I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 353

Carol of Burt Press is delighted with the movement on the web.

The enthusiasm that originally belonged to Mr. ABC's works has returned.

Editor-in-Chief Lou of Delwin Publishing House was a little depressed.

The news of the upcoming release of ABC's new book stole the heat belonging to many of the 'dog authors',

However, ABC and the author of the dog are friends and rivals, so their popularity is always related.

The overseas readers of the dog author are not to be outdone. Although the new book of my dog ​​author has not been released yet, there are so many works published overseas.

The editor-in-chief of Al Publishing House, Al, was a little uncomfortable.

……

""Empire of Shadows" and "Empire of Shadows"! Haha, where is the new book by your dog author? Where is the new book?"

"..."The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals", "Night Tour in Fengdu City", "Star Dream", which one of these is not as good as your new book with only one name?"

"So the new book, my friend."

"The works of "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" are about to be published overseas, so let's talk about these things after your "Shadow Empire" is published!"

"So what, the new book by the dog author? The new book?"

"By the way, what kind of work will "Shadow Empire" be about?"

"Sounds like fantasy works, but ABC has always created genres that are biased towards realistic themes, magical realism works?"

"Upstairs, aren't you a loyal reader of the dog author?"

"Does it stop me from reading ABC? Don't you read Dog Author?"

"...There is some truth to it."

On the Internet, there are ABC readers who are excitedly chatting passionately with the dog author and readers,
There are also those who are seriously discussing the new book of ABC and express their expectations for the book "Empire of Shadows".

Al is at the press, in the office, browsing the web,
It's just that the Internet discussion has changed drastically in one afternoon, and the popularity has changed.

My heart felt a little heavy and depressed.

Because in these discussions, the name of "Ordinary and Great" no longer appears,

Not even the previous reviews that mocked the hype of The Ordinary and the Great.

Originally, the news that some of the works of the author of the dog were about to be published overseas pushed the enthusiasm for the publication of the new book "The Ordinary and the Great" into a corner.
Well now, ABC's new book is about to be released,

It completely made all the readers forget about "The Ordinary and the Great",
The readers of the dog author and ABC had a heated discussion on the Internet, and other less loyal readers also joined in the fun.

The previous publicity of "The Ordinary and the Great" seemed to have been done in vain. Under this wave of enthusiasm, it was drowned without any ripples.

but,

Editor-in-Chief Al previously discussed this issue with Mr. I,
In fact, this situation has long been expected.

A decision has been made, whether it is ABC's new book to be released, or the dog author's work to be published,
The plan of Ayer Press to publish "The Ordinary and the Great" is in accordance with the predetermined rhythm,
No advance, no delay, no deliberate avoidance,

The publication of "The Ordinary and the Great" will not be affected by the publication of other works by other writers.

Al has enough confidence in Mr. I's work, "The Ordinary and the Great",
He believes that even under such circumstances, "The Ordinary and the Great" can still shine with his brilliance.

It's just that he hopes that the brilliance of "Ordinary and Great" will bloom earlier, so he feels some pressure at this moment.

He did not want this great work to be delayed in his hands.

He doesn't want more people to see this great work earlier because of his influence,
Afraid to live up to the trust of Mr. I and this excellent work.

"call……"

Editor-in-Chief Ayer let out a long breath at the news discussion of "The Ordinary and the Great" that was no longer seen on the Internet.

A thought ran through my mind,
The popularity of the dog author and ABC's new book is so high, why don't you just take a look at the popularity of these two writers.

After thinking about it, Editor-in-Chief Al gave up.

The previous exaggerated propaganda, after "The Ordinary and the Great" is seen by readers, will only make readers agree,

But malicious gossip may cast a little blemish on this great work,
As a loyal and avid reader of this work, Editor-in-Chief Al cannot accept these flaws.

"...Then hurry up and publish it, neither in advance nor in delay!"

"Ask for the literary translation again."

Thinking about it, the editor-in-chief Al touched the phone first,

Afraid of disturbing the work of literary translation,
Finally sent a message in the past.

"Good afternoon, Professor Worth."

"To interrupt your work, I just want to ask you about the progress of the translation of "Ordinary and Great"."

After sending this message,
after a while,
It wasn't until the evening that Editor-in-Chief Al received another reply.

The message Professor Voss replied was a little grumpy.

"Please don't rush me, you should know that it takes time for him to translate such an excellent work!"

"I have to think carefully and think carefully before I can think of how to translate such a clever word, an appropriate word, into another language!"

"I cannot keep this work in my hands because my translation is flawed! That is an unforgivable crime!"

Professor Worth's emotions can be felt across the screen.

