright fee and directly buy out all the rights and interests of the drama. After paying the money and delivering the goods, the future profits of this web drama have nothing to do with their Xianyu Film and Television.
There is only one signature left.
Sun Quan has no interest in this kind of cooperation.
The key is that the purchase price given by the three video websites...is not enough to cover the production cost of their drama.
One family offered 1 million.
One family offered 1.5 million.
The highest bidder only paid 2 million.
But how much did Xianyu Film and Television spend to produce this web series? 6 million!
So for a price of one to two million, Sun Quanneng wants to buy out all the copyrights to the web drama "The Last Wish of the Dead", does Sun Quanneng agree?
Can Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan agree?
It is not impossible to trade at a loss. Many people do business. When they realize that the true value of the things they sell does not meet their psychological expectations, they will choose to sell at a loss. They do not want anything else but to lose less and recover more.
Cost is just a little cost.
But the show "Dead Man's Last Wish"...has it reached the point where it is going to be sold at a low price?
Sun Quan thinks not.
Xue Zihan and the others didn’t think so either!
What is the quality of this drama? After all post-production was completed, Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan all saw the finished product, and they all felt that the quality of this drama was good.
Under this premise, it will definitely not be easy for them to sell this drama at a low price.
No, Sun Quan hasn't urged Xue Zihan here yet. Two days ago, Xue Zihan took the initiative to say that he wanted to try another video company.
Therefore, when he saw her calling, Sun Quan subconsciously thought that she was here to report the results of the trip.
This matter is very important.
Therefore, Sun Quan immediately picked up his cell phone and answered the call.
Xue Zihan: "Ah Quan, Youku has seen our samples. We have just communicated about the cooperation method. They are different from the previous three websites. They agree with our proposed cooperation method and guaranteed distribution!"
Guaranteed release.
It was a new idea that Sun Quan, Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and Tao Yujuan came up with half a month ago.
Before that, what Sun Quan wanted was a share of the money.
Just like when he writes novels on Qidian.com, the royalties are shared with the website. The more you earn, the less you earn, all depends on the quality of your work.
He likes this method of profit distribution that relies on quality.
But after Xue Zihan visited two video websites before, she found that the pure sharing method was not enough.
Because at present, the mainstream of domestic video websites is free to watch.
Even the advertisements embedded in the video are not too long.
Simply put, it is generally free for viewers to watch movies and TV series on these video websites.
In this mainstream environment, there is not much room for a complete split plan.
Viewers don’t have to spend money, so how do you share it with the video website?
What to divide?
advertising fee?
The advertising time in every movie and TV series is so short, how much of the advertising fee can be allocated?
The reality is that Sun Quan and others have to think of another way of cooperation.
What they finally came up with... was guaranteed issuance.
Simply put, the video website must first pay them a copyright fee. No matter how popular and word-of-mouth the show is after it is launched on the video website, this copyright fee will not be returned to the video website.
In addition, try to strive for a portion of the profit share that has room for upside.
For example, when the total number of clicks on this drama exceeds a certain number, how much money will the video website have to pay them.
Unfortunately, their idea was beautiful, but none of the three video websites Xue Zihan went to before agreed.
They are only willing to pay one or two million in royalties to buy out their drama.
"What's the guaranteed price?"
Sun Quan asked.
Xue Zihan: "1 million!"
Sun Quan: "..."
This price is much lower than Sun Quan's psychological expectation.
After a moment of silence, he asked again: "What else?"
Xue Zihan: "If the total number of views exceeds 2 million, for every number of views exceeding 1 million, the other party will replenish us with 1 million in copyright fees. Ah Quan, I have calculated it. According to the terms they currently promise, our drama wants to
To recover the cost, the total number of views must exceed 7 million. If you want to make money, you need more views. Do you... do you think you can agree to this condition?"
Sun Quan frowned and said nothing.
A total of 2 million views... a few years from now, it will be nothing to a popular TV series.
Sun Quan remembered when in the original time and space, a TV series could be viewed online by hundreds of millions of people.
The popularity of TV series with tens of millions of views can be considered overwhelming.
But he knew it was not a few years later, it was 2011.
Moreover, his drama is not a traditional TV drama. This "Dead Man's Last Wish" is just an online drama, and the total number of episodes in the first season is only 14.
Online dramas are naturally less attractive to audiences than traditional TV dramas.
In addition, this drama is about supernatural beings, which is a niche subject.
If you want to accumulate a total of 2 million views in 14 episodes, the average number of viewers per episode will be as high as more than 140,000.
This number doesn't seem to be much.
But he has been writing online articles for many years, and he knows how difficult it is to have more than 10,000 subscribers for an online article.
There are no big stars in this web series of his, and it is almost entirely composed of newcomers.
How difficult is it for such an online drama to attract hundreds of thousands of viewers among so many film and television dramas on video websites?
He thought about it and had an idea in his mind.
Of course, there is also a good side. Subscribing to online articles requires money, but the film and television resources of video websites are basically free at present.
Free, obviously easier to attract viewers.
Therefore, he is confident that this drama can eventually achieve 2 million views.
But it would take 7 million views to recoup the total investment in the show, so he wasn't so sure.
Unless he can refresh the data.
But this is obviously impossible!
Since the copyright fee for this drama is linked to the number of views, as long as they choose to sign a contract with Youku Video, once the drama is launched, there will definitely be professionals from both parties keeping an eye on the data of the drama.
No one on both sides will relax.
In this case, brushing data is giving the other party a handle, and it will definitely be their Xianyu Film and Television that suffers in the end.
As long as the other party has evidence that Xianyu Film and Television has swiped data, they will no longer pay them copyright fees. What can they do?
Sun Quan wanted to say: Try another video website.
But he couldn't say the words.
Because he knows that there are only a few large video websites in China, and Xue Zihan has visited almost all of them these days. The cooperation conditions provided by Youku Video are already the best among the major video websites.
Unless someone else plans to invest in a video website themselves, there are not many choices for Xianyu Film and Television.
"Ah Quan? You said... should we sign a contract with Youku?"
Seeing that Sun Quan didn't respond for a long time, Xue Zihan asked again on the phone.
Sun Quan smiled faintly and said, "Sign it! However, before you sign the contract, try to get a few more recommendation spots from the other party. This will be beneficial to the broadcast volume of our drama, you know?"
Xue Zihan: "Is it the real signature?"
Sun Quan: "Well, if you don't sign, which other video website can you find?"
Xue Zihan was speechless.
Sun Quan: "Remember to ask for more recommendations!"
Xue Zihan: "Well, I know! Don't worry! Since we can agree on the cooperation method, there should be room for negotiation on the recommendation position, and I will try my best!"
After a pause, she asked hesitantly: "But, Ah Quan, it will be difficult for us to make money by signing such a contract, right? We may not even be able to recover the cost!"
Sun Quan: "Well, I know, don't worry! I know it in my heart, and we still have room to operate."