Simplifying the story of "Soul Ferry" on Weibo, instead of expanding the plot and posting it on the novel website, is Mu Ming's plan after careful consideration.
Because he didn't want to take the road of online literature, but planned to publish physical books.
Physical book publishing, this is the development route that Mu Ming decided after thinking about it for a long time. 2010 is undoubtedly a time node for online novels to reach their peak, Dou Po, Douluo, and mortals......
The success of this series of online literature has led to the rapid development of online literature.
And the online writers' income ranking released in 12 years has added a fire to this.
A large number of young people rushed into the pit of online literature like moths to a fire, ordering mothers and novels to read、......
Every fiction site has these budding people, and every day people leave the scene, but then more people come in with great ambition.
But the road is not as rosy as it seems.
As the basic requirement of online articles, the daily uninterrupted update of four or five thousand words has killed a large number of people.
Mu Ming is an intermittent lazy cancer patient, and the speed of his writing depends on the state.
If you ask him to write more than 100,000 or 200,000 words a month, he can ensure quality and quantity, but let him write four or five thousand words a day and go crazy in less than half a month.
At this point, the update rhythm of physical books is undoubtedly more suitable for him.
Secondly, more than seventy percent of the market share of online articles is in the four categories of fantasy, urban, fairy and romance.
In contrast, although the theme of the supernatural is better than that of martial arts and military, it still has a small audience.
But in the field of physical books, the supernatural theme is indeed quite a favored category.
And a very important point is that if the novel is put on the novel website, it is difficult for a newcomer to get the film and television adaptation rights.
Although Mu Ming likes to write essays, he has no plans to be a fiction writer for the rest of his life.
Relying on novels to become famous, being a director, and turning IP into film and television is his plan.
And the market share of physical books doesn't have to be much worse than online novels.
Many people advocate that "traditional literature is dead", "physical book market pills" and the like, which can really only be heard as jokes.
Here are a few examples: Han Han's "1988" had 700,000 copies in the first printing, and it was reprinted several times after that; "Little Times", which is known as the pioneer of the fan economy, has tens of millions of sales in the entire series as of 2016; "Durala", which has been filmed countless times, was published in 2010 and sold more than 4 million copies by 2012; Jiangnan, which makes people want to send blades, the sales of the first volume of "Dragon Family" alone exceeded 1.2 million copies.
The price of a book is 30 yuan, deducting the share of the publishing house (the author's royalty share is generally about 8 percent), deducting 14 percent of the tax paid (the tax rate seems to be 20 percent, but the state has some subsidies for the cultural industry, and the mess is added together, which is about this tax ratio), as long as the sales of a book exceed 400,000, the author's income will exceed one million.
Of course, these are the best-selling novels.
Those novels that are of poor quality or have unpopular themes are already very good if they can sell three or four thousand copies.
The physical book market undoubtedly has much greater requirements for the quality of works than online articles.
And the reason why the plot of the novel was simplified on Weibo was because Mu Ming was in the consideration of publicity.
In this era, it is no longer the time when "the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys".
Especially in the cultural and entertainment industry, publicity is often as important as the quality of the work.
Xinlang Weibo is a new thing that was only launched at the beginning of 09, but relying on the huge usage of associated blogs, flexible and convenient communication methods and zero-threshold use conditions, in half a year, it already has tens of millions of users and more than one billion sends.
The reborn Mu Ming certainly knows how huge and terrifying the energy of Weibo will be in the future.
Especially in the range of fifteen to thirty-five years old, the popularity is undoubtedly highly consistent with the audience of his novels.
Therefore, Mu Ming regards Weibo as an important propaganda tool.
Mu Ming's plan is to first play the brand of "Soul Ferry" through the story of his abbreviated branch lines and only keep the main plot, and then contact the publishing house.
There is a world of difference between an influential work and a brand new work, and the treatment given by the publishing house.
Mu Ming is very confident in the quality of "Soul Ferry", but he does not blindly imitate the original plot.
Considering the browsing habits of Weibo users, Mu Ming changed the first story to a first-person perspective and wrote it in the form of a pseudo-diary.
"What are you doing?"
"Ugh!
…… Whew—" Mu Ming uploaded the first story of the transformation, continued to consider the simplification of the next plot, and the whole person was immersed in the supernatural atmosphere of the story.
A word suddenly came from the door of the room, which scared Mu Ming. turned his head to look, but it was Dad Mu standing there.
"Nothing, think about the future."
Mu Ming sat up slightly and said, probably because of "same-sex rejection", his relationship with his father was not as good as that of his mother.
To be precise, it should be a kind of family affection with respect.
From childhood to adulthood, Mu Ming still admired his father very much.
"Future?"
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Father Mu glanced at Mu Ming in surprise: "How about thinking about it." ” "Dad, how about I go to learn directing?"
Mu Ming propped her elbow on the arm of the chair and said with her hand on her head.
Suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have sat down with his father face-to-face for many years, and he had communicated with each other.
"Director?"
Father Mu raised his eyebrows and said strangely, "Didn't you keep saying that you wanted to study law?"
” "Huh?
Did I say that?
Mu Ming touched her nose, she even thought about studying law when she was eighteen years old, so how did she learn architecture in the end.
Well, life is always adjusting its direction. ” "It doesn't matter, as long as you have enough scores in the college entrance examination, you can learn whatever you like."
Father Mu didn't care.
Mu Ming is very lucky, both Mu's father and Mu's mother are still open-minded, and there is no such idea that children must inherit their father's business.
In her previous life, Mu Ming chose the same architecture major as Mu's father, but because she didn't know what to study, and she planned to come back to take over in the future, so she chose the architecture major.
It's a pity that after four years of study, Mu Ming really can't be interested in architecture.
"By the way, Dad, how about you look at the little story I just came up with."
Mu Ming opened the first story she had just written and turned the display screen to make it easier for Mu's father to read it.
Although Dad Mu does not belong to the readership group that Mu Ming expected, it is always good to listen to opinions.
A short story of about 400 words, I can read it in four or five minutes.
Father Mu frowned and thought for a while, then said, "The idea is good, but it's a little too brief."
It's okay, but I don't really like this kind of god-ghost story.
He looked at Mu Ming again and said, "Writing these at night is not afraid of nightmares." ” "Hey, hey."
Mu Ming pursed her lips and smiled: "It's okay, there is a ghost catcher in my story."
Dad Mu stood up and said, "Whatever you want, go to bed early."
I'm going to take a shower, do you go to the bathroom?
Seeing Mu Ming shake her head, she turned around and left Mu Ming's room.
Twenty minutes later, Dad Mu came out of the shower.
Passing by Mu Ming's room, I saw that he was constantly pointing at the keyboard with one finger, and asked aloud, "What are you doing here?"
” "Refresh the page."
Mu Ming pressed F5 and said strangely: "It's been so long, why hasn't anyone read the story I wrote?"
” "You're trying to be blind, too.
It's all at this point, how can so many people go online. ” "But it's just past twelve o'clock.
Sleep what sleep, get up!
Mu Ming was obviously a little overexcited.
"Go to sleep!"
"Okay!"