Ahem! "Yes, I'm familiar with Huaisang's taste in literature," Shen Yuan says with an embarrassed blush. But does Jin Guangyao know, is the question? It's not one Shen Yuan feels like waiting around to answer! So instead he tries to push past it and says, "Since shige asked, I'll try to explain..."
Oh, but where to start? With, like, the concept of webnovels, or he should just start pulling specific books out his ass? It's not like he doesn't think Jin Guangyao wouldn't be interested in the concept of e-publishing, but if they get too far out on a tangent he'll never get around to answering his friend's question!
"Many of the books I spent the most time on," he answers slowly and thoughtfully, "were published by amateur authors, on a public network not too dissimilar from the one we use here in Trench. Most of these authors did their own editing, if you can even call it that, so their quality was. Highly variable." He grins sheepishly. "I used to get so frustrated, seeing these stories with amazing potential just getting wasted because their authors didn't know what they were doing. I'd try to help out, here and there, with improving the plotting, or clearing up their typoes, that kind of thing. That was how I -- well, 'met' isn't the really right word when he was still a fictional character at that point, but -- Luo Binghe was the protagonist of one of those books. I was reading his story when I... you know." He shrugs again. He's noticed, you see, that Jin Guangyao doesn't care for hearing reminders that Shen Yuan has technically died before.
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Oh, but where to start? With, like, the concept of webnovels, or he should just start pulling specific books out his ass? It's not like he doesn't think Jin Guangyao wouldn't be interested in the concept of e-publishing, but if they get too far out on a tangent he'll never get around to answering his friend's question!
"Many of the books I spent the most time on," he answers slowly and thoughtfully, "were published by amateur authors, on a public network not too dissimilar from the one we use here in Trench. Most of these authors did their own editing, if you can even call it that, so their quality was. Highly variable." He grins sheepishly. "I used to get so frustrated, seeing these stories with amazing potential just getting wasted because their authors didn't know what they were doing. I'd try to help out, here and there, with improving the plotting, or clearing up their typoes, that kind of thing. That was how I -- well, 'met' isn't the really right word when he was still a fictional character at that point, but -- Luo Binghe was the protagonist of one of those books. I was reading his story when I... you know." He shrugs again. He's noticed, you see, that Jin Guangyao doesn't care for hearing reminders that Shen Yuan has technically died before.