Chapter 13 Request for Manuscript Letters
Looking at the page by page, Tang He was inexplicably excited.
Although "The Legend of Wukong" is a classic work that he plagiarized from his past life and present, he also has his own hard work after all.
Now that "The Legend of Wukong" has received so much recognition, the mood is like drinking a bottle of cold beer on dog days, which is very refreshing.
Skipping the serial, just looking at those follow-ups, soon Tang He turned to the last page.
"Oh, there are no eunuchs!" - Tuwen
"Landlord, what's going on in the back, update it quickly!" - fanatic Zhang San
"That's right, hurry up and keep posting, don't have to wait another three or four days like before!" - three points and one line
"Don't worry upstairs, Don Quixote should still be writing, last time I posted the written chapters on the Internet first, and then posted them while writing. "——Pure and plain heart
"Is Don Quixote still there? When you see the post, please check the message on the site, there are some things I want to communicate with you. —Umbrella monk
"The novel is getting better and better!" — Sunny
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Wu Wei held a cigarette in his left hand, stopped motionless on the mouse with his right hand, and his eyes did not blink, staring at the computer screen.
Wu Wei and Tang He were classmates in the same class when they were in junior high school, and since then, Wu Wei has known that Tang He is very talented.
Tang He often published articles in some newspapers and magazines such as "Middle School Student Reading Newspaper" and "Middle School Times", which also caused many senior sisters and sisters to inquire about the girls in the class.
Sometimes Wu Wei's pocket money is spent, and he is addicted to smoking, so he goes to Tang He, he always goes directly to the school store to buy a pack of Red River without saying a word, and then smokes with himself, and then Tang He, who is not addicted to smoking, laughs and says that this cigarette is not easy to smoke at all, and then throws the rest of the cigarette to himself.
It can be said that as early as junior high school, the two have long been inseparable from each other in terms of pocket money.
It's a pity that after Tang He entered high school, he rarely published articles.
Who would have thought that three years of dormancy did not wear out Tang He's talent, Tang He was like a pearl hidden in the sand, silently polishing the edges and corners of his body, and now as soon as it was revealed, it was shining and dazzling.
He actually wrote such a beautiful story, far better than when he was in junior high school!
Wu Wei was amazed while looking at the chapter of "The Legend of Wukong" uploaded by Tang Hexin, and the cigarette in his hand was about to burn until his fingers were not noticed.
Tang He finally noticed a few posts in the post reminding him to check the station's letters, and with a hint of curiosity, Tang He opened the text message box at the top of the forum.
The text box is almost full.
Tang He clicked on them one by one to view.
The first message is the welcome message of the website, and then there are inquiries from friends, some discuss literature with themselves, some pursue the follow-up of "The Legend of Wukong", some want to make friends with themselves, and some ask if they are professional writers.
Then Tang He finally found the message sent by this netizen called the umbrella monk.
In the message of the umbrella monk, he introduced himself as the editor of the "Beijing News", and after seeing "The Legend of Wukong" on the Internet, he was shocked. He wanted to ask if Tang He's "The Biography of Wukong" was written by himself, whether the copyright was still in his hands, whether he had any plans to publish it, whether he could let the "Beijing News" publish "The Biography of Wukong", and the manuscript fee was easy to say.
After reading the information, Tang He's eyes suddenly lit up.
Behind closed doors in the past few days, Tang He has actually completed "The Legend of Wukong".
originally planned to use "The Legend of Wukong" to prove his talent to his mother, and he could succeed even if he didn't go to college. It's a pity that the prevarication that night made Tang He's plan fall through for a while.
continued to write "The Legend of Wukong", on the one hand, to express his resentment, but on the other hand, Tang He did not have the habit of giving up halfway. Therefore, he will continue to upload "The Legend of Wukong" on the Jinyong Inn today. As for finding a publishing house to publish "The Legend of Wukong", how can he still be in that mood now.
Who knew that now it was a bright flower.
The message of the umbrella monk provided Tang He with an inspiration, a solution to his dilemma.
Tang He knew that in two years, the country would vigorously develop college education, universities would expand their enrollment, and even private capital would enter this field.
It's just that the result of this is that college students will be unemployed as soon as they graduate, and they will have to continue to take graduate school and doctoral studies after college, and then graduate students will not be as good as dog doctoral students. All this has become a common social phenomenon.
Although the university policy remained unchanged in 1997, some channels actually existed for a long time, such as paying sponsorship fees to colleges and universities, such as spending money to make connections......
If you sell "The Legend of Wukong......
Don't you have money yourself?
Are you rich and afraid that you won't have a college to recruit you?
Tang He began to delete the useless messages in the text message box, and then he found another very interesting message.
