Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire

Mysterious Debut (2)

As mentioned earlier, ＜Peter Perry and the Fairy Forest＞ is a book that mixes the clichés of K fantasy spirits with the atmosphere of the ＜Henry Potter＞ series, a famous British children’s novel and fantasy author’s posthumous work.

Peter Perry, a 10-year-old boy who lost his parents at a young age and was left with a distant relative’s house to be abused, gets lost in the woods behind his house one day and gets caught up in the Fairy’s Forest.

In the forest, there is a stocky Dwarf in the ground, a Nymph living in the water, an Elf who tends trees, and a small Sylph. In this way, there were four types of fairies and the ‘Oberon Academy’, a fairy school that nurtures them.

Boy Peter forgets everything about his parents and reality, and as the only human in this fairy school, he spends a happy time sharing love and friendship with his fairy friends…

Then one day, the dark fairy that the ancient fairy king Oberon had sealed in the basement of the academy was released and a crisis struck, and Peter and his friends fought against it and saved the school…

From my point of view, as a person from the future, the royal road itself is dotted with refined clichés.

But what about in England at the end of the 19th century?

“It’s a really novel and pure fairy tale itself, author!”

Richard Bentley Jr., who had brought me the newspaper, said with joy.

“If it is the subject that children like the most these days, it is by far the fairy! As well as the novel idea that even such fairies have schools and receive education, didn’t you make them show off their various charms that you can choose according to your taste by classifying fairies into four types! And what about Peter Perry! No grown-up would hate a child like this!”

Making a fuss…

I was trying to tell you to calm down. But before that, Mr. Miller, who was next to him, nodded first and interjected.

“That is what I think, Hansel. I’ve read it in books too, but he’s a very clever, good-natured and exemplary boy. I hope our Monty will follow suit too.”

“Ah, Monty is a good kid if he stops.”

“Will it be only the main character! My friends Iru-ril and Winky are also characters with a distinct taste. An innocent elf who was ostracized for having black hair, a mischievous but deep-hearted Silfra… aren’t they really attractive characters just to look at?”

is this enough?

I just nodded silently at Bentley’s rave reviews.

To be honest, I just made a web novel-style gap moe type character as usual.

On the contrary, since the target audience is a young Madge or Monty, the color was given weakly to make it easier to understand.

I thought that this is a must for popular literature as well as web novels…

Come to think of it, popular literature is still developing in this era. Wasn’t flat character image common?

“Besides, to be honest, most of the fairy tales are young… These days, I’m reluctant to look at them, aren’t they a bit messy?”

“Exactly. Look at the fairy tales of the French frogs like Bluebeards. What fairy tale is that?”

At that, I couldn’t help but nod my head.

It was a reality in the Victorian era that there were no fairy tales for children, even though they said they were for children.

Why didn’t he often go around the Internet as a meme, like the world famous fairy tale of the past (Despair).

Actually, it was the real mother who drove out Hansel and Gretel, it was not the hunter who killed the witch, but Gretel who pushed her from behind, and Cinderella cut off her sisters feet with the glass slipper.

Snow White puts her mother, the Queen, in heated metal shoes and burns them to death.

Red Riding Hood is TOP among them.

You openly include cannibalism and rape? It makes me wonder if there was something wrong with the minds of the Brothers Grimm.

Did Mrs. Clara Miller have a reason not to read to her children?

In this era, even the level of La Novel was accepted as sound children’s literature, no matter how low it was by the standards of Korean genre literature.

It’s really great, the age of romance!

Growing up watching such things means that children grow up to be imperialists or totalitarian-like human scumbags.

“That’s why it sold so well.”

“That’s right, author!”

“great.”

I looked at Richard Bentley Jr. and nodded.

The market analysis of the next president, who was officially appointed as my editor, was quite convincing to me, so I liked it.

Could this person be more competent than I thought?

“Then, first of all, here is the manuscript for the monthly series.”

As I remembered, I handed over the finished manuscript.

But he didn’t accept the manuscript and just blankly stared at my face.

After a moment of silence, he jumped up in surprise and opened his mouth.

“Well, it’s only been a month since we signed the contract, hasn’t it? Already?”

“There was a month or so. Besides, I didn’t have anything in mind.”

“No, even so, this amount…”

What’s this much…

The job of a web novel writer is a person who survives by publishing daily.

And the length of one episode is at least 5,000 characters.

In short, it means that you have to write at least 150,000 words a month to survive the tight publishing schedule.

Monthly serialization during this period is about 7-8 episodes long by our standards…

In other words, at the speed of my 30-day serialization, it was enough to spend half a year in this era.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been holding back and writing, so I can’t come out at the old speed.

Thinking so, I took out the envelope of the month-long manuscript and handed it to Bentley in its entirety. Then the bewildered editor said in amazement.

“Oh, no… are there too many of these?”

“Is that so? Doesn’t everyone do this?”

