Ming Pao Headquarters Building, 18 Ka Yip Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong.

Xu Fei threw a manuscript paper into the paper basket in annoyance. After reading the manuscript for half a morning, it was either a fried cold rice with no new ideas, or the writing was too bad and the story was written incomprehensibly. In line with the professional ethics of being an editor, Xu Fei patiently read a few copies, after all, he had dreamed of being a writer before, and he still needs to be respected for the hard work created by others, even if it is not good.

After reading a few articles, he stuffed them back into the file bag and prepared to let the front desk return them, and Xu Fei, who felt that he was okay, made some comments on the article from the perspective of a professional editor and put forward his own suggestions. If there is no better article and the author can revise the manuscript according to his own ideas before submitting it, please submit the manuscript.

Whether it can be published or not is not up to you, there is also the leader of your editorial team, and then there is the editor-in-chief. Generally speaking, film reviews, essays, book reviews, editorials, short stories, etc., unless they involve sensitive topics, are basically guaranteed to be published after passing the pass with the editorial team leader, and are rarely vetoed. Novels with more than 30,000 words need to be treated with caution if they are to be published, and generally require the team leader to submit the manuscript and then hold a meeting to review it, and finally the editor-in-chief will make the decision.

Xu Fei is mainly responsible for literary manuscripts, and the manuscript he just read is a novel. At first glance, the text is quite skillful, and although the subject matter is a little old-fashioned, the story is well told. I thought I had finally found a good work after reading it all morning, but the more I read it, the more familiar it became, and finally I thought about it carefully, isn't this Tm a work published by other newspapers a few years ago? In a different era background, dare to use it to cheat the manuscript fee as soon as the character's name is changed?

As an editor, this is what I hate and fear the most, and the mainstream readership of Ming Pao is the middle class and college students with high education, and they are even more intolerant of this kind of thing. If you don't notice the recommendation for a while, and the team leader and editor-in-chief don't show up, it will be a plagiarism incident that damages the reputation of the newspaper.

Write down the signed address on the manuscript in a small notebook, which is considered to have added him to the blacklist, and just threw it into the wastebasket. Xu Fei really wanted to call him according to the phone number provided by that person and scold him, but thinking about it, this kind of thing would appear once or twice every once in a while, and he couldn't scold him.

After drinking most of the cup of tea, I suppressed the anger in my heart, and picked up another manuscript and read it.

"Huh? It's pretty thick. Xu Fei was slightly surprised and looked at the title of the novel.

"Home Alone?"

I opened the file and roughly estimated the number of words in the next manuscript, which looked like 100,000 words, and sent the entire manuscript together from the beginning to the end. Needless to say, everyone knows that he is a rookie.

Generally, for novels of more than 30,000 words, only part of the manuscript is submitted, and the rest of the manuscript is pressed in your own hands, and the editor will not hand over the remaining part after the editor takes a fancy to his work, and then the manuscript fee is negotiated and agreed. This is also the author's method of self-preservation. The threshold for starting a newspaper in Hong Kong is not high, and there are all kinds of people who run newspapers, and it is not a new thing for newspaper editors to deceive careless authors into taking their own manuscripts.

Of course, Xu Fei disdains to do this kind of thing, but has a good impression of the author of the novel.

"Let's see."

The writing of the novel is very average, and it is also expected. The plot is also very simple, a little ghost who was forgotten at home by incompetent parents and two thieves who are eyeing the house with bad intentions fight wits and courage. It's not about the connotation of Shenma thought, it's just a simple text sketch, which looks relaxed and witty, and doesn't take a lot of brains. After reading it in one go, the fire in my heart disappeared.

"Hehe, it's kind of interesting."

"Oh, is there any good work? Let me see. Guo Yuan, who was sitting opposite Xu Fei, raised his head with great interest.

Like Xu Fei, he is the editor of the same group, and Guo Yuan has significantly more manuscripts in the wastebasket than Xu Fei. She is not as patient as Xu Fei when reviewing manuscripts, and she has always thrown away unsatisfactory works. The brainchild of the god is also in vain, a newspaper has only a few pages, who has the ability to do it, and will not comment on some articles that are destined not to be on the page, if you have the heart to take this road, think about it yourself.

From the perspective of work efficiency, Guo Yuan's approach is obviously more suitable. But Xu Fei still can't do it even though he knows, although he can't become a writer because of talent or other reasons, but if he can dig up some good seedlings and help them grow, it can be regarded as realizing his dream in disguise. This is Xu Fei's expectation for his work, if it is not this expectation, he would rather change careers and do something else. College graduates are very popular in today's Xiangjiang, and they don't have to worry about a way out at all.