Seeing Professor Worth's reply, Editor-in-Chief Al didn't send any more messages to bother her.

But I still can't help but wonder where this top literary translator in the White Flag country is going to translate.

……

"call……"

Professor Worth is scratching the hair on his head, which is not much,

His eyes were a little red, and his face looked ferocious, showing confusion and hesitation from time to time.

Facing "The Ordinary and the Great" displayed on another laptop, the content translated from Russian was written on this computer,
Just after laying down some translation content, it was deleted again.

After reading "The Ordinary and the Great" in its entirety, Professor Wirth felt that he was somewhat confident in translation.

Then when I officially started to translate this work, I felt that when I read it before, it made me feel very ingenious, exquisite vocabulary and words,

How tangled and painful it is for him to translate at this moment.

Between two languages, it is sometimes difficult to find two words that match exactly, because of differences in culture and in various aspects.

However, the vocabulary used in "The Ordinary and the Great" does not contain any complicated words.

But it is these words that cleverly appear where they should appear, forming appropriate sentences, giving readers a strong sense of fluency and the atmosphere that the writer wants to convey to readers.

The writer's writing style is reflected in it.

It feels good when I read it, but when I translate it, Professor Worth wants to scratch his scalp to maintain this sense of fluency and appropriateness.

"Damn... Is this something that a writer whose name I have never heard of can write?"

"Damn...why am I working on the translation of this book next."

"Damn... No... There should be a more appropriate sentence here..."

Although the mouth is swearing from time to time,

But let Professor Voss give up the translation of this book at this time?
He would rather pluck out all the hair on his head than give up.

joke,

The translation of this great work is the work that will be engraved on his epitaph in the future.

It's just that it takes a lot of energy to translate now.

Originally, it was difficult to translate, and the publishing house urged me from time to time,
Naturally, he was unwilling to lower his requirements for the quality of his own translation.

He can only spend more time and energy every day, grinding hard.

"Huh... Cool! That's how it feels!"

Professor Voss successfully translated a section of "The Ordinary and the Great",

Excitedly shouted, and then continued to translate.

……

"Brother, do you know? ABC's new book is about to be released! The news announced by Bert Publishing House before!"

Under the gazebo, the chubby guy holding a mobile phone excitedly said to Ji Zhuo.

Ji Zhuo felt as if he had heard these words for the second time tonight,
The last time Yun Qingmu said it was during dinner.

Turning his head, he glanced at Little Fatty, Ji Zhuo was still slumped on the bench under the gazebo, leaning back.

"Get the news so soon?"

"Yeah! Someone in the dog author's book friend group will talk about it!"

"In the dog author's book friend group?"

"what."

Hearing the affirmative answer, Ji Zhuo fell silent.

In the dog author's readership, spies have mixed in.

Why are you discussing ABC's work?
Where is the scene of you and the ABC readers going head-to-head and having heated discussions with each other?

Oh... ABC is me too,

That's fine.

Ji Zhuo looked up at the sky, took out his phone, and looked at the book group that he hadn't opened for a long time.

Message 999+,

Check out the latest news.

"The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Dog Author, I know you are in the group. Human ABC's new book has been released, so should your new book be arranged?

Zeng Canghai: That’s right. Others publish a whole book once, but you update it. Why don’t you hurry up and publish a new book?

Grass in the Canyon: Dog Author, if you are like this, we are about to surrender to the enemy!
The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea:? ? ?
Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Administrator, work!There is an ABC traitor here!Good guy, I didn't see it before, but now it's exposed.

Grass in the canyon: wronged, wronged!I am loyal to the author of the dog, I want to meet the author of the dog, I want to meet the author of the dog!
Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Hold on!

Grass in the canyon: I want to see the author of the dog, I want... um, um..."

Looking at the news in the group, Ji Zhuo fell into deep thought, a little silent.

This group of people are quite good at playing.

"Little Black House: By the way, do you think the new book by the author of the dog will be released earlier than ABC.

Xiaoheiwu: After all, ABC's new book is just a name now, and it doesn't even mention the publication time.

Grass in the canyon: Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: I really want to see what ABC's new book is about...well, I don't want to read it, I just want to see the shortcomings of ABC's new book compared to the dog's new book.

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: It is convenient for discussion.

Canyon Grass: ? ?

Grass in the canyon: This is a group of book friends for dog authors. Isn't it reasonable to discuss other people's books, ABC's books?
The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Well, it makes sense...

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: By the way, it was dragged down, why did it pop up again?

Grass in the canyon: Mmm... Mmm..."

After seeing the news about this group of sand sculpture netizens, Ji Zhuo slipped away.