“Everyone does it… If that was possible, all the rotary presses in London would have exploded.”

It’s like a dream. At his words, I nodded slightly.

It’s new, but it’s because I felt the heterogeneity I had.

Well, when I was young, when I read a published book, I waited for several months if it was short, or years if it was long.

However, since it was 100 years ago now… it was a natural difference.

Besides, I typewriter, but isn’t it time for writers of this era to write with pen and ink?

Don’t you have a wrist harpoon?

While I was admiring it in such a different way, Bentley turned over the manuscript and asked.

“This manuscript focuses less on Peter’s adventures and more on his daily life at school.”

“Because it was written in an omnibus way.”

Peter Perry and the Fairy Forest was a short story from the beginning, so it was an inevitable choice to increase the serialization.

Having to build it from scratch, the development was odd and too slow by my standards, so I created a new development after gaining time by laying double lines for each episode as if throwing a jab.

A trick for long-term serialization, putting content between episodes to take the energy out.

“Good! It’s definitely a slightly different taste from the previous ones where the quick development was excellent, but this is fun as it is!”

“Yes?”

“yes. It seems that there are some readers who prefer this way to show the world of fairies more naturally with small charms. No, there will be! You are amazing too!”

Fortunately, it seems to work well.

I secretly let out a sigh of relief.

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However, this method has the disadvantage of weakening the narrative structure and setting system at the expense of low entry barriers.

So—I said, passing another stack of manuscripts to Bentley.

“And this is the volume of a two-volume book.”

“yes? Volume 2? You still have to give me at least two or three more episodes for a collection of short stories to come out, right?”

“It’s not a book, it’s for storytelling.”

“······Progress?”

“Yes, this is the story of another conflict with the fairies that will arise when Peter Perry goes up to the second year of the fairy school.”

“Huh.”

Bentley sighed and began turning over the manuscript slowly but quickly.

How much did he pass, Bentley, who quickly passed the middle part, turned on the lights in his eyes and shouted excitedly.

“Hey, these guys are this!!”

“How is it?”

“Awesome! This is more exciting and fun! Why don’t you prioritize this side!?”

“calm down.”

I calmed down my excited editor. Then he spoke slowly.

“That is, if you run out of omnibus episodes that were given as short stories, you can serialize them.”

“Wouldn’t it sell better if it was published right away?”

“But then push and pull… you won’t be able to push and pull.”

“yes? What are you pushing and pulling?”

Um, is this not even developed yet? I spoke slowly so Mr. Bentley could understand.

“Mr. Bentley, you just said that the rapid development is excellent, right?”

“It was.”

“Imagine that readers get used to it. What will happen?”

“well. Aren’t you satisfied with that?”

“It can’t be.”

No one hates cider development. It will be eaten in any age of the East and West.

But at the same time, it has the downside of being easily bitten. It’s not for nothing that Cider Pass is criticized.

Of course, if other people besides me are doing this type of cider marketing, I will have no choice but to run with stronger cider… But am I the only one with a cider factory in this era?

then.

“There is no need for readers to adapt too early. Please publish your manuscript with an appropriate period. By the time readers have little by little forgotten the taste of fast-paced development.”

“······Writer.”

Richard Bentley Jr. said to me seriously.

“Are you the author… a devil?”

“What a rude thing to say. Even if you look at it like this, it is the birth faith.”

I’m not kidding. My mother went to church, so I was already aloof in middle school, but anyway.

“But how do these demonic ideas come naturally?!”

That’s too much, really.

I just do my best for the fun of readers. As a good and exemplary popular writer.

“by the way.”

Towards Bentley and me, Mr. Miller said quietly.

“Then is it time now?”

“Right, maybe?”

“yes. I received a few months’ supply first, so proofreading will give me enough time.”

“Hum-hum, that’s good. I can fit it into my schedule for next month.”

“What?”

“This is it.”

As Mr. Miller said that, he handed me a pamphlet.

What else is this?

I couldn’t help but open my eyes wide at the gorgeous invitation.

“I hear Prince George is getting married to Princess Mary of Teck (Germany’s name) in London. There will be a grand parade, and a small but fair will also be held.”

“A royal wedding?”

And it’s not just royalty. If you’re the crown prince, you’re second in the line of succession to the throne, right? It’s not just a high-end, but a super-high-end luxurious wedding.

If you don’t feel romance here, you can’t use the fantasy genre.

It’s not the royal family that lacks authority like the future, but it’s the Victorian era that is at the level of absolute monarchy, isn’t it? It was sure to be gorgeous.

“How is it? I’m thinking of going to see an acquaintance after a long time, would you like to go with me?”

London… the city where my novels are trending right now.

“It is an honor.”

“Good! Our publishing house is also planning to hold a large-scale publishing celebration. It would be nice to see them together this time.”

Bentley also speaks excitedly.

I nodded my head quietly, barely suppressing the swelling anticipation.

London, the capital of the British Empire.

How would you like to be the best in the world?