Xiao Fei's prescription for literature in this article is simply one sentence: literature needs to cater to the market and the consumption needs of readers.

It's a cliché.

But this is well known, but few people take the initiative to make changes.

Or disdain to make changes.

So, where is the way forward for literature? Xiao Fei raised this question in his article, and then answered it himself.

He gave a bold prediction: the way out for the future of literature lies in the Internet, which will become the largest carrier and the broadest platform for literature.

After 2003, with the rise of online literature and the rise of a large number of original online literature websites, this prediction has become the consensus of many people of insight in China.

However, in 1996, this was definitely a surprising statement ahead of its time.

It was not until 1996 that the civil network in the country began to emerge, and some BBS sites began to be established.

At this time, the people who play the Internet are still domestic elites, and the general public is still in a state of isolation from the Internet. The big stations that people will be familiar with in later generations, such as Sohu, **, Tencent, etc., have not yet been established, and online literature will still be in the embryonic state all over the world.

At this time, Xiao Fei predicted that the Internet would become the way out of literature in the future, that literature would flourish on the Internet, and that online literature would even become the subject of literature, which not many people believed.

It can only be said that the network is developing too fast.

It can only be said that people's pace and thinking are not ready to enter the network information age.

Xiao Fei had already conceived all the details in his mind for the article "Literature is Dead, Please Burn Paper if You Have Something", so when he really started writing, he wrote it very quickly.

It took him only about two hours to finish a manuscript of more than 5,000 words.

In this article, he writes sharply and straightforwardly, does not beat around the bush or deliberately avoids tactfulness, and there is no nonsense throughout the article, which can be described as hearty.

Xiao Fei read it again, changed one or two more words, and then stretched his waist and called it a day.

By this time, both my parents and my sister had fallen asleep.

Their subtle snoring can be heard.

In the process of his writing, his parents urged him to go to bed many times, and he said that he would finish it soon and go when it was finished.

It's apologetic to think about it.

The family is such a house, and if he wants to write at night, it will affect the normal routine of the family.

House, house!

It is indeed necessary to build a new house as soon as possible!

I don't know if the manuscripts I submitted to magazines such as story clubs, bosom friends, families, girlfriends, etc. can be published, but if they are published, then I should be able to receive more than 20,000 yuan in remuneration, right?

With this manuscript fee, the construction plan of the new house does not need to be postponed any longer, and even the construction can start in September.

Xiao Fei is sure that those manuscripts can be regarded as high-quality articles.

But who knows if anything will happen?

Xiao Fei sighed, turned off the lights in the house, quietly closed the door, and went outside to find his brother to sleep on a mat.

After lying down, my brain is still excited, and I can't fall asleep.

He thought again, the article he wrote just now, "Literature is dead, please burn paper if you have something" I don't know if "Harvest" will be wanted!

I don't know why, he just suddenly felt a little unconfident.

Maybe I care too much.

He didn't want to fail.

Yes, Xiao Fei intends to submit this manuscript to Harvest.

It can be said that the harvest is the most successful original pure literary journal and magazine in China, and there is no one! The important works of many important domestic writers have been published in this journal, which has caused a huge sensation in the country.

For example, almost all of the important works of Yu Hua, a literary master whom Xiao Fei admires the most, "Alive", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", "Brothers", and "Shouting and Whispering" were all released in the harvest.

There is only one criterion for receiving manuscripts for this magazine: give your heart to the readers, and select only the best literary works!

There is a saying in literary circles: if you can publish 3 works on Harvest, then it means that you have grown into a real writer.

This shows how difficult it is to publish your work on the harvest.

The journal mainly publishes long, medium and short stories, and of course, it will also be accompanied by a selection of reportage, essays, literary criticism, etc., but these are incidental.

Xiao Fei is confident that the idea that "literature is dead" in his article is absolutely extraordinarily explosive, and the content of the article is also novel, well-argued, impeccable, and forward-looking.

Harvest magazine has always taken it as its mission to lead the trend of Chinese literature, and should not refuse such articles.

Xiao Fei is now worried that "Harvest", as a benchmark for pure Chinese literature, has received too many free submissions.

The manuscripts he receives every day are counted in sacks.

If you are free to submit your own manuscripts, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the large number of submission letters.

Editors don't know when they will turn to their manuscripts, and they don't know if they will lose the opportunity to be reviewed by editors due to accidents.

The stakes are a bit big.

Well, you have to find a suitable referee who can get your manuscript straight to the editor, so that you can stand out smoothly.

This is also a Chinese characteristic, no matter what you do, you need a relationship.

Of course, it is unrealistic to rely on relationships to publish articles on harvest, and you must also have the quality of your own manuscripts to be relatively good.

Now the key point is, where to find such a suitable referee?

Thinking of this, Xiao Fei's brain hurt a little. He rolled over slightly, reached out and rubbed his eyes, and looked at the watch on his wrist, it was already 12 o'clock in the morning.

Let's go to bed first.

At this moment, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought of one thing, a very sensational event at this time in his previous life: Dai Houying, a famous female writer from the Demon Capital, was killed by gangsters in his apartment on August 25, 1996.

The case caused a national sensation that year.

Coincidentally, Dai Houying is a female writer that Xiao Fei likes very much, and he has read most of her works more than once.

Hearing the news of his death in his previous life had a great shock to Xiao Fei, and he hated the evil murderer to the core, although the information was not developed, he still kept an eye on the news of relevant aspects.

Until the murderer was arrested and brought to justice.

It's the 30th of July, and there are only 26 days left before that shocking case happened. Xiao Fei thought to himself that since he had thought of such a thing, he had to prevent this tragedy from happening.

Well, if this tragedy is prevented, then can I ask Dai Houying as my recommender to lead me to the harvest magazine and give my manuscript more opportunities?