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Chapter 173 The Most Successful Essay Solicitation and Fascinating Work

Unknowingly, the essay contest has been held for three months, and nearly 10 entries have been submitted.

Among the 10 copies, more than 95% of the works are waste books and were eliminated in the first round.

Among the more than 2500 shortlisted works in the second round, 51 are star novels, including 9 two-star novels and 42 one-star novels.

However, these 51 star-rated novels are currently unknown to the jury, because they have not carried out accurate identification of the novels.

Authenticating a novel is a complex process that can take hours to authenticate a novel.If the more than 2500 shortlisted works are to be appraised one by one, this is a huge amount of work, and the required book appraisal cost will be as high as tens of millions, or even more, which is simply not feasible.

Therefore, it is impossible for the jury to accurately identify all the shortlisted novels. It can only make a preliminary judgment on the works based on rich reading experience, and then select a small number of high-quality works from them for identification.

In the process of selection, the possibility of missing star-rated novels is very high. After all, relying only on experience inevitably has a subjective component and is prone to mistakes.

This is also the fundamental reason why most essay contests lose money.

No matter how experienced the jury is, it is difficult to select all the outstanding works from the massive works.

However, Liu Xing has checked all entries with his book eye, and none of the 51 star-rated novels will be missed.

The only regret is that the matching degree of the 51 star-rated novels is relatively low, the highest is only 24%, and it is impossible to use the "method of different feelings in the same place" for ecstasy.

There is a prerequisite for using the same situation method, and the matching degree of the novel must be at least 30%.

Therefore, so far, Liu Xing still has not been able to find a work that meets the standard of ecstasy, and can only hope that the quality of the subsequent entries will be higher.

The entire competition will last for 18 months, and now only 3 months have passed.

On this day, Liu Xing was discussing with the jury in his office the ranking of entries for the first quarter of the competition.

"Xiao Liu, are you really going to let this "Various Shadowman" be shortlisted in the top 20 of the first season?" Director Wu Guokun reminded, "Although the quality of this "Various Shadowman" is good, the writing style is relatively rough. , it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach the level of a star novel."

Another judge agreed: "It's no problem for "The Ever-changing Shadowman" to enter the top 20, but it's a bit far-fetched to enter the top [-]!"

Liu Xing has tested "Variety of Shadows", the rating is one star, and the matching degree has reached 20.8%, so it is basically no problem to enter the top 20.

It's just that "The Ever-changing Shadowman" is a plot-flow novel. The plot line of this type of novel is extremely complicated, and it is difficult to make an accurate judgment based on intuition alone. It must be digitized with the help of a computer to make a more objective evaluation.

Therefore, it is normal for director Wu Guokun and other judges to have biased evaluations of "The Man of Dark Shadows".

"Otherwise, I will pay for this "Variety of Shadows" myself, and take it to the Book Testing Center for appraisal first." Liu Xing suggested, "After the appraisal results come out, I will decide whether to make it into the top 20 or not."

Hearing this, the judges couldn't help laughing.

Director Wu Guokun smiled and said: "Xiao Liu, you are really stubborn. It seems that you are very optimistic about this work! Okay, let's test it first and speak with data, so as not to say that we old guys bully you."

After the discussion, "Man of Variety Shadows" was sent to the book testing center.

After eight hours of testing, the identification results were sent back to Meteor Book Bar.

All the judges were dumbfounded when they saw the appraisal report of "Man of Variety Shadows".

"Really...really one star?"

"Xiao Liu is right!"

"It seems that we are all old, and so many people are misjudged. Thanks to Xiao Liu's support, otherwise this book "The Ever-changing Shadow Man" might be buried."

"Xiao Liu's eyes are getting more and more thieves. This month, he has helped us find 8 missing novels. But, having said that, Xiao Liu is only 19 years old and doesn't have much experience. How can he pick books so accurately?"

"Perhaps this is talent. It is said that Xiaoyaoke, the book king, was very accurate in picking books when he was young. This kind of talent is rare in a hundred years, so I can't envy you!"

……

Ten days later, the organizer of the "Shadow Man Cup" essay contest held a press conference in Tianhai City to announce the shortlist for the first quarter of the essay contest.

As the chief planner of the essay contest, Liu Xing introduced the progress of the entire contest at the press conference.

When it was learned that among the entries in the first quarter, 51 star-rated novels appeared, it aroused widespread attention from all walks of life.

This result greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

You must know that most of the entries in the first quarter were written by ordinary novel lovers. The level of creation is not high, and the creation time is short, so the quality of the works must be relatively poor.

Under such circumstances, it is almost a miracle that the organizers were able to find 51 star-rated novels.

