After rebirth, she first killed the book thief, and she was busy writing articles to save people

When she received the call, Jiang Baige had not yet fully woken up.

I glanced at the time. It was 7:20 in the evening - that meant I had just slept for less than an hour.

Yesterday, she stayed up all night to finish the project. After submitting the manuscript at around eight in the morning, she did not go to work.

But I didn't get much rest.

Because she was inspired by the scripts of workplace dramas, she felt that some of the management methods could be applied to stories with two female protagonists.

Once I thought about it, I couldn't stop.

She wanted to take a nap, but the more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She simply got up, gulped down a large glass of lemon American coffee, and started to work on the outline of the new part of the dual-heroine novel.

For a long novel, it is very important to have a complete outline. Sufficient conflicts and plots must be filled in at the very beginning of the story, so that there will be no situation of insufficient words and padding when writing.

But just a rough outline is not enough, it needs to be refined.

However, a detailed outline cannot be completed at the beginning, because many variables will arise in the writing process, and "inspiration" cannot be predicted in advance.

If you list out everything that is going to be written in each chapter at the beginning, then if there is any change in the middle, all the content written before will be useless.

Jiang Baige is used to making a phased breakdown after the editor has read the rough outline.

She would further divide the main storyline into more than a dozen or even twenty small parts according to the time of occurrence, the main conflict, the results caused, and how it would push the story into a certain stage.

In this way, she can control the story during the writing process, avoid it going off the track, and preserve every inspiration and brilliant stroke.

Therefore, before writing each small part, she would make a "chapter outline" with the general content of each chapter.

Although each chapter only has two to three thousand words, it is "small but complete" and all the necessary contradictions and conflicts are necessary, otherwise it will be suspected of being "watered down".

Jiang Baige completed the previous stage of the dual-female lead novel some time ago and is about to start the next one, so before writing the main text, she has to write out the detailed outline of the chapters in this stage.

This process is actually very similar to writing a script.

All scripts must first have enough plots written, then a story framework is built, after which the plots are put into the framework, the episode synopsis is completed, and the last step is to start writing the episode scripts according to the episode synopsis.

When their studio reviews and adjusts the script, they don't just look at the final episodes, they also look at the previous framework and outline.

Whether writing an episode synopsis or a chapter outline, it is no easier than writing the main text.

Although they have few words, when writing the synopsis, the author has to sort out the plots of the next few dozen chapters.

Jiang Baige still remembers that at the beginning, it took her three days to write the outline of more than ten chapters, which almost drove her crazy!

Because at that time, her imagination was not big enough, there were not enough plots in her mind, and she was not as skilled in controlling the story as she is now.

But even now, she couldn't say that writing the chapter outline was an easy task.

So every time inspiration comes, she must grab it.

As a result, she wrote until almost two in the afternoon, and finally stopped because her stomach was growling with hunger.

She chose a Cantonese restaurant, not for the meal, but mainly for the authentic Hong Kong-style milk tea - she deserved a reward for her excessive brain exertion!

After dinner, she finally felt sleepy and was about to go to bed when she received a call from Lin Xingran.

Lin Xingran quickly noticed something was wrong with her: "Why are you yawning all the time?"

Jiang Baige covered her mouth and yawned again before saying, "I worked all night yesterday and was writing an article this morning, so..."

"So you didn't sleep at all?"

"It's just lunch time and I'm about to go to bed..."

Unexpectedly, I received a call from Lin Xingran.

"Is it because I called at a bad time?"

"I dare not..." Jiang Baige changed his tone to a serious one, "What do you want from me?"

"Do you remember what I told you at the beginning of the year, that there was a publishing company that wanted to publish a book for 'Women's Book Room'?"

Of course Jiang Baige remembers.

Because the publishing company is in Anjing, Jiang Baige should have been responsible for coordinating this matter.

However, Jiang Baige has been in a state of chaos this year, so sometimes the connection was not very timely. Later, everyone discussed and decided to let Lin Xingran connect, and only contact Jiang Baige if it had to be done offline.

But this matter is actually not complicated. As long as the royalties and print volume are negotiated, and the topic is reported to their editor, and the topic is approved, the contract can be signed.

After the contract is signed, Jiang Baige and Lin Xingran select and revise the manuscripts and send them over. The editor can then start her editing and proofreading process, and Jiang Baige and the others mainly cooperate.

Originally they agreed to start work in the first quarter and aim to have it completed in the third quarter.

But I don’t know what happened at the book company, this topic has not been approved.

According to the editor herself, there were some problems between their company and the publishing house they had previously cooperated with, and they needed to change partners.

In the summer, Jiang Baige became busy and put this matter behind her.

I didn't expect that in the third quarter, the book would have a sequel.

"I have sent you the electronic version of the contract. If you have any questions, I will print it out and sign it first and then send it to you. You can sign it and send it to the publishing house. After they sign it, you can just keep the contract."

Jiang Baige took a look at the print run and royalties and found it quite friendly.

The expected publication date is early next year, so the choice is fair.

Lin Xingran also said: "The editor-in-charge told me that they might use your identity as an online writer and the drama for marketing... If you think it's not appropriate, you don't have to publish it."

"What's there to mind? Making money is the serious thing!"

Lin Xingran: Well, you are still the money-grubber you were in college and haven’t changed at all.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Baige read the contract again.

After reading the contract, she simply found the tweets she had posted in the Women's Study Room over the years stored in her computer and simply marked the ones she thought were more important.

It was already past five o'clock when I finished all these things.

She ate a simple meal and prepared to sleep until tomorrow morning...

Unexpectedly, the male agent called.

She resigned herself to her fate and got up, listening to the male agent talking non-stop on the other end of the room, responding occasionally, and almost being hypnotized again.

The male agent finally finished praising the house and raised his voice to ask again: "Sister, are you free tomorrow? If you are free, can we go and take a look tomorrow?"

"Okay. Then find a few more sets and we'll look at them all tomorrow."

The next day was the weekend and they made an appointment for the afternoon.

Jiang Baige knocked on Mo Songru's door and said, "Sister, are you free tomorrow? How about we go house hunting together?"

Unexpectedly, Xin Zhiping was there too, and she said first, "I want to go, too!"