Chapter 10 First Manuscript Fee
"Young man, I'll teach you martial arts now!"
"The ones taught in the school are just showmanship, and they are useless, but what I am teaching you now is the art of strengthening the body and the art of battlefield fighting. If you encounter a bad guy, you can attack boldly! ”
"In life, there is martial arts everywhere. Just rely on the usual, practice for an hour or two, and make it lively, and you can't play anything at all. As long as I exercise in normal times, I think back then, in order to practice squatting horse steps, when I was in class, I always squatted horse steps and left the stool with my butt off the stool; Back then, in order to practice martial arts, I had iron sand tied to my legs, and later I wore iron shoulders on my body......"
"I have practiced martial arts for decades, and now I have no high blood pressure, no various wealth diseases!"
"I'm not very proficient in computers, and my granddaughter helps me see something; I have a QQ number, but I often don't log in. There are too many modern devices, and it makes a mess of people! ”
"There are only three or five people's phone numbers in my mobile phone, and even my sons and daughters don't know my phone number, thinking they are too troublesome and always making trouble for my old man. Every time I call, it's just for my old man to wipe their butts! Now, I'll hand you the phone number! The number is ......"
"I don't read online novels, I only read physical novels, and I don't bother to turn on the computer, the computer reads too much, and my eyes are bad, and my old man can't bear it. Remember that tomorrow it will be printed, and I will watch "The Old Man and the Sea". ”
Two hours later, Li Qing said goodbye to the old man and left.
The old man's name is Qin Yan.
Old Man Qin is a rich man, but he doesn't have a gold ring, he doesn't bring other gems, etc., he just looks like an ordinary old man.
Old man Qin is a generous, righteous, old-fashioned old man who refuses modern equipment, and he didn't have a mobile phone, and the mobile phone was lost in the car.
And in just a few hours, Li Qing quickly took over the New Year's friendship with Old Man Qin.
And he is too weak, if this trend continues, nineteen ** will die young.
The life expectancy of writers has always been very low, and various occupational diseases are continuous. And following Old Man Qin's martial arts practice and exercising, he may get out of this big pit.
Back home, Li Qing began to continue the code and continue the unfinished business.
In this way, life is carried out in an orderly manner, going to the park in the morning, following the old man Qin to practice martial arts, and then going home to write, simple and direct, it can be extremely boring to calculate, it can be described as extremely poor,
A week later, "Dream of Red Mansions" was completely completed.
Open the webpage, only to see the results above, still bleak, a total of more than 10,000 clicks, and more than 400 collections, everything is proven, extremely hit the street.
"It seems that on the road of the Internet, there is no way, and you can only look for it on the physical publishing house!"
Li Qing took a deep breath and opened a piece of paper.
There are publishing houses written on it, all of which are Li Qing's next goals.
Dressed neatly and looking at himself in the mirror, Li Qing took a deep breath and began to encourage himself.
I opened the mailbox and sent them one by one, and finally all the eighteen publishing houses were sent.
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Dream of Red Mansions, I hope you don't hit the street!" ”
The next day, the message of rejection came from the mailbox.
On the third day, the mailbox was still full of rejection messages.
On the fourth day, the rejection message in the mailbox was still the same.
A week has passed, and 18 publishing houses have all reported the rejection of the manuscript, and "Dream of Red Mansions" has completely hit the streets.
Of course, in the mailbox, a proposal was made for self-publishing.
Just looking at the words "self-financed", Li Qing immediately felt like vomiting.
Life is such a failure, and the failure is unspeakable. All of a sudden, Li Qing lost the ** of writing, and the ** of continuing to code words, just because his heart was very cold, and he only felt that the world was bleak.
In this muddy, three days passed.
"Li Qing, your email!"
"My mail!"
Li Qinghun was in a daze and saw the postman.
The postman stepped forward and threw a large envelope to Li Qing.
Li Qing wrote the name on it, everything is OK.
The postman left, Li Qing stepped forward, opened the envelope, and saw a small publishing house on it, and it seemed that the Osaka Daily had accepted his article.
The editor found "The Legend of Wukong" interesting, so he took the manuscript for 1,000 words and 100 yuan, deducting royalties, and the manuscript fee was about 5,300 yuan.
"I finally have the first batch of manuscript fees!" Li Qing took a deep breath and took a long breath, only to feel a lot more relaxed.
Five thousand three Huaxia coins is really not much, but it is just a good start, and it is just a good omen.
And the remaining two articles, "Spring Breeze Drunken Night" and "Love Life", were all rejected.
"It seems that you need to understand the market and be familiar with the market, which is the key. During this time, my biggest mistake was that I didn't understand the market and didn't understand the market, which led to repeated encounters! Li Qing took a deep breath and began to think.
The strong change the world and adapt the world to themselves; The weak change themselves and adapt themselves to the world.
If he is a first-class writer, when he writes articles, he only needs readers to adapt to themselves and their own tastes, which is the case with many people, Cao Xueqin, Hemingway;
But if you are not famous, obscure, and in a state of hitting the street, you must adapt yourself to the readers and the tastes of the readers.
And this requires market research, market details, and the psychology of readers, and the direction of literary development......
Everything is a professional guy, if you are proud to think that he is a traverser, and there are a lot of famous books in your mind, you can ignore the market demand, ignore the taste of readers, it is simply looking for death, and the classic masterpieces are still hitting the street.
"That's it, let's let Dream of Red Mansions end!"
Li Qing thought about it and began to turn on the computer.
On the end Chinese website, the upload of "Dream of the Red Mansion" has reached the final link.
Li Qing clicked and pasted, and soon reached the last chapter.
It's done!
When you finish the book, you have to finish writing this testimonial.
Li Qing tapped on the keyboard and wrote:
Dream of Red Mansions is finally over. The end of this book represents the end of a life's journey.
The book was a poor performer, a hit on the streets, and from beginning to end, it was not even eligible to sign a contract, and in the words of the editor, the book had no commercial value.
I was very uncomfortable writing "Dream of Red Mansions", and readers were also very uncomfortable watching it.
It's finally over.
Tragedy is divided into three levels, the first level is that the hero dies, which is a kind of tragedy; The second level is that the hero dies and the heroine also dies, which is another tragedy deepening; And the third level is the tragedy of society, the protagonist, the secondary character, the dragon set, etc., are all dead, or there is no good end.
As the so-called white earth, it is really clean.
This book is a big tragedy, the death of the dead, the death of the dead, the monk, the widow and the widow, the protagonist who appears, the sub-role, the dragon set, all have no good end.
In other words, there is no so-called protagonist in this book, secondary characters, dragon sets, and each character is the protagonist of his own life.
PS: The old book "Reincarnation in the Three Thousand Worlds" still needs two or three hundred chapters before it ends. And this book, mainly in the stage of accumulating manuscripts, cannot be added too much. When the recommended ticket reaches 1,000, it will be added, and when the collection reaches 500, it will also be added.
For every 500 more collections, add one more; For every 1,000 more recommended votes, one more will be added.
I hope that book friends will support you.
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