How a Hero Lives as a Writer

99 – A New Genre (2)

“… Did you write it down beforehand?”

“No. At that time, there was only a plot.”

“So you’re saying you wrote a novel’s worth in a week?”

“Eight days to be exact.”

“… As expected, it seems that a hero is an existence that transcends human cognition.”

This is good enough.

ㅡ I don’t think so….

My writing is nothing more than a web novel in the form of a book.

It’s not in the form of pure literature, and it doesn’t have complicated foreshadowing like a mystery novel.

Moreover, it’s a win-win story using future information that’s all too common in the other world.

I’ve already used it several times, so I’ve only slightly modified it to match Mare.

ㅡ Still, I don’t even have a laptop, isn’t it great if it’s 8 days?

I don’t know if it was possible because I didn’t have a laptop.

ㅡ Huh?

Notebooks are connected to the Internet, so concentration may be lost.

Time is erased the moment you turn on the Internet to take a breather.

When you decide to study for an exam, tidying up your desk or touching your smartphone during a break while studying is like clearing time.

ㅡ So there was nothing here so it was easy to concentrate?

That’s it.

The only things that will break my concentration are Angelica and Teresa, but even that wasn’t too much of a problem this time.

ㅡ Because Angelica was always like that~

… Thank you.

Because he understands my busyness and waits patiently.

ㅡ But you said you were doing everything you had to do?

… If I write for 15 hours a day and sleep for 6 hours, I have 3 hours to spare.

Can you do that?

ㅡ Is Teresa okay?

It might be better not to stop by the cathedral.

– Yes?

The writing of Seven’s Tale, which will mark a milestone in Mare’s history, is in progress.

If you stop by a church to be a b*tch at a time like this, wouldn’t the church perceive you negatively?

ㅡ To be honest, it was annoying to find him, right?

Hmm.

“Lady’s publication, Seventh Tale’s story work, new work here.”

“Because there is room anyway.”

“How much do you have in Lady’s stockpile?”

“Two volumes.”

“… It certainly seems like there would be some leeway. But I am not sure how the market will react.”

Usually, if you do prolific work, there will be reactions like ‘Do what you have always done or do it right!’.

I don’t like prolific work either.

Because the story gets tangled in my head and the personalities of the characters get mixed up.

If the genre is similar, it becomes almost like a collaboration event.

However, Lady, Blessed One, Seventh Tale, and this new work all have different genres.

So I decided that it would be okay to do prolific work.

Even if it was difficult to be prolific in the first place, now I have to be prolific.

I tried it because I thought that the genre might become fixed because of me.

“I think it’s a compelling story. But I am not sure about sales.”

Spring has arrived and books that have not been published have begun to be published in excellent numbers.

Moreover, the winter with little income has just ended.

There are many families with tight pockets, so even with my pen name, I can’t be sure of sales.

“Please release it anyway.”

“… All right.”

As the editor-in-chief, you would want to coordinate the publication at the time of greatest benefit.

Still, it’s unavoidable, so I can’t concede.

“Still, you have to keep using the lady.”

“Of course.”

Because if the lady fails, the academy will take a big hit.

The editor-in-chief informed me of the publication status and the expected release date of my new work.

If you hurry, it is said that it will be possible to release within a week in Mare and three weeks in other regions after that.

“Then, please proceed like that.”

“Okay.”

Everyone’s pockets will be empty, so don’t expect too much.

Because the most important thing is not to fall into the fixed genre of novels and cartoons.

ㅡ It was fun. Don’t be discouraged if sales are a little low.

If Helena-sama’s endorsement mark is attached, it’s worth looking forward to.

Let’s finish the things we couldn’t do because of the writing activities.

I went home prioritizing the things I had put off.

***

My new novel, ‘The Merchant Who Sees the Future’, was revealed to the world in one week, just as the editor-in-chief said.

We still have to wait and see the results, but from what I hear from time to time, it seems to be working pretty well.

I let out a sigh of relief and gulped down my beer.

“I think good results will come out this time too.”

“Do you think so?”

“Yes, lord.”

We listened to the occasional sound from the tavern.

“So the main character suffered a drought….”

“Look! Didn’t I say I was still watching!”

“Oh, there! If you keep telling the story, you won’t be able to take credit!”

“Ai, can you do that with just one novel?”

“What is it, you bastard?”

Everyone is sharing the story of the trader who sees the future that I wrote, short for uncompensated.

ㅡ It must be that much fun~

… To be honest, it’s a bit of a cliché.

The story of Mi-Bo-Sang contains a story like a textbook of regression.

It wasn’t a very smooth life, but the main character became a moderately successful merchant by enduring with evil.

But looking back on the past, it was a series of life giving up many things.

It was a life of letting go of loved ones for success and stepping on someone to get ahead.

Sometimes I was betrayed by a trusted colleague, and sometimes I was in a position to cheat.

But looking back, it was all for nothing.

