The first volume of "Celestial Dynasty" was published in the form of a special account in the journal Harvest on December 15, 1999, and quickly triggered a rush to buy readers in bookstores in major cities in China.

As we are about to enter the 21st century, there are few works in the domestic literary circle that have attracted readers to buy enthusiastically, but this is Lin Chaoyang's new work after all.

As his hard work that has been in violation of the literary world for five years, readers have long been looking forward to it.

Less than two weeks after the special issue of "Harvest" was launched in December, the first 1 million copies were sold out.

As New Year's Day approaches, bookstores, second channels and post offices are generally ordered to "Harvest" magazine, but they are not active at all and have announced that they will not add any more printing.

The readers are looking forward to Lin Chaoyang's new book so hungry that they are hungry and hungry. Do you think they will not print it if they don't print it?

Bookstores, second channels and post offices all over the country were stunned.

You should know that Lin Chaoyang's appeal to the domestic readership group is first-class. The number of prints sent to the "Harvest" magazine in various places is not a few thousand or tens of thousands, but a large number of hundreds of thousands or millions of copies.

So many prints are all free money. The first time they saw a magazine that had money but didn’t make money.

The phones urging the printed one by one to the Harvest magazine, and there were a lot of discussions in the club. Although everyone had heard of Li Xiaolin's decision, who could remain indifferent in the face of such a surging enthusiasm in the market?

"I really don't have many prints? That's a pity!"

"It's a long flow of water. Lin Chaoyang's works are not worried about selling, but they are published in magazines.

Xiaolin did this to repay her kindness. "Celestial Dynasty" will be written six volumes, so we don't have to worry about the performance of our magazine next year.

The key is to establish a good relationship with Lin Chaoyang, and maybe I will return this book to us.

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"What you said makes sense. But I heard that my sister-in-law and her sister-in-law had to order 500 yuan at Xinhua Bookstore in SX City

I heard that Sanlian Bookstore was going to order 15,000 copies, if it looked around the whole country—”

The hot sales and out of stock of the "Celestial Chronicle" special account have become the focus of discussion in the "Harvest" magazine in recent days. In fact, it is not only within the magazine, but also in the literary world and readers.

The special account of "Celestial Dynasty" has just been on the market for a shortage of stock in bookstores everywhere, resulting in many late readers having to go there for a walk.

I thought the bookstore would be able to replenish the goods in a few days, but after waiting for a few days, there was still no special account on the bookshelf of the bookstore.

Many readers were disappointed and must go to the bookstore to find out the situation. After asking, they found out that it was the Harvest magazine that set the number of prints for this special issue, and sold 1 million copies in one issue.

Readers call me good guys, they determine production based on sales, and your "Harvest" determines sales based on production.

This is too awesome!

But no matter how unhappy it is, readers have to admit that the trick "Harvest" is indeed very effective. Many people originally had no urgency to read "Celestial Empire".

Anyway, the novel will be published after it is published. Even if Lin Chaoyang's works are popular, there is no need to worry about not having a place to read them.

As a result, the number of special accounts of "Celestial Chronicles" is now limited, although there are many 1 million copies, but they are still scattered across the country, and many readers still haven't bought them.

The more you can’t see, the more anxious these readers are. In bookstores, post offices, libraries, and friends around you are forced to see the true face of Mount Lu in "Celestial Dynasty", readers are forced to cross the sea with the Eight Immortals, each showing their magical powers.

At this time, unlike later generations who have developed Internet and logistics, readers who have not bought magazines want to read novels as soon as possible, can only borrow or buy them in small local circles.

Some people went to borrow books from friends around them, some went to bookstores in other places to try their luck, and some people were willing to pay a high price to acquire the special account of "Chiangchao" in private.

Prices have soared in recent years, and the pricing of literary journals has also increased a lot. The official journal of "Harvest" is priced at 10 yuan, and "Celestial Dynasty"

It is published in the form of a special account, with a single volume of more than 400,000 words and a price of up to 15 yuan.

The second-hand "Celestial Chronicle" special account was sold for 50 yuan in private, but it still has no market price, and few people sold it at all.

After New Year's Day, the special account of "Celestial Chronicle" completely disappeared from the bookshelf of bookstores in various places.

Everyone cherishes their own treasures, which further demonstrates the scarcity of the "Celestial Chronicle" special account. In the end, it set off a wave of collection climaxes of the "Celestial Chronicle" special account among readers.

On the first Friday after New Year's Day, the Shanghai Cultural Association held a seminar on novel creation at No. 675 Julu Road, where Li Xiaolin and Cheng Yongxin attended on behalf of "Harvest".

Before the meeting, Cheng Yongxin received instructions from Li Xiaolin. He had to speak at the meeting this time, and the main content was to exchange with everyone the manuscript and creative experience of "Celestial Dynasty".

Cheng Yongxin has attended the seminar many times and has spoken many times, but this time the opportunity to speak is obviously different from the past, because Li Xiaolin specifically reminded him in advance.

Moreover, the seminar is of great specifications, bringing together many well-known writers, critics and editors from several major literary provinces in East China and South China.

This is obviously to give him a chance to show his face.

Therefore, before the seminar was held, Cheng Yongxin spent two days preparing his speech.

"-As the editor-in-chief of the novel "Celestial Chronicles", if I were asked to say, there would be too many things to say. Everyone knows that Comrade Chaoyang's previous novel was "The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes".

