Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 75: Returning to New York

"The ’Arcane Throne’ game version CG trailer shocked the entire game exhibition."

"An era of bestselling book adaptations for gaming, is it about to officially begin?"

Wang Jian held the newspaper in hand while sitting in the first class seat on the flight to New York.

Really, starting the conversation with adaptations from bestsellers, then extending it to the ’Arcane Throne’ game, it looked surprisingly legit.

If he didn’t know the inside story, he probably wouldn’t think that all these reports were EA’s advertorials.

Wang Jian smiled, put the paper down, and called the flight attendant over for a drink.

After the flight attendant, who was actually a middle-aged woman nicknamed "Airline Granny," handed him a drink,

He sipped his drink while thinking about what had happened after returning to the hotel the previous day.

In the evening, EA’s vice president had visited his room.

According to him, other gaming companies’ RPG trailers all had traces of ’Diablo’ to varying degrees, which is why they hadn’t made much of an impact.

Therefore, EA decided to reallocate elites from other project teams to accelerate the game development process.

To ensure that when ’Diablo’ launched on other platforms, they would release the PC version of ’Arcane Throne’.

Wang Jian, of course, gave a very warm welcome to this.

After he received a call from Tom, the paid readership of ’Arcane Throne’ surged following the release of the CG short film.

The release of the comic and game versions meant that ’Arcane Throne’ had achieved a certain level of popularity beyond its niche.

It was no longer exclusive to fantasy literature enthusiasts but had started to exert a certain influence on popular culture.

This influence was exactly what those Hollywood movie companies valued most.

Because if something is popular enough, even ’Super Mario’ could be adapted into a live-action film.

So, could ’Arcane Throne’ also entertain such a fantasy?

The most crucial point was that Hollywood calculated licensing fees for such hot properties in the millions of US Dollars.

This...

Was simply fantastic.

Wang Jian closed his eyes, as if he saw a sky full of green dollar bills flying toward him.

But the flight attendant’s reminder mercilessly interrupted his daydream.

Wang Jian gave a self-deprecating smile and began to wait for the plane to land.

A dozen minutes later.

He picked up his luggage and once again set foot on the land of New York.

If Los Angeles added a veneer of "fame" to the "profit,"

Then New York was purely profit-first.

There were no sights like in Los Angeles, where handsome men and beautiful women perform on the streets for applause.

Even in New York’s Time Square, if someone in a mascot costume asks you to take a photo, the next thing they’ll say is, "10 US Dollars each."

Wang Jian looked around at the busy crowd of well-dressed people and began to search carefully.

A moment later, he saw Tom’s figure sprinting towards him.

"Wang, the website redesign is complete," Tom said breathlessly, "Do you want to go straight to the office or back to the apartment?"

"Not even a ’have a nice trip,’ truly in keeping with the New York spirit," Wang Jian mused to himself.

Then, he handed his luggage to Tom, "Straight to the apartment."

An hour later.

Wang Jian sat on the second floor of his apartment, drinking coffee and looking at the clearly categorized homepage of the website.

He clicked on "Fantasy" and saw a plethora of works.

Even some novels’ readership numbers were quickly approaching ’Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.’

The momentum was good.

Wang Jian took a satisfied sip of his coffee.

But when he clicked on the newly created "Fantasy" directory, he found only one novel, ’Extreme Heavenly Demon.’

Damn it,

What’s the point of categorizing?

A lone novel hung in a separate directory.

As the author, Wang Jian should be very pleased.

But as the boss, Wang Jian could only feel very awkward.

He frowned, pondering a solution.

But...

In the Western World, when you mention fantasy novels, aside from sci-fi with spaceships, it’s the "sword and magic" fantasy.

It’s only slightly connected to fantasy, basically the "special function" stuff.

But these are mostly classified as urban.

As for going back to ancient times with special abilities, it seems Americans haven’t evolved that idea yet.

Forget it, forget it.

As long as "Extreme Heavenly Demon" becomes popular, there will be no shortage of followers.

Wang Jian, feeling helpless, turned on his keyboard and resumed his arduous writing career.

Meanwhile, Neil Gaiman, who was highly regarded by the horror master Stephen King, also logged onto the site.

He wanted to see for himself just how interesting an idea lauded by Stephen King could be.

Swords and magic, magic and swords...

A few minutes later, Neil Gaiman sneered and put down the mouse.

Is this what they call interesting?

If he were willing to write this, the Six Major Publishers would be crying and begging to publish his work, even offering royalties above 15%.

But he wasn’t interested.

For the sake of his own ideas, he would rather, as a cutting-edge writer who had won the World Fantasy Award, pitch his work to various editors.

Though, those editors had all politely declined his submissions.

But that was what he wanted to write.

Just as Neil Gaiman was about to close the webpage and continue working on his own manuscript,

He suddenly noticed a category called "fantasy" on the website.

What was this?

He clicked the mouse curiously.

Then, a single, solitary work appeared before his eyes.

"Extreme Heavenly Demon"?

Author, Wang Jian?

Had this young man started a new book?

He had to admit, his "Arcane Throne" had indeed played with the formula of swords and magic but managed to bring something new to the table.

"Knowledge is power?" Neil Gaiman raised an eyebrow and muttered to himself, "Let’s see what you’ve written in this one."

He clicked the mouse, entered the work, and began to read.

Transmigration...

Again, transmigration...

Transmigration was becoming a standard opening for this Wang Jian.

Neil Gaiman furrowed his brow slightly and lowered his expectations a notch.

But what came next gave him an odd sense of familiarity.

This time it was set in the Mythical Era of Greece?

This somewhat coincided with some of his own creative ideas.

The Mythical Era, teeming with demons, the protagonist struggles to survive as an ordinary person.

Neil Gaiman nodded and raised his expectations again.

This beginning, this creativity, was somewhat interesting.

He sipped on his coffee as he continued to read.

Suddenly, he spat out his coffee all over the computer screen.

What the hell was this "Deep Blue"?

Could a novel really be written like this?

However, the rhythm of the novel was actually quite good, providing enough interest to keep reading.

Neil Gaiman continued to read.

One by one, a host of villains made their appearances, and the protagonist defeated them all with this "Deep Blue."

Yet the protagonist dared to exclaim in the book, "I’m just an ordinary person?"

Who gave him the courage?

Then, one by one, the gods from Greek Mythology entered the scene.

Neil Gaiman watched even more intently.

Because it had similarities to his own creative ideas.

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