Hello Mr. Don Quixote, I am Chen Qingmei, editor of "Ancient Legends". Founded in 1981, our magazine has always adhered to the tenet of "Chinese style, national style, public consciousness, and spirit of the times", and adhered to the style of "legendary but not bizarre, popular but not vulgar, popular but not low-level, interesting and beneficial". At present, the "Legend of Wukong" that you serialized on the forum is very suitable for the publication style of my magazine, so I take the liberty to ask you for an article. I hope you can authorize "Ancient Legends" to publish your work "The Legend of Wukong".
Tang He was a little surprised and a little surprised.
He really didn't expect that in just a few days, two print media would want to publish their works, which is unimaginable in later generations.
When did online literature become so important to traditional media?!
This is because Tang He is still too ignorant of the current Chinese Internet.
The reason why 1997 was later called the first year of the Chinese Internet was because it was in this year that the Chinese Internet really entered the people.
And who are the people who can access the Internet during this period?
They are all a group of people who are interested in the Internet, and this group of people is still rich and elite.
You must know that even Ma Qingyang, who was in later generations, translated the Internet into English as the Internet at this time, and when he heard it, he thought it was the "Interna Nernere" in the Internationale.
In the eyes of most elites, the Internet is actually another new medium, and "The Legend of Wukong" is just a free release of the novel to this new medium.
Moreover, in 1997, there were really few Chinese websites and Chinese forums on the Internet in China and even on the Internet of the whole world.
Do you know how Ma Qingyang, the richest man in China, got the first pot of gold to start his business? That is, he built a Chinese website, collected advertising fees from some enterprises in the mainland, and then posted the information of these enterprises on the pages of the website, which is just an online business card.
At this time, the Chinese Internet was a real pioneering period.
Therefore, Tang He's "The Legend of Wukong" can spread all over the world in just a few days and become a well-known work on the Internet.
Except for the two manuscript messages, Tang He emptied his inbox. He then began to reply to these two messages.
In his previous life, Tang He had heard of and even bought "The Beijing News" and "Ancient Legends", both of which are well-known newspapers and magazines in the country.
Therefore, whether "The Legend of Wukong" is listed in "The Beijing News" or "Legend of the Ancient World", it is an achievement, which does not affect the status of "The Legend of Wukong" in the previous life.
So Tang He is most concerned about only one thing now-
Which one will pay more?
Tang He remembers that when he was in junior high school, he often published his works in newspapers and magazines for students. Some of these newspapers and magazines will send them manuscript fees and sample newspapers, some will send sample newspapers without manuscript fees, and some will not even bother to send sample newspapers.
In Tang He's impression, the current newspaper and magazine manuscript fees are very low, and it is only about ten yuan for a thousand words. The full text of "The Biography of Wukong" is only 180,000 words, and if it is calculated at ten yuan, the total manuscript fee is only about 1,800 yuan.
1,800 yuan was actually a huge amount of money in 1997, you must know that Tang He's mother's monthly salary is only more than 400 yuan, and she has just explored the national per capita salary line.
But if you want to spend money to go to college, 1,800 yuan is not enough.
The umbrella monk has been online, so he quickly replied to Tang He's message:
"The Beijing News" is a newspaper, and if "The Legend of Wukong" is to be serialized in the "Beijing News", the remuneration is 18 yuan per thousand words, but it must be paid in installments. If the serialization effect of "The Legend of Wukong" is not good, it may be cut in half. After the cut in half, the remuneration for subsequent unserialized texts will no longer be paid.
Chen Qingmei's reply was almost noon, and at this time, Tang He had already connected several rounds of red alert with Wu Wei, who had finished reading the novel, and was about to leave the Internet café and go home.
Chen Qingmei's mentality is very sincere.
In the first reply, Chen Qingmei said that the magazine has a standard for judging the level of authors' remuneration, and the remuneration of new authors is generally 10 yuan per thousand words according to the "National Remuneration Standard", and the remuneration of authors with more seniority is generally between 18-25 yuan per thousand words, and the manuscripts of the best writers are given 30 yuan or even 40 yuan per 1,000 words, and of course, 40 yuan per thousand words is estimated to be only available to Jin Yong. Therefore, Chen Qingmei asked Tang He to wait, and he went to discuss with the editor-in-chief.
Tang He suppressed the emotions in his heart and waited patiently.
After twelve o'clock, Chen Qingmei's reply came.
Mr. Don Quixote, after communicating with the editor-in-chief, in view of the novel story of "The Legend of Wukong", the peculiar writing technique, and the certain literary and artistic value, if you are willing to hand over the serialization rights of "The Legend of Wukong" to "Ancient Legends", the magazine is willing to pay the basic remuneration of 26 yuan per thousand words.
It's done!
26 yuan for 1,000 words, then the remuneration of "The Legend of Wukong" is 4680 yuan, and you should be able to achieve your goal!
Tang He slapped the computer desk, hurting and hurting, but his heart was extremely happy.