Chapter 40
Chapter 40 - Editor Qiang Zi's Favor
The literarywebsite of this world is not the same as that of Yang Yi's previous life.Before the author can upload his work to the website, the author has to sign awork agency agreement with the website by clicking on confirmation. Thisvirtually reduces the process of signing and sending a contract.
Afterwards,after the author uploaded the chapters, it will be processed by the website's reviewprogram tailor-made by the Copyright Association, which is said to be supportedby supercomputers (the copyright Association is rich), so in a few seconds, itcan analyze whether these chapters are suspected of plagiarism!
Not onlywill there be such audits during the upload of new books, but anti-piracy,anti-plagiarism, anti-infringement work actually runs through the whole periodof the publication of the novel! This is done to reassure the original author.
As for the websiteeditors, they do not need to repeat the identification process. They just needto pick out excellent original works in the vast sea of books, and then put themup on the list of recommendations on the website.
Althoughtheir work seems simple, they just have to keep reading books, but in fact, itis far more important than what people think!
After all,in a world where reading costs money (though the unit price is very low), thereare no free chapters, and there are a large number of works on the website at alltimes. Without the recommendation of editors and the support of previousqualifications, perhaps many excellent works of newcomers will be buried in ahuge library of works.
Qiang Zi is partof the huge editorial team of Qiyue Literature Website. He liked to read booksfrom an early age, and dabbled in a wide variety of books. He liked all kindsof books, and he was not used to communicating with strangers. This freereading job has become his happiest choice.
This week,he was working night shifts. After the handover with his colleagues, Qiang Zifirst went to the tea room and made himself a cup of strong black tea. Then hesat comfortably in his chair, clicked on the computer screen, and startedbrowsing the new books assigned to him by the system.
"Thewriting style is terrible! The sentences are not written smoothly, how can someoneupload this work?" Sometimes, Qiang Zi's tongue is poisonous, but that'sjust what he whispers in private. According to the requirements of his work, hewould open his personal document and copied a comment he had written earlier tothe author, urging him to think over his words and sentences.
"Thereis no typos and misuse of words in this book, but the storyline is so veryconfusing and the logic suddenly disappeared…"
"Thisis not bad, but the storyline is a little dry and needs to be conceived morefully, but then it's not necessarily be a passing work…"
Afterreading more than a dozen new works, Qiang Zi was a little disappointed, and therewas no work that caught his eye. However, this is also very normal. In this agewhere all the people can create their own work, a large number of low-quality worksare mixed-up in it. If one wants to find gold in the sand, one need morepatience.
Afterdrinking the tea in the teacup, Qiang Zi was ready to get up and make a newone, but the next novel he clicked on caught his eye.
"Prologue…An ant swarms along the ant road marked by abdominal gland secretions by a lineof scouts. This is as important to it as the railway is to a locomotive."
This analogyis a bit interesting!
The firstsentence of the novel made Qiang Zi couldn't help but sit back again, drag themouse wheel, and read on.
"…But thisant is a soldier ant, a brown colony. Regardless of the color, the soldier antis like the soldiers during World War I that spent their lives in dark tankers,never to see the sun or the sky, running on tracks that were said to be safebut full of killings every day, and when the door was opened and the sun wasseen…" (TN: Never to see the sun or the sky - suffering oppression.)
The firstfew paragraphs were plain but shocking. Qiang Zi couldn't help but click on thehomepage and look at the title and introduction of the book.
"Soldier Assault",is this a military novel? Qiang Zi could not help but feel a little excited. Helikes this kind of blood-boiling military novel!
BriefIntroduction: "Shining spear and armored horses, fighting spirit, theinner world of a soldier is rich and cold; an ordinary rural child withcharacter shortcomings. He was simple and persistent, tumbling and crawling inthe world of soldiers. Because of his stupidity, the whole company was affectedby him; because of his seriousness, the whole company was moved by him; becauseof his persistence, the whole battalion was proud of him. (TN: Shining spearand armored horses - a symbol of war in ancient China.)
Although hisancestral home turned into a pile of rubble in the explosion, it could not stophis resolute military steps. Good compassion did not make him forget the dutiesof a soldiers. He guns down drug criminals… He was tempered into steel in allkinds of hardships and tribulations.
His name is XuSanduo!"
Wait, lookingat this introduction, Qiang Zi has a strong sense of realistic impact. Is thisa documentary novel?
Qiang Zihesitated for a moment. It should be known that although this novel has beenput in the military column, this military column is compiled under the onlineliterature works!
Whether itis Yang Yi's previous life, or this life's online literature, it is verydifferent from the traditional literature!
Traditionalliterature is based on reality and profoundly exposes the problems in reality,while online literature is either based on reality and above reality, or simplyinserted into the wings of fantasy.
Look at themilitary column under the online novel. What kind of novels are they?
Either crossoveror rebirth, with the memory to change the history of war that failed!
Either theprotagonist has a special ability to go against heaven's will and become thesoldier king.
Can such anovel, which is a bit too real, be welcomed by the readers?
If change toanother novel, Qiang Zi might want to suggest that the author publish it in adifferent column. But this one, after reading a few chapters, he was actually alittle reluctant!
The author'swriting is very delicate! Just like the prologue chapter is about soldier ants,but Qiang Zi does not superficially think that this book is about ants. Betweenthe lines, it reveals the tragic atmosphere of the soldiers.
"Thesmell of steel, smoke, gasoline, unnatural fiber fabric.
The smell ofthe devil and the end.
The soldierants are crying… No, soldier ants don't cry."
Can militarynovels be written in such a literary and artistic style by using soldier antsto describe the iron blood of soldiers? Qiang Zi felt that the softness of hisheart has been touched!
The authorof the new book is so awesome, updating nearly 50,000 words in one breath, butthis chapter is a bit painful. The prologue is less than 2,000 words. The firstchapter has more than 5,000 words, and the second chapter soars to more than20,000 words. The third chapter shrinks to less than 20,000 words…
Did he breakthe chapter? Or does he write the chapter number in a random paragraph?
But even so,Qiang Zi was so fascinated that he was deeply attracted by Xu Sanduo, a simpleand honest coward. He wondered how Xu Sanduo became the pride of the wholecompany as mentioned in the introduction.
However, thestory came to an abrupt end, and the author updated it to the third chapter.
No matter, QiangZi has already decided to add this "special" novel to the list that editorsrecommends tomorrow!
It should beknown; this is the best recommendation for a newcomer's work! An editor canonly recommend one novel a day, and even if it is just a written recommendation,the novel will appear on the homepage of the website!
It can beseen how much Qiang Zi likes this novel.
"The moral is deep, repressed but hopeful. I have a hunch that this will be a masterpiece!" Qiang Zi excitedly added a link to the book to his blog and commented on it below.
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TN: By the way, "Soldier Assault" is also translated as "Soldiers Sortie". Search it in the net, and you can also watch the whole series online.