Yue Qingyan wasn't interested in seeing what kind of "Dance of the Witches", the guiding skill of chewing wine, was, and he didn't think that he would be a moving picture when he danced. He accepted this reality with a sigh and sent Faust away. Faust did not seem to be interested in interfering with his life.

Although the first story has been written, the story of "Your Name" does nothing to change the reality that he is a servant author. This story was originally written by Makoto Shinkai, and it was directly made into an animated movie. With Makoto Shinkai's energy, even if he makes a story like, he can still make the audience buy it with his super artistic ability. But Yue Qingyan didn't have this kind of ability.

A light novel that takes place in RB and is written in a thick Japanese tone. If the style does not meet the needs of the usual domestic publishing or magazines, it is difficult to find an outlet. The publishing house will not ask for a pure newcomer's manuscript.,The online platform is not suitable for this kind of length.,The pure light novel platform is basically synonymous with the service street;The magazine is similar.,Popular authors can easily get a fairly good remuneration for the manuscript.,Just write it well.,But it's really a fantasy for a newcomer to want to publish a 60,000-word article.。

What could it be? This is out of feeling, sorting out the original world and nostalgia for the subtle intimacy with Ding Chen, which is really exciting.

If you want to change your situation and earn manuscript fees, you still have to write something else. But what to write, and where are you going to send it?

For an author, manuscript fees are never so easy to earn.

If you submit an article to a magazine, such as a literary journal such as "Sprout" and "Harvest", it is generally closed three months in advance. It takes time to read the manuscript and review it, and the submitted manuscript will not be confirmed at the first time. From submitting the manuscript to getting the manuscript fee, four or five months is a relatively lucky time. When there is a large accumulation of novels of the same length and type, it is normal to put the publication of the manuscript on hold for three or four months or even half a year. Literary journals, always operating slowly and delicately, unhurriedly. For those who are familiar with the field of literature, the biggest advantage of publishing novels in such periodicals is to improve the style. In addition, generally speaking, such journals only require a single publication authorization, which does not affect publication and other authorization behaviors at all.

Columns in newspapers and magazines, as well as serials, must first be written off. Even if the speed of a commercial literary magazine is faster than that of a literary journal, it usually depends on whether it conforms to the magazine's publication example: it usually refers to the content tone of the manuscript. However, this kind of business magazine is better, usually it will contact the author first, and then confirm the authorization of the manuscript, etc. Some magazines even issue the manuscript fee after confirming the publication and completing the authorization. But how long this time, God knows. In particular, whether it is in line with the journal rules and which magazine to vote for requires the author's own judgment. Such journals usually have their own fixed and semi-permanent team of authors, and rarely rely on external submissions.

There are a variety of different ways to play on online platforms. If it is a serialized online article, it is easy to calculate the time from the beginning of serialization to the receipt of the manuscript fee: a new book period for one month, and then it will be on the shelves, and you will get the manuscript fee at the beginning of the third month. Of course, this is also an ideal situation, if the results of the book are very bad, it is difficult to say whether there will be a contract. Or the number of collections is not up to standard, so it will have to be serialized for free for a longer time. Even if it is on the shelves, maybe a month of hard work, the biggest amount of money is the full attendance award.

It's fast to get money for buyout manuscripts, but Yue Qingyan doesn't know anyone now, and he can't find a way to get buyout manuscripts.

Other platforms also have some revenue channels, such as the ability to ask readers to give tips when they post articles on official accounts. But none of this is very stable, and for newcomers, it's almost nothing.

Yue Qingyan has a headache, and the top priority is not only to find a way to earn manuscript fees and maintain his own life, but also to find a way to make himself a little famous in this circle. Although he is a servant of the street, he knows that there is a big difference between a famous author and a servant author in terms of making money. Moreover, getting to know editors, other authors and industry insiders through submissions is also an important channel to find more development opportunities.

Yue Qingyan searched for all kinds of information on the Internet. The physical publishing circle in the magazine circle is becoming more and more difficult to mix, and the fastest way to build popularity in the circle is still the same as it was back then: participating in competitions. Although the number and scale are not as large as in the past, there are still a number of well-known essay competitions every year. Some are run by website platforms, and some are run by copyright operators and film and television companies. Some influential WeChat public accounts will also hold some essays to serve their own content platforms. But at the end of the day, these essay contests are all about getting IP.

However, even if it is to obtain IP, there is a difference between good-looking and bad-looking. Before participating in the competition, you have to carefully read the submission rules of the essay contest, and a complete layman will really encounter pitfalls everywhere.

