After rebirth, she first killed the book thief, and she was busy writing articles to save people Chapter 459 Buying a house is not like buying clothes

Jiang Baige felt a little embarrassed.

I don’t know if it’s because she briefly put the article behind her.

It was also because of Damai's overly sincere urging for submission of manuscripts - they all knew that writing manuscripts was Jiang Baige's job, but Damai still gave her gifts worth several hundred yuan.

The platform takes 30 percent, and perhaps a small portion of it will become Damai’s salary.

But it is not important.

What is important is the message the gift conveys: from the time she started writing in her sophomore year to the present day, Jiang Baige would thank every reader for every gift, no matter whether she was unknown or became famous later on.

Now that Barley has given her a gift, she must respond.

Da Mai doesn't need Jiang Baige's loving thanks. What she needs is Jiang Baige to answer her question: Have you finished the manuscript of the article about buying a house?

The answer is of course no.

Although Jiang Baige has never forgotten to collect materials, there is still a long way to go from the materials to the finished article.

Jiang Baige’s problem is to find the entry point.

This requires a complete period of time to seriously think, overturn and rebuild, but Jiang Baige does not have such a large amount of time.

No matter what the reason was before, now, at least she has to contact Da Mai first.

Jiang Baige: [Editor, I saw the gift you fed me! ]

Da Mai quickly replied: [Did you only see the gift? ]

It was also accompanied by a crazy winking emoticon.

Jiang Baige: [Hahaha, I saw your message too! But I’ve been too busy with the three-dimensional world recently and haven’t had time to organize the materials. I’ll definitely submit the outline this week!]

Da Mai: [Really? If my wife says so, I will believe it! ]

With Jiang Baige's repeated assurances, Da Mai finally ended the conversation with satisfaction.

Da Mai was satisfied, so Jiang Baige had to start writing like crazy.

She thought of many entry points——

For example, the most common scene in urban romance dramas is that the heroine is betrayed by a scumbag, and then realizes that men are unreliable and money is the only thing that can be relied on, so she works hard to build her career and eventually buys a house with her own efforts.

But this is a bit vulgar.

And it doesn't please either side: those who want to watch a romance drama don't see their favorite scene of "a rich man descends from the sky to save or at least help the heroine in distress"; those who want to see the heroine work hard don't like the plot that a woman has to be hurt by a man before she starts to live for herself.

But she had to set up a "precedent".

Because buying a house is not like buying clothes, the huge amount of money it requires means that it cannot be a hasty decision.

Not to mention others, just talk about Jiang Baige herself. She had this idea since she was in school, but it was several years later that she bought the house, and now she hasn't even moved into the house she bought.

So there must be an opportunity to buy a house.

She suddenly realized that those so-called "dog-blood" plots, although common on TV, are actually not common in real life.

It’s okay to want to be innovative, but she still hopes to be more down-to-earth.

After much thought, she decided to combine the "mentality" of young people today and approach the decision of buying a house in a more simple way: the heroine doesn't want to live anymore.

People who don't want to live still want to buy a house? This is a bit illogical.

Therefore, Jiang Baige added an element between "not wanting to live" and "buying a house", which is related to the character of the heroine: because she feels that life is meaningless and she doesn't want to live anymore, she might as well live happily. The worst that can happen is death, and she doesn't want to live anyway.

If you want to have fun, you have to go crazy. Others lose their manners, but the heroine empties her pockets.

The heroine made a bet with herself: everyone said that she had to save a certain amount of money to achieve financial freedom, and before that amount was reached, she had to endure everything. Sometimes, she even got sick or worked herself to death in order to reach that amount as quickly as possible.

She wanted to see how long it would take for her to die, being penniless but having a house - that sounded really good.

Others gamble with money, she gambles with her life.

It sounds a little crazy, but her madness will not hurt anyone. Instead, it has the brilliance of practicing existentialism.

Jiang Baige was very happy.

After setting the entry point of the novel, the image of the heroine also has a prototype, and it is not difficult to write further.

After all, I have accumulated so much material during this period of time. What's so difficult about writing 300,000 words?

It's nothing more than setting goals, encountering difficulties, and solving difficulties... If the difficulties are not solved, or a new difficulty arises, then the plot exists.

If the plot isn't enough, characters will make up for it.

Isn’t it also the female group portrait that she is best at!

Every supporting character is the protagonist in his or her own life and has his or her own story, which is intertwined with the story of the heroine. Are you still worried that there will be nothing to write?

The experience I have gained from writing million-word novels over the years is a precious treasure that no one can take away from me.

Looking back to her sophomore year, she almost pulled out all her hair in order to write a million words.

Now she is already an expert at this job. One million words is a basic requirement. Two million words is also possible. Three million words also depends mainly on whether readers want to read it. Anyway, she can write them all.

This is also the reason why she insists on writing long articles: if she doesn’t practice, she will become rusty.

Three hundred thousand words are just a drop in the bucket for her.

For a novel of this length, a tight rhythm is more important: although it is about buying a house, it cannot be too slow and long-winded, but rather has to be full of twists and turns.

But we cannot force things just for the sake of twists and turns. We need to carefully sort out the various difficulties that an unmarried woman may encounter when buying a house, and then make artistic processing on this basis.

Just explaining why the heroine doesn't want to live anymore, why she decided to go crazy, and where she bought the house in the end... can add a lot of conflicts.

With conflict, there will be a plot and new characters can be introduced.

Jiang Baige took advantage of the fact that the two female protagonists had enough manuscripts, Lan Dehutu didn't have much work to do, and the house had already been decorated...

The outline was submitted as promised a week later.

After receiving the outline, Da Mai replied within half a day: [I knew you wouldn’t let me down, I already have the TV series scenes in my mind! ]

Before Jiang Baige could be modest, she asked again: [When do you plan to start writing? If it is 300,000 words, won’t it be finished in a month? ]

Jiang Baige: [Da Mai, is your last name Zhou? ]

She suspected that Da Mai was deliberately pretending to forget that she had classes to attend and a long story that was updated every day...

Damai tells the truth: [Isn’t the second quarter coming to an end? The website didn’t submit any satisfactory IP manuscripts in the first two quarters. I feel pressured.]

Jiang Baige was puzzled: [How could that be? I remember that you just recruited a few male writers of social suspense to join your website this year... Aren’t suspense adaptations the most popular now?]

Barley: [Suspense is good, but there are too few suspenseful mystery stories with female protagonists. Those "great writers" like to set women as victims, and they don't write about women helping each other. They always let a male character, whether it is a father, brother or policeman, to promote the investigation of the case... Mr. Zhao clearly said, no need! ]

Jiang Baige couldn't help gossiping: [No? Then the money spent on hiring someone is not wasted? ]