book eye

Chapter 86 Breakthroughs and Challenges

As the saying goes, if you have read [-] novels by heart, you can edit them even if you don’t know how to write them.

Although Liu Xing has never written a novel, after all, he has read novels for so many years, and he still has some experience in what kind of novels are good and what kind of novels are not good.

Therefore, he was able to provide Wang Lanlan with some constructive suggestions for revision.

More importantly, Liu Xing has a pair of book eyes, and can choose the idea of ​​​​revision by monitoring the changes in the matching degree of the novel.

The higher the matching degree, the higher the probability that the novel is a star novel.

As the matching degree increases, the probability of the novel becoming a star novel will increase; if the matching degree decreases, the probability of the novel becoming a star novel will also decrease.

Generally speaking, adjusting and revising the idea of ​​novels according to the rise and fall of the matching degree is a way to create star novels with a high success rate.

Although the accuracy rate cannot be 100%, it is at least several times higher than the success rate of blind modification.

Of course, it is not easy to create a star novel, and it is impossible to complete it in one step.

For the next ten days, Liu Xing would spend some time reading "Detective Wang Nan: The Shadow Man" every day, and then discussed with Wang Lanlan about revision ideas.

After half a month, Liu Xing watched "Detective Conan: The Shadowman" dozens of times, and made a total of 198 revision suggestions.

Among the 198 revision suggestions, as long as Wang Lanlan thinks it makes sense, she will take the trouble to revise the draft.

Her efforts were not in vain. At the end of each revision, there were some obvious changes in the matching degree of the novel.

On the first day, the matching degree of the novel was 4.8%;

The next day, 5.4%;

On the third day, 5.7%;

……

By No. 15 days, the matching degree has reached 8.4%.

During the period, the matching degree once declined. Liu Xing adjusted his thinking in time, and the matching degree rebounded again.

The matching degree is gradually approaching 10%, even exceeding 10%, but the test results of Shuyan show that the novel is still not a star novel.

Although a 10% matching degree does not mean that it must be a star novel, the probability of becoming a star novel is already very high.

Therefore, "Detective Conan: The Shadowman" may be just a step away from a star novel. As long as some details are constantly revised, it may succeed at any time.

No. On the 16th day, Wang Lanlan handed over the revised manuscript to Liu Xing for review.

"Liu Xing, you've read this novel so many times, aren't you bothered?" Wang Lanlan asked curiously.

"How can it not be annoying, I'm already reading it to the point of throwing up." Liu Xing said solemnly, "But in order to train you to become a star writer, you have to read even disgusting manuscripts, anyway, you will get used to throwing up a few times. "

"..." Wang Lanlan pursed her lips, but stopped talking.

She was actually quite touched in her heart. Since she grew up, Liu Xing was the first person who seriously suggested revisions to her novel.Liu Xing has read the manuscript of this novel more than 20 times. How can ordinary people be willing to do such a boring thing?

"Liu Xing, if you can't read it anymore, then don't read it." Wang Lanlan said seriously, "I also want to become a star writer, but I may not be able to reach it. It is too hard for you to help me like this. .”

"Wang Lanlan, you don't want to renege on your debt, do you?"

"No, the 198 revisions you gave me are of great help to me. Even if this "Detective Conan: The Shadowman" fails to become a star novel in the end, I will pay 19800 yuan to your."

"Since you don't want to renege on your debt, stop talking nonsense and continue to revise the manuscript."

"Ok."

Liu Xing and Wang Lanlan discussed the novel for a whole day, and the two repeatedly discussed and analyzed various problems in the new book, tossing from morning to evening.

After twelve o'clock in the evening, Wang Lanlan returned to her room. Although she was a little sleepy, she was not going to rest.

"Liu Xing is helping me so hard, I have to work harder, don't let him down!"

Thinking of this, Wang Lanlan immediately made a cup of strong coffee, took a big sip, returned to the desk, and continued to revise the novel.

She has actually revised this manuscript hundreds of times. Since the day when Liu Xing became obsessed with "Legend of Chu Liuxiang" and lost consciousness, Wang Lanlan has been revising this manuscript for more than a month.

Every sentence and every word of this manuscript has been revised many times by her.

If it was before, Wang Lanlan would have given up a long time ago, because it is extremely boring to revise a manuscript so many times.Many novelists would rather rewrite a new novel than revise the manuscript.

Wang Lanlan was about to give up at first, but she saw that Liu Xing was still reading the manuscript carefully every day and giving her suggestions for revisions, so Wang Lanlan knew that she should continue to work hard.

Under the orange desk lamp, Wang Lanlan sat alone at the desk, silently writing the manuscript.Whenever she was tired, she took a sip of strong coffee, rubbed her eyes with her small hands, and continued to revise the manuscript.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and there was silence in the room, only the soft sound of strokes...

……

The next morning, on the first floor of the book bar.

Liu Shiming was boiling milk at the bar, preparing breakfast for everyone, looked at the time, it was already nine o'clock, and asked, "Ah Xing, why hasn't Lanlan woke up yet?"

"This girl is probably sleeping late. I'll go upstairs and call her."

Liu Xing came to the door of Room 204 on the second floor and knocked on the door several times, but did not hear Wang Lanlan's response.So he took out the key directly, opened the door, and walked in.

