Reborn in America

Chapter 37: Magic Kid

"In 1937, British writer Jrr Tolkien published the first part of his Medieval Continent series-"The Adventures of Hobbit", which was the first part of the "Lord of the Rings" series, and therefore slowly opened up the fantasy The era of novels! The full text is described in a similar way of talking, and the content of the story is similar to a children's book, so people often regard it as a children's story and classify it as a fairy tale. The fastest update

"Now it seems that this book is actually an adult fairy tale novel. Today, American Bantan Company published a children's book written by children-"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"! It is what everyone said recently Featured by "Magic Boy" Alex Capone."

A novel critic crackling on the typewriter, this is his article for The New Yorker. During this time, the Carpenter brothers’ news was everywhere, whether it was on the radio or in the newspapers. As a magazine that reflects the trend of the times, "The New Yorker" certainly cannot fall behind.

"This novel written by the so-called'magic kid' is extremely childish and has no aesthetic feeling throughout, but for the eight-year-old Alex, it is already considered an'excellent' writing. In addition to the novel setting Some things that can be boasted are that the author’s imagination is very powerful. But if there is no illusion, it is still not enough to compare with similar works such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia"."

As one of the top publishers in the United States, Bantan Book Publishing has a very strong sales channel. In line with the recent limelight of the Carpenter brothers, this book sold 500,000 copies as soon as it went on the market, and it seems to exceed a million copies!

Such sales volume has made many professional writers very enthusiastic. They also bought a copy to see what the merits of such a book are. When I turned it over, I was shocked by Alex's vernacular writing.

In this era without the Internet, articles that can be printed and published are all sculpted, and even if the words in them cannot be described as words, they are at least not so naive and simple.

But the reality is so strange, such a simple and simple novel, printed again and again, in just a few months, millions of copies have been sold! The book is still being printed in the printing house, and it is still unknown how much it will eventually sell.

It is said that this book is quite popular among young children. After they get it in their hands, they can't wait to read it all at once. Many children who have finished reading this novel will spontaneously take it to school to show to other classmates, and play role-playing games by simulating the situation in the book during the break time.

Someone criticizes, naturally others praise!

Some objective and fair critics of novels have seen something interesting from this book. In the beginning, their voices were too small to attract people's attention. Slowly, more and more people joined their ranks.

"At the beginning of the first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", readers will be infected and attracted by the mysterious atmosphere. The story begins on a gloomy Tuesday with a strangely sourced "Boy Who Lived" Harry · Porter, lost his parents when he was one year old and was sent to a most ordinary citizen's family."

"The beginning of the story is about the male protagonist's grievances like Cinderella. After he was adopted at his uncle's house, he has been living in a cupboard at the top of the stairs, together with spiders. The story was written very real from the beginning. Touching, it will soon be able to establish a connection with the protagonist and bring people into the story naturally!"

Another novel critic wrote that he was going to contribute to a newspaper. When he first started, he frowned at this junior high-level writing. Fortunately, the sentences were fluent and easy to understand, otherwise he would have been thrown aside. When he didn't mind this kind of problem, after reading a few chapters, the plot became more and more interesting, but he didn't expect to read it all at once.

"Writing is a problem, but if you think about it, this kind of writing is just right for eight or nine-year-olds. The most important thing is that such fantasy novels are what American kids need now, and they like books like this."

In the beginning, the comments in the newspapers were more praise and less praise, but the sales volume that could not hold others was rising. The market feedback was very good, and even the "Lord of the Ring", which was selling at the time, had to give it three points.

Finally, the fantasy master Tolkien noticed the book. After reading it carefully, he personally wrote an article: "It's very interesting. I look forward to the follow-up story soon."

As for another fantasy novel author, c.s. Louis, also wrote: "Oh my God, this is exactly the novel I want to read! I really want to know the next story between Harry Potter and Voldemort!"

In the mouth of c.s. Louis, this novel is more interesting than the "Chronicles of Narnia" he wrote.

c.s. Lewis once said: "People don't write what I want to read, so I have to write it myself." In this way, he wrote a book that thousands of people want to read.

With the praise of these two fantasy novel masters, Alex finally had a little confidence in this novel, which was far from the original "Harry Potter". In fact, at the beginning, he was worried that his writing was not good enough. Will mess up Aunt Rowling's masterpiece. Unexpectedly, he can still get so many people's affirmation.