This novel runs through the changes of the times from the Republic of China to the New China, reflecting the magnificent changes in the modern Chinese land, and is full of majestic epic demeanor.

For creators, it is definitely a difficult creative journey.

After writing this novel, Comrade Chaoyang settled for a while.

This time, the creation of "Celestial Dynasty" is many times more difficult than "The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes".

Because what he wants to write is not just the story of a certain historical figure, but the entire dynasty, and what he writes about the vast historical trends.

Some of the comrades here may not understand it. In terms of the knowledge level and knowledge reserves of creative theory, Comrade Chaoyang is the first-class among our writers.

Moreover, his father-in-law is also a professor in the History Department of Yan University, and his accumulation in history is far beyond ordinary people.

But even so, he did not start writing hastily, but calmed down honestly, consulted many experts and scholars in the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in my country, and read a large number of books and papers about the history of the Tang Dynasty.

He even has a bookshelf at home that specializes in these materials.

But these preparations alone are far from enough. Comrade Chaoyang still feels that his understanding of that history is too one-sided and too superficial.

In order to be as close to the real history as possible, in the second half of 1997, Comrade Chaoyang set out from Yanjing and traveled westward, Luoyang, Chang'an, Lantian, Baoji, Tianshui.

His footsteps were spread all over the Sanqin land, examining local customs and personalities, checking county annals, and understanding the relics of the Sui and Tang Dynasties——”

Cheng Yongxin, a novel seminar organized by the Shanghai Cultural Association, edited it as the protagonist.

There is no way, who caused great attention and heated discussion in the literary world as soon as it was published? He is the editor-in-chief of "Celestial Dynasty".

Without attending the author Lin Chaoyang, his speech was undoubtedly the most authoritative annotation of the creation process of "Celestial Dynasty".

"-From the thoughts and actions in 1996, to the publication of the first volume of "Celestial Dynasty" last month in the special issue of "Harvest", Comrade Chaoyang devoted himself to his creation over the past three years, and he could be said to have devoted all his energy to his creation.

In September, I retrieved the first two manuscripts of "Celestial Dynasty" from his house, and Comrade Chaoyang felt relieved at that time.

He said to me: 'This is all I can do, but I am not sure what the result is. Everything can only wait for you and the readers to judge."

His eyes were earnest when he said this, and I still remember it clearly.

With his reputation and status in the literary world, he didn't need to be so trembling, but I did feel the thin ice in his expression and words.

The reason is nothing more than the word "reverence".

Respect literature, maintain devotion to creation, and always be close to readers.

I think it is precisely because of this humility that can put myself to the lowest point that Comrade Chaoyang has maintained his creative enthusiasm for twenty years.

Looking at the contemporary literary world, over the past twenty years, the only writer who has been able to continuously create many works that are familiar to readers is the only one——”

The first half of Cheng Yongxin's speech talks about the manuscript and creative experience of "Celestial Dynasty", while the second half focuses on Lin Chaoyang's creative attitude.

He tried a little too hard in his personal evaluation, but he did not exaggerate it. Every sentence was realistic, just because of the emotional problems of his speech.

After Cheng Yongxin made a speech, influenced by him, the two seminar guests talked about the creation of novels on "Celestial Chronicles".

The two regarded "Celestial Chronicles" as an example of the novel and highly praised Lin Chaoyang's creative concepts and techniques in this novel.

".-In "Celestial Dynasty", we can see a very interesting phenomenon, which we can call for the "cultural psychological structure".

Our literary circles have always followed the basic means of realistic creation, and especially paying attention to portrait descriptions in portrayals.

Behavior description, language personalization, etc.

In my observation, Comrade Chaoyang's creative techniques did not follow the ordinary path. He has studied the psychological forms of the characters he wanted to write about——”

The seminar passed quickly with everyone's separate speeches. Lunch was in the canteen of the Wenhui Association. During the meal, someone asked Cheng Yongxin for news about the following volumes of "Celestial Dynasty".

"When the end of this month, I will go to Yanjing to pick up the manuscripts of the third volume and the fourth volume.

Chaoyang was writing the fifth volume last month. He should have finished it before the New Year. If nothing unexpected happens, the whole book will definitely be completed in the second half of next year."

"Is this the word count the last few volumes?"

"It's almost the same. The total number of words is hard to say, but it will definitely exceed 2.4 million words."

Hearing this, the few people around him couldn't help but be amazed.

The online novels born on the Internet have just been published, and the length of hundreds of millions of words is undoubtedly a mythical existence in the literary world.

Ordinary writers feel numb even if they write, they think about it.

In the modern and contemporary literary world, there are not many writers who have written millions of words, but 99% of them are popular literary works.

Works and text quality like "Celestial Chronicle" require more than two million words to write. For writers, it is not only a major test of their creative ability and talent, but also a training of creative perseverance and patience.

I was amazed at the length of "Celestial Dynasty", and someone asked about Cheng Yongxin's successful manuscript composition experience.

At the seminar just now, he just wrote about the manuscript composition experience in just two sentences.

It is rumored that Cheng Yongxin only got the manuscript of "Celestial Dynasty" after visiting Lin Chaoyang more than a dozen times a year.

Listening to everyone's inquiries, Cheng Yongxin did not give a positive answer.

"The main reason why Chaoyang was able to get the manuscripts of "Celestial Dynasty" was because Chaoyang was concerned about the development of our literary journal industry. We went to other places to organize manuscripts, let alone traveling a few more trips, even squatting at the writer's house every day, it was also worth it."
To be continued...