Chapter 22 Estimated Word Count
Gu Qingge was very satisfied with the contract offered by Qidian Publishing House.
Because before signing the contract, she had a general understanding of the treatment of newcomers in the popular fiction circle, and she was prepared to sign an ordinary newcomer contract.
Once her work becomes popular, she will have the confidence to negotiate the price.
What she didn't expect was that the other party was so optimistic about her book "Who Can Compete" that he actually wanted to publish it as a single volume.
Gu Qingge felt quite amazed when she thought about her work becoming a physical book in the future, because she really wasn't a writer. Her original intention in writing was just to complete a small side quest...
In addition, she also discovered that the publishing industry in China in this world is really very relaxed. There are no complicated approvals and the process of publishing a book can be said to be quite simple.
Now, as long as she hands in the 200,000-word manuscript, the first volume of "Who Can Compete" will be on the market soon.
The popular fiction circle pays great attention to real-time reader feedback. After all, as soon as the first volume of a book is published and the market response is not good, it will be immediately cut short!
This is also why many works that are qualified to be published as single volumes have been tested by serialization in magazines, which effectively reduces the risk.
In this light, Ye Jingyi's decision to directly publish the single-volume version of "Who Can Compete" can be said to be quite risky.
To put it bluntly, authors who dare to publish new books without serialization in magazines are all senior authors who have already established themselves in the popular fiction circle. They have either accumulated a group of loyal fans or are very confident in their new works.
After Gu Qingge confirmed the contract again and again, he happily chose to sign a contract with Qidian Publishing House. The word count of the work was approximately fifty to one million words.
The total number of words in the original world's "League of Legends: Who Can Compete" is about three million. This number of words is really too many, and Gu Qingge certainly cannot write so many.
Gu Qingge felt that it would be enough to write 200,000 words for the league, 200,000 for the mid-season tournament, 200,000 for the S tournament, 200,000 for the Asian Games, Olympic Games and World Cup, and the rest of the daily life, emotional scenes and transitional plots added together, with a total length of no more than one million words.
She wasn't planning to make a lot of money by writing novels, so there was no need for her to inflate the word count to make money.
In the world's popular fiction circle, there is also a situation where the more popular a work is, the more words it has.
There is no way around it. It is not easy for an average popular fiction author to write a hit book. Of course, they have to add some water to it. Otherwise, it would be very uncomfortable if the next book fails to become a hit.
Readers are also hypocritical. On the one hand, they think the author is too watery, but on the other hand, they like to read books with many words. Some people will not even pay for a book if it is less than two million words.
When web editor Liu Shutang was communicating with Gu Qingge, he certainly felt that the estimated word count of "Who Can Compete" was too low. Other long popular novels would have to write over a million words, so the so-called "a million words to take off and become a god" is not just a joke.
However, Gu Qingge insisted on her own opinion. She felt that one million words were too many. After all, the word count requirement for the side quest was only 500,000. She made a compromise for the integrity of "Who Can Contend".
This kind of insistence made Liu Shutang speechless, because most authors are willing to sign more words, so that the total royalties will of course be higher.
The publishing house's attitude towards the word count of works is also very realistic. That is, if it is a hit book, you should write as hard as you can, preferably until the publishing house goes bankrupt. If it is a flop, finish it quickly and don't drag it on.
After Gu Qingge successfully signed a contract with Qidian Publishing House, the speed at which she wrote "Who Can Compete" naturally increased a lot.
After all, no matter how many words she wrote before, she would not get a penny. Now, she can get 100 yuan for writing 1,000 words. When she submits the manuscript of 200,000 words, she will be able to get 20,000 yuan in royalties before tax, which does not include the share of royalties.
Gu Qingge had already written 50,000 words, and she planned to finish the other 150,000 words at the rate of 10,000 words a day.
It can only be said that Gu Qingge has too much material in his mind, and he has a master-level literature skill card, so he doesn't have to think too much when portraying the characters. After all, they are all real people who originally existed in the world's e-sports circle.
Gu Qingge still coded it at school using her old smartphone, and she admired her own perseverance.
That’s right, Gu Qingge, who is still a senior high school student, still has to go to Handong City Senior High School.
But she had it much easier than other senior high school students, because other senior high school students had to prepare for the college entrance examination, but she, as the student who ranked first in the Huayi art examination, only had to go through the motions in the college entrance examination.
Gu Qingge is now undoubtedly a legend in this high school and a well-deserved school belle. Her classmates even like to jokingly call her "big star."
The school also specially praised Gu Qingge. This is the honor of getting the first place in the art exam. No matter what, she has brought honor to her alma mater.
It’s a pity that Handong City High School is not an art high school, otherwise Gu Qingge would definitely be praised to the sky.
Gu Qingge doesn't care what others think of her. She is obsessed with writing and just wants to make money.
As a result, some jealous classmates looked down on her, thinking that she was crazy about playing with her phone and was a member of the "phone tribe".
Gu Qingge often obtained cultivation jade for no apparent reason, and she was very happy. She thought it was good to come to school and hoped that there would be as many classmates who were jealous of her as possible.
Anyway, Gu Qingge tried his best to finish 10,000 words in school, and after school he went to the Internet cafe with his younger brother Gu Wenzhou to help him start his live broadcast business.
Her behavior of playing with her cell phone crazily at school and hanging out in Internet cafes after school completely overturned her original image of an ordinary good girl.
This, of course, caused some people to worry, including her good friend Lin Yun.
Lin Yun has been Gu Qingge's good friend for many years. She has been Gu Qingge's classmate since elementary school and is both good in character and academic performance.
Lin Yun is a girl with a very gentle personality. She always hopes that Gu Qingge can become better, so she tutors Gu Qingge in her homework and persuades her to apply to an art university.
Lin Yun was very happy that Gu Qingge got the first place in Huayi Art Examination, but at the same time, the pressure came to her as well. She wanted to be admitted to the top university in the capital Pingjing at all costs.
But what she never expected was that Gu Qingge, who returned to school after the art exam, would "fall" to this extent.
On this day, Gu Qingge, as usual, prepared to go duo-queuing with his younger brother Gu Wenzhou after school to wreak havoc on the South Korean server and strive for the top spot on the server.
Of course, while rushing to rank up, Gu Qingge also accumulated more materials, which happened to be useful in the e-sports novel "Who Can Compete".
To be honest, the various operational games in the high-end games of the South Korean server have a bit of a competition feel. They are more organized than the mindless fighting and targeting in the top of glory of the national server. Moreover, most of the high-end players in the South Korean server are more divided into slaves and resilient.
Gu Qingge uses this kind of material in his novels to enhance professionalism and quality.
"Gu Gu, I heard from others that you are always playing with your phone in class and going online with boys after school. What's wrong with you?"
Lin Yun stopped Gu Qingge at the school gate and said with a heavy face.
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