Sometimes, when Alex’s conspiracy theory breaks out, he will think so secretly: “Maybe it’s the great gods who gave the Bantan company face, that’s why they said that?

In any case, with the inspiration and reminder of the great god, he will spare some time to write the second novel in addition to the recording. After all, he has the power of "complete memory", and when he can't remember the plot or get stuck while writing, he will close his eyes and watch the Harry Potter movies again.

When he wrote this time, he was no longer as casual as before, and he wanted to improve his writing style so that the critics who said his writing was poor would shut up.

After he wrote tens of thousands of words, he looked back and said, "Damn! What is it about! It's not cool at all, will anyone read a novel that makes people feel uncomfortable after reading it?"

After all, it is a reader who has been nurtured by a lot of web articles, Alex really can't stand the so-called "spring and white snow" tone! Angrily, he discarded all the manuscripts he had written.

"I'm Xiaobai, what's the matter? It's just that some people like to watch it, you bite me Ding Ding!" Alex cursed with gritted teeth, and continued to write the cool words in his heart in the vernacular.

In this way, the second novel in the Harry Potter series-"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was quickly completed. The speed was so fast that he was surprised.

The setting is still to use his previous background in the magical world, in which he also specially highlights a major feature in the net novel, that is, the upgrade of monsters! This is a breakthrough in the era when computer games have not yet appeared, and desktop games have not yet become popular in the world. In order to perfect this feature and allow readers to understand this concept well, Alex also specially made character cards of important characters in the book.

Alex said to himself: "Well, the character cards are all there, do you want to take advantage of the trend to figure out the game rules of Dungeons and Dragons?"

"Forget it, the workload is not small! Besides, if I spend time on those things, there is no time to make money!" In the end, Alex gave up. The ratio of input to output is too small to be worthwhile.

"When I have time and money in the future, I will organize people to get it!" After Alex made up his mind, he never thought about this problem again.

He spent several days revising the manuscript, getting rid of some unreasonable places in it, or planting some unobtrusive foreshadowings. After doing all this, he called the responsible editor Carl and asked him to get the draft of the novel.

After all, Alex is now a "great writer", and now there is a hot book. Let the editor in charge come over to get the manuscript, this privilege is still there.

"What? You have already written the second part?" Carl was taken aback when he received the call. He originally planned to find a chance to talk to Alex about how to write later. Unexpectedly, he hadn't prepared the relevant information yet, the other party had already written it.

After Carl got the manuscript and read it quickly, he was finally convinced. The style of this book is still the same as that of the previous one, and it is also fun to read.

"It's really a masterpiece! It makes me nervous to see that sweat drips from my hands!" Carl has been attracted by this unique and refreshing text. He has never seen anyone write it like this before. The plot in the book keeps readers moments. Being in a sense of refreshment, like a wave of tide after wave.

"Let's follow the new book publication!" After getting Carl's approval, Alex didn't want to care about it anymore. He still has a lot of recording work to do.

Upon seeing this, Carl quickly talked about the sales of the first book. However, Alex really didn't have much interest in this. He was only trying to get the first pot of gold when he wrote the book, but he didn't succeed.

Now that he has made money through music, he doesn't care much about the sales of the books he wrote before.

However, the book brought him a lot of money, and even the share of the first record. However, it is impossible to get the money. In the face of money that he could not get, Alex was lacking in interest.

"Then, I'll leave first!" Seeing Alex's spirits wilted, Carl stopped the topic immediately, and then left with the manuscript.

Alex finds it rather annoying. He is tortured by Mark's critical work attitude. According to his idea, he only needs to record his perfect performance, and leave the rest to the producer and tuner to handle it.

Unexpectedly, this fellow Mark, who didn't know what irritation was, must strive for perfection and record repeatedly. Originally, it was normal to do this, and many people who succeeded in making music were perfectionists. For example, Mike Jackson, or John Lennon, they are all representatives of this kind of people.

Unfortunately, Alex Carpenter is not such a person. He thinks that as long as he can get by, it will be fine. What's more, when he is playing his abilities, the quality of recorded records is definitely much higher than most of this era. However, if Mark wants to pick faults, he must be absolutely perfect. Usually it is because other people fail to meet the requirements, causing Alex to accompany him to suffer.

When he made music, he just wanted to make money. Now it seems that he has made a lot of money. He doesn't care about it that much anymore. He is already thinking about how to use the money in his hands to make more money.