The story Zhang Qiuxi told Li Yue is called "Bring Her Eyes", the full text is only more than 8,000 words, and she copied it...... It doesn't take much time to write it down at all.

decided to submit this article to "Fantasy World" to test the waters, but she still checked it on the Internet before submitting it, which can be regarded as a further understanding of the current state of science fiction.

It has been more than ten years since the publication of "Fantasy World", and in recent years, the sales of each issue have been maintained at the figure of 80,000 or 90,000, which seems to be stable, but it is really a bit bleak.

Although science fiction is originally niche, but with such a large population base, it is miserable to only sell so much per issue, and the sales of another "Science Fiction Sky" are similar, and the others are even more miserable, generally only thirty or forty thousand, barely able to maintain non-stop publications.

Zhang Qiuxi is more focused on the issue of manuscript fees, and it is clearly written in the instructions for the call for papers of "Fantasy World" that if the work is published, the author will receive a sample journal and a remuneration of 80 to 13 thousand words.

If it's an online novel, even if it's not as good as those giant gods, it's a great reward, and most of the people who take the buyout route are only ten or twenty yuan for the price of cabbage, but the nature of paper publishing is different, and this is not a world where the manuscript fee tax can remain unchanged for more than 30 years.

As a newcomer, you don't have to think that even if you publish it, you can only get the lowest price of 80 thousand words, and if you judge it by the standards of this time and space, it is also an out-and-out cabbage price.

"Eighty in a thousand words, eighty-eight six-hundred-four." After calculating the accounts, Zhang Qiuxi lay in front of the computer with a little lack of interest, she always thought that it was a great thing to be able to release works, and she was hit after seeing the remuneration, it turned out that the money was really not so easy to make.

I knew what to do to save the Celestial Empire science fiction and science fiction, it was better to write a martial arts novel, to say the least, it was a thousand words and two hundred jumps, and it was really a red face and a disaster, Zhang Qiuxi was very irresponsible and blamed Li Yue's head.

It is worth mentioning that martial arts novels have long been dead in the original time and space, and only in the world of Gongkou can still exert the last light and heat, and modern martial arts novels are for H.

And martial arts in this time and space are still very popular, but they are somewhat similar to online novels, there are many people who write about them, and there are many people who read them, but there are very few high-quality products, and there is no one who can be called a grandmaster, so even if it still looks very popular, there are still many people who comment that this is the last madness, and I don't know when it will collapse.

Although I was a little disappointed, since it had been written, no matter how little the remuneration was, I still had to vote it, wrote down the address of the magazine "Fantasy World", and took a detour to the post office on the way to school with Li Yue, and sent the manuscript.

"When I went to the publishing house to submit an article, I felt that I wanted to let go of hope, but now I don't feel that way at all." Zhang Qiuxi calculated the account for Li Yue, and the manuscript fee he could get was not enough for a month's expenses.

"Everything has a starting stage, you are a newcomer now, and it is natural that the remuneration will be less." Li Yue said: "Don't worry about this, you are voting for a short story now, and next time you vote for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky Way, you can get thousands of them, and if you can publish a single book, it will be even more." ”

The two returned to the classroom as they spoke, and when they stepped through the door, they heard Liang Ying say, "Our great writer is finally here." ”

"Liang Ying, I didn't offend you, why did you talk weirdly?" Zhang Qiuxi shrugged and ignored her, and walked straight back to his desk, the expressions of the other classmates seemed to be a little weird.

The girls in the class came around and said, "Qiu Xi, that's because you didn't win the final prize in the New Concept Essay Contest, so of course someone who published a book at his own expense is proud, and he can continue to brag." ”

"Hey, isn't it going to take a few days for the magazine to be released, how can the results come out?" After giving up the competition, Zhang Qiuxi didn't pay attention to this competition anymore, and of course he didn't know what the situation was.

"Although Sprout Magazine is a monthly magazine, it has two supplements every year, one of which is for the New Concept Essay Contest, and it is already on sale across the country today."

Girl A in the same class explained: "We searched for the winners of each category, but we didn't find your name, but your article on a pot of moonlit wine was published." ”

"We've all read your articles, and I think it's better than those award-winning works, why did you fail to make the cut?" These girls are like little eight women, chattering about the situation, but Zhang Qiuxi didn't care, and said: "It's normal to lose the election, because I didn't go to the semi-finals, so it's strange to win the award." ”

"Ah, how could you give up such a great opportunity, it's a pity."

