Chapter 010 The First Manuscript Fee
After the squad leader left, 6 Yang originally wanted to open the envelope immediately and read the contract and the first sample book inside.
But at this time, there were two roommates in the dormitory, and 6 Yang didn't want the news of writing a novel by himself to spread and affect his life, so he suppressed the eagerness in his heart and went out with the thick registered letter.
When 6 Yang left, the two roommates glanced at each other, and the chubby Shao Dahai said: "6 Yang, that kid is usually so low-key, I didn't expect there to be a relative in Taiwan." ”
The thin Hu Gu nodded and agreed: "Well, seeing that letter is so thick, maybe his Taiwanese relative sent him something." ”
"I don't know what it is, 6 Yang that kid didn't open it in the dormitory, and he took it out mysteriously, it's really boring!" Shao Dahai was also curious about what was sent in such a thick envelope.
Because of this registered letter, from then on, Shao Dahai and Hu Gu became more curious about 6 Yang.
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6 Jan habitually came to Building 3, the top floor classroom he frequented most often.
At this moment, there are only three students reading quietly in this classroom, and the three students are nearly ten meters away from each other, obviously not wanting to be disturbed, and they are people who really want to read.
The three of them were in the classroom, but there was no sound at all, and even when they occasionally turned to the books, they couldn't hear the sound coming out.
6 Jan liked this atmosphere the most, and when he entered, he also took a light step, walked to the corner by the window at the back of the classroom, sat down at the last table, and then, with a smile of anticipation, tore open the envelope and took out the contents of the envelope little by little.
As 6 Yang expected, it was indeed a contract sent back by C Press, and four sample books for the first and second episodes of Doomsday Wasteland.
On the contract sent back, the name of the editor-in-chief of C Publishing House has been signed and stamped with netbsp; 6 After a few casual glances, Jan put the contract aside, and then his whole attention turned to the four sample books.
The sample book is very exquisite, the cover paper is very thick, and the cover is painted in a comic style with gray tones, drawing a picture of the ruins of a ruined city, a post-apocalyptic scene, on the empty ruined street, a thin and tall boy walks in front with a long knife in his hand, followed by a slender and beautiful girl.
Doomsday wasteland, four big purple and red characters, printed on the far right of the cover, and under these four words, there are also a few small characters written - Wen Chou.
It is worth mentioning that these texts are all printed in traditional characters.
This is my work, my reborn ** work......
The fingers of his right hand rubbed lightly on the cover of the sample book, and 6 Yang murmured in his heart.
The first work has a special place in the hearts of every author, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand.
Flipping through the pages of the book, just like the first published work of 6 Yang Qian, the text inside is not only all traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan, but also the text is arranged vertically from top to bottom, and when reading, you should also look from right to left, column by column.
The paper inside is very thick and white, very textured, and the quality of the textbooks is more than one or two grades better than that of 6 Yang over the years.
Before the rebirth, 6 Yang sample books were given to people, and in the end, I only had one book left at hand, more than a dozen episodes of books, and I only had one in my hand, and I couldn't set a complete set.
In this regard, 6 Yang has always regretted it, but unfortunately, the books have been sent out, and regret is useless.
But in this life, 6 Yang doesn't intend to be like that again.
This is also one of the reasons why 6 Jan doesn't want his roommate to know that he writes novels too soon.
If those roommates knew that they had written a novel, and that it had been published in Taiwan, and that there were two sets of sample books, those roommates would definitely ask him to send one or even a few to them.
Send this one, send that one, the two sets of sample books that the publishing house promised to give him can't stand sending at all, and in the end, there must be no more than a few copies left that can stay in the hands of 6 Yang.
There are only two sets of sample books, 6 Jan wants to keep one for himself, and the remaining set, 6 Jan plans to keep it and give it to the most important people in his heart in the future.
As for those ordinary friends, I'm sorry.
After reading the four sample books in the classroom for about half an hour, 6 Yang re-stuffed them into the envelope along with the contract, and then took them to the Starrain Internet Café outside the back door of the school.
The contract and sample book had arrived, and 6 Jan felt that the editor of C Publishing House should have sent him an email to tell him about it.
After turning on the computer and logging in to the 6 mailbox, 6 Yang now has a new email in his inbox from C Publishing House receiving the editor salmon.
When I clicked on the email, I realized that Publishing House C had not only sent him the contract and sample book, but his first manuscript fee of 45oo yuan had been remitted to the bank account written in the contract by 6 Yang.
A few days ago, 6 Yang had already passed the manuscript of the second episode, and according to the rules, the manuscript fee for the manuscript of the first episode will be detained, and the manuscript fee will be released from the manuscript of the second episode.
6 Yang has two episodes of manuscripts in the past, just to get the first manuscript fee.
45oo, in 2o13, is nothing.
At that time, the renminbi was greatly devalued, and carpenters and masons were paid two or three hundred yuan a day, and they all received six or seven thousand, or even tens of thousands, a month.
But in 2oo3, 45oo is still a considerable amount for those people at the bottom.
In 2oo3, carpenters and masons were only paid forty or fifty yuan a day, or even thirty yuan a day, and they might not be able to earn a thousand yuan if they worked hard for a month.
At this time, in one academic year of 6 Yang, the tuition fee for two semesters was less than 4,000 yuan.
The living expenses for a semester are only 2,000 yuan, and the average monthly food expenses plus other expenses are only about 400.
In such an era, 45oo is really a lot for 6 Yang.
The most important thing is that 45oo is not his monthly manuscript fee, but only the manuscript fee of 65,000 words for an episode.
With 6 Yang's current writing degree, more than 6,000 words in one night, more than 60,000 words in ten days, plus two or three days, the text on the manuscript paper is input into the computer and made into an electronic document format, and it takes less than half a month to write a manuscript.
In a month, 6 Yang can write at least two episodes.
One episode is 45oo, two episodes are 9ooo.
In 2oo3, this is definitely a lucrative income that ordinary people can't even dream of.
I finally got my first manuscript fee.
With these 45oo yuan, 6 Yang can buy a laptop according to his own heart, without handwriting, and the degree of 6 Yang's writing can be increased by at least one-third.
It also saves the time of reading the manuscript and typing it into the computer.
The so-called: if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.
In order to speed up the writing of the manuscript, the computer, 6 Yang knew that it could not be saved. This first payment is not yet the time to save.
At that moment, 6 Yang went back to the dormitory, locked the registered letter into his desk drawer, and then took his bank card and went to withdraw money to buy a computer.
It's just a pity.
6 Yang forgot that the price of all brands of laptops in 2oo3 was very expensive, and the general price was five or six thousand.
6 Yang wants to buy a better one for the first manuscript fee, but there are not many options at all.
Moreover, not to mention the expensive price, the notebook configuration is also so low that people are speechless.
In the end, 6 Jan gave up on the current idea of buying a computer, honestly deposited the money back in the bank, and decided to write by hand as before, and then go to the Internet café to enter the manuscript into the computer.
On the way back, 6 Yang also figured it out.
At present, no one in the dormitory has a computer, and if you buy a new computer yourself, everyone will definitely rush to play, and it may not be long before it will be scrapped.
The environment in the dormitory is very noisy most of the time, not suitable for codewords at all, if you take a notebook to the classroom to write, the crackling typing sound will also affect others to read books.
It is also a big influence on the fact that I want to keep my own novels secret.
It's better to wait a little longer, and when the money is enough, go out and rent a quieter house and buy a computer.
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