I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 168 Gluttony and Hal

the next morning.

The old book is finished, the new book has not been opened,

However, Ji Zhuo's work and rest habits are still the same, he still sleeps until the sun shines in the sky,
I didn't wake up naturally,
Instead, someone sent a message from Penguin, and Ji Zhuo, who was sleeping hazily, woke up with several messages.

Tossed and turned on the bed and rolled back and forth a few times,

Ji Zhuo got up and checked his phone.

It was the news from editor-in-chief Qian of Huating Publishing House, and editor-in-chief Tao of Modu Publishing House.

The content of the news was nothing short of good, about "Night Tour Fengdu City".

Before Ji Zhuo let the two discuss it by themselves,
I don't know how to discuss it.
The final result was that the two chief editors decided that the two publishing houses would jointly publish the physical book of "Night Tour Fengdu City".

Looking at the news, Ji Zhuo seemed to be able to imagine some conversations between the two of them.

"...You Huating Publishing House can publish this kind of mythical novel?"

"What's the matter, only you, Magic City Publishing House, are powerful, and we, Huating, have cooperated well with Mr. Bugong, but you have to..."

"What do you mean you have cooperated well? Let's cooperate with Mr. Ji first. If Mr. Ji didn't take pity on your publishing house, he would agree to work in your publishing house..."

"Okay, our publishing house can't do it right, then Bibi..."

"Compared to..."

Ji Zhuo feels that the content of his brain is probably similar to the reality.

Naturally, Ji Zhuo has no opinion on this, anyway, whether one publishing house publishes his book or two publishing houses will not affect his royalties, maybe even more.

This time the royalties share ratio is still set at 15%, which is the same as when Huating Publishing House published "The Bird in the Cage", which is already ridiculously high.

Ji Zhuo touched the phone,

I sent a message to Editor-in-Chief Tao and Editor-in-Chief Qian respectively,

Agreed to hand over "Night Tour to Fengdu City" to their two publishing houses for simultaneous publication,
As for the contract, instead of going to the publishing house to sign it in person, just let them send it over like before.

"Ah~"

After Ji Zhuo finished replying to the message, he put down the hand holding the phone,

Chang yawned, then looked back at the bed, lost in thought,
I am awake now, do I still want to go back to sleep?
Forget it...

"Whoa..."

Ji Zhuo wakes up,

On a whim, he opened the bedroom curtains that hadn't been opened for a long time,

In an instant, the noon sun outside the window penetrated into the bedroom,

The room was rarely so bright.

After basking in the sun, Ji Zhuo felt comfortable,
Leaning against the bay window, I feel like I don't want to move again, what's the matter?

Can not be done,
Ji Zhuo, cheer up!

I have to write a new book!

Let's wait for 10 minutes... The sun is so comfortable.

... After 5 minutes, Ji Zhuo went to wash up.

It is already hot, and it is really unbearable to bask in the sun.

……

"...Congratulations to the host for achieving the goal of this period's main professional task. The average online order for creating a book is no less than 1.8w, and the number of words for the finished book is no less than 20."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining: plot +1, inspiration +1, free attribute +8"

"Congratulations to the host for creating each work, the master's professional experience +1"

After washing up, Ji Zhuo sat at the desk in the study.

The sunlight outside the window was just reflected under the window far to his left,

While opening the laptop, I moved the position of the mechanical keyboard,

Ji Zhuo glanced at the system reminder after the completion of this "Night Tour in Fengdu City".

Without any surprises, the current goal of 1.8w all online bookings has been achieved.

Looking at the rewards of attribute points, Ji Zhuo had the urge to add all eight free attributes to speed,

See if you can beat some tentacle monsters that way.

But after struggling, Ji Zhuo compromised,
I still chose the balanced point addition method, so that although there are no short boards, the long board grows the slowest.

I'm afraid that one day all his attributes will give him growth boards and he will become a hexagonal warrior.

Hey……

I was forced to become a great writer because I couldn't squeeze the wool out of the system?
He added eight free attributes in a more balanced way, and he also added two points to the script attribute,

So the system interface becomes like this,

"Host: Ji Zhuo.

Main occupation: Writer.

Main occupation level: Level 3 (3/5)

Sub-occupation: Screenwriter (Level 2) (0/2)

Sub-profession: not yet open.

Occupational Attributes:
Writing style: 15
Plot: 15
Speed: 17
Inspiration: 15
Scripts: 11
Main occupation current task goal: According to the main occupation level and past works, the requirement is to create a book with physical sales of no less than (10W-20W) or online order no less than (2.4W-5W), and the number of words in the book is not low at 20.

(The specific requirements are determined according to the subject matter and type of the current new book)

Mission rewards: plot +1, inspiration +1, free attribute +8.

Current incentives: 600 million/month.

Sub-occupation: Screenwriter Current goal:..."

