On the morning of August 1, M City, fine.

This morning, Sun Quan had a rare sleep, woke up early in the morning, picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, at 7:21, muttered "so early", poured on the pillow, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.

He has been too tired in the last two months, in June, in order to save enough manuscripts for two months of "My Decathlon", he exploded the liver code words, and in July, in order to write "The Immortal Dragon Ring", he worked day and night for a month, this month, just look at the amount of his codeword, it is actually not too much - 210,000 words.

This amount of code words is really not much for his current hand speed, especially compared to his code word volume in June.

But the brain cells he died in July were definitely no less than those that died in June, there were too many places that required him to use his brain, almost every paragraph, he thought clearly before writing, and after writing, he had to go back and examine it at least once.

Sometimes it's clear that a chapter has been written, but when I look back, the more I look at it, the more dissatisfied I become, so I can't help but delete the chapter manuscript that I just coded.

Two consecutive months of high-intensity code words made him lose weight again, and he was one step closer to being thin into a lightning bolt.

Therefore, when he decided to submit a manuscript to the publishing house today last night, he had already decided to sleep lazily today, and by the way, he also waited for the starting point to release last month's manuscript fee data, after all, today is the 1st, the day when the manuscript fee data will be released at the starting point.

He is not entirely lazy, but knows his own urine, he knows very well that on the morning of the 1st of each month, before the starting point manuscript fee data is announced, he will never find the state of the codeword, this is no longer a month, two months, a year, two years of bad habits, but he has been in the industry for more than ten years, has always been a habit.

So, instead of waking up early and wasting time and wasting your life, it's better to sleep in.

He slept until about 9 a.m., when he opened his eyes, was in bed for a while, and then got up, went downstairs, washed up, and ate breakfast.

By the time he got back upstairs, it was already early 10 o'clock.

Log in to the author's background to check your last month's manuscript fee, and the data has been announced.

- 24,327.5 yuan.

This income, compared to most people in this era, should be very good, but it can only silence Sun Quan, with the slow update of "My Decathlon" for several months, his manuscript fee figure this month has created a new low this year.

Declining revenues are always disappointing.

In this disappointed mood, he no longer hesitated, logged in to QQ, found the QQ of Qinghe, the receiving editor of Pioneer Publishing House, and sent her a brief message.

- "Beauty, are you there?"

Soon, Qinghe replied, "The beauty is not here, I am here!"

The text is followed by a smiling face with bared teeth.

She's actually selling cuteness?

Sun Quan smiled slightly, and asked again, "Then who are you?"

Qinghe: "I'm Qinghe!"

The text is still accompanied by that toothless smiling face.

Sun Quan couldn't complain, and hurriedly got to the point, "I got the beginning of a new book, are you interested in talking about cooperation?"

This time, Qinghe finally got serious, "Oh, of course, you can send me the manuscript, or send me an email!"

Sun Quan laughed again, "Don't worry, there are two points I want to state first, if you have no comments, I will give you the manuscript." ”

Qing He: "Oh? ”

Sun Quan: "First, this new book is not the same type as "My Decathlon", and I have changed my pen name, is there a problem with this?"

Qinghe: "Hehe, it's all right!" It mainly depends on the quality of the manuscript, but if you don't use your original pen name, the manuscript fee for each episode may be a little less, after all, you should also understand that if you don't use your original pen name, the sales of your new book will definitely be a little worse, at least in the early stage, but don't worry, according to the sales of your last book, according to convention, when you open a new book, we will definitely mention the manuscript fee we give you, but, if you are sure not to use the original pen name, the increase in your manuscript fee this time may be a little smaller.

After posting such a long paragraph, before Sun Quan could reply, she sent another short sentence, "Now you can say the second point!"

Sun Quan thought for a while and replied: "Forget it, I won't talk about the second point for the time being, I'll give you a 50,000-word manuscript for you to review first!

Qinghe: "Oh?

Sun Quan: "Wait a minute!"

……

Temporarily ending the exchange with Qinghe, Sun Quan found the 50,000-word manuscript prepared last night from the hard drive of the computer and sent it directly to Qinghe through QQ.

After receiving the manuscript, Qinghe replied with an OK gesture and said: "The manuscript has been received, if you have nothing else, please wait patiently for our review results, and I will urge the review editor to speed up the review." ”

At the end of the text message, she added a gritty smiley face with her teeth in a vulgar way.

Sun Quan: "Okay! Then I'll wait for good news." ”

Why did he decide not to mention the second point he wanted to state on the other hand?

The reason is actually very simple, because the second point he originally wanted to declare was the issue of manuscript fees, and he originally planned to declare to Qinghe that the manuscript fee for each episode of the new book should not be less than 10,000 yuan.

