Hikigaya wants to be a novelist

Having officially determined the biggest goal of his rebirth, Hikigaya feels refreshed.

After being reborn, he naturally wanted to do something . In his previous life, he had already started contributing to some magazines, writing short essays and other things to accumulate experience and prepare for long-form writing in the future. Now that he was forced to restart the second round by the dump truck, he picked up the business of writing again, and Hikigaya suddenly felt a sacred feeling.

After coming to this world, he immediately began to study the development of literature here. He found that the Japanese literature in this timeline was divided by the 1980s. Many famous works before that that influenced later generations still existed, and the world line after that was completely different from the previous life.

Taking the mystery novels that he likes to read as an example, classical European and American writers from about a hundred years ago, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, and the famous classical mystery writers in Japan in the 20th century, such as Edogawa Ranpo, Yokomizo Seishi, Matsumoto Seicho, Tsuchiya Takao, etc., all exist in this world line. These people still laid an excellent foundation for the vigorous development of Japanese mystery literature.

However, starting in 1980 , after the publication of Shimada Soji's immortal masterpiece "Astrology Murder Magic", the mystery novels in this world line have become very different. A large number of mystery novelists influenced by the novel still emerged, but they were names that he had never heard of. The original world line, starting with Yukito Ayatsuji and Natsuhiko Kyogoku, disappeared.

" There is so much that can be done . There is so much that can be done. "

Hikigaya was very excited, as if a steady stream of royalties had been deposited into his non-existent bank card. In fact, he was not even qualified to open an account.

Even Keigo Higashino, whom he did not think highly of in his previous life, became great in Hikigaya's heart at this moment, because Mr. Higashino had written so many books, and they would never have trouble selling. The nickname " Mr. Bestseller " was not given for nothing.

However, Hikigaya did not plan to make his debut by writing a book by Keigo Higashino. Instead, he chose a novel that was relatively unknown in his previous life but had an absolutely excellent reputation - "Confessions" by the queen of social reasoning Kanae Minato.

" Confession " in the title of the book has a slightly different meaning from Hikigaya's previous confession.

This book directly targets two extremely sensitive topics: school bullying among junior high school students and juvenile delinquency. It has sold more than 3.5 million copies in the original world, and its adapted movie of the same name has gained far more popularity and influence than the original book.

Hikigaya particularly values the huge potential of this book on the big screen, and his past life experience tells him This book is extremely suitable for film adaptation. If you want to bring this book to the big screen, you need to pay Hikigaya a considerable amount of copyright fees. After the movie is released, the excellent reputation of the movie will feed back the sales of the original work.

" The first chapter of this book is exciting enough to get readers hooked on reading as quickly as possible. "

Hikigaya Hachiman chose this book after careful consideration. It has been a month since his rebirth, and he has a lot of things he wants to vent. The content of this book is undoubtedly the most in line with his current state of mind.

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After deciding on the debut work, the next step is to choose a publishing house.

Hikigaya knows that in today's Japan, the best and even the only way for new authors to make their debut is to submit their works to various newcomer awards. In order to compete for excellent author resources, various Japanese publishing houses have launched a large number of newcomer awards that can be called crazy.

Taking light novels, which other time travelers prefer to write, as an example, there are more than ten awards in Japan, among which the Dengeki Novel Award is the most famous.

Newcomer Award also brings publishing resources. The publisher will promote the winning work more than any other work. Winning the Newcomer Award is a guarantee of big sales in the early stages.

Even if you don't get the highest award, if you can get a secondary award, the treatment will not be much worse than the highest award.

Back to Hikigaya Hachiman's popular literature field, the Newcomer Award is even more dazzling. After screening, Hikigaya set his sights on two awards :

The first one is naturally the famous Edogawa Ranpo Prize of Kodansha, which is a mountain that cannot be avoided when talking about mystery novels. In Japan, where mystery novels are very popular, the influence of this award can even be compared with the Naoki Prize / Akutagawa Prize, the highest award for popular literature.

Edogawa Ranpo Prize are very obvious. The prize money of 10 million yen is enough to crush any other Japanese publisher's newcomer prize. Just for this prize money, countless new writers are willing to fight for it.

Of course, this also brought great competition pressure to the contestants of the Edogawa Ranpo Award. Although the Japanese literary world in this world line is very different from the previous life, it is still an era of talents. There is only one chance for any newcomer award. If you miss it, you will never have another chance to compete.

"Confessions" actually only has the first chapter that contains content related to mystery, and the rest of the book becomes a pure crime novel. Compared with the other orthodox mystery novels entered for the Edogawa Ranpo Award, it suffers a great loss in terms of subject matter. Although the types of Japanese mystery novels are changing with each passing day, the judges still prefer to see excellent orthodox mystery novels.

Another point is that the Edogawa Ranpo Prize requires the entire book to be written in one go and submitted directly to the competition, which also gives Hikigaya a headache.

Hikigaya is not particularly confident in his writing skills, so he needs to serialize. During the serialization process, editors and readers will provide valuable suggestions to improve his writing. After all, he does not have a golden finger and cannot retell the original work intact. The best way is to listen to others' opinions while writing.

To sum up, Hikigaya decided to choose another Newcomer Award - the " all reading" Newcomer Award, which is hosted by " all reading" , the most prestigious popular literature magazine under Bungeishunju Publishing House .

Although the prize money is only 500,000 yen, the minimum word count required for submission is 20,000, which is just enough to complete the "Priest" part of the first chapter of "Confessions".

alone is complete and exciting enough to make readers look forward to the next development, making it the perfect material for submissions.

" I really want to get up and start writing right now. "

However, it was already late at night, and Hikigaya decided to go to bed first. He didn't dare to type in the middle of the night and sleep soundly in class the next day.

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