Hikigaya wants to be a novelist

Junior high schools in Japan have a three-semester system. At this time, Hachiman has just finished the first semester of his second year of junior high school and is enjoying his summer vacation.

It would be better to say that he was just enjoying the air conditioning rather than enjoying the summer vacation. For a guy like Hikigaya Hachiman who has no friends, it is normal to stay at home for the entire vacation.

Before the summer vacation , Hikigaya performed exceptionally well. He was not good at math in his previous life, but at least he was able to get into a good university. The math knowledge of the second grade of junior high school was not enough to make him completely clueless. And his strong knowledge of liberal arts directly helped him become the liberal arts champion of his grade.

" Is this the energy that a man who has been heartbroken can unleash? "

His classmates thought.

Thanks to his excellent grades, Hikigaya Hachiman's days in school were a little better. At least the rumors about him in the girls' group basically stopped. Junior high school students are sometimes just like that. To put it bluntly, it's just a kind of admiration for the strong .

After completing the first volume of "Confessions", Hachiman Hikigaya carefully proofread it and submitted it to the designated email address for the " all reading" newcomer award.

" The Internet is so convenient . "

Hikigaya Hachiman sighed , you know, a few years ago, most magazine newcomer awards still needed to be written on manuscript paper, and then delivered in person or mailed to the publisher of the publication.

" Speaking of which, it is more convenient to use manuscript paper. "

Manuscript paper is the unified manuscript paper used by all magazines in Japan for submissions, usually 400 words per page . Comic magazines also have the same comic manuscript paper.

There is a very obvious benefit of using this kind of manuscript paper, which is that it is convenient to calculate the manuscript fee. In Japan, submissions to literary magazines are usually paid 4,000 to 6,000 yen per manuscript paper. This price is extremely uniform for writers. In the past, even if Haruki Murakami came, he would only be paid 6,000 yen per manuscript paper at most. It is easy to understand that unknown writers have no bargaining rights at all, and famous writers do not care about the little money given by magazines. For them, royalties after publication are the main source of income.

Hikigaya is not a very self-disciplined person. When he thinks he has worked or studied very hard, he will start to reward himself.

" We can't go on like this! Hachiman, where is the ambition you had when you decided to become a literary giant? "

Hikigaya yelled at himself, but opened the Dota anyway.

In his spare time after the reward was completed, Hikigaya Hachiman decided to buy a typewriter. It sounds retro, but even in this era, there are still a lot of writers who use typewriters to write, and there are still manufacturers producing new typewriters. Typewriters can not only use manuscript paper directly for writing, but also allow writers to concentrate on writing.

" Wow ... it's so expensive ."

Hikigaya was browsing the typewriter products on Japan Asia. A slightly better typewriter on the market would start at 100,000 yen.

" Let's wait until the first month's manuscript fee is paid ..."

He has calculated the income that the book "Confessions" can bring him during the serialization stage. He plans to serialize it in the " all reading" magazine for four months, publishing a total of 90,000 words, which is about 225 manuscript pages. The income from the manuscript fee alone in these four months is more than 1.1 million yen, and if it wins the prize, there will be a bonus of 500,000 yen.

Of course, if the book can be successfully published next year, these will be small amounts of money. Thinking of this, he became more ambitious.

The first chapter of "Confession" is a monologue by Teacher Moriguchi. She tells her students the truth about the death of her young daughter after her investigation. Her daughter was killed by two murderers. She decided to punish the murderers in her own way and revealed the content of the punishment at the end of the chapter.

In the second chapter, the main perspective changes to a student named Mitsuki in Mr. Moriguchi's class. Mr. Moriguchi's revenge is very effective, and gradually the students begin to bully a classmate endlessly in the name of " justice " . Mitsuki, who is unwilling to participate in it, also becomes the target of bullying.

In the third chapter, the narrator is the sister of one of the murderers. Her brother has not been to school for a long time for some reason. On the day before the Obon Festival, she learned from her father's phone call that her brother had killed her mother. When she returned home, she found her mother's diary, which recorded a tragedy between her mother and her brother over a period of several months. She decided to find out the truth behind her brother's change.

In the fourth chapter, the main perspective returns to the younger brother, who tells his story with the other murderer, and the endless torture he suffered after being retaliated by Mr. Moriguchi, and also reveals the truth about his matricide.

The first four chapters of this book have completed a closed loop, and each chapter will make readers understand the whole picture of the whole thing better. As for the fifth and sixth chapters of this book, they jump out of the revenge incident and are a more crazy revenge.

Hikigaya does not plan to serialize the last two chapters . The first four chapters are undoubtedly exciting enough, and the fifth and sixth chapters will be directly put into the published book. To know what happens next, please buy "Confessions". Thank you.

This is not some despicable business practice. Rather, isn't this the significance of magazine serialization? Just like a singer always releases a few pre-release songs before releasing a whole album. Consumers need to make an early judgment before they can make up their mind whether to pay for it or not.

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The 63-year- old literary giant Ryutaro is reviewing submissions for the All Readings Newcomer Award at home. He is the current chief judge of the All Readings Newcomer Award. As a man who has written many books and read countless articles, he naturally will not be impatient because of the uneven quality of the submissions. But the editorial department will urge him from time to time. After all, there are more than 2,000 submissions of at least 20,000 words, and the workload is really heavy. As the writer whose opinion is the most important in the jury, Ryutaro's evaluation can largely determine the life and death of the work.

" What a delicate brushstroke, but underneath this delicacy is an extreme ruthlessness of rationality. "

This is a comment written by Mr. Ryutaro after submitting this article titled "Confession".

" This is incredible. Not only does this work very well as a mystery novel, but it's also very literary. I have to give Arisugawa a call. "

Arisugawa is a famous mystery writer. Since there are a large number of mystery novels submitted to the " all reading" Newcomer Award every year, there needs to be a mystery novelist among the judges. This year, he was invited to be a judge of the " all reading" Newcomer Award for the first time .

" The user you are calling is currently on the phone ..."

" What is Arisugawa busy with? "

couldn't get through on the phone. But soon, his phone rang, and the caller was Arisugawa.

" Finally got through. Hello, Ryutaro. Are you busy? The line was busy when I called you just now. "

" I was just calling you. "

" Hahaha, we really have a tacit understanding. Let's not talk about this anymore. I'm just looking at the submissions for the Newcomer Award. There's actually a pretty good mystery novel here. It should be the highest quality one in this year's batch. Let me tell you ..."

Arisugawa kept on talking, but Mr. Ryutaro was already eager to confirm the answer.

" Oh, I haven't told you the name for a long time. This submission is called ..."

" Confessions? "

" Yes, yes, yes, hey, Ryuutarou, how did you know that? Did you see this too? "

" What if I say that I called you to submit this article? "

From this moment on, the winning work of this year's Newcomer Award seems to be a foregone conclusion.

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