But before he said this, he saw Qinghe say that their publishing house was going to raise the price of his new book, so he naturally didn't want to mention anything less than 10,000.

What if the number of manuscript fees that people originally planned to mention exceeded 10,000?

In that case, he first declared that it was not less than 10,000, if people really gave him 10,000 episodes, wouldn't he lose money?

And the number of 10,000 per episode is not something he sets randomly, he has an object of reference, and this object of reference is tomatoes.

He remembered that before he was reborn, it was about 07 years, one afternoon, he was chatting with people in a group of authors, and a receiving editor of Taiguan Publishing House, who had been diving for a long time in the group, suddenly came out to speak.

The receiving editor, Sun Quan had submitted a manuscript to him before, so he knew that this person was not a fake, but the receiving editor suddenly said in the group at that time - "Is there any friend in the group who can contact tomatoes? If so, please help me tell me, our publishing house is willing to make an appointment with him, the manuscript fee is negotiable, and each episode will not be less than fifteen thousand, thank you!"

The circle of online authors is really not big, and the accounts of those great gods can be seen in many author groups, and Sun Quan joined about a dozen author groups at that time, and there were tomatoes in one of the groups.

Sun Quan clicked on Tomato's profile, so he remembered that Tomato wrote this sentence in the remarks of his profile - "Log in to QQ once every half a month, please leave a message if you have something." ”

At that time, he probably guessed why the receiving editor wanted to find someone to deliver a message to Tomato in the author group, most likely because he sent a private message to Tomato, and Tomato, who only logged in to QQ once in half a month, had not replied to him for several days.

At that time, for Sun Quan, he was just a little envious of the popularity of tomatoes.

He Sun Quan submitted a manuscript to that publishing house, but did not pass the final review of the review editor, and this publishing house tried every possible way to sign a new book with tomatoes at a high price, with no less than 15,000 per episode......

You must know that at that time, Sun Quan's monthly manuscript fee was only about 2,000, and if he was lazy occasionally, he couldn't get 2,000.

But now this little thing, which is very inconspicuous in his memory, has given him an object of reference.

He is still publishing "My Decathlon", but before that, on the monthly ticket list at the starting point, he exploded the "Legend of the Flying Knife" of tomatoes once, although at the end of the month, he was blown back by tomatoes, but he exploded tomatoes after all.

Therefore, this "Immortal Dragon Ring", if he plans to be less than 10,000 per episode, he will not sign it!

Anyway, in recent years, Taiguan has a large number of publishing houses that have received manuscripts in the mainland, and if the Pioneer Publishing House can't talk about it here, you can also try to vote for other publishing houses, and now he has proved himself with a copy of "My Decathlon", whether it is in the starting point Chinese network or in the market in Taiguan.

Therefore, he is confident that other publishers will be willing to talk to him even if they can't give him a high price of 10,000 episodes.

……

After submission, Sun Quan continued to write the later chapters of "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon", but the speed increased slightly, and he was no longer as careful as writing the first 210,000 words, because the first 210,000 words were enough to meet the update of the free new book issue at the starting point, and the 210,000 words should be enough to be put on the shelves.

And on the shelves, you can see how the real results of this book are.

As for the chapters after they hit the shelves......

He kept the style before he put it on the shelf, and it was OK to continue to write along the outline and outline, and continue to carve the text as carefully as before, considering the shaping of the characters and the advancement of the plot, which no longer makes much sense.

Cause?

Because of the first 210,000 words, the style of the book has been finalized.

What's more, the rule of charging according to the number of words in online articles determines that no matter how many subscribers a book has when it is on the shelves, if you want to make more money, fast updates are the most effective magic weapon!

Even if we can improve the quality of the text a little, most paying readers will be disappointed, because they will think: On the shelves, we spend money to read your book, and you don't work hard to update it?

……

Maybe Qinghe said that she would urge the review editors to speed up the review, but she was not a lie.

Only 5 days have passed since Sun Quan sent her the manuscript, and on the morning of the 6th day, Sun Quan received a text message from her.

Qinghe: "Lao Sun! Tell you a good news! The results of the final review of your new book have come out, and the opinion of the final review editor is that the manuscript is of good quality and is recommended for publication! So, after you go online, let's talk about signing the contract!"

Although he had expected that the results of "My Decathlon" would be published, and his "Immortal Dragon Ring" would be published ninety percent, Sun Quan was still relieved when he saw Qinghe's text message.

It is better for the other party to approve of the quality of his new book than to reluctantly agree to publish his new book.

Moreover, with this final opinion, he has more confidence to talk to the other party about the issue of each episode's manuscript fee.