Military works can be said to be "long-selling books", and it is almost always a stable buyer's market that determines the long-term publishing prospects of military works. The number of words in a single military novel is between 250 thousand and 300 thousand. This figure is only for the reference of authors who are determined to write and publish military novels. It is best that the number of words in the book can meet this requirement.

In addition: it does not involve politics or state military secrets, which is the basic requirement.

Therefore, special forces, mercenaries, urban hunters and other subjects are the most popular, just like the attitude of the United States towards veterans: "Only fighting? Then join mercenaries to fight abroad! "

There will inevitably be emotional dramas in military works. Because of well-known reasons, the protagonists of the works are usually from China, so scenes that can be seen everywhere in other works on the Internet, such as holding flowers on the left and flowers on the right, have become taboos in military works. Publishers can never afford to wear the hat of "damaging the image of national soldiers". There is no problem for heroes to save the United States, but it must be remembered that there can only be one beautiful woman at a time.

Due to the influence of the introduction of blockbusters, the works of lonely heroes are more popular than those of legions. This is, of course, one of the reasons why it is difficult for ordinary writers to write big scenes and big wars. For readers, a clever agent like 007 is far more substituted than the infantry armor in the Roman legion.

Once again, authors should not try to open up new markets, that's the job of publishers.

Urban engineering

Urban works are a huge category, including youth romance, urban life, urban commercial warfare and many other different categories. In a word, the background of the story is that all the works in the real life of the city can fall into this category.

The first taboo in publishing urban works is to write about the dark side of society. Borrow a national leader's evaluation of a domestic film: "As an artistic expression, such a story can be tolerated;" But as China people, we should not allow this film to have an insulting description of the times. " Writing this subject is not without precedent, which can be said to be a great temptation for a new author, but as long as you calculate an account, it can be clear that this probability is not much greater than the probability of falling by plane and smashing an oil mine.

The second biggest taboo for publishing urban works is that male writers write long campus romance novels. A publisher once said to me, "Campus romance is cheap because it is rampant." Among the first authors, more than 80% have the ability to write works with hundreds of thousands or even millions of words, while a pure campus romance novel generally has words between 12- 15000. It is difficult for publishers to see works that exceed this number of words. Maybe some authors will say that it doesn't matter how the work is, what matters is how the publishing house hypes it ... Then, please at least explain that your work is worth hyping. From this perspective, the super beauty author and the terminally ill author are the same in the eyes of publishers.

Here, I only hope that every urban writer can understand one thing: at least 70% of the manuscripts piled up on the editing desk of the publishing house are urban works.

Historical works

Historical overhead crossing rebirth and so on can all fall into this category, pay attention! Like urban works, those who have non-human abilities after rebirth do not belong to this category.

With the popularity of those things in the Ming Dynasty, the publishing trend of historical works was set off in 2007. Judging from the current market, there are three styles of historical works that are more popular with publishers.

1, female historical works of romantic love

This kind of works are full of emotion, and historical confession does not occupy too much pen and ink, which can be regarded as romantic works under a specific historical background. (including male-male love, male-female love ...) Because many readers are women, the works of female authors are more in line with market demand.

2. Textual research works, rigorous use of allusions, careful use of words.

This kind of works requires higher knowledge of the author, and it is relatively difficult to create, and the number of buyers is small but relatively stable. Several publishing houses are more optimistic about this kind of works, so it is not difficult to publish, but they rarely create bestsellers.

3, relaxed humor, funny works

This kind of work is more difficult to create than textual research. Humor will become vulgar if it is not well controlled. Funny scenes can be repeatedly quoted in different works instead of historical allusions. When the author "Jiang Lang was exhausted" and had to quote the same jokes of his predecessors, it also represented the decline of this book.

The advice for history writers is to think clearly about their readers before writing, and not to write words that are not suitable for them.

Oriental fantasy

As the name implies, all works based on oriental myths can fall into this category. Generally speaking, the oriental mythology here basically refers to the system of various religions in China. It's not completely impossible to write about Japanese Shintoism, just remember that our protagonists are generally from China ... Those who are not afraid of being scolded to death by readers can try. It's just that the publishing difficulty of that kind of alternative works in China is no different from that of Pangu, so I won't discuss it here.

The first category of oriental fantasy is undoubtedly the orthodox classical Xianxia. At present, the pure classical Xianxia craze brought by Zhu Xian in 2006 declined slightly in 2007, and this category requires extremely high writing skills. Or if the Buddha is as magnificent as the Tao, or the smoke of the fairy road is exquisite and elegant, if it is difficult to reach such a height, then at least don't let the fairy burst into some national criticism when controlling the magic weapon. ...

Urban fix-true works are relatively simple to use, so the number of works far exceeds that of orthodox classical Xianxia. In this context, the emergence of one or two foreign words by the fix-true will not affect the readers' reading. However, due to the short rise of such works, it is still difficult for traditional publishing companies to accept the image of an alcoholic fighter, forgetting to see a classic sentence in the author's book, "Seeing a fighter standing on a flying sword and yelling at a mobile phone reminds me of Stephen Chow's movies."

Because the coverage of urban power is too large, the probability of publishing houses doing this topic is often very small. The specific reason is also very simple: "What kind of writing is the urban power?" Literally, the story takes place in the city, and if the character has unrealistic ability, it can be regarded as a work of urban power. So does the person who fixes the truth in the city count? Does magician count? Does superman with underwear outside count? Does extraordinary luck count ... so that most of the works become a featureless hodgepodge in the eyes of publishers and editors. At the same time, we should avoid this topic a little when making the recommended topic for publication, because "This book was written by a group of people with various superpowers ..." This introduction is really not new.

To sum up, characterization and writing skills are two key factors in oriental fantasy works. In addition, the urban power class must write its own unique characteristics in order to successfully publish in simplified Chinese characters.

Western fantasy

Sword and magic, knights and wizards, goblins of dungeons and dragons ... After the release of the Lord of the Rings series, it really set off a wave of reading western fantasy. Unfortunately, with a large number of translated works entering the market, the domestic publishing market of western fantasy works is gradually declining. Personally, this is closely related to the cultural background and creative speed of domestic authors. Foreign western fantasy story setting, whether it is DND series, magic the gathering series, or even radiation series, has a very rigorous and thorough architecture. Even the famous Lord Gandalf, in order to abide by the basic rule that the amount of magic in the mage's memory is limited (joking, back to the topic), had to make a guest appearance as a skilled warrior. The huge background structure of the story directly leads to the fact that the time set for the author to write the story is often calculated in years. However, the domestic reader market determines that few people will read the long historical chronology ... All these constitute an endless cycle of domestic and western fantasy creation: preconceived translation introduction-readers like the rigorous and thorough story background but have not seen the works' settings-domestic authors have no time to write long paragraphs of settings, and no readers like to watch them-copying foreign settings directly or simply ignoring them-is becoming more and more unlike readers' wishes.

Nowadays, the general novels are published in the traditional way, and it is not easy to simplify the Chinese characters.