Yes, then what? It's impossible to invite someone to dinner, just to listen to you complain and talk about the history of revolutionaries, right?

Wu Qifei seemed to be still immersed in sadness and couldn't extricate himself, and he was not in the mood to answer Jiang Shuiyuan's question, Fang Quan explained for him: "It's hard to run a magazine these days, and it's easy to say it. It is difficult to say because there can be no mistakes in every step of the way, from setting up a magazine, applying for a journal number, organizing manuscripts, editing, printing, finding sales channels, and so on. But even if every step is excellent and flawless, as long as the magazine can't sell, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

"Nowadays, the smell of wine in this society is also afraid of deep alleys, not that your group's manuscript is good, and the magazine can be sold, it must be famous enough. Where does fame come from? One is to spend money on advertising. As long as you publicize it to passers-by, there will always be people who are willing to test drugs as guinea pigs, and then the quality of the magazine is passable, and the market will be cultivated after a while. But advertising is a gold-swallowing beast, don't say you have one or two million, even if you have three or five million, you may not be able to hear the sound of water when you smash it in, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your money.

"Another good way is to pull the famous platform. If you can invite Nobel laureates in literature and other first-line writers to write for you regularly, it won't be long before the magazine's fame will naturally rise. The key is to invite these famous artists to write for you, the price is not cheaper than advertising, and the quality may not be guaranteed, and it is a dilemma to use it or not when the time comes. How many literary magazines can withstand such a toss?

"It's easy to say, famous writers like Guo Siming and Han Xia already have a large number of die-hard fans, not to mention editing a magazine, even if a soft-sided copy with their own photos on the cover sells better than ordinary magazines. If they run their own magazines, they don't have to worry about sales or losing money. It's a lot easier and more natural to do.

"In the past, our "Cultivation" magazine had the support of the two of them, and with the title of the New Concept Essay Contest, it was not worrying about sales. Now they plan to set up another portal, and the market positioning is similar to ours, and the cake of youth literature is only so big, it is conceivable that the development of our "Cultivation" magazine will be difficult in the future. Come to mind. The president will inevitably have worries from it, and it must not be cut off!"

Jiang Shuiyuan vaguely guessed Wu Qifei and Fang Quan's intentions: "You definitely won't sit still, right? So you've already thought of countermeasures and started to lay them out, right?"

Fang Quan nodded: "We have made some adjustments in the early stage to deal with it, but the market appeal of the two of them is there, and it is impossible for us to tear our faces with them, so the effect is basically zero." Come and think about it. We can only hope that this New Concept Essay Contest can produce a few good seedlings, and then gather the strength of the whole society to create a new generation of youth literary idols and fight with them. Thankfully, God didn't kill me, so we met you!"

"Me?" Jiang Shuiyuan said strangely, "Why me?"

Fang Quan replied carefully: "The basis of cooperation is honesty, so what I say next is more straightforward, if there is anything inappropriate that offends you, please do a lot of Haihan." First of all. It's because your writing skills are good enough. I've read your poems, plays, and novels, whether they're elaborate or handy. The chapters are all excellent works, and they are full of aura, not losing to the current Han Xia and Guo Siming. This is a prerequisite for you to be able to fight them in the air.

"The second is that you can advertise enough hype points. Forgive me for searching the internet for your information without your permission. According to the available information, Jiang's study life can be described as rich and colorful, and he has achieved excellent results in many aspects. For example, he led the Sinology debate team to win the fourth place in the provincial selection competition, singing is the champion of your Huai'an Fu competition, and the long and sprint performance in the school sports meeting is also outstanding, and the academic performance ranks first in the grade. And so on and so forth. ”

Wu Qifei reminded: "You missed the most important point, he will still be the winner of the first prize of the 53rd New Concept Essay Competition!"

"That's right!" Fang Quan frankly admitted his mistake, "Maybe classmate Jiang, you will think that these things are meaningless to a writer, the foundation of a writer's life is still the pen in his hand in the final analysis, and everything else is false." After studying with the president for so many years, I realized that smooth writing and exquisite ideas are certainly one of the requirements for becoming famous and famous, but if you want to become popular, it is far from enough to just bury yourself in writing articles. For example, literary talent is like the wings of a bird, and all other talents and skills are the color of feathers. Wings can determine how high and far you can fly, but what really attracts people to look up and see you fly is by the brilliant feathers! What does a saying in the Analects say? That is, the appearance is as important as the inside?

"The quality of the text is also, and the quality is still the text. The sheath of the tiger and the leopard, the sheath of the dog and the sheep. From "The Analects - Yan Yuan Twelfth". Jiang Shuiyuan replied.