Xu Fei handed over the manuscript, and he also wanted to see her opinion, and there would be differences in the evaluation of the same work between different editors.

Guo Yuan's first sentence when he looked at the manuscript was, "The writing is not very good." Then he buried his head in it.

"Poof." Guo Yuan couldn't help laughing, "Hehe, it's funny." ”

Then Guo Yuan's laughter couldn't stop, it seemed that her laughter was much lower than Xu Fei's, which also attracted the attention of other people in the office.

"What's so funny?" A fat man came over and pulled out the manuscript that Guo Yuan had read and read it himself.

Soon, there was one more laugh in the office.

As a result, more people joined the reading team, and the originally slightly dull office was a little more joyful. Chen Chuan, the leader of the group, was also attracted by this atmosphere, and a small review meeting was formed.

"The story is not bad, the writing is rough, it should be said that it is still a work with more potential. Of course, revisions are inevitable. After some discussion, Chen Chuan came to a conclusion.

That's not a bad result. Of course, this is a long novel, and the decision to publish still needs the decision of editor-in-chief Pan Yuesheng.

Not long after the manuscript was handed over to the editor-in-chief's office, Xu Fei and the team leader Chen Chuan and the leaders of several other groups were called for a meeting, and the efficiency of Xiangjiang enterprises was still quite high.

The editor-in-chief was also satisfied with the storytelling and comedic elements in the manuscript, but the writing made him a little unacceptable. Although newspaper readers pay more attention to the stories in the text, Ming Pao is still a newspaper with a relatively strong literary temperament, and it is easier to win the favor of the editor with good writing and the ideology and connotation of the article.

However, the competition between Xiangjiang newspapers and periodicals is fierce, and this kind of comedy-themed work is quite in line with the appetite of Xiangjiang people, and it may not be unpopular.

The fast-paced city life makes many readers reluctant to use their brains when reading newspapers and watching TV, and prefers some newspapers that are more entertaining. For example, the current Oriental Daily has begun to report some celebrity gossip and scandals of wealthy families that ordinary citizens love to watch, and its sales have increased dramatically, and it has the potential to become the leader of the Xiangjiang newspaper industry.

However, because Ming Pao's personality is more inclined to traditional literati, he can't let go of his subordinates and be reserved to compete with Oriental Daily for gossip, which is also not in line with Ming Pao's newspaper purpose. However, the newspaper is also a company first, and it is impossible not to care about the reading needs of readers, this kind of comedy has a wide audience in Xiangjiang, and the plot is funny but not vulgar, and it is still a masterpiece with hot selling potential.

It didn't take long for the discussion to be settled: to agree to publish.

Of course, revisions are inevitable. It's not just a matter of writing, but also a newspaper serialized novel is different from a whole published book. In general, the novels published as a whole are like movies, and they pay more attention to the overall structure under the premise of a wonderful plot. Newspaper serialization is best to leave a foreshadowing in each chapter, and then it ends abruptly, and readers continue to buy newspapers to read.

Therefore, newspaper novels require that the work can immediately capture the reader's heart, and the effect must be immediate, otherwise even if the novel becomes popular in the future, it will benefit the novel itself. Readers are generally just waiting to buy fiction books and not re-buying old newspapers. Of course, this has little impact on Home Alone, and except for the foreshadowing at the beginning, this novel basically laughs from beginning to end.

And then there's the remuneration for the novel, which basically confirms that the author is a novice. Generally, the remuneration of novices is between 15 yuan and 30 yuan per thousand words, but there is still some preferential treatment for this newcomer who submits a novel for the first time and the quality is acceptable, and after giving Xu Fei the permission to pay 50 yuan for 1,000 words, Xu Fei is responsible for this newcomer.

"Li Xuechu, Room 3O5, Building A, Building 13, Sham Shui Po." Xu Fei looked at the address on the cover of the manuscript, "There is no phone, it seems that I can only go by myself."

"It's been two days since I voted out, why haven't I heard any news?" Li Xuechu was also anxiously waiting at this time, "Don't send the manuscript back early, I forgot to leave the manuscript just to send it." In other words, isn't it too stupid to send the entire manuscript at once, forget it, let's learn a lesson next time. It doesn't matter if you throw it in the paper basket, it's better not to put my article a. ”

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