Jia Youwei mailed Wang Zengqi's short story "Ordination" in his personal name to the municipal literary magazine and fiction journal "Jingbei Literature". Just a month later, it was successfully published.

The editorial department adopts the author's manuscript, and it is generally possible to have the first trial, the second review, the third review, and even the fourth and fifth reviews. Even if it can't be used in the next issue, the manuscript will be pressed for three months.

At the same time that the manuscript fee comes with it, this little bit of money is not worth mentioning for Jia Youwei at all. He didn't intend to take it for himself, and selectively donated it to do good deeds.

I firmly believe that the writers who have disappeared will not object to this practice of individuals. So, he thought that his works could be copied and his fame could be occupied, but he didn't want to make money.

Jia Youwei knows very well that Wang Zengqi is not only quite accomplished in short stories, but also good at prose. The other party also studied under the famous Shen Congwen.

"Lao Jia, your work can finally be published in a decent literary journal. It's really not easy! Don't be proud, keep up the good work.

Pride can make people fall behind, and humility can make people continue to improve. However, then again, fortunately, thanks to the protection of the ancestors of the Jia family, you are not expected to make money to support your family.

Otherwise, our father and daughter and the fat man would have to starve to death on the streets. Jia Qianqian held a copy of "Jingbei Literature" in his hand, and turned it to the page where it should be.

"Now and now, it is no longer the unprecedented prosperity of the literary explosion of the 80s. At that time, whether you were in love or going on a blind date, it would be embarrassing if you didn't talk about your love for literature. Blame it on your dad, I didn't catch up with the good times. Jia Youwei sighed.

"Lao Jia, don't be sad! In any case, you were also born in the 80s of the last century! You have personally experienced what you think is the best period. Jia Qian Qian said with a hippie smile.

"You know what. People don't live just to eat, and eating is not just to live, that must have a spiritual pursuit. Jia Youwei said eloquently.

"I don't have anything to eat, even people are dead, so what kind of energy is there to pursue. Jia Qianqian put forward a personal point of view that he disagreed with.

"You don't know anything but eat, so you're angry with me. Have you practiced the piano for two hours today?" Jia Youwei said with a straight face.

"Lao Jia, you can't be like you, and you start to change the topic. Jia Qianqian said with his hands behind his back.

"I really don't know whose genes you've inherited? Jia Youwei walked in front of his daughter, gently knocked on her Tianling cover, and then snatched the magazine she was holding.

Jia Qianqian raised his hands, covered his head that had been knocked by him, and pouted highly: "If you can't be reasonable, use violence." You are power, not democracy. ”

Jia Youwei took out the majesty of being a father and shot back: "Power is justice. Don't be verbose and go to practice. ”

Jia Qianqian thought about it in pieces, and then turned around and left. Jia Youwei looked at the magazine in his hand and couldn't help but feel emotional. After all, the rise of e-books has caused both paper publications and books to begin to decline significantly. The withering and decline of serious literature has become even faster.

It will take an average of about 2 years for a serious literary writer to write a single work of about 300,000 words at the earliest. And the time is long, more than ten years.

If the work is published at its own expense without paying out of pocket, even if the work can be successfully published by the publishing house, the first printing will only be 3,000 copies, or even as few as 800 copies.

As for royalties, they hover around 10%, which is a book with a normal price tag of 30 yuan, from which the average writer can get about 3 yuan per book.

That's a sales volume of 10,000 or 20,000 copies, which is a bestseller in serious literature. The writer himself was able to receive between 30,000 and 60,000 royalties from it.

If you divide it by 2, the annual income will become 15,000 to 30,000, and even this is only pre-tax income. With just such a small amount of money, let alone supporting a family, I really don't know what else I can do except for my most basic survival. Even so, it's good.

If it weren't for the serious writers who all have humanistic feelings and firm beliefs to support themselves on the road of literature, I am afraid that they would have quit doing it a long time ago and changed careers.

Temporary workers who stand on the road and hand out leaflets can be 10 to 15 yuan per hour. Over the course of a year, you can earn more than them casually.

And if a rookie writer wants to take the road of serious literature, he will not be better than Jia Youwei, and even eating will have big problems. Therefore, the seniors who are walking on this road are thousands of admonishments, and thousands of admonishment juniors not to quit their existing jobs to engage in creation.

Of course, this famous writer is not included. Taking Jia Pingwa as an example, the new single book is 200,000 copies. The royalties are not decided by the publisher, but must be negotiated with him in advance.

Even if it is low, it will not be less than 15%, and the price of a single book is often 40 yuan. I am afraid that there will be no more than five serious writers with such strength as Jia Pingwa in the country.

In addition to him, Mo Yan, who is officially recognized as the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a writer known as a banned book writer and the most likely winner of the next Nobel Prize in Literature, Yan Lianke, and among the young public, his daughter Dean is more famous than her father, Li Rui.

So far, there are no more living mainland Chinese writers. This shows how difficult the road of serious literature is.

In addition, the national literary journal "Harvest" was founded in July 1957 as a large-scale literary bimonthly magazine, founded by Ba Jin and Jin Yi.

The magazine mainly publishes novels, with a circulation of 123,000 in 2007. There are also two novels per year, each of which publishes a number of novels with a circulation of 70,000 or 80,000 copies.

This writer who can publish his works on "Harvest" will become famous in the circle, if not in one fell swoop, and will become famous.

Although the manuscript fee is high in serious literature, it is only one yuan per word. If this is compared with the martial arts class, the fantasy class of one word two yuan, or even one word five yuan, it is more than one and a half stars.

Compared with popular publications such as "Bosom Friend", 400,000 copies were issued as soon as the first issue was issued, and the highest monthly circulation exceeded 1 million copies that year, creating a miracle in the history of Chinese periodicals.

At its peak, it had a circulation of 7 million copies that month. The average circulation of the well-known "Story Club" is also 4 million copies. This "Story Club" and "Bosom Friend" are Sister Feng's favorites.