Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 198 - 196: Leaping Left and Right

Watching the three famous writers leave, Wang Jian sighed inwardly.

Despite many of Stephen King’s works being adapted into films and TV series, and doing well at the box office,

the numerous carelessly adapted shows had finally become unbearable for the famous author.

"10,000 US Dollars for the film and television adaptation rights to a Stephen King story?"

He casually flipped open the short story titled "The Mist" and skimmed through it.

Damn?

It’s about the end of days?

Would people actually pay money to read something like this serialized online?

Wang Jian pondered for a moment and mumbled to himself, "With Stephen King’s fame, there should be some readers, I guess..."

"Anyway, Stephen King joining the website is an event worth celebrating."

As Wang Jian was considering how to leverage this to expand the site’s influence, Tom pushed the door open again.

"Wang, the Vice President of EA is waiting in the conference room."

"I didn’t let him disturb you guys just now."

Forget it, I won’t think about it for now.

Wang Jian shook his head and said, "Let him in, please."

A few minutes later, EA’s Vice President, who had just ousted Yashida from the throne of gaming supremacy, entered the office with a broad smile on his face.

"Congratulations, Wang," he shook hands with Wang Jian, "you’re going to become a billionaire just like Yang Zhiyuan."

"Ah, the specific situation with Twitter is still unclear," Wang Jian modestly replied with a smile: "Besides, even if we achieve the goal of going public, there’s a three-year lock-up period before I can cash out."

"Ha ha," the Vice President chuckled, "You’re not going to be short on cash though."

"As far as I know, Dark Horse Comics is still paying you a continuous stream of revenue from the comic version of ’Arcane Throne’."

"And besides," he took a sip of coffee, pointing at the computer, "the licensing fee for ’Anomalies and Creatures’ should be pretty substantial, right?"

"It’s just 2 million US Dollars," Wang Jian didn’t hide it, "It’s far less compared to classic literature and famous authors."

"2 million US Dollars?" The Vice President feigned surprise at Wang Jian, "Seems a bit low, doesn’t it?"

He pointed at the computer again, "I saw on Twitter that the original fans are quite unhappy with ABC’s adaptation."

"As the author of the original work, you must be rather uncomfortable with that."

As long as it doesn’t affect Twitter’s IPO, it’s all good.

"Ah," Wang Jian sighed, "ABC cut a huge amount of the daily life content, which upset the original fans."

"Actually, the daily life in ’Anomalies’ is quite interesting," the Vice President said with regret: "It’s a pity that it can’t be presented to the audience."

Wang Jian looked at him, surprised, "You’ve read ’Anomalies’ too?"

The Vice President, with the project manager’s report in mind, smiled and said, "Of course, I’m one of your loyal readers."

Then, without giving Wang Jian the chance to ask for specifics about the book, he brought up the purpose of his visit. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"Mr. Wang, have you ever considered presenting the daily life in ’Anomalies’ in a different form?"

"Like, a cultivation-style game?"

A cultivation-style game?

The Vice President observed Wang Jian deep in thought and began calculating in his mind.

"According to an insider report from Nintendo, they’re about to launch what they call a cultivation-style game."

"It’s said that these kinds of games have the traits of requiring small investment, short development time, but high returns."

"And based on data analysis, ’Anomalies and Creatures’ could be adapted into a cultivation-style game."

"As for advertising... ABC’s extensive promotions are essentially the best advertisement."

"How about it, Mr. Wang," he asked with a smile, "are you interested in continuing a partnership with EA?"

"Ah..." Seeing Wang Jian still contemplative, the Vice President spoke with a tone of feigned astonishment: "As a young man among the technology elite, you couldn’t possibly be unaware of what a cultivation-style game is, right?"

Fuck, trying to provoke me with the vanity of the young?

Wang Jian internally scoffed at the man.

"For the US Dollar, I’d throw away my face, let alone some nonsensical vanity!"

"Sorry, I really don’t know," he shook his head, "I need to understand what this is about before I can give EA an answer."

The Vice President, seeing he had not succeeded, didn’t seem to mind.

After all, we might want to collaborate in the future.

"Then I hope Mr. Wang gets to understand this soon, and provides us with a response," he said.

After the vice-president left, Wang Jian quickly looked up "raising-type games."

"Focused on daily life, romance..."

He thought for a moment and opened Twitter.

"How many people are really looking forward to the daily life in ’Anomalies and Creatures’?"

"Holy shit, how did it turn into this?"

Wang Jian, staring at the Twitter topic area that, just a few hours ago, had been discussing the merits of the drama "Anomalies," was completely stunned.

"ABC cut out the scene of the vampire distributing HIV prevention flyers on the street for a healthy diet."

"This is discrimination against HIV prevention organizations!"

"They didn’t shoot the scene where the werewolf goes to treat a stray dog either."

"This is discrimination against animal protection organizations!"

"Although she is a goddess, why is she white?"

"And why is the demon black?"

Some black readers were also joining in the commotion.

"Shit!" Wang Jian didn’t even know what to say as he looked at the messy topic area.

Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Leonard, who was in a computer class, was laughing quietly to himself.

"You cut out the daily life, do you not know that living with a beautiful and virtuous vampire and a cute, innocent Husky is the dream of many male readers?"

Leonard was tapping away on his keyboard, hopping left and right in the Twitter topic area.

One moment he was a member of an animal protection organization, the next he was an active participant in the black equality movement.

"It’s said that in a few days, author Wang Jian will hold a NASDAQ listing ceremony for Twitter."

"Can’t we just go to the scene and petition him directly, asking him to lead us to the ABC building for a protest?"

"Is the news true?" someone asked.

"Of course, someone in my family works at the stock exchange."

This person, afraid of not being believed, proved his identity by showing off a portion of his US Dollars.

"This is all my savings, I can take care of a few people’s food and accommodation in New York."

Unexpectedly, among these so-called organizations, there were quite a few wealthy people.

"I can take on three!"

"I can take on five!"

Leonard calculated and realized the scale had reached 90 people.

"Alas, it’s still too few." He looked up the NASDAQ listing event, which filled the scene with throngs of people.

"90 people won’t cause a stir at the scene," he typed on his keyboard.

Los Angeles, Silicon Valley.

Wozniak, who was very dissatisfied with the film adaptation of "Anomalies," was also scrolling through Twitter.

"Although these messy organizations are completely nonsensical..."

"It’s commendable to target ABC’s cutting of daily life scenes."

"90 people, too few?"

Wozniak thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

After he continued browsing Twitter for a while, he realized most people weren’t going because of the cost.

Cost, which means money.

And money...

He seemed to have quite a bit of it.

He considered for a moment and began typing on the keyboard.

"I can’t come up with a huge amount at once."

"However, a few hundred thousand US Dollars in expenses should be manageable!"

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