Chapter 40 – Editor Qiang Zi’s Favor
The literary website 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 a work agency agreement with the website by clicking on confirmation. This virtually reduces the process of signing and sending a contract.
Afterwards, after the author uploaded the chapters, it will be processed by the website’s review program tailor-made by the Copyright Association, which is said to be supported by supercomputers (the copyright Association is rich), so in a few seconds, it can analyze whether these chapters are suspected of plagiarism!
Not only will there be such audits during the upload of new books, but anti-piracy, anti-plagiarism, anti-infringement work actually runs through the whole period of the publication of the novel! This is done to reassure the original author.
As for the website editors, they do not need to repeat the identification process. They just need to pick out excellent original works in the vast sea of books, and then put them up on the list of recommendations on the website.
Although their work seems simple, they just have to keep reading books, but in fact, it is far more important than what people think!
After all, in a world where reading costs money (though the unit price is very low), there are no free chapters, and there are a large number of works on the website at all times. Without the recommendation of editors and the support of previous qualifications, perhaps many excellent works of newcomers will be buried in a huge library of works.
Qiang Zi is part of the huge editorial team of Qiyue Literature Website. He liked to read books from an early age, and dabbled in a wide variety of books. He liked all kinds of books, and he was not used to communicating with strangers. This free reading job has become his happiest choice.
This week, he was working night shifts. After the handover with his colleagues, Qiang Zi first went to the tea room and made himself a cup of strong black tea. Then he sat comfortably in his chair, clicked on the computer screen, and started browsing the new books assigned to him by the system.
“The writing style is terrible! The sentences are not written smoothly, how can someone upload this work?” Sometimes, Qiang Zi’s tongue is poisonous, but that’s just what he whispers in private. According to the requirements of his work, he would open his personal document and copied a comment he had written earlier to the author, urging him to think over his words and sentences.
“There is no typos and misuse of words in this book, but the storyline is so very confusing and the logic suddenly disappeared…”
“This is not bad, but the storyline is a little dry and needs to be conceived more fully, but then it’s not necessarily be a passing work…”
After reading more than a dozen new works, Qiang Zi was a little disappointed, and there was no work that caught his eye. However, this is also very normal. In this age where all the people can create their own work, a large number of low-quality works are mixed-up in it. If one wants to find gold in the sand, one need more patience.
After drinking the tea in the teacup, Qiang Zi was ready to get up and make a new one, 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 line of scouts. This is as important to it as the railway is to a locomotive.”
This analogy is a bit interesting!
The first sentence of the novel made Qiang Zi couldn’t help but sit back again, drag the mouse wheel, and read on.
“…But this ant is a soldier ant, a brown colony. Regardless of the color, the soldier ant is 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 safe but full of killings every day, and when the door was opened and the sun was seen…” (TN: Never to see the sun or the sky – suffering oppression.)
The first few paragraphs were plain but shocking. Qiang Zi couldn’t help but click on the homepage 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. He likes this kind of blood-boiling military novel!
Brief Introduction: “Shining spear and armored horses, fighting spirit, the inner world of a soldier is rich and cold; an ordinary rural child with character shortcomings. He was simple and persistent, tumbling and crawling in the world of soldiers. Because of his stupidity, the whole company was affected by him; because of his seriousness, the whole company was moved by him; because of his persistence, the whole battalion was proud of him. (TN: Shining spear and armored horses – a symbol of war in ancient China.)
Although his ancestral home turned into a pile of rubble in the explosion, it could not stop his resolute military steps. Good compassion did not make him forget the duties of a soldiers. He guns down drug criminals… He was tempered into steel in all kinds of hardships and tribulations.
His name is Xu Sanduo!”
Wait, looking at this introduction, Qiang Zi has a strong sense of realistic impact. Is this a documentary novel?
Qiang Zi hesitated for a moment. It should be known that although this novel has been put in the military column, this military column is compiled under the online literature works!
Whether it is Yang Yi’s previous life, or this life’s online literature, it is very different from the traditional literature!
Traditional literature is based on reality and profoundly exposes the problems in reality, while online literature is either based on reality and above reality, or simply inserted into the wings of fantasy.
Look at the military column under the online novel. What kind of novels are they?
Either crossover or rebirth, with the memory to change the history of war that failed!
Either the protagonist has a special ability to go against heaven’s will and become the soldier king.
Can such a novel, which is a bit too real, be welcomed by the readers?
If change to another novel, Qiang Zi might want to suggest that the author publish it in a different column. But this one, after reading a few chapters, he was actually a little reluctant!
The author’s writing 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. Between the lines, it reveals the tragic atmosphere of the soldiers.
“The smell of steel, smoke, gasoline, unnatural fiber fabric.
The smell of the devil and the end.
The soldier ants are crying… No, soldier ants don’t cry.”
Can military novels be written in such a literary and artistic style by using soldier ants to describe the iron blood of soldiers? Qiang Zi felt that the softness of his heart has been touched!
The author of the new book is so awesome, updating nearly 50,000 words in one breath, but this chapter is a bit painful. The prologue is less than 2,000 words. The first chapter has more than 5,000 words, and the second chapter soars to more than 20,000 words. The third chapter shrinks to less than 20,000 words…
Did he break the 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 simple and honest coward. He wondered how Xu Sanduo became the pride of the whole company as mentioned in the introduction.
However, the story came to an abrupt end, and the author updated it to the third chapter.
No matter, Qiang Zi has already decided to add this “special” novel to the list that editors recommends tomorrow!
It should be known; this is the best recommendation for a newcomer’s work! An editor can only 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 be seen 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.
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