Chapter 390: Mentoring Newcomers
M City, Sun Quan listened to Fu Lei's narration on the phone, and his expression was a little surprised.
There are even other people who are also recommending "Step by Step" to the Tang people? Is there still such a good person in the world? This kind of spirit of helping others is really rare!
After Fu Lei finished talking on the phone, Sun Quan smiled and said, "Well, I know, since this is the case, then you should also adjust your strategy appropriately!"
On the phone, Fu Lei: "Adjust your strategy?" Mr. Sun, what do you mean?"
Sun Quan: "We are not sure about the other party's offer to the Tang people, you just said that Manager Lan has more than one work in his hand, "Step by Step Shocking", so the other party should have other works recommended to the Tang people, so you can find a way to talk to that Manager Lan here, you don't have to mention how much the copyright transfer fee is, and talk to them about revenue sharing! Reduce their investment risk and share the risk of this drama with them, understand?"
Fu Lei: "Uh, you mean we use this adaptation right to buy shares?"
Sun Quan: "Well, that's pretty much what it means!"
Fu Lei: "Then how much revenue share do we want?"
Sun Quan: "If you talk about this, you first have to determine how much money they plan to invest in this drama, and then determine the percentage of this income dividend according to their total investment! I'll give you a bottom, you should calculate the minimum price of our adaptation rights as two million, this is the bottom line, above this bottom line, you try to strive for a higher price, okay?"
Fu Lei: "Two million......? Mr. Sun, when we bought it recently, it was only 500,000......"
Sun Quan: "Otherwise, buy 500,000 yuan and sell it for 600,000 yuan or 700,000 yuan? Fu Lei! You dare to enlarge it for me, the bottom line is 2 million! If it is lower than this price, you will not sell it! On the basis of this reserve price, you will strive for a higher selling price for me, and how much you can sell depends on your ability!"
Fu Lei: "This ...... Okay, okay! I see. ”
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After the call, Sun Quan put down his mobile phone, smiled at the young man on the other side of the desk, and said, "Hu Cong! Let's continue with the topic just now, you have changed this outline! The background of the story is too big, yes! According to the division of labor we set at the previous meeting, you are only responsible for writing the outline and detailed outline, and the specific text is handed over to the other two colleagues to write, but when you write the outline, do you also have to take care of the abilities of those two colleagues?"
They're all newcomers, and you've made the outline story so big, so complicated, do you think your two colleagues can handle it? Can you write this story?"
Hu Cong is a thin young man, one meter tall and in his early sixties, weighing less than 100 pounds, except for his big head, he has no other big features on his body.
He and the other two were the three writers recruited by Fu Lei before he went on a business trip.
It was also found from the author forum, compared with the other two newcomers who have not been in the industry for a long time, although Hu Cong is thin and small, he has been in the industry for more than three years, and he is not a pure newcomer, but he has written several works, without exception, all of them have pounced, and the best result is more than 200 for the first time on the shelves.
Before Fu Lei left, she handed them over to Sun Quan.
Sun first asked them to write an outline and a 20,000-word beginning.
After writing it, Sun Quan took the time to look at it.
There are a lot of problems found.
One has a literary illness, and the writing style is very biased towards the traditional author's writing, but the writing is acceptable; the other has no literary youth, but writes nonsense, just 20,000 words at the beginning, Sun Quan actually saw several noun explanations, there is no problem with the noun explanation, the problem is that the few nouns that are explained are very common, but the guy has been explaining again and again for a long time, and there is a serious hydrological suspicion; and the other is the Hu Cong in front of him.
Hu Cong's advantage is that the outline is more exquisite, the story background, character setting, treasure setting, main plot and side plot, etc., are all set in very detail, very much in the style of a science and engineering man, and his shortcomings, in Sun Quan's opinion, are also too much in the style of a science and engineering man.
This kind of strong style is directly reflected in Hu Cong's body and line, which is too serious, and his 20,000 words at the beginning make Sun someone dizzy, and he feels like he is reading the academic papers of a university professor, regardless of whether this is the worst time that a university professor has been hacked, anyway, Sun Quan feels that according to Hu Cong's way of writing, it is really a miracle that he was able to write a work with a first order of more than 200 yuan.
In this way, readers can even see it on the shelves, and more than 200 people are willing to pay for subscriptions.
After reading the three outlines and the beginning of the three articles, Sun Quan called them to the conference room and held a meeting together.
At the meeting, he named the strengths and weaknesses of all three of them, and after speaking, asked them if they had different opinions?
The three of them were quite self-aware, and although they were a little unhappy, they still nodded in recognition of Sun Quan's evaluation of them.
It's good to have self-knowledge, and seeing that they don't have different opinions, Sun Quan divided the work among them.
Hu Cong, who has been on the street for several years, but writes the outline more carefully and carefully, was arranged by him to write the outline and detailed outline.
His request to Hu Cong was simple: "The bigger the outline, the better, and the more detailed the outline, the better."
Two days later, today, Hu Cong gave him an outline that was too big to exaggerate.
