Chapter 14: The Beat Generation
"Yo, Xiao An is here again, help me take a look, what should I do if this computer keeps crashing?" Hearing the footsteps, the boss looked back, his face suddenly showed joy, and he quickly pulled Chen Yuan down in front of the computer with a black screen.
During this time, Chen Yu'an has been familiar with the boss and helped him solve a few small problems, but now the boss regards Chen Yu'an as a real computer master, and he will find him as soon as there is any problem that cannot be solved, and even take the Internet fee for free, anyway, Chen Yu'an will play for an hour or two every day, and he can't delay much business.
However, Chen Yu'an insisted on giving money, just letting him give him a discount, and now the boss was more enthusiastic about him, and every time he wanted to come, he took the initiative to help him keep the computer.
"Crash? Chen Yu'an checked it, and finally found that the host accumulated too much dust, which caused the CPU temperature to be too high to work properly, and it was done by simply cleaning up the dust.
"Check it from time to time in the future, too much dust can easily damage the CPU and motherboard, affecting the life of the computer. He also told him some tips for daily maintenance, and the boss took a notebook and wrote it down carefully, these are well-known things in the future, but now in this kind of small county, he can support his family.
"Keep the computer in it for you, you are not allowed to give money this time, and I won't let you play if you pay any more money. "The boss usually works part-time to help people repair computers, and he has encountered such problems a few times before and has not been able to solve them, Chen Yu'an's words can completely allow him to get more business, and it will be really embarrassing to collect money.
"Okay, then thank you, Brother Wang. Chen Yu'an was not polite, thanked him and came to the corner of the corner, opened the computer and logged in to the web to search, and after a while, he found the information he wanted, compared several materials, and this new article will have a bottom.
Crackling, both hands on the keyboard fingers flying, lines of text appeared in Word, it took more than an hour, more than 3,000 words of the manuscript was completed, since it is by the number of words to calculate the money, then you might as well write more.
After writing and checking it, correcting a few typos, opening the official website of "Sprout" magazine, finding the submission mailbox, and sending the article over.
Speaking of the website of "Sprout", it is impossible not to mention one person, that is, Zhao Tianchang, the editor-in-chief of "Sprout" magazine.
At the turn of the old and new centuries, groups of outstanding media people emerged, and through drastic reforms, they brought the originally declining newspapers and magazines back to life, influencing an entire generation, such as Qu Youyuan of "Sports Weekly" and Zhao Tianchang of "Sprout" magazine.
In 1995, when he was the editor-in-chief of Sprout magazine, the Chinese literary scene experienced a golden age in the 80s, but by the 1990s, most Chinese literary journals were in decline, and Sprout was no exception; sales of the magazine fell repeatedly, from a peak of 340,000 to 10,000 in the 80s.
He had to consider the market to increase the sales of the magazine, so Zhao Tianchang decided to change his editorial policy and choose more works suitable for middle and high school students.
At first, he wanted to find some young writers who had already become famous, such as Su Tong, but readers reported that the life described by Su Tong was still too far away from them, so Zhao Tianchang instead sought the middle school Chinese teacher to recommend student essays, but the students did not read the student articles recommended by the Chinese teacher.
After several failures, he revamped the magazine to reposition its readership to "college and middle school students", that is, mainly college students, radiating down to high school students and upward to young readers who have been working for a year or two.
The revised "Sprout" is closer to life, campus and young students, and is not only a youth literature journal but also a kind of youth literature cultivation reading, which has attracted the attention of many young students.
Subsequently, he made a successful plan, Zhao Tianchang decided to hold a different essay competition, on the one hand, to explore the source of manuscripts and young writers in the literary world, on the other hand, to attract readers, so that young people can pay attention to and read this magazine, so that "Sprout" can jump out of the market dilemma.
He set the theme of the "New Concept Essay Contest" as "New Thinking", "New Expression" and "True Experience", which is different from the traditional and more rigid school composition education.
The "New Concept Essay Contest" was a great success, attracting more than 4,000 participants in the first session and more than 10,000 participants in the second session.
The official website of "Sprout" was also built under the leadership of Zhao Tianchang, in order to provide a more convenient communication platform for editors, readers and authors, although the website has only been established for half a year, it is already quite influential among young people, and many authors have changed the habit of mailing manuscripts and adopted more convenient mail delivery.
At half past eight in the morning, Fu Xing walked into the office on time, turned on the computer and chatted with the editors in the same group, "The preliminary round of the 'New Concept Essay Competition' will be closed in more than a month, have you met any good authors?"
"There is a little girl named Zhang Yueran whose article is good, I have recommended it to the editor-in-chief, and the editor-in-chief also appreciates it, and there must be one of her in the semi-finals. The colleague replied.
The New Concept Essay Contest is divided into a preliminary round and a semi-final, the preliminary round ends in November, at this stage, the contestants only need to indicate their participation on the manuscript, and then the editorial department selects 400 winners to enter the semi-finals, reimburse the hard-seat train ticket, and let them come to the magic capital to write.
Because it was just held, everyone had little experience, and there were some jokes, and Han Han didn't receive the notice of the rematch last year and missed the rematch.
After the magazine learned of the specific situation, it decided to give Han Han a chance to make up the match, re-set up a separate examination room for him, and re-proposed, for the sake of fairness, the essay questions had to be shown on the spot.
The editor-in-chief, Li Qigang, took a glass with the existing conditions of the examination room, crumpled a piece of paper, stuffed it into a cup with water, and said only one sentence: "You can write about this topic." ”
After just over an hour, the paper ball sank to the bottom of the cup, and "Peeping in the Cup" surfaced, making a good story.
After chatting a few words, Fu Xing opened his mailbox and began to seriously review the submission, and soon a familiar name appeared on the screen, "Hey, Chen Yu'an has submitted again?" "Is the post-80s really the 'Beat Generation'?", this topic is interesting!"