Jiang Baige had not yet fully woken up when he received the call.
I glanced at the time, it was 7:20 in the evening - that was less than an hour after I slept.
Yesterday, she stayed up all night to finish the project. After handing in the manuscript at around eight o'clock in the morning, she did not go to work.
But I didn’t get much rest either.
Because she was inspired by the scripts of workplace dramas, she felt that some management methods could be applied to dual heroine stories.
At this thought, I got out of control.
She originally wanted to sleep for a while, but the more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She simply got up, drank a large glass of lemon Americano, and started working on the outline of the new part of the article about the two heroines.
For a long novel, it is very important to have a complete outline. You must fill in enough conflicts and plots at the very beginning of writing the story, so that the word count will not increase when writing. Insufficient water injection.
But a rough outline is not enough, it also needs to be refined.
However, the detailed outline cannot be written at the beginning, because there will be many variables during the writing process, and "inspiration" cannot be predicted in advance.
If you list everything you want to write in each chapter at the beginning, if there is any change in the middle, all the content written before will be useless.
Jiang Baige is accustomed to doing a staged breakdown after the editor has read the rough outline.
She will further divide the main line of the story into a dozen or even twenty small parts according to the time it occurred, the main conflicts, the consequences, and how it will push the story to what stage.
In this way, she can control the story during the writing process, so that the writing will not fly away, and she can also keep every inspiration and wonderful pen.
Therefore, before she writes a small part, she will make a "chapter outline" that is specific to the general content of each chapter.
Even though each chapter only has two to three thousand words, it is "Although a sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs." There must be no shortage of conflicts, otherwise it will be suspected of being "hydrological".
Jiang Baige completed the previous stage of the double heroine article some time ago and is about to start the next one, so before writing the main text, he must first write out the chapter outline of this stage.
This process is actually very similar to writing a script.
All scripts must first write enough plots, and then set up a story frame. After that, the plot is put into the frame and the episode outline is completed. The last step is to start writing the episode script according to the episode outline. .
When their studio reviews and adjusts the script, they not only look at the final episodes, but also look at the previous framework and outline.
Whether it is writing an episode summary or a chapter outline, it is no easier than writing the main text.
Although they have few words, when writing the synopsis, the authorI want to clarify the plot of the next dozens of chapters.
Jiang Baige still remembers that in the beginning, it took her three days to write more than ten chapters, and she almost scratched her head!
Because at that time, her imagination was not big enough, there were not enough plots in her mind, and she was not as skilled in controlling the story as she is now.
But even now, she cannot say that writing a chapter outline is easy.
So every time inspiration comes, she must seize it.
As a result, she wrote until almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and her stomach growled with hunger, and then she finally stopped.
She chose a Cantonese restaurant, not for the meal, but mainly for the authentic Hong Kong-style milk tea - excessive mental exertion, worthy of a reward!
After eating, she finally felt sleepy and was about to go to bed when she received a call from Lin Xingran.
Lin Xingran quickly discovered something was wrong with her: "Why do you keep yawning?"
Jiang Baige covered his mouth and yawned again, then said: "You were up all night yesterday. I caught up on work and was writing again in the morning, so..."
"So you didn't sleep at all?"
"You haven't had lunch yet, and you're about to go to bed... ”
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Unexpectedly, he received a call from Lin Xingran.
"Is it because I called you at the wrong time?"
"I don't dare..." Jiang Baige changed his serious tone, "What do you want to see me for? ”
“Do you still remember what I told you at the beginning of the year, that a publishing company wanted to publish a book for ‘Nvshufang’? ”
Of course Jiang Baige remembered it.
Because the publishing company was in Anjing, Jiang Baige should have been in charge of this matter.
However, Jiang Baige has been in chaos this year, so sometimes the connection is not very timely. Later, everyone discussed that it is better to let Lin Xingran connect. Unless it is necessary to go offline, contact Jiang Baige.
But this matter is actually not complicated. As long as the royalties and printing volume are negotiated, their editor submits a topic selection. After the topic selection is approved, the contract can be signed.
After the contract was signed, Jiang Baige and Lin Xingran selected, revised and sent the manuscript, and the editor could start her editing process. Jiang Baige and the others mainly cooperated.
Originally, they agreed to start work in the first quarter and strive to release it in the third quarter.
But I don’t know what happened with the book company, but this topic selection has never been approved.
According to the editor himself, there were some problems between their company and the publishing house that they had previously cooperated with, and they needed to change partners.
In the summer, Jiang Baige became busy and forgot about this matter.
I didn’t expect this to arrive.In the third quarter, the book actually ended.
"I have sent you the electronic version of the contract. If you have no problem reading it, I will type it out and sign it before sending it to you. You will then sign it and send it to the publisher. They will sign it. After that, you just accept the contract."
Jiang Baige took a look at the printing volume and royalties, and they were quite friendly.
The expected publication date is early next year, which is a reasonable choice.
Lin Xingran also said: "The editor-in-chief told me that I might use your identity as the author of the online article and the drama for marketing... If you feel it's inappropriate, it's okay not to appear. ”
“What’s the big deal? Making money is the real thing!”
Lin Xingran: Well, you are still the money-crazy person you were in college.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Baige read the contract again.
After reading the contract, she simply dug out the tweets she had posted in the study room over the years in her computer, and simply marked the sections she thought were more important.
After finishing these things, it is already past five o'clock.
She simply ate something and settled down, ready to sleep until tomorrow morning...
Unexpectedly, a call from the male agency came.
She climbed up resignedly and listened to the male agent talking non-stop on the other end. He responded occasionally and was almost hypnotized again.
The male agent finally finished boasting about the house and raised his voice and asked again: "Sister, do you think you are free tomorrow? If so, let's go take a look tomorrow?"
" Okay. Then you can find a few more sets and we’ll look at them together tomorrow.” The next day was the weekend and they made an appointment in the afternoon.
Jiang Baige turned around and knocked on Mo Songru's door: "Sister, are you free tomorrow? How about going to see the house together?"
Unexpectedly, Xin Zhiping also Now, he said first: "I want to go too!"