At this moment, Wang Lanlan was lying on her desk, with her little hands resting on her head, her eyes closed, and she was falling asleep beautifully.

On the table was a coffee cup that had bottomed out, and beside the coffee cup was a stack of thick manuscripts.

"This girl revised the manuscript again last night?"

When he came to the desk, Liu Xing picked up the manuscript on the desk, looked at it, and found that there were indeed many traces of new revisions in it.

After flipping through the manuscript from beginning to end, a stream of information flooded into my mind.

[Book Title] "Detective Conan: The Shadowman"

【Type】Mystery novel

【Grade】One star
[Matching degree] 9.9%
Liu Xing was slightly taken aback.

one star?

He was dubious, and hurriedly read the manuscript of the novel again, but the test results remained unchanged.

This "Detective Conan: The Shadowman" has really reached a one-star level!

"This girl should have had a burst of inspiration last night, raising the novel to a higher level."

Seeing this, Liu Xing finally understood why Wang Lanlan was sleeping so hard. This girl probably didn't sleep well these days in order to revise the manuscript.

"Detective Conan: The Shadowman" has now reached one star, which should be the best reward for Wang Lanlan.

Liu Xing originally wanted to tell her the good news, but seeing that she was sleeping so soundly, he decided not to wake her up for the time being.

With the manuscript of the novel, Liu Xing went down to the first floor.

"Ah Xing, Lan Lan is still awake?"

"She stayed up writing a novel last night and was still sleeping. Leave her alone, let's eat first."

While talking, Liu Xing, Liu Shiming, and Lu Yuxin sat around the bar and had breakfast together.

"By the way, Ah Xing, the business of our bookstore has not been very good recently."

At this time, Liu Shiming took out a document from the drawer of the bar, handed it over, and said, "This is the sales report of the book bar for the first half month, and the situation is not very optimistic."

Liu Xing took the document and looked at it carefully.

It has been [-] days since Meteor Book Bar opened. Judging from the sales report, the book bar's sales are declining every day, and the daily sales are decreasing day by day.

On the first day of opening, the single-day sales volume was 2.77 yuan;

The next day, 2.68 yuan;

On the third day, 2.52 yuan;

……

By the 15th day of No. 1.96, the sales volume was only [-] yuan!

Although the book bar is still making a profit and can still earn thousands of yuan every day, if the sales cannot rebound, sooner or later there will be a loss.

"How could the sales drop so much?" Liu Xing felt strange.

Liu Shiming explained: "It should be that the traffic was taken away by other bookstores. In the past half a month, six bookstores in Fiction Street have held price reduction promotions, including Cai Fugui's Fugui Bookstore."

After her explanation, Liu Xing basically understood the situation. There are ten bookstores in Fiction Street, and Meteor Bookstore does not have any advantages in terms of software and hardware facilities.

The only advantage of Meteor Book Bar is its relatively low price.

Nowadays, old book bars such as Fugui Book Bar carry out price reduction promotions, and Meteor Book Bar loses its final advantage, and the traffic is naturally easy to be snatched away.

"What should we do now?" Liu Shiming was a little uneasy, "Should we continue to reduce the price, so as not to run out of customers?"

Lu Yuxin took a sip of hot milk and reminded: "If we cut prices, other bookstores should continue to cut prices. These old bookstores are obviously planning to suppress Liu Xing's bookstores. If there is a price war, we have no chance of winning. , Meteor Book Bar's working capital is only a few hundred thousand, which is simply unaffordable."

Liu Shiming frowned: "Can we just sit and wait?"

"This situation is really tricky. The opponent is stronger than you, and they are obviously targeting you. We will be very passive. If we have enough liquidity, we can use up the opponent." Lu Yuxin suggested, " Liu Xing, how about this, I still have some money in my card, why don't you use it as working capital first?"

"Mr. Lu, I appreciate your kindness. I don't need it for now."

"Liu Xing, you don't have to feel embarrassed." Lu Yuxin said, "I have put a lot of thought into this bookstore. I don't want to watch it close down. I have to move when the time comes."

Liu Xing smiled and said, "Don't worry, Meteor Book Bar is not so fragile. I will solve the problem of Book Bar."

The Meteor Book Bar is indeed facing a severe challenge now. The six established book bars will work together to encircle and suppress the Meteor Book Bar. It will become more and more difficult.

However, for Liu Xing, it is not difficult to solve the immediate problem.

The most important competitiveness of a book bar is not hardware facilities or price, but the quality of books.

Customers come to the book bar to read books. As long as there are good books in the book bar, customers will naturally be attracted.

The ten book bars on Fiction Street all purchase goods from the book wholesale market, and their sources of goods are similar.If you want to defeat them, you need to find new sources of supply.

This new source of goods is the most neglected, but the largest in quantity--waste books!
There are many good books buried in the waste books, and they are out of print good books, which are no longer available in the current market.As long as these good books can be found from the waste books, Meteor Book Bar will have the capital to reverse the situation.

It is Liu Xing's strength to search for good books in waste books.

"ah!!"

Just as he was talking, a girl's scream came from the room on the second floor. After a while, Wang Lanlan rushed down the stairs and said anxiously, "Liu Xing, something serious happened!"

(End of this chapter)