When this news came to light, the mainstream media in Tianhai City were full of praise for the level of the essay contest, and even commented that it was "the most successful essay contest in Tianhai City's history."

Although the competition has only just started three months.

As news and commentary spread, many writers changed their minds about the essay contest.
The fact that so many star-rated novels appeared in the first season of the competition shows that the jury of the essay contest has a first-class level of discrimination and is a trustworthy jury.

This is critical for participating writers.

As a result, many writers who were originally on the sidelines joined the competition team one after another. After the press conference, the number of novel manuscripts received by the organizers increased significantly!
At the same time, after several investigations, the media found that the reason why the judging panel of the essay competition was so efficient seemed to be related to Liu Xing, the owner of Meteor Book Bar.

The 50 judges of the jury were full of praise for Liu Xing, thinking that Liu Xing had a discerning eye. Among the 51 star-rated novels, many novels were discovered by Liu Xing.

When these inside information was exposed by the media, Liu Xing once again became the focus of many media attention.

Liu Xing also got a new title - "Bole of Star Writers".

There were more than a dozen star-rated novels that were almost buried in the essay contest. It was thanks to Liu Xing's efforts that these star-rated novels gained attention again.

Most of the original authors of these works are amateur creators and have never written star novels.

Appraisal of novels is very expensive, and novel creators from ordinary families will hardly spend thousands of dollars to appraise novels.Therefore, even if they can write star novels, they may not be aware of it.

In this essay contest, there are more than a dozen participating writers in this situation.

They were all dug out by Liu Xing!
After these news were released, the dozen or so participating writers rushed to Tianhai City to find Liu Xing and thank him face to face for his kindness.Among them is Zhao Baisheng, the author of "The Ever-changing Shadow Man".

Zhao Baisheng was originally just an ordinary community security guard. He usually liked to write novels, but he never thought he could become a star writer.He never expected that the "Man of the Ever-changing Shadows" written by himself would reach a one-star level.

After this novel was discovered by Liu Xing, Zhao Baisheng ended his career as a security guard and officially became a writer, even a star writer.

His income will skyrocket dozens of times at once, and his life will completely change.

And all of this stems from the essay contest, and even more from Liu Xing.

Therefore, Zhao Baisheng took the train from Karl Province in the west of China for two days and two nights, and hurried to Tianhai City, not for anything else, just to see Liu Xing.

There are still eleven contestants who have experienced Zhao Gang's experience.

Their inspirational stories have also become a highlight of this essay contest.

Fueled by this series of news and news, the second season of the essay contest was officially launched, and a large number of scholars who dreamed of being a writer joined the contest one after another.

This is bound to be an even hotter season!
……

At night, in the lobby on the first floor of Meteor Book Bar.

"Ms. Liu, I have revised my "Man of Dark Shadows" again, could you please take a look at it again?" Zhao Baisheng carefully handed the manuscript to Liu Xing.

In the past few days, Zhao Baisheng has been revising "The Variety of Shadowmen".Although this novel has already reached one star, Liu Xing thinks it has the potential to reach two stars, and suggested Zhao Baisheng to revise the manuscript.

Zhao Baisheng has already regarded Liu Xing as his mentor, he readily accepted Liu Xing's suggestion, and has been busy revising the novel these days.It happened that many of the judges in Meteor Book Bar had read "The Ever-changing Shadowman", so Zhao Baisheng asked these judges for their opinions on revision.

After collecting the opinions of all the judges, Zhao Baisheng made drastic revisions to the novel.

Tonight, it's finally finished.

Picking up the novel, Liu Xing flipped through it quickly.

[Book Title] "The Ever-changing Shadow Man"

【Type】Supernatural novel

【Grade】two-star
[Matching degree] 30.7%
Liu Xing's eyes lit up slightly, and the level of the novel was not only raised to two stars, but the matching degree finally broke through 30%.

The first entry that can fascinate is finally born!
Although the matching degree is not high, but if you use the same land and strange situation method to trance, it only takes about a month to trance a novel.
Liu Xing opened the novel and carefully read some chapters of the novel revised by Zhao Baisheng.

two hours later.

"Xiao Zhao, the standard of this "Man of Dark Shadows" has improved significantly, and it may already be a two-star work." Liu Xing said.

"Ms. Liu, don't tease me." Zhao Baisheng only thought Liu Xing was joking, "I can write a one-star novel, which is already a job. I don't dare to hope for a two-star novel. I will revise the manuscript, The main thing is to improve yourself.”

Liu Xing said with a smile: "Why don't we make a bet, if "Man of Dark Shadows" can become a two-star novel, you can treat it to dinner."

"Okay, don't talk about treating guests, just invite you to travel around the world."

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(End of this chapter)