Looking at the well-balanced attributes, I feel a lot more comfortable.

I don't know the level of my attribute, what level is it probably at?
Maybe it can rank well in online novels, and now it can also be ranked in a dozen physical popular novels.

But if you compare it with writers, writers, and writers throughout the ages.

Ji Zhuo feels that he can be ranked ahead of him, but he doesn't know how many pages he can write just by writing his name.

It’s not to belittle oneself... let’s say that the person surnamed Lu and Zhou that many Chinese writers want to be,
Can Ji Zhuo compare now?Ji Zhuo felt that he was choked up.

And Lu has a bunch of names in front of him, and it is estimated that he can write many pages.

A long way to go.

But thinking about it the other way around, it’s actually not that difficult for me to rush to the street.

At least there is still a long way to go before being too powerful to hit the street at all.

Ji Zhuo nodded,

I am very satisfied with my reverse thinking.

Taking another look at the main professional experience,
Only the experience of finishing two books is enough to upgrade.

Hey... I am planning to write two books at the same time this time,
Although only one book is used to deal with system tasks, I really want to write two books.

Do you give experience to the system?
This is a problem.

Look down again,

See the requirements of the current goal of the system,
Ji Zhuo's eyes lit up, this time the system target requirements have been raised a lot.

However, the range of uncertainty is also large. I don't know how much this goal requirement will be determined when my new book is finalized.

But the system goal is high, okay.
The higher the requirements, the more "win-win" for yourself.

The higher you are, the more you want to earn a high amount of manuscript fees, or you want to squeeze the wool of the system!
It is best to reach the upper limit!
……

Looking at the system again,

Satisfied, Ji Zhuo closed the system interface.

The computer screen in front of him has also lit up.

At this moment, the sunlight is just right in the study room, and the air conditioner is on.

Everything is ready, Ji Zhuo is ready to start writing a well-organized, serious new book.

Open the coding software.

Ji Zhuo first knocked out the title of the new book that had already been confirmed - "Seven Sins"

But after the title of the book was typed out,
Ji Zhuo paused again,

He is considering whether to write the book directly in English, or to draft it in Chinese first.

To write directly in English means that he is going to "secretly hide his position" in this book,
Published abroad as a completely newcomer to the foreign literary world.

If it is written in Chinese, it is naturally "Mingxiu Plank Road", which is published in China.

But books with serious themes are easier to rush, right?
To deal with the current task goal of the dog system, it seems that the wool of the system is better.

As a complete newcomer to the world of foreign literature and fiction, writing a book with a serious subject seems like a rush.

It's not going to be steady.

After hesitating,

Ji Zhuo deleted the title of the book again,

Re-changed the English name.

Translated to the same effect,
Probably the 'seven sins'.

Then there is the introduction.

Since it is a foreign publication, it is natural to make some foreign-style introductions.

"The Lord said: Those who believe in Me will not fall into hell, but will go straight to heaven.

Believe in me, you can get bread and milk, you can get beauty and money, and you can enjoy eternal bliss—Satan. "

After typing out this profile,

Ji Zhuo looked at the English profile and paused.
As far as this brief introduction is concerned, if it is seen by some religious fanatics abroad, they must not be sprayed until it is taken off the shelf.

Fast-forward to a small press forced to pull "The Seven Sins" from its shelves over protests.

Isn't this more stable?

Ji Zhuo nodded in satisfaction,
Started a new chapter, ready to start writing the text.

The text is naturally written directly in English, so as not to translate later,
When watching the English version of "Bird in a Cage" before, Ji Zhuo discovered that,

The attributes of one's own writing obviously play a role in other languages ​​as well,

However, the writing style of the system is to allow Ji Zhuo to better apply the vocabulary and sentences he has mastered.

Like other languages, Ji Zhuo can't know it, but he can't. If Ji Zhuo is illiterate, he can be a storyteller even if his attributes are in the sky.

And this is written in English, and Ji Zhuo is also stumbling in writing... Although sometimes he knows that he can use a better and more appropriate word,

But either Ji Zhuo can't remember clearly, or he just doesn't know...doesn't know or doesn't know...the system can't force it.

So Ji Zhuo wrote and wrote, he had to use a search engine to search for relevant English words.

The written sentences are quite good, but the speed of writing is worrying... The speed attribute did not improve his speed of using search engines much.

"gluttony"

This is Chapter 1 of this serious novel, or the title of the first chapter,
Ji Zhuo's "Seven Sins" is going to write seven chapters,

Corresponding to the seven original sins in a certain religion as chapter titles,

Each chapter will write the story of a protagonist,

These seven protagonists have different identities, which correspond to the title of the chapter.

But this is a work with serious themes, so the stories are more realistic or serious and depressing.

The seven protagonists are seven ordinary people, and the seven chapters tell the stories of seven ordinary people.