"I see, it's because she is self-aware that she didn't dare to participate in the semi-finals because she was scared. Before Zhang Qiuxi could explain, Liang Ying's voice rang out slowly, although the seats were quite far apart, she had been listening to the conversation here.

Being hated is actually not a big deal, people, everywhere you go, you will inevitably see some people who are unhappy with themselves or unhappy with themselves, but being hated because of the identity of a rival in love is more depressing than being hated inexplicably.

God, even if I became a woman, I never thought of competing with other women for men, so why would I arrange such a role?

With a sigh, Zhang Qiuxi turned his head and said: "Liang Ying, I will cautiously inform you once, Li Junwei's goods are completely redundant in my world, as a classmate, I hope you can find your own happiness, if not, then I regret it." But please don't put the blame on me, it has nothing to do with me. ”

Liang Ying snorted and didn't speak again, not because she was persuaded that she had nothing to say, but because she didn't know what to say. This kind of thing is inherently innocent, although it does have nothing to do with Zhang Qiuxi, but it is also true that Li Junwei has no feelings for Liang Ying because he likes her, and from the perspective of Liang Ying's absoluteness, it is reasonable to hold a grudge.

And this is exactly what Zhang Qiuxi hurts the most, of course, she has no eggs now......

"Qiu Xi, ignore her, tell us what's going on, your article is highly rated."

"Actually, there is no special reason, it's just that the semi-finals are held in the magic capital, and the organizing committee still doesn't reimburse, I don't think it's cost-effective to spend thousands of dollars to exchange a piece of paper to come back, so I didn't go."

Zhang Qiuxi didn't hide anything, and put on a helpless expression, but these female classmates were very surprised, and said: "That's not ordinary paper, it's a great honor to win the award, and you actually gave up because of this?" ”

It's really full that the man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, there is no need to talk about this kind of thing, just about to go to class, Zhang Qiuxi said: "What's all the fuss, the teacher is coming soon, why don't you hurry back to class." Wait, any of you who bought the magazine, lend it to me. ”

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"Wen a pot of moonlit wine, when I first saw this article, my mind was drawn by the charm of these words, it is hard to imagine that this is actually an article written by a high school student."

There are judges' comments under each award-winning article, and the vice president of Imperial Capital University who wrote a comment to Zhang Qiuxi is the vice president of Imperial Capital University, in addition to praise, of course, it also points out some problems.

Just like Han Han said, there is no criterion for judging the quality of an article when the sentence is smooth and there are not many typos that affect reading. If you just take a piece of a famous article and hand it in, the teacher will not think that the student has the level of a famous artist, and will still give a lot of revisions.

Of course, it can't be said that the comments given by this vice principal are wrong, everyone thinks differently and looks at things differently, that's all.

In the end, the vice principal judge was also full of joy and said that "Wen Yi Pot of Moonlight Wine" was his favorite and most aura work.

The final results of the New Concept Essay Contest and the publication of the winning entries also raised the attention of the contest to the highest level, and in addition to online discussions, special reports were made on TV, and many previous winners were interviewed.

"Put the moonshine in a flask and drink it over a simmer. I like the beauty of this article, and I prefer to change from heroic and romantic to pure and contemplative......"

Among the judges and previous winners interviewed, "Wen Yi Pot of Moonlight Wine" was mentioned many times, which also became the most popular work of this competition.

Many people paid attention to the name Zhang Qiuxi after reading the article, but the result was naturally as regretful as those students in the class, and no one found this name in the final list of winners.

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"It's not just the classmates, but many people wonder how people can write such works, but they don't win the award." On the way home, Li Yue was smiling at the sunset, and the attention of the article was also a success, which is worth rejoicing.

"Haha, who made them so stingy, it's their loss." It was the first time that Zhang Qiuxi had been so in the limelight in his two lives combined, of course, she was a little excited, and she could be heard from the laughter how proud she was at this time.

Li Yue couldn't help but smile and said, "I thought you would have some regrets, but I didn't expect to think like this." But then again, this is Zhang Qiu's pity. ”

In the face of readers' questions, the organizing committee also had to explain that Zhang Qiuxi did not win the final award not because of the level of failure, but because he did not participate in the semi-finals, as for what the reason, they did not know.

This kind of attention is actually like having a cold, maybe it will be fine after a good night's sleep. It won't take a few days for the dust to settle, and no one will go to the bottom of why Zhang Qiuxi didn't go to the semifinals, and he won't feel sorry anymore.

For Zhang Qiuxi herself, from the moment she gave up the semi-finals, the New Concept Essay Contest was already a thing of the past, and her life in the future was more exciting.