The main character feels the futility of life and heads for the pond in front of the house.

Then he sees a frog that is destined to be eaten by a snake, and the protagonist saves the frog as if possessed.

The main character, who is physically and mentally tired from a rough workout after a long time, falls asleep earlier than usual….

When I woke up in the morning, the main character became an 18-year-old young man from 60 years ago.

The hero who knows the future begins the path of a successful merchant!

Summarizing the plot of Mi-Reward, it roughly feels like this.

If you’ve read even a little bit of the mass market, it’s a cliché that you’ll find common enough to be run over by your feet.

If a novel with this content had been uploaded from another world, there might have been malicious comments saying, ‘This is a very common story, I’m leaving.’

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ㅡ Is that enough?

Yes, that’s about it.

ㅡ But you mean it works here, right?

There has never been a novel of this kind in Marais.

ㅡ Surprisingly, even non-merchant people seem to like it.

It’s a story that doesn’t matter much if the main character’s job is not a merchant.

The important thing is the success story of the main character.

ㅡ I think it’s definitely stimulating.

Isn’t it?

“You have worked hard.”

Angelica looked at me with a slightly sorry expression.

Anyway, I felt like I was confined to my room for 8 days and thought that I had worked hard.

To be honest, it was a bit difficult, but the story was so obvious that my head didn’t hurt while writing it.

Rather, it’s been a while since I’ve had a story where I can go out on my own like this, so I even enjoyed it a little.

ㅡ So?

“It was rather enjoyable.”

“… Is that so?”

“This was a work that didn’t feel particularly pressured.”

Seventh Tale is a work that will affect everyone living in Marais.

So I had to put all my nerves into it.

At first, I wrote Lady with a sense of enjoyment, but now it is a work that is responsible for the future of Aucklia.

So I spent more time thinking while writing.

However, this non-compensation was not such a burden.

It seems like I enjoyed writing for the first time in a long time.

“Let’s go check out the manga magazine now.”

“Yes.”

It is getting a response from the market enough to become a side dish for drinking.

At this level, the attempt to introduce a new genre into novels and comics seems to be successful.

Let’s make up our minds and go check out the manga magazines.

ㅡ You said you would use it, so I just kept quiet. Will it work after only one volume?

Micompensation is the most web novel-like type of novel I’ve ever written in Marais.

I placed the most provocative story in Volume 1.

ㅡ A story about buying food in advance in anticipation of a drought?

Yes. So, even one volume would have given a sufficient response.

ㅡ Still, I’m worried about the next story.

What is it?

ㅡ Isn’t Volume 1 too stimulating? So, many readers will be disappointed if the following content does not meet their expectations as much.

… Certainly there is a possibility of that.

ㅡ Is there a way?

That’s why I used the expression “Win-win”.

ㅡ Is this story going on?

Yes. It constantly brings success, success, success, and success to the protagonist.

Until the moment the novel ends!

ㅡ How to say… Conversely, it is novel

Wouldn’t it be okay to sweeten a bittersweet life?

It’s about digging into that kind of psychology.

ㅡ Earth is such a terrible place.

To be honest, I can’t refute.

Anyway, it’s a comic magazine now.

I did my best to break away from the fixedness of the genre.

What results are you waiting for?

……

…

Speaking only of the conclusion, it failed to solve the fixation of the genre.

ㅡ Are you okay?

… It was something I was determined to a certain extent.

Cartoon is not something that can be drawn overnight.

It must have been difficult to read my novel and react immediately to draw a cartoon.

ㅡ Originally, it took quite a while for the reaction to come out~

That’s it.

I can’t help but feel a bit regretful.

ㅡ But it went as you expected.

As Helena said, manga magazines were in a state where the genre had become fixed, as I expected.

Because 80% were boys’ comics influenced by Seven’s Tale, and 20% were romance comics influenced by lady comics.

The genres are different, but they have one thing in common: more than 90% of the main characters use swords.

There, even the story is similar.

As expected, the attempt to prepare for the fixation of my genre must have been correct.

“Sir Lewis. How about a comic magazine?”

“… Can I be honest with you?”

“Yes, please tell me your honest opinion.”

“I don’t know because the contents are all the same.”

Cartoonists who see this kind of reaction will start looking for freshness.

Finally, my new work is also out, so wouldn’t it be inspired in many ways?

In this way, the genre will gradually diversify.

First of all, it took the first step towards diversification of genres.

Let’s be content with this much for now.

Thinking that way, as I was about to turn around, I saw a familiar figure for some reason.

Hmm… Who was it

Ah, that’s him.

One of the first scribes to visit Lady!

ㅡ Logan.

Yes, Logan!

Are you sure you were a writer who wrote a romance novel borrowing Lady’s worldview?

But why is he holding a comic magazine and sighing?

It’s definitely the same reaction as a manga artist who submitted it to a manga magazine….

For some reason, I smell the incident.

I decided to talk to a writer named Logan for a while.