"Yes, that's it! If there is no coat pattern on the leather, who can distinguish which is the skin of a tiger and a leopard and which is the skin of a dog and sheep?" Fang Quan seems to be a high-achieving student of the Chinese department, otherwise how would the average person know what "鞟" means, "Take Guo Siming and Han Xia as examples, they seem to be famous all by their own talents, and then everything comes naturally, but only our president and themselves know what kind of hardships they have to pay in the process, such as finding someone to write articles and tout, Created momentum on forums, hired people as sunspots to scold them for their childish writing, accused them of plagiarism, fabricated all kinds of scandals and gossip to newspapers, and paid them to publish them...... If you broaden your horizons, you can even consider dropping out of secondary school, pretending to be a public celebrity on the Internet, endorsing for free, being an ambassador, etc., as part of your marketing!"

Jiang Shuiyuan originally thought that the literary and artistic circle would be a little fresher, but he didn't expect that there were so many cats in it, which really opened his eyes!

Of course, Fang Quan wouldn't reveal all the pickles in the sauce jar, let the newcomers smell it first, and then be a little mentally prepared for what to do in the future. Then continue with the previous topic: "The last point to choose you is that you are good-looking enough. There's no way, now it's a face-looking society, and there are innate advantages in everything you do with good looks. What's more, after our survey, more than 65% of the readers who buy our magazine are women, and a young and talented handsome guy is definitely easier for readers to accept. And at this point, Guo Siming has an obvious disadvantage, although Han Xia is good, he is already married, but you are the only one who is a little fresh meat in the year of fighting. This is the decisive condition for you to fight them in the air. ”

"That's all?"

Fang Quan didn't know how to answer him: "Well, that's all I can think of for the time being......"

Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head: "The three things that Editor-in-Chief Fang just said may be able to convince your colleagues in the editorial department, but they are not enough to move me." What's more, I studied science, and I wrote essays just to cope with the Chinese exam, and I came to participate in the competition just to add points to the college entrance examination, and I never had the idea of being a writer. Thank you both for your hospitality, and if nothing happens, then I'll take my leave!"

"Wait!" Wu Qifei and Fang Quan stood up at the same time, "Classmate Jiang, don't be in a hurry to leave, everything is negotiable!"

Fang Quan also hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, everything is easy to discuss." Even if you don't want to be a writer, you can still write for our magazine! As long as you become an exclusive writer for our magazine, the remuneration is absolutely preferential, we can calculate it according to the standard of first-line writers, 600 yuan per thousand words, and if you are selected as the cover article, the standard will be raised to 1,000 yuan per thousand words. You must know that those online writers nowadays only have a few dozen yuan for a thousand words, or even a few dollars. I think that when Han Xia and Guo Siming first became famous, the articles published in our magazine were only three or four hundred yuan per thousand words. How?"

Jiang Shuiyuan didn't know what kind of standard of remuneration Fang Quan gave in the industry, but after a little comparison, he knew that what he gave was definitely not low! For example, in the three hours of today's competition, he wrote more than 3,000 words, and if it is calculated according to the standard of 600 yuan per thousand words, it will be 2,000 yuan. You must know that my father Jiang Shuiyuan is tired and tired at school every day, and his monthly salary is only three or four thousand yuan. Jiang Shuiyuan also did business for a few days on the weekend, excluding various costs such as purchase price, venue, taxes, etc., and the money earned in a week may not be as much as the manuscript fee of this article!

My mother used to live in the ICU, and the family's savings were spent like water, and now all kinds of rehabilitation treatments also cost money. The water source of the river is also inaccessible. Relying solely on my father's salary to support the family, sooner or later he will sit on a mountain of empty food. If there is an opportunity to make money, Jiang Shuiyuan naturally does not want to miss it: "What if I write a novel of 100,000 words?"

"That's best! Now that it's almost summer, the magazine has plans to launch a supplement or a single book. If you take advantage of the fact that you have just won the first prize in the New Concept Essay Contest, and then a good work comes out, and the level is no less than the level you had when you re-contested, you will definitely become famous in one fell swoop! According to the standard of 600 yuan per thousand words, that is also 60,000 yuan!" Fang Quan was overjoyed, and then asked eagerly, "Could it be that you have a manuscript in hand?"

Wu Qifei said: "If Jiang Shuiyuan really writes a novel of 100,000 words, and the level is sufficient, I will make an arbitrary decision, and the remuneration standard will be calculated at 1,000 yuan per thousand words!"

Jiang Shuiyuan's eyes were suddenly hot, and he almost bowed his head, but he still calmed down quickly, because after the incident of Shuibei Niangniang, he understood a truth, there must be rights and obligations, and if you want to harvest, you must pay, and it is impossible to drop pies in the sky for no reason. He settled down and asked, "What about the conditions? The conditions for becoming the exclusive writer of your magazine." (To be continued......)