What did Sun Quan see just now?
In the outline that Hu Cong gave him just now, the three worlds of humans, gods, and demons were set, not only that, but also 7 planets, more than 100 races, and there were 12 races specifically set by him.
In addition, the three worlds of humans, gods, and demons, he also set them in great detail, and wrote a bunch of various myths and legends.
After Sun Quan read the outline, he had the words after putting down the phone just now, he was actually quite speechless, is this Hu Cong's understanding of his words too straightforward?
Let him write the outline bigger, and he will write it so big?
Hu Cong lowered his head slightly, his face was a little hot, and he said, "Boss, why don't I change it again?"
Sun Quan sighed and hummed, "Hold it up, take care of the other two colleagues, don't be too embarrassed about those two fat tigers, okay?"
Two fat tigers?
Hu Cong was a little surprised when he heard this, he looked up at Sun Quan, and then smiled slightly, he nodded, got up and said, "Okay, I know the boss!
Those two colleagues are indeed fat, saying that they are two fat tigers, Hu Cong feels quite vivid.
Sun Quan waved his hand, "Go ahead, shrink and shrink the background of this outline, I asked you to write the outline in a big way, so that you can write concisely and generally, not to make the background of the story so big." ”
Hu Cong: "Well, I understand!"
Hu Cong left, and Sun Quan pressed his temples with a little headache.
It's really tiring to guide newcomers and hit the streets.
......
As soon as Hu Cong came down from upstairs, the two fat tigers downstairs and Dong Xiaoyu looked at him curiously.
Dong Xiaoyu was purely curious.
The two fat tigers, Pan Yun and Li Lixi, were a little curious and apprehensive.
Pan Yun, who had a round head and a round brain, immediately trotted over and asked in a low voice, "How is it?" What did the boss say? He didn't train you, did he?"
Li Lixi, who was in the Sanqi distribution type, also ran over and asked in a low voice: "Has the outline passed? Did the boss say to write it for me? Or should it be written for Pan Yun?"
Hu Cong shook his head and smiled slightly wryly, "No! The boss said that I wrote the background of the story too big, let me shrink and shrink!"
As for Sun Quan's ability to take care of those two fat tigers, he was not stupid, but he didn't say it.
Pan Yun frowned: "The background is too big, isn't it good to be bigger? When we had a meeting before, didn't he ask you to write in Dali?"
Li Lixi: "That's right! He asked for it, and at this time, he thought you were writing too big?"
Hu Cong looked at the puzzled expressions of the two fat tigers, and sighed with some emotion in his heart: These two people still don't have a clear understanding of their abilities!
In fact, when he was in Sun Quan's office just now, he didn't say anything, in fact, the outline was not completely from his hands, and the two fat tigers also gave a lot of advice.
To write the opinions of the three worlds of man, god, and demon, it was Pan Yunti.
To set the opinion of more than 100 races, it was Li Lixi who strongly recommended it.
"When the boss says big, he means that he writes concisely and broadly, not to write the background of the story endlessly. ”
To explain simply, Hu Cong, who didn't talk much, returned to his work station and began to think about how to compress the outline in front of the computer.
The two fat tigers are there, you look at me, I'll look at you.
Finally, Pan Yun asked, "Do you go first?" or do I go first?"
Li Lixi sighed, shook his head, and said, "You go and die first! Let me live a little longer." ”
Pan Yun nodded, touched his hair, took a deep breath, turned around and walked upstairs.
"Knock knock!"
"Enter!"
Pan Yun put a smile on his face, walked to the opposite side of Sun Quan's desk, and sat down at Sun Quan's signal.
"Boss, my revised draft has been sent to your mailbox, have you read it?"
Pan Yun asked worriedly.
Sun Quan looked up at him, his expression was a little helpless, "I asked you not to write so literately, do you really understand what it means?"
Pan Yun frowned, raised his hand and touched his head again, and asked in a low voice, "Boss, what do you mean...... Is my revised manuscript still not working?"
Sun Quan asked rhetorically, "Do you think it's okay?"
Pan Yun was dumbfounded.
Sun Quan asked again: "Why is the description of the scenery in the first four or five hundred words at the beginning of your first chapter still there?"
Pan Yun opened his mouth and replied weakly: "I, am I not good at description?"
Sun Quan didn't answer, and asked again: "Do you remember what you wrote in the first chapter?
Pan Yun's voice was a little quieter, and his face was already a little hot, "The first chapter is a wedge, mainly introducing the birth of the hero's family, as for the hero's ...... He came out of Chapter 3, did he appear too late?"
Sun Quan smiled with a sense of helplessness, nodded, and sighed: "It's okay, my memory is good! Since you know where the problem is, let's revise it! Let the male protagonist appear in the first chapter, and give you two tasks! One is to set up the male protagonist for me in the first chapter!"
The second is to set up a suspense that is attractive enough for me while setting up the character of the male protagonist, or a selling point that is exciting enough! Hmm, it is limited to 2,500!"