Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

"The book "Shattered Void" is not only my own book, but also the current key project of our publishing house. We must write it as quickly as possible, the sooner the better."

Upon hearing what Cao Zhiqiang said, Yu Deli, who was sitting next to him, immediately put down his pen and said to his notebook: "Don't worry, general manager, we have enough ISBNs and the printing factory is ready, and you still have the complete manuscript, which we need."

What I did was proofreading and typesetting.

In terms of proofreading and typesetting, we will go all out to get this book published as soon as possible."

"Very good." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Then let me talk about mid-term and long-term projects."

Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang felt a little dry in the mouth, so he picked up a glass of water on his desk.

While Cao Zhiqiang drank water, the entire conference room was silent. Everyone watched Cao Zhiqiang drink water quietly, and no one made a sound.

Including Zhou Huaien, the titular president, sitting above Cao Zhiqiang, and an unknown young girl sitting in the corner who didn't know where she came from.

After drinking half a glass of water, Cao Zhiqiang put down the water glass, cleared his throat and said: "Don't worry about the mid-term project now, we will talk about it later. Let me talk about the long-term project first."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang paused for a moment, organized his words, and then said: "That's right, everyone knows that as a publishing house, just publishing books is not stable enough, and there is no need to find so many of you.

In fact, before opening this publishing house, I wanted to open a magazine, but by some strange combination of circumstances, I ended up opening this publishing house first.

But it doesn’t matter. A publisher can also open a magazine.

In other words, I plan to open another magazine under the name of Hongguang Publishing House.

Don’t worry about the first issue, it’s not a problem for us.

At yesterday's opening ceremony, you all met Director Chen of the Publishing Bureau.

Just yesterday, I talked with Director Chen of the Publishing Bureau about the issue of the magazine.

Director Chen promised me at that time that as long as we were ready, we could apply to him at any time and he would approve it immediately.

By the way, Director Chen was not drinking at that time and was very sober, and President Zhou was also present, right, President Zhou?"

Zhou Huaien was taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded with a smile: "Yes, I was there at that time. Manager Cao asked Director Chen this, and Director Chen also promised the magazine issue. I can testify to this."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled at Zhou Huaien, and then continued to face everyone: "Everyone knows that magazines can publish periodicals.

As for the issuers of magazines and periodicals, they can go to the post office, which is much more timely and has stronger reader stickiness.

In terms of overall influence, the influence of a journal is far greater than that of several books.

However, after all, we are a new company with a small staff, so I do not plan to create a realistic magazine, but to create a magazine that serializes martial arts novels and science fiction novels, plus modern social and emotional stories, which is a fantasy category.

What do you think of magazines whose content is mainly fictional?”

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion, but no one was the first to speak.

It was Yu Deli who, relying on his identity and relationship with Cao Zhiqiang, was the first to ask: "General Manager, do you mean to start a magazine similar to "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times"?"

"Yes, it's that kind of magazine!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "I just want to start a magazine similar to "Legends of Modern and Ancient Times"."

“However, when we founded this magazine, we wanted to receive a wider range of manuscripts, not only serializing martial arts novels, but also serializing science fiction novels and modern emotional novels.

In short, as long as it is a fictional story novel, regardless of the category, it can be included.

By the way, be sure to remember that it must be written on the cover of the magazine that the contents of this issue are all fictitious, and any similarities are purely coincidental!"

After Yu Deli heard this, he adjusted his glasses and said: "It would be good to start a popular literature magazine.

But General Manager, I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to have a hodgepodge of things like this.

After all, readers all have preferences, so it is best to have a focus on magazine content.

For example, if we focus on the serialization of martial arts novels, we will mainly focus on martial arts novels.

The emphasis is on science fiction, and the content of science fiction is the main focus.

It doesn’t matter if it’s large and comprehensive, but there must be a key point, otherwise it will give people a messy feeling and increase the difficulty of our proofreading.”

"That's it." Cao Zhiqiang thought for a while, "Then, let's focus on martial arts novels and science fiction novels for the time being."

"Well." Yu Deli hesitated for a moment, and then said, "General Manager, it's best to choose only one between martial arts and science fiction, and do both. Isn't it easy to conflict?"

"That's not true." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "Those who like to watch martial arts are also very receptive to science fiction novels.

On the contrary, if you like to read science fiction, there is no problem in reading martial arts novels.

Don’t worry, these two groups may seem unrelated, but they actually have a lot in common.

Combining these two contents will make it more distinctive.”

Indeed, although on the surface, science fiction and martial arts seem to be completely different categories, as a former fan of online novels, he clearly knows that the two are actually similar in the eyes of readers.

Whether science fiction or martial arts, they are actually adult fantasies. Since they are adult fantasies, it is decided that these two categories are actually the same thing, but they have different focuses.

So combining the two, the effect should not be bad.

Seeing that Cao Zhiqiang had made up his mind, Yu Deli stopped insisting and said: "Okay, I understand. Does that mean we have to make appointments for manuscripts now? Save one issue first?"

