Chapter 8 Everything is Negotiable

On Saturday and Sunday, Lu Dongchen stayed at home and continued his great cause of code words. I spent more than 12 hours a day coding words, wrote more than 15,000 words a day, and then sent two chapters, a total of 6,000 words.

Of course, every evening, don't forget to take Lu Jiaqi out for a walk to breathe. Just in the newly built community opposite, playing with slides, seesaws or something, every time Lu Jiaqi played it was very excited, and refused to come back until it was dark.

While accompanying Lu Jiaqi, there is an outdoor fitness venue in the community, where Lu Dongchen runs, pulls the horizontal bar or something, and exercises his body. It's been a week in a row, and every day I stay up all night with codewords, catch up the next morning, get up at noon, finish lunch for Lu Jiaqi, and immediately start to conceive a new plot on scratch paper, and then code words all night. The body really needs to exercise.

The good news is that his writing status has slowly improved, about 110,000 words in a week, about 4.5 words have been uploaded, and the manuscript in his hand has approached 70,000 words. Saving manuscripts is very important for a writer, no one can say, there will be a special day, but if there is a manuscript, then the problem can be alleviated. The family has surplus food, and there is no panic in the heart.

The bad news is that he obviously feels a little tired after staying up all night and sitting there for a long time, and his neck and waist are painful.

"From tomorrow onwards, you can't reverse black and white anymore, and stay up late like this!" On Sunday night, after finishing another chapter, Lu Dongchen moved his stiff neck and decided to change his life arrangement.

Now that we have decided to take the road of codeword, we must be prepared for a long-term struggle. The body is the capital of the revolution, if one day he falls ill, what is the use of making more money, should he let Lu Jiaqi take care of himself on the hospital bed?

Besides, tomorrow is Monday, and as soon as "Hoe He" is published, the manuscript fee should be fast. Regardless of whether it is more or less, solve your own coal burning urgency first, and the pressure in your heart will not be so great, and the code will be more calm.

It was close to nine o'clock at night, and Lu Dongchen was about to turn off the computer. From today onwards, don't stay up late and have a normal schedule. Before turning off the computer, habitually log in to the writer's background to see the latest data of "Writing on the Street".

Number of words uploaded: 45,000 words.

Click: 484

Recommendation: 206

Collection: 198

Newcomers, no fame, no signing, no website promotion, it's just pitiful. I can only earn some exposure by updating twice a day, but soon, I was submerged in the army's works on the website, and the opportunities to show my face were limited.

Hey, the number of new books has risen again, with 101 readers voting and 48 people collecting them. When I watched it at noon, the vote had not yet reached 100. After 100, Lu Dongchen's "Writing on the Street" can get a little promotion in the "Discovery Page-New Book List-Shopping New Books" column of the website, although it is not even a mosquito push, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, which is better than nothing.

Look at the newcomer list again, Classification: Martial Arts Novels: Secondary Classification: Ancient Martial Arts. There are more than 100 newcomers in the second-level classification. Oh my God, not to mention the homepage newcomer list, you can't find it at all. Tomorrow Monday, the major lists of the website will be refreshed, originally, Lu Dongchen is going to add more tomorrow, rushing to the newcomer list, look at this ranking, there is no play.

There are too few clicks, but the point-to-push ratio and point-to-revenue ratio have reached a terrifying number: close to 2:1, and the number of clicks on new books is also quite large. This has to be said, it still gave Lu Dongchen great encouragement.

Editors, can't you all see that you can't find such an excellent work, why don't you come to the station short, why don't you come to me to sign a contract. Didn't you say yes, if the work is more than 30,000 words, will the editor in charge follow up?

The website stipulates that you can only take the initiative to apply for a contract after reaching 50,000 words, and now there are 45,000 words, and tomorrow you will pass on two chapters and 6,000 words, which is exactly the standard line of 50,000 words.

Just as Lu Dongchen was thinking about taking the initiative to apply for a contract, the BB number jumped up and there was new news.

Could it be that the station was short, and the editor found out in conscience that he had signed a contract with himself?

No, the short station should appear on the writer's backstage, and the editor doesn't have my BB number.

When I opened it, the editor of the digital website didn't hear from it, but the editor who loves to read poetry magazines did.

"Hello, are you there? Mr. Lu! I am Murong George, who loves to read poetry magazines!" Since he knew Lu Dongchen's age, Murong George could no longer call him "old man", so he changed his name to "Mr. Lu".

"Yes, Editor Murong, is there anything wrong?" Lu Dongchen hurriedly replied. Seeing that through the road of online novels, it is estimated that it will take another month or two to get the manuscript fee, and the future is not yet clear.

However, what is the matter with me coming to me at such a late hour? Could it be that there is something wrong with the publication of "Hoe He" tomorrow?

"That's right, Mr. Lu, according to the practice of poetry magazines, we finalize the manuscript at noon on Friday every week, and when we go to work on Friday afternoon, the finance department will pay the author a manuscript fee. And because your masterpiece was sent on Friday night, I couldn't pay you the manuscript fee in time on Friday. ”

Murong George wanted to express a lot of meaning, I was afraid that Lu Dongchen on the other end of the computer was in a hurry, so he typed this paragraph and sent it first.

