late at night.

In front of the computer, after Sun Quan typed out the words "End of the book", he relaxed, exhaled, leaned back on the chair, took out a cigar and lit it, and looked at the document in front of him with a sense of loss.

It's a bit like entering the sage time.

"The Last Wish of the Dead" was finally finished today.

It should be finished so quickly, which should surprise many people.

In fact, in his original plan, this book would have taken at least one or two years to write.

But as he continued writing, he changed his plan and didn't want to write for so long.

There are many reasons, but there are only two main ones.

First, because this book was made into a web drama, in order to reduce the difficulty of adapting the book, Sun Quan consciously compressed some of the subplots of the book.

He simply deleted some irrelevant characters in the outline.

Otherwise, when the crew is filming, they have to find an actor to play. And his Salty Fish Film and Television startup has no reputation in the industry and no connections. It is actually quite difficult to find actors with good acting skills to guest star in a few scenes.

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It would be better for him to simply delete some unimportant characters.

Originally! As he was used to writing online articles, he was used to writing a few side plots to make up the number of words. After all, Internet articles were paid based on the number of words.

If you only write a few hundred thousand words for a book and finish it, you won't make much money at all.

The number of free words in the new issue is 200,000 to 300,000 words.

Add in the one or two months of preparation before a book is published, and it becomes even more uneconomical.

He is not the only one to do this. This is a common phenomenon in the Internet literary circle.

In recent years, there have been more and more works with three to five million words written at every turn, which is proof.

Even the great masters in the Internet literature circle are like this.

But it has to be said that it is extremely difficult to adapt an Internet article with three to five million words into a movie, TV series, or online game.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about such a long piece. How many of the screenwriters, directors, assistant directors, and actors have the patience to read the three to five million words of the original work?

This is simply embarrassing those people.

And how likely is it that screenwriters, directors and actors who have not even read the original work can make a TV series or movie well?

For the great masters in the Internet literature circle, it is uncertain whether their work can sell various copyrights when the book is published.

Even when I finished the book, I was still not sure.

All they can be sure of is... they can make more money by writing this book longer.

Even if you write it longer, you might have a greater chance of selling the copyright.

Because these days, to be able to sell online content for game adaptation rights or film and television drama copyrights, regardless of other things, the reputation and popularity must be large and high enough.

If a book is written long enough, it will naturally be exposed for a long enough time. Only when the exposure is high enough can it be possible to attract game companies or film and television companies to purchase the copyright.

Therefore, no matter whether you are a master or not, when writing a book, you hope to make it longer. There are so many benefits.

As for the word count, will it be too difficult for the adapter when it is adapted into a game, film or TV series in the future?

Then who will take care of it?

No matter how difficult it is, there is no need for the original author to bother.

This is a common choice resulting from different positions.

Sun Quan thought this way before, so the few books he wrote after his rebirth were quite long in word count.

But this time, during the filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish", he changed his inherent concept.

Because he no longer expects other companies to buy the film and television drama rights of his book, he can do it himself. Therefore, rather than writing millions more words to earn more royalties, he would rather keep the plot of this book.

Compress and re-compress, adding as little water as possible.

It is not only convenient for adaptation, but also convenient for actors to find time to read his book.

Second...

As Yuan Shuiqing became pregnant, gave birth to a baby, and started filming "The Last Wish of the Dead," he had much less time to code than before.

Especially after the filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish" started, he squeezed out the coding time every day. He stayed on the set all day during the day, and when he came back at night, he had little time to spend with his wife and children. He stayed in his study and coded until midnight.

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It's like this every day. Although this kind of life is fulfilling, it's also quite tiring.

At that time, there were three choices before him.

Or, choose a good writer in your own salted fish studio to be his gunman, and he will hand over the outline and details to the gunman to write.

In this case, he can concentrate on the crew of "Dead Man's Last Wish".

But if you do this, the negative effects are foreseeable.

He has so many fans now, and there are definitely many smart fans. If he writes with a gunman here, many fans will definitely be able to detect the change in his writing style at the first time.

Then, it won't be long before the reputation of his pen name Sun Quan - Xianyu Anlaosun will be ruined.

Therefore, he was unwilling to choose this choice.

And the second option…

Even if he gave up going to the set every day and handed over full control of the set to Wang Zheng and others, or he would occasionally take a look, he would still focus most of his time and energy on the writing of the book "The Last Wish of the Dead".

This choice is undoubtedly the most beneficial to the book "The Last Wish of the Dead".

But the quality of the web drama "Dead Man's Last Wish" may be negative.

He does not deny Wang Zheng's directorial ability.

But he still felt uneasy. After all, Wang Zheng's main job before was as a variety show director on Blueberry Channel. In name, he was also an assistant director.

Variety shows and online dramas are different fields.

In addition, the reason why Sun Quan decided to film this drama in the first place was to imitate Bangzi Country’s TV drama shooting methods, enhance the rights of screenwriters, and allow screenwriters to control the plot direction of a drama, while weakening the director’s function and letting the director only

Responsible for shooting techniques and images.

Therefore, for Sun Quan, he did not want to choose this second option.

So what's left... is the third option - to compress the length of the book "The Last Wish of the Dead" and delete as many irrelevant side plots as possible.

It is with this decision that his book ends tonight.

Of course, because he still has tens of thousands of words of manuscripts on hand, the serialization of this book at Qidian can continue for about half a month.

But in his own case, the book ends tonight.

He remembered that this book was released on August 24 last year, during the Ghost Festival.

Until now...it's only been a little over half a year.

The serialization time is really not long, and the number of words is not very large.

It’s less than 1.5 million words. Counting the parts he hasn’t published yet, the total word count is just over 1.47 million words.

That's all.

This is because his book was updated very quickly in the early stage. At that time, it was updated with 10,000 words almost every day. Otherwise, the total number of words would not be that many.

This is the book with the smallest number of words among the several books he wrote after his rebirth.

He broke his habit.

Therefore, when he saw that the book was finished, he felt particularly complicated.

But he doesn't regret ending the book like this.

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By finishing it so quickly, his online subscription fees and physical publishing fees will be much less.

But there are also benefits.

And there are many benefits.

First of all, book fans are lucky because they don't have to chase millions of words to finish reading this book and see its finale.

It saves both time and money.

Of course, there may be some book fans who feel that they are still unsatisfied.

But overall, this book has fewer words, which is really good for book fans.

Secondly, he and Sun saved a lot of time, which can be used in the subsequent filming of "Dead Man's Last Wish", as well as post-production and promotion, as well as the management of his company and studio.

You can even save some time to spend more time with your wife and children!

Thirdly, if this book is finished earlier, he can also prepare the next new book earlier.

As we all know, when the various copyrights of an online text are sold, the number of words in the book is generally not considered.
To be continued...