Editor Cheng never imagined that a nineteen-year-old boy could really write a long story to such a high quality.

It's simply incredible.

He has been an editor for so many years, and he doesn't know how many young talents he has seen, but he has never seen any literary newcomer in his 20s who can write such an extraordinary work, write a long story of 300,000 words when he comes up, and write so well.

As an editor of a literary journal, he couldn't help but be happy.

What puzzled him was that it was too difficult for such an excellent feature to be successfully released in the harvest, and he didn't know what year and month he would have to queue up.

The editor-in-chief also has no idea what to say.

While Cheng was entangled in Editor, Xiao Fei and Dai Houying were waiting quietly.

Xiao Fei looked very indifferent on the surface, but he was still very nervous in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of opinion Editor Cheng would give. Looking at the expression of the editor Cheng when he was flipping through his works, he could get by when it was his own things.

Editor Cheng pondered for a while, and finally raised his head and nodded at Xiao Fei with a smile and said: "This essay is written very groundbreakingly, and the analysis of the current disadvantages of the literary world is in place, but isn't it a bit arbitrary to say that the 'Internet' will become the most important carrier of literature and that online literature will become the mainstream of literature?" ”

Xiao Fei hurriedly owed himself and copied the set of rhetoric he had said to Dai Houying again.

"There is some truth to it, but I would rather your prophecy never happen." Editor Cheng laughed.

In his opinion, the collective collapse of traditional literary carriers and the dominance of online literature are an unacceptable disaster.

He didn't quite believe it in his heart and didn't want to believe it.

But what the future holds, who can say?

He then asked, "How long have you been writing this long book?" ”

Xiao Fei replied truthfully: "I have written for more than 20 days. ”

"Huh? Can you write such a tome in twenty days? Editor Cheng's eyes widened.

He knew that there were some writers who were indeed fast gunslingers, and when they had a smooth mind, they could write a long story in a month, but that was when their lives were rich enough.

Like Mr. Mo Yan, a long story has been accumulated for several years, and then it will suddenly explode in just one month, and he will write non-stop and take out the finished product at once.

But Xiao Fei is a 19-year-old young man, how can he have too much life accumulation?

If he really wrote this 300,000-word novel in 20 days, then he is really a literary genius that he has not met in decades.

"It's true that I wrote it a little faster, but I have been thinking about this book for a long time, and I have been collecting relevant materials since I was in high school, thinking about the characters and plots in the book." Xiao Fei explained.

This is also true, his ideas span two lifetimes, from the past life to the present life, and his life is full of magic.

"And how did you come up with the idea to write this book?" Editor Cheng asked with interest.

Xiao Fei sorted out his thoughts and talked eloquently: "My family is rural, my village is poor and closed, my parents and relatives have been facing the loess all their lives, living very hard, since I was very young, I was thinking about the way out, I feel that I should not belong here, I don't want to live as hard as my parents and elders, I yearn for the outside world, I want to go out, and I want to get out of my village, there are really not many ways I know, and it is the safest to be admitted to university, but, It is very difficult for a rural child like me to be admitted to university, and it takes a hundred times the effort and the greatest support from the family. The question of 'going out' has been bothering me for years, and then I wanted to write a story with my pen in my hand, and I have this book. ”

It turned out that he was a child from the countryside, and his family and elders probably would not have anything to do with literature. After listening to Xiao Fei's words, Editor Cheng was very emotional, what a wild literary seedling!

Wrap it well and launch it in a magazine, and it can definitely make a splash in China.

In the 90s, with the development of the market economy, many Chinese people have become accustomed to looking at problems with market economy thinking.

After the Harvest Magazine was founded by Ba Lao, he always adhered to the concept of "no financial subsidies, self-financing of the magazine, and self-financing".

Editor Cheng nodded, and then said his evaluation of Xiao Fei's long story: "I read the first 10,000 words of this novel, if the latter is at the same level as the beginning, it is definitely a masterpiece, and it is a good work that our magazine needs." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Cheng, for the compliment." Xiao Fei hurriedly thanked him, and his heart was suddenly excited.

"That's what I think, I can give you an answer to this little essay now, and there should be no problem in sending it out in our magazine, just look at the editor-in-chief's final opinion."

"Thank you, Mr. Cheng."

Editor Cheng waved his hand and patted the long manuscript on the coffee table: "I also want to keep this long book, I think it's okay to pass the final review, but you have to be mentally prepared: the publication cycle is likely to be a bit long." ”

This is definitely great news.

If other ordinary authors heard that Editor Cheng made such a promise to themselves, they would definitely quickly agree, saying that they could wait, and it would be no problem to wait for as long as they wanted.

If you can publish a long story on the harvest, you can basically gain a firm foothold in the domestic literary world, which is a great thing! Why not?

Dai Houying was overjoyed when he heard this, stabbed Xiao Fei with his hand, and motioned for him to quickly nod in agreement.

But Xiao Fei didn't do this, but said, "Mr. Cheng, I have a suggestion that I want to mention to your journal. ”

"Oh? You said. Editor Cheng nodded and said.

He didn't expect that Xiao Fei didn't rush down as he expected, but wanted to make a suggestion to the magazine. Editor Cheng rarely said such a positive thing to the author, because at this point, it will not be good in the future.

What would he recommend? Editor Cheng is looking forward to this.

"That's right, I think the harvest should be in addition to the main issue and publish the 'novel special issue' in spring, summer and autumn and winter every year, which is very beneficial to the magazine's expansion of influence, after all, the weight of novels is heavier, and more excellent novels can cultivate more literary newcomers, and readers are expected to be more welcome. What do you think of my idea? Xiao Fei said what he thought.

At present, the idea of running periodicals and magazines in China is still relatively rigid, and they have not used their brains to cater to the tide of market economy.

It will take two or three years for some well-known magazines, such as Youth Digest and Readers, to be republished to semi-monthly magazines.

How to put it, changing the publication and increasing the number of publications is a double-edged sword, and there are advantages and disadvantages. The benefits are obvious, it can quickly increase the issuance volume, so that the economic efficiency can be greatly increased.

The disadvantage is that the number of publications has increased, and the number of excellent works cannot keep up, which will lead to a decline in the quality of the magazine's content.

But the harvest publishes twice a year "novel special issue" obviously will not have the worry of not receiving excellent works, all Chinese writers are staring at this magazine, the best works of writers want to get the harvest published, only 7 or 8 novels every year, China is so big, there are so many writers, it can produce about ten excellent novels every year.