Hello everyone! This is Sou Mengmi, an amateur novelist who is still young!
Today, the new series "The Story Behind the Book" will officially begin to be serialized in the "Related Works" of this work! Applause! (Bah bang bang bang...)
Every Friday at 18:00, I will update this series on time in "Work Related". The chapter you are seeing now is the first episode of this series!
Many people may want to ask: You only have about twenty official readers of this book, why do you include so many fancy things? You also started a series specifically to tell the story behind the creation of this novel.
Well, how should I put it? As for why we started this series, there are many reasons.
The main reason is because I want to chat as much as I want.
In this world, I am a person who loves to chat. In order to chat to my heart's content on the Internet, I decided to start this series to chat with everyone.
In this series, I will tell stories about the creation of this book! At the same time, I will also talk about the author himself, that is, some things about me from time to time. Please stay tuned!
My chattering skills are really great. Before the first episode officially started, I had already typed almost 400 words.
Okay! Without further ado! Let’s start the first episode of this series! In this episode, I’m going to tell you about the origin of this book title!
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I wrote in my acceptance speech that my main job is to be a college student and my side job is to be a novelist.
Since I was in junior high school, I have determined to be a novelist.
It's just that because the academic work in junior high school and high school is too heavy, I don't have time to write, so I can only keep putting off this dream.
Now in college! I finally have time to write!
It’s just that I haven’t thought about what to write…
Just think about it, think about it, think about it...
I have been thinking about this year, the winter vacation of 2019. One night, when I was lying in bed, I suddenly felt a bolt of lightning flash through my mind!
That moment may be the so-called burst of inspiration.
I suddenly figured out what to write about in my debut novel!
My debut novel is about heroes fighting for hegemony, so you can sing the war novel in which I appear!
I have loved war-themed comics and novels since I was a child, so it is appropriate for my debut novel to be about my favorite subject.
(Actually, at first, I wanted to write a romance novel or a mystery novel for my debut novel, but because of my IQ problem, I couldn’t write a mystery novel, and then because of some problems, I couldn’t write a romance novel.)
After I figured out what topic I wanted to write about, I immediately started writing an outline.
After drafting the outline of Volume 1 "From Teacher to Knight", I started writing it.
As you write, continue to refine the outline that follows.
After drafting the outline of the book and determining the main context of the book, I started thinking about the title of the book.
However, for me, who is not good at naming, thinking of book titles is simply torture...
(Because I am a bad namer, I will try not to give names to each character who appears. You can notice this in the second volume of this book. For example, the king of the Kingdom of Lunde,
I refer to him as king from beginning to end, and the commander of the 6th Army whose name never appears from beginning to end)
I thought and thought, but I couldn't think of any fashionable name.
At this moment, I saw something on Zhihu that woke me up: For online novels, the best title is of course the one that makes people want to click in and read it after reading it.
Book title.
This sentence woke me up!
The title of the book does not have to be fashionable. If it is too fashionable, it may make people confused and not want to click in to read it.
Since then, I have been thinking about what kind of title I should give my book so that people would want to click in and read it.
At this moment, I saw a certain up owner on station B introducing a certain Japanese lightly modified animation "Entering a Different World with a Smartphone".
After seeing this name, my thought was: What a silly name this is...
However, although I think this name is silly, but...
I had an urge to see what this lightly modified animation was about.
At that moment, I had another flash of inspiration!
I already have an idea of ​​what the title of my book should be...
Then I asked some of my friends who always read online novels:
"Hey, what would you think if you read a novel called "The Art of War Lovers Take Zizhi Tongjian to Live in a Different World"?"
The answers from my friends were all very similar:
"I would think this book title is so silly, and then click in to see what this book with a silly title is about."
So, I thought about what to title my book.
I decided to take a different approach and take a gamble on choosing a silly name! I bet on readers’ curiosity!
So, I chose the title of this book, "Art of War Lovers Bring Zizhi Tongjian to Live Successfully in Another World".
However, because the title was too long, and the title of Qidian’s novel was limited to 15 characters, I changed it again and again.
Finally, we finally decided on the final title of the book, which is now the title "Military Genius Brings Zizhi Tongjian to Another World". (Exactly 15 words)
Judging from the results, my eccentric strategy should be quite successful.
When it was recommended for the first time, among the 21 books in the same period (there were originally 22 books, but the book ranked first had obvious data anomalies, so it was excluded), only 3 books had more than 1,000 clicks.
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They are No. 1 (after excluding the guy with abnormal data), No. 2, and me in No. 6.
Although I don’t know if it is because of the title of my book that I have such a high number of clicks, but I feel that the title of my book should have played a certain role in the fact that I was able to get so many clicks during my test push. (Only
It’s a pity that I still failed to advance and have been running naked until now)
As for why I brought "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" instead of bringing other things, there are deep reasons. I didn't set up Su Cheng to bring "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" just for a gimmick or to show off my wit.
"Zhi Tongjian" comes to a different world.
The reason why Su Cheng was asked to come here with "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" will be revealed in Volume 3, so please stay tuned!
Let me spoil it a little bit here.
I position Su Cheng as a general who is sure to win every battle and win every attack.
"Zizhi Tongjian" is a history book edited by Sima Guang. Sima Guang's purpose of editing this history book is very clear, that is, it is for the [Emperor] to read, not for the [General].
Okay, spoilers are over, smart readers may have realized something (laughs).
Okay! That’s it for this week’s “Story Behind the Game”! Thank you to everyone who has seen this, and congratulations to everyone who has seen it. You have a deeper understanding of this game!
See you next Friday at 18:00!
Next week, I will tell you how the names of the protagonists came about.
Chapter completed!