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang said, "But there is no need to be so anxious. In fact, even if no one submits a manuscript, I still have a manuscript myself."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang smiled and said: "Actually, the "Shattered Void" I mentioned before can also be serialized in this new magazine. In this way, we can achieve mutual success.

Just to show the difference, in the magazine, in addition to serializing "Shattered Void", we can also add review items. You can write editor comments on it, or you can ask readers to write letters, write reader comments, etc.

In addition, I have also written many other martial arts novels, such as "Looking for Qin" which is about to be completed, and I have just written the beginning and creative ideas, there are many more."

After a brief pause, Cao Zhiqiang pointed to his head and said: "Actually, at the beginning, my own novels were enough to support a magazine.

But this way, my workload is too much.

So my idea is that you find me some stenographers, I say, they write, and use this collective creation method to quickly present the novel.

I said that the whole process of writing by others will be recorded.

In this way, not only will errors and omissions be avoided, but also copyright issues will be avoided.

It's like I'm telling a story, and someone else records the story and then embellishes it.

If this book writing team has been with me long enough and they are on the same page, I can just write or talk about the beginning, and then write or talk about the creative outline, and let them be responsible for the continuation.

In this way, we can quickly produce good content, and we won’t have to worry about insufficient content in the journal. What do you think?”

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other again, and finally looked at Yu Deli.

Yu Deli frowned, but still frowned and asked: "General Manager, what you mean is that we don't ask others to receive the articles, and we publish all your own articles. But here, you don't write it yourself, you are only responsible for saying,

Then someone else will write it, is that what you mean?"

"That's what I mean." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "But it's not just about talking, I will also write the beginning, characters and outline during the period.

Well, to put it simply, it is just like taking a class.

I give lectures on the top, and the writing group listens below. Then when I finish speaking, the writing group below brainstorms and jointly creates an article based on what I think about. Do you understand?"

"It's a bit like writing a script." Sun Weihua suddenly said.

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded.

Yu Deli glanced at Sun Weihua, and then said to Cao Zhiqiang: "General Manager, scripts are different from novels. Strictly speaking, there is no problem with multi-person creation of scripts, but novels must pursue continuity, and multi-person creations are prone to problems."

"Then what should I do?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "I have many good stories in my heart, but I just don't know how to present them.

If I had to write it all by myself, would it exhaust me to death?

I’m handicapped and I’m very busy, so I can’t write many words in a day.”

Yu Deli said: "If that's the case, we can arrange a special writer for you.

You don’t need too many writers, one or two are enough, but you must have certain writing skills, and your memory must be strong, and you must be able to quickly remember what you can say, and you must be able to polish the content into a book yourself.

In this way, you are responsible for telling the story, and the writer is responsible for recording the story. Of course, the entire process is recorded.

You only need to explain the story clearly, the outline of the story, the characters, the main plot, and the subplots. The rest of how to write the book is the job of the writer. Do you think this is okay?"

"It's okay, it's absolutely okay." Cao Zhiqiang said, "But one or two people are too few and not enough.

Otherwise, in order to increase the speed of publishing the book, I can tell different stories to different people.

In this way, a scribe is only responsible for the story I tell him. Each other's story is different and does not interfere with it.

In this case, there won’t be the chaotic situation you mentioned, what do you think?”

Yu Deli thought for a while and said: "Of course you can, but it will be very hard for you, because you will have to think about different stories, which will be very troublesome."

"I'm not afraid." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "The stories in my mind are all ready-made. I just tell different stories to different people. It's not the same thing."

That's right, Cao Zhiqiang has ready-made novels distributed systematically. When the time comes, he will just need to read different novels to different people.

This is like reading different texts with different people. You don’t have to think about the plot yourself. There is no need to worry about it.

"Just right!" Cao Zhiqiang looked at the six newcomers Yu Deli had found.

"The six of you are the pillars hired by Editor Yu, and you are young people with high energy and quick thinking.

How about this first, each of you, I will tell you a novel individually, and then each of you will be responsible for the serialization of a novel, how about it?"

"Isn't this not good?" Yu Deli said first.

"What's wrong?" Cao Zhiqiang said, "That's it, you guys will arrange a class later, and I will tell you the novel one by one. If you can't remember it at the moment, you can go back and listen to the tape.

I don’t require you to be too good, just be able to write down what I said completely in words, and be able to read it fluently.”

Indeed, Cao Zhiqiang has thought about it. If he reads the original novel to everyone, and the other person only needs to turn these contents into words, then there will not be much difference.

After all, the most important thing about a good fast-food novel is the plot and characters. As long as the plot and characters are good, there is no problem if the writing is a bit lacking.

As for these people who can be found by Yu Deli, they should have no problem with their basic writing skills.

People with problems will not be dragged in by Yu Deli, an old man.

Then the problem is simple.

As long as the writing skills of these people are decent, and they only need to translate the content of the novel they read into words, and then polish it a little, wouldn't it become a good novel?

This process, Cao Zhiqiang is willing to call it - the reverse audio novel project.

Using this method, his creation speed, no, plagiarism speed, can be quickly improved, not slower than typing, or even faster than typing.

Not bad, not bad, I am really a genius, I can come up with such a good method, I must give myself a thumbs up!