These situations were told to him by the previous boss. What Yue Qingyan learned from the boss was not only the rhythm, control and plot design of online articles, but also a lot of knowledge about copyright management and so on. The boss also encountered a lot of pitfalls at the beginning. Now, that knowledge has become the knowledge necessary for Yue Qingyan to manage himself.

The first to be excluded was an essay call for an essay called "Big Visionary" on an official account. The copyright agreement is too damn good, once the submission is adopted, it will become the contracted author of the platform by default, and all works written within 5 years belong to this official account platform. This is a clear use of the popularity of this number to cheat copyright. Using a single publication of a work to obtain the copyright of all the creations of an author for several years is simply a trick to win without a thousand profits.

For an essay on a publishing platform, Yue Qingyan gave up after reading the detailed rules several times. The other party doesn't want much, once the entry wins, the full copyright of the entry will be required for five years. Of course, if you win the award, in addition to the manuscript fee and bonus, there is also a guaranteed print run for the publication of the work. The conditions can be said to be very good. However, the works are put on the Internet for netizens to vote for, and among the contestants, there are already authors with considerable popularity and appeal. It's clear that this is to brush up the popularity of their own contracted authors by soliciting essays, so why bother to be cannon fodder?

After reading a few more essays, Yue Qingyan decided to participate in an essay contest called "Creative Elements". Although it is a new competition, the competition is divided into four categories: online communication sketches, short stories, medium stories and long stories. The restrictions on the winning entries are also very relaxed. If you win the prize, you can choose to sign a copyright agency and priority contract with the company that holds the essay contest, a cultural company called "Ming Qian", or a one-time buyout contract. How to sign depends on the author's positioning and estimation of himself. Most new authors often choose to license their works to get cash rewards, publishing opportunities, or other adaptation opportunities.

Newcomers often have little choice. It is already the best choice to use a work to brush up your popularity and get more opportunities and contacts in the industry.

Although "Your Name" meets the length requirements of the novella in the essay, Yue Qingyan gave up after thinking about it. "Your Name", a Japanese light novel, is completely unsuitable for participating in domestic essay contests. If you have the opportunity in the future, it would be a good choice to translate it into Japanese and publish it.

Participating in the essay competition is actually shorter, and the works with bright highlights are more flattering. The judges read so many manuscripts, where do they have such good patience. Many judges threw away their manuscripts after reading the first page and couldn't see the highlights. If you are patient or sensitive to text, it is enough to read three or four lines.

After thinking about it, Yue Qingyan decided to write a female-oriented story, a modern urban emotional story. Women's stories are more ingenious in this kind of essay. Moreover, modern urban themes do not need to devote too much space to explaining the background and describing the environment, and can focus time and energy on the story itself. Moreover, a slightly darker female emotional story is more likely to make a deep impression.

Although Yue Qingyan is an online gunman, women still read a lot of stories. But when it comes to feelings, it's basically not deep. After all, he is a pure straight man, and he really can't grasp the little girl-type stories and those delicate emotions. However, in the short story, he is a newcomer, and he doesn't have to perform too well at once. In addition, the story he wanted to write was originally a long story, abbreviated into a short story, more than 10,000 words, the amount of plot was very sufficient, and it also greatly increased the strength of the narrative.

What's more, the story he wanted to write came from an author who was very good at writing "golden sentences". It's just no better to participate in the essay contest or something.

It took Yue Qingyan three days to write and another day to revise before finally putting the manuscript into the mailbox for the collection of papers.

"It seems that there is still a lot of time?" Yue Qingyan did not rush to draw skills, but wrote another male-oriented short story, and at the same time submitted it to participate in the competition.

The male-oriented work is a science fiction novella. Before he was reborn, this short story was adapted into a movie and received quite a lot of praise. The original text is not long, but in order to describe the details clearly, Yue Qingyan spent a lot of pen and ink, and it took more than 30,000 words to explain the whole story clearly.

In participating in the essay competition, he still played a more interesting little operation: he used two pen names for his two works.

The female-oriented ones used "Xia Li", and the male-oriented ones used "feasting fire". The meaning is unknown, but it seems to be very emotional to look at.

A week later, the two novels, which are simple and beautifully narrated, with clear and distinct styles, few typos, and grammatically correct sounds, passed the rough selection of fools and people who don't know how to write and insist on pretending to be forced without any obstacles, and entered the corresponding judges' mailboxes, waiting for the judgment of these authors who are already well-known in the industry.