But speaking of it,
The new book under the name of ABC may not be released before the new book under the name of the dog author,
Before publication, the entire book needs to be printed, while the works of the dog author are serialized on the Internet.

Ji Zhuo was lying under the gazebo, his thoughts wandering freely.

……

"...Uncle Yu."

"What's the matter, is there news about that writer's new book?"

Yucheng.

After dinner at night, the old man was enjoying the cool on the edge of the balcony.

With the Braille book of Seven Days of Hell in hand,

The old man does not understand Braille, so he did not open the book, but just held the whole book in his hand,
He was still wearing earphones, listening to his favorite work, "Seven Days of Hell".

Waiting for the old man to take off the earphones and take a short break, the nurse next to him called out to the old man,
The old man turned his head slightly.

"No. There is no news about that author's new book."

"There is news about a new book by another writer who is as famous as him."

"ABC?"

"Yes, ABC's new book is said to be published soon. I saw the news just now. The name of the new book is "Shadow Empire""

"Shadow... Empire."

The old man repeated the name, then nodded.

"Then wait until it's published, and buy it back. Please read it to me then."

"Okay, Uncle Yu."

"By the way, Uncle Yu, the "Hour Hand" animation produced by the company's animation department today has updated another episode. Do you want to listen to it?"

"Then listen."

The old man nodded in response, and the nurse found the animation of "Hour Hand" like the old man with his mobile phone, and played it.

The old man was sitting on the balcony, listening to the evening wind blowing in from the window.

……

"Ah~~ha..."

Ji Zhuo got up from the bed and yawned.

A few days passed again.

In the past few days, Ji Zhuo basically coded in the house, went out to eat dinner, two o'clock and one line,
In order to finish the draft of "Empire of Shadows" earlier, Ji Zhuo spent more time every day on coding.

Start in the morning, and then stay in front of the computer until the evening,
As of today, "Shadow Empire" has a lot of content.

Get up and take a shower.

Glancing at several editor-in-chiefs, some messages from contacts.

Nothing important, no reply yet.

After washing up, Ji Zhuo went into the study.

outside the study,

The scorching sun scorched the earth,

It's already autumn, and the autumn tiger is still so fierce.

Turn on the air conditioner, close the windows,
The chirping of birds under the dense branches and leaves outside the window seems to be far away.

The only sound left in the study was the faint sound of the air conditioner blowing cool breeze.

Looking at some of the content that has been written before,
Facing the computer, Ji Zhuo paused, sorted out his thoughts,

Put your hands on the keyboard again,

"Crackling..."

The sound of keyboard tapping sounds,

Ji Zhuo started coding again, and it was another day.

The sunlight through the window, from one wall of the study, swayed to the ground, and reflected on the other wall,
Until the sun turns into the afterglow of the setting sun.

The sound of keyboard knocking in the study has been ringing intermittently for a whole day.

Until the light from the lit computer screen,
In the gradually darkened study room, it looks a little dazzling,
Ji Zhuo stopped today's code words.

"call……"

The clattering of keyboards stops,
Ji Zhuo withdrew his hand, looked at what he wrote today,

Take a long breath,
Then click on the content from the beginning to the present of "Empire of Shadows" written before,
Ji Zhuo glanced roughly.

"Shadow Empire" has almost [-] words written.

It was about time to send it to Burt Press, and to Carroll.

"Clumsy and Uncommon: The Beginning of "Shadow Empire".txt"

The manuscript was exported, put directly in the same file, and sent to Carol,
Ji Zhuo didn't care anymore, and glanced at the manuscript displayed on the computer screen,
Ji Zhuo turned off the computer, but before he got up from the computer,

I heard the mobile phone next to me start ringing, ding dong ding dong,

Someone send him a penguin message again.

You don't even need to look to know who it is.

"Carol: Mr. A, is this the text of "Empire of Shadows"? Has your "Empire of Shadows" been finished yet?
carol: Is this the opening part? "

"The other party has received the file."

"Carol: Mr. A, I have received the document. I really can't wait to read your work!

Carol: Please forgive me for not being able to reply to your message for the time being, I am really looking forward to your work, it must be an epic! "

In the morning, Carol also sent some messages, probably insinuating, tactfully wanting to know the progress of Ji Zhuo's new book creation,

At this moment, Carol received the manuscript sent by Ji Zhuo, and he could see the excitement through the screen.

Waiting for Ji Zhuo to pick up the phone slowly, and glance at the messages.

Hmm... It seems that there is no need to reply for the time being.

So let's do it first.

"Gollum..."

Ji Zhuo's stomach growled first.

(End of this chapter)