Although I know that Lu Dongchen is not very old, the level of his works is there. Murong George has already taken out an attitude and treats Lu Dongchen as the top batch of authors. If the service is not good, what if Lu Dongchen is not satisfied and does not submit to the poetry magazine, there is more than one poetry magazine in the imperial capital, and the competition is big.

Royalties?

Meddlesome!

It's been a week since I came to this world, and the business has finally opened, which is not easy!

Lu Dongchen wished that the sooner the better, but on the Internet BB account, he still put on an "indifferent" posture: "Manuscript fee, it's okay, this is not in a hurry." The key is that the work can be seen and affirmed by more readers, which is the most important thing. ”

Obediently, a great writer is a great writer, he regards money as dung, and he has a fan!

Murong George on the other side sighed in his heart, and did not stop typing in his hand.

"Early yesterday Saturday morning, I communicated with the finance department as soon as possible and asked them to pay you for overtime on the weekend. I have just received the financial notice, and the manuscript fee has been transferred to the account you provided, please check it. Well...... It may be a little little, but you must understand......"

Lu Dongchen immediately opened the online banking, logged in, inquired, and the transaction records showed that at five o'clock this afternoon, a manuscript fee of 10,000 yuan was received, and the other party's account name was Ai Reading Poetry Magazine.

A poem, 28 characters, 10,000 yuan! If I had made a fortune and made a fortune, if I had voted all three poems of Tang poetry, wouldn't it be more than 3 million yuan?

Lu Dongchen only cared about checking the accounts, and he didn't think of replying for a long time, and Murong George and the others over there didn't see Lu Dongchen replying to the news, and they became more and more uneasy.

It must be that Mr. Lu thinks that the manuscript fee is too small, the gang in the finance department is stubborn, not holding rules and regulations, this system and that system talk about things, Mr. Lu's poem, the manuscript fee is 100,000 yuan, it is not too much, literature is priceless. Those ordinary people in the finance department know a fart!

Alas, today, the editor-in-chief also communicated with the person in charge of the finance department to increase Mr. Lu's manuscript fee, but the person in charge of the finance department actually said that he should do things according to the rules, and if he wants to do special things, he must see the president's instructions.

Xiao Haitang has already troubled the president once on Friday night, and at present, the new issue of the poetry magazine has not been published, and the effect has not come out, and he can't wipe his face to talk to the president about money. It's okay to talk about literature, but it's okay to talk about money, Xiao Haitang really feels that he can't open his mouth. Alas, the nobility of the literati.

Murong George hurriedly typed: "Mr. Lu, I think you are not very clear about our remuneration standards. Let me explain: our poetry journal has developed a complex set of formulas internally to calculate the manuscript fee standard.

For example, if you are a member of the county-level poetry alliance, 2 points will be added, 5 points will be added to the city-level alliance, and so on until you are a national-level member.

In addition, if you have published your work in our poetry magazine, you will also be given extra points accordingly, and it will be published in a prime position on the front page, which will give you more points. Publication in other poetry journals will also add points as appropriate.

Finally, there are also scores for the quality of the work itself, which is what our editorial department said, but it only accounts for 20 points, and our editor-in-chief has already filled up 20 points for you......"

To be honest, the manuscript fee for Lu Dongchen's "Hoe He" is indeed low. Nothing else, just the first position at the beginning, that poem, the manuscript fee this time is more than 100,000, and it is after tax. But that poem and this "hoe he" must not be compared.

This is the bonus of fame, status, seniority, etc., no way.

Then again, the editorial department of Love Reading Poetry also did its best. The remuneration given to Lu Dongchen is very high among newcomers, especially pure newcomers. The remuneration for that article "A Hundred Flowers in Bloom" is only 2,000 yuan, and the author is still an old author.

Murong George actually didn't explain, and Lu Dongchen didn't think that 10,000 yuan was less, after all, for this poem, he was just a porter of words, and it was effortless. What's more, this is the first pot of gold after he crossed into this world. To a certain extent, his current financial pressure has been solved.

"It's okay, it's still the same sentence just now, the key is that the work can be seen and affirmed by more readers, which is the most important thing. Now that the B grid is blowing, Lu Dongchen can only continue to be "indifferent".

Everyone's demeanor!

Murong George on the other end of the computer was so moved that tears were about to fall.

"Mr. Lu, don't worry! After the publication of "Hoe He" tomorrow, the effect of "Hoe He" will come out, and the poetry magazine will definitely treat your future works with the highest standards. ”

Don't care if it can't be done, Murong George will draw a big pie first, stabilize Lu Dongchen's heart, and don't run to other poetry magazines.

......

10,000 yuan, not too much, not too little, especially for Lu Dongchen, who currently has a deposit of less than 2,000.

turned off the computer, Lu Dongchen walked to the bedroom lightly, Lu Jiaqi was already asleep.

It was very hot, the fans were whistling, it was all hot air, and it was not cool at all.

Lu Jiaqi's forehead was a fine bead of sweat, and there was a faint trace on her neck, and she was about to have a circle of prickly heat. Lu Dongchen wiped it carefully with a wet towel, feeling both guilty about the past and full of hope for his future life.

10,000 yuan is in hand, tomorrow I will install an air conditioner for my baby, Dad promises you, never let you suffer this crime again in the future!