Chapter 107 New Work Preheat
Gu Qingge plans to finish writing this youth novel "Those Years" in one go and then serialize it on "Qidian.com".
Since it is less than 200,000 words, it can be serialized in basically one month.
Ye Jingyi highly appreciated Gu Qingge's choice of youth romance as the genre for his new novel.
After all, the newly revised "Qidian.com" needs a high-quality work in the most popular category of popular fiction to set a benchmark!
It has to be a work suitable for adaptation into a film or TV series.
As long as the movie adapted from it is popular and becomes famous beyond the circle, the sales of the novel will definitely take off.
Its existence is to prove the ability of "Qidian.com" to operate copyright and IP.
This will definitely attract the top authors in the popular fiction circle.
After all, who doesn’t want their work to be adapted into film and television dramas, animation, games, etc.
Ye Jingyi has close relationships with Jinhuang Entertainment and Tencent. As long as "Qidian.com" can continuously produce high-quality works, she can sell their copyrights.
At the same time, mid-level authors can also obtain electronic subscription income and single-volume royalties, and as long as the lower-level authors are diligent, they can at least get an attendance award.
Unlike most publishing houses, low-level authors have no chance to improve themselves. Their manuscripts are always rejected and they cannot earn a penny.
Over time, many people gave up on writing.
But now with "Qidian.com", they can practice their writing and grow on this website.
Except for some gifted writers, most writers slowly grow up from failure.
Ye Jingyi actually has great ambitions. She wants to build "Qidian.com" into a high-quality and rich IP incubation base, occupying the upstream of the entire cultural and entertainment industry chain.
Qidian.com is just starting with novels, and will certainly launch a comics website in the future, and then develop various peripheral products based on these high-quality works.
Gu Qingge was naturally happy to see the continued growth of "Qidian.com". After all, she was now the owner of this website.
This website is also a very good platform for her.
In the future, when she draws various cards related to novels and comics, she can even post them all on "Qidian.com". After all, the bigger the website becomes, the higher her income will be.
Ye Jingyi now has 120% confidence in Gu Qingge's talent.
Although Gu Qingge's debut work was an e-sports novel, Ye Jingyi was convinced that the youth romance novel written by Gu Qingge was absolutely extraordinary.
Just kidding, the love songs written by Gu Qingge are so popular. She seems to be the kind of writer who can portray emotions in a particularly touching way.
For an author like this, shouldn't it be basic to write a youth novel that can resonate with the vast majority of readers?
Of course Ye Jingyi didn't know that Gu Qingge's novel writing was not based on his own talent, but on that super useful mastery-level literary skill.
Let’s put it this way, as long as she has found all the materials, finalized the outline, character design, and other preparations before using this skill, then writing the novel will be easy and smooth for her.
After all, what she wrote was just a popular novel that catered to the public's appetite. It didn't need to be meticulously crafted, as long as everyone could enjoy it.
However, the category of youth romance novels is different from the traditional sense of cool novels.
It cannot just be about pleasure. If it only pursues pleasure, then it will not be considered a youth romance novel, but instead a pure campus fantasy novel.
Youth romance novels definitely need all kinds of twists and turns——
The hero and heroine were strangers at first, then gradually became familiar with each other, and then fell in love with each other. There were all kinds of ambiguous feelings, and then there were all kinds of misunderstandings and twists and turns, and finally they drifted apart...
Why do many youth novels or films treasure things like abortion, car accidents, and going abroad?
The reason is not only that the authors or screenwriters are really not good enough and can only follow the trend, but also because these bloody plots can actually add twists and turns to the plot, making the work more interesting and tense.
It's just that when there are too many fake ghost stories like this, it's just too shocking. Besides making people want to complain, they can't empathize with the characters at all.
The greatest pleasure of youth novels is actually resonance, which makes people sigh and recall their own youth.
Unfortunately, this is the situation with the youth romance novels that are popular in the popular fiction market today.
If we take the works of the original world as an example, they are very Qiong Yao style and early Korean drama style.
In these youth romance novels, everyone's youth seems to be full of love. Views like "You only lost a leg, but she lost her love" are very common in the market.
Now more and more readers are complaining that current youth novels are too fake, formulaic, and homogenized.
Gu Qingge chose to write "Those Years" because he saw such a very appropriate time.
In a sense, this work can also create a new trend in youth novels, that is, to let those authors stop focusing on the idea of passionate love.
Wouldn't it be better to write a more sincere youth novel that is closer to reality?
Wouldn’t it be better to be more literary and fresh?
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Around the end of November, Qidian.com had already started warming up for Nan Gezi's new work, promoting Nan Gezi and his new work in various ways, and it was obvious that they had already regarded him as the star of Qidian.com!
Nan Gezi’s new work will be a short youth novel!
This is actually his autobiographical novel. He wrote his youth into a short story!
After this news came out, Nan Gezi's loyal readers were immediately excited.
"That's great! Teacher Nan Gezi is finally going to publish a new book. Finally, I don't have to ask my grandson to burn his works for me!"
"My roommate wanted to read Nan Gezi's new book before he died. Now he finally doesn't have to die..."
"Is this the whip of the goddess? I didn't expect that urging Gu Qingge to update would actually work!"
"Nan Gezi is really a sycophant. In order to prevent his fans from bothering Gu Qingge, he quickly released a new book?"
"I'm so excited! Will Gu Qingge be mentioned in the book? Teacher Nan Gezi is so obsessed with her, she must know her in real life."
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There are also some who are not die-hard fans of Nangezi, but are just loyal readers of the e-sports novel category. They couldn't help but express their disappointment -
"Nan Gezi is getting cocky. How can a male author like him write a youth novel? Besides, youth novels these days are all melodramatic and clichéd. There's nothing to read at all!"
"Why don't you continue writing about esports? Wouldn't that be good for consolidating your position as a god?"
"A short story of less than 200,000 words? What's the point? I only want to read popular novels of more than 2 million words."
"Even if I'm out of books and have completely given up on popular novels, I won't read Nan Gezi's new book!"
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