Chapter 30: The Wind Rises
The next day, Su Mo received a call from Xia Qing, and one sentence made him sleepy:
"Su Mo, you roll over here! Immediately, immediately! ”
Su Mo seemed to know what was going on, so she rushed over honestly, and when she saw Xia Qing and Lao He, she could only smile bitterly.
I saw that both of them had dark circles under their eyes and were in a state of lethargy, and it was likely that they were all night, but at this time, they gritted their teeth and showed a fierce light in their eyes, especially Xia Qing, who wanted to kill someone!
Seeing Su Mo coming in, Xia Qing slammed the manuscript he got yesterday in front of him and shouted, "Change!" If you don't change it, you're dead! ”
Lao He also smiled bitterly: "Brother Su, what do you want me to say!" Alas, no wonder you said that sentence yesterday, not to mention the reader, and now I want to strangle you! ”
Su Mo silently picked up the manuscript and said with a light smile: "What, the writing is too bad?" ”
Xia Qing stood up suddenly, and puffed: "You are still smiling with me!" The front is so well written, but the middle is so low-level and a big mistake! The heroine was raped! Do you know how miserable you will die when this plot is seen by readers! Change, you change it quickly! ”
The people outside heard the roar of the editor-in-chief through the heavy glass, and secretly said that this Su Mo was murderous and set on fire, how could he make the editor-in-chief so angry!
How did they know that Su Mo's crime was more serious than murder and arson! Xia Qing and Lao He read "The Condor Heroes" with relish at the beginning, and they couldn't extricate themselves, how did they know that they saw the seventh "Chongyang Legacy Inscription", but they saw the plot of Xiaolongnu being raped by Yin Zhiping, this is simply a rat poop ruined a pot of beautiful soup! Disgusting and resentful! Therefore, they called Su Mo to come over early in the morning to ask for the guilt.
"Don't be in a hurry to change it, have you seen the plot behind?" Su Mo said with a smile.
"Seeing that everyone is full of gas there, who is still in the mood to look at the back!" Xia Qing said angrily, but Lao He's eyes rolled and said, "Could it be that this is just a misunderstanding?" Is the little dragon girl still innocent? ”
Hearing this, Xia Qing also looked at Su Mo with hopeful eyes, but Su Mo's answer directly made her explode:
"No, the little dragon girl was indeed raped, I let you look at the back, just because you will see a plot, Yang Guo's right arm was cut off!"
"What! Bastard! Die! ”
Xia Qing was so angry that she grabbed the pen holder on the desk and threw it over, Lao He was also stunned, and said bitterly for a long time: "Brother Su, are you not joking?" ”
Su Mo jumped away from Xia Qing's attack, and then looked serious: "No, these are true, but the theme of this book is love that has gone through hardships, and the fate of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu is secretly inconsistent, but I can tell you that in the end they are still together, very happy, I invite you to see the end, if you still feel unacceptable after reading it, I will consider your opinions and not publish this book, but I can say for sure that I will not change a word of "The Condor Heroes"!" ”
Su Mo's expression was very resolute, Xia Qing and Lao He glanced at each other, nodded and agreed.
It's the next day, in the afternoon.
"Well, will the book be published?" Su Mo got straight to the point.
This book is a little over a million words, and even a professional editor can only read it cursoly in such a short time, but I finally saw the ending.
Lao He took the lead in expressing his opinion: "First of all, I have to say that this book has reached its peak in martial arts!" Yesterday was my shallowness, and it would be the biggest waste for this book not to be published! ”
Su Mo smiled and looked at Xia Qing again.
Xia Qing sighed: "I agree with Lao He's statement, but I also have to say that if you don't operate well after publication, you will really be hacked to death when you go out!"
"That's why I'm reluctant to divulge the true information" Su Mo said plausibly: "Since it has been decided to publish, let's get down to business, the activity of continuing to write about the Condor Shooting will last for a month, and the length of the work requires more than 30,000 words and less than 200,000 words, a million bonus, one first prize, 300,000 bonuses, three second prizes, 100,000 prizes each, and ten third prizes, 40,000 yuan each!" ”
"Wow! Writing a little novel, the prize money is so high, and in the end, there will be 14 people who will win the award, I think many people will be excited, to be honest, I want to give it a try! Lao He said with a smile.
"Everyone in the editorial department can submit, as long as the final result is fair and open, no one can say anything," Su Mo said with a smile.
"Actually, the bonus amount is set a little too high," Xia Qing reminded.
"If it's high, it's high, whoever calls me rich, there will be brave men under the reward, don't worry, the rate of return on this million will be higher!" Su Mo's face was shrewd.
Xia Qing smiled: "Do you know that when you said this just now, you looked like a naked profiteer, it is better for you to mix with me, how can a literati be so philistine, there are too many ghost ideas!" ”
Su Mo said righteously: "Don't you know that I studied marketing in college? ”
"By the way, there's one more important thing!" Xia Qing said, "When did you apply to join the Modu Literati Association?" Or do you want to go back to your hometown of Jinling to join the club? ”
Just like the writers' association in the previous life, this world is called the Literary Association, which is a behemoth, although ordinary people can apply for the celebrity system as long as they have the popularity of more than 5,000 fans, but the literati are different, the literati need the certificate of the literary association to apply for the celebrity system, and do not accept individual applications, Su Mo has now published a book, and he is also a well-known writer, and he is qualified to join the Literary Association, of course, Su Mo can also choose not to join the Literary Association, and the money is still earned, but he knows a truth, There are rules within the system that have to be followed, and if he wants to get to the last step, some help can only be obtained by joining the system.
"Besides, I haven't thought about it, I'm definitely going to enter, but isn't it going well now, wait a few days!" Su Mo said perfunctorily.
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Big news! Recently, Shuren, the hottest writer in the limelight, and the editorial department of "Wu Xia" jointly held the "Continue to Write and Shoot the Condor" essay contest, with a very high prize money, which can make people rich overnight!
It's like throwing a boulder into a thousand waves, indeed, as Lao He said, the prize for a short story is so high, the award rate is also large, countless people are moved, we have watched martial arts for so many years, how can we write a little, even if it is not as good as a famous artist, but the probability of standing out is quite large, and then not only the prize money is great, but also more famous!
Therefore, whether it is a school student, a retired elderly, a corporate white-collar worker or a last-rate writer, one by one, they are gearing up, meditating, and holding back, and countless manuscripts fly to the editorial office like snowflakes.
The editorial department also made great efforts, and immediately launched a special thickened edition of "Wu Xia", divided into two books, and published the twenty novels that had been preliminarily screened on it, and the majority of readers voted on, and finally decided the ranking according to the number of votes.
When the competition came to an end, the editorial department released another message: "When this competition is over, Shuren's latest martial arts masterpiece "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" will also be released!" Stay tuned! ”
This time the readership is surging! If Su Mo published the Condor immediately after the Condor Shooting, given that his reputation was not completely innocent at that time, there were indeed some people who did not buy it, but after a round of bombardment of the Condor Shooting, people knew the preciousness of the tree man! Although the novels published in "My Hero" are some good and have occasional highlights, compared with their predecessors, they are simply dog-tailed mink, and the taste is the same as chewing wax! And the new book of the tree man is the Condor, and it also carries carved words, which should be the follow-up story of the Condor shooting, so we have to see how good the continuation of the tree man himself can be!
Therefore, the readers who were originally looking forward to it will definitely buy it, and those who are not convinced will also buy it, and Su Mo is looking forward to this kind of result.
And Su Mo himself didn't care about the development of things, because today he was moving.