Ji Zhuo is going to write tens of thousands of words for each chapter, and there is no longer a distinction between chapters.

this time,
titled,

Ji Zhuo began to write the first chapter, the story of gluttony,

The protagonist of the gluttony chapter is a night vendor who lives in the capital of a small country in western Europe.
His name is Hal.

This small country in the western part of Europa,
The north is still experiencing war, most of the people gathered in the capital of the small country,

The center of the capital of this small country is a bustling and wealthy area, where the night lights are neon and lantern riddles are drunk.

The outskirts are the refugee area. The residents who fled from all over the place built a shed around the capital of the original small country without a place to live.
These sheds are densely packed, all over the capital of the small country, and when night falls, they are also submerged by the surrounding night.

And Hal is different from those refugees who have no job and no income in the outermost circle,

He has a job - night market stall,
He lives on the border between the bustling area and the refugee area,
Most of the residents here live in rented old houses, doing heavy and long physical labor,

The time to get off work is often very late, so there is a night market here. Some people sell vegetables here, and some people sell some daily utensils here.

And Hal sells a local specialty snack here - a kind of grilled vegetables in toasted bread.

Because people who do heavy physical work are prone to hunger, and obviously what Hal sells is enough to keep you full and cheap enough,
So the business of his stall is very good.

The law and order at the junction of this bustling area and the refugee area is very poor.

The security police in the bustling area would not be willing to come here,

But the starving refugees in the refugee area will.

But Hal has his own survival skills-like most of the hawkers who set up stalls here, he paid a lot of protection money to the local gangsters,

That's half of his monthly profit, and he has to pay it every month.

But Hal is still very satisfied with this, at least the remaining money,
Enough for him and his wife and children to rent an independent old house near here alone,
Instead of sharing a house with another family like other families.

Perhaps when his child is older, he can find some planks and cut the living room in half, leaving a separate room for his child.

This kind of life would have lasted for a long time,

But recently there have been some mishaps,
His child fell down the stairs,
The damn, no panes, just windows stretched with some plastic bags,
I don't know when it rotted, so his child fell from upstairs.

At that time, his wife was still doing odd jobs for others in another place, and he was doing night stalls outside.

When he got home and went downstairs,
Downstairs with no lights, it was pitch black, and he could only vaguely hear a child calling his father weakly in the darkness.

Shouting repeatedly,

Then, he realized that it was his own child's voice... His own child's voice had somehow changed,

I found out later that it was probably painful.

this article,

The story of gluttony begins in this context.

"... Hal pulled the dilapidated, mud-stained cart with only two wheels, and walked at the same pace as before, like an old cow dragging a plow, to the position where he set up his stall. "

"This position is unique to him. He taught Qian. He is only allowed to set up a stall here."

"He pulled out the wooden frame from the stall, and put it under the handle in front of the stall to support it. With the two wheels of the original stall, the stall stopped firmly."

"He was fiddling with things one by one. He arranged the broccoli with the broccoli, and he arranged...he was very neat."

"Then, he ignited the coal stove carried by the stall, and fanned it with a rag. When it was ignited, the sparks of black coal in the coal stove flickered on and off, and gradually ignited."

"Bright stove, scorching heat, roasting the vegetables and bread on the grill, and roasting Hal standing behind the stove."

"Hal's sweat dripped down his cheeks and neck, like the vegetables on the grill are roasted by fire..."

The story is depressing and heavy,

Coupled with Ji Zhuo's unfamiliarity with English words and writing, Ji Zhuo wrote very slowly.

Although the sun outside the house swayed in through the window, it lost its temperature under the action of the air conditioner in the house.

However, when Ji Zhuo is substituted in the plot, I still feel a little hot for no reason... Especially when I can't find a suitable word and need to search, I still feel a little dry,

Gradually immersed in writing,

The sound of crackling keyboards rang in the study,

Ji Zhuo stared at the computer screen, typing,
The sun outside the window began to slant westward, leaving only the afterglow,

In Ji Zhuo's new chapter, the words and phrases are gradually emerging, and the content is gradually increasing.

The plot began to unfold gradually.

"... Soon, when the bread was baked hot, Hal raised his head for the first time to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and he welcomed the first customer of the day."

"It's a worker from a nearby factory. He's a very young guy with strong muscles and sweat all over his body. He always runs the fastest. His arrival also means that other workers in that factory are about to leave work."

"This robust young worker asked for a piece of bread with vegetables. After Hal brushed the best sauce on the bread, he handed the finished food to the young worker."

"The young worker was sweating profusely. After taking it, he opened his mouth like a hungry crocodile, eagerly swallowing the food in his hand, biting, chewing, and swallowing."

"It's as if there is only food left in the eyes, as if you can stuff all the food in front of you into your stomach."

"Hal watched the young worker's movements, squirmed his dry lips slightly, and pursed his lips."

(End of this chapter)