Chapter 15: Attack from all sides
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"The "Heroes" that makes people cry!"
"A martial arts novel with the style of 'Qingming Riverside Picture'!"
"'Heroes' told me that martial arts novels are no longer just 'fairy tales for adults', they are fully capable of carrying heavier and deeper themes."
"This is not a martial arts novel in the traditional sense, it has a deep red and near-bloody sadness, sprinkled with Jin Yong's consummation and Gu Long's simplicity, bringing readers a completely different new touch - classical character, postmodern structure, full of heart-wrenching sadness, can be called a 'man's martial arts'."
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The "Heroes' Chronicles" became popular, and the editors of the "Ming Pao Evening News" added another fire to this popularity, pushing the sales of the evening newspaper to a new height -- 70,000 copies.
However, this was always just a bubble piled up by the advertising effect of the news, and the surprise of 70,000 copies only made the staff of the evening newspaper happy for a few days, and soon the sales of the evening newspaper fell back to more than 45,000 copies.
Of course, 40,000 cannot be compared with 70,000, but compared to the 10,000 that was like a pool of stagnant water at the beginning, it can be said to be a very remarkable achievement.
Then, as the plot of "Heroes" progressed, the average sales of the evening newspaper stabilized at 50,000 copies.
Because the sales of "Ming Pao Evening News" in recent years have been too poor, Jin Yong has already had the idea of closing. Historically, in 1988, when he was preparing for the launch of Ming Pao, he ruled out public opinion and closed the evening newspaper.
Now that the sales of evening newspapers have not only improved, but also increased by a large margin, the status of the evening newspaper has naturally risen, and several evening newspaper editors who have been trembling and trembling on thin ice have finally settled down completely.
So far, Lin Jing has just finished writing all the "Heroes" with a word count of more than 3.7 million words.
When handing over the manuscript, in addition to bringing all the manuscripts of "Heroes", she also took advantage of the situation and brought a "Kunlun" that had written more than 200,000 words, and prepared to go to the head office of "Ming Pao" to meet Jin Yong.
Her expectations for "Kunlun" are higher than those of "Heroes", after all, "Heroes" was voted out when she was unknown.
Compared with traditional martial arts novels, "Kunlun" is a slightly improved new martial arts work, and it is known as a work that carries the banner of martial arts in later generations.
There is a short sentence in the book that may have the impression of many readers who have read it: If there is discord, I will attack it!
The story of "Kunlun" is actually not too new, its biggest feature is that it incorporates refreshing arithmetic into the novel, which has never been written before, and can be said to be a martial arts novel organized with mathematical knowledge.
The advantages of the original work of "Kunlun" are distinct, and the disadvantages are equally obvious.
Maybe this is the author's first full-length martial arts novel, and there are very strong traces of imitation in both the characters and the plot in "Kunlun".
In order to make "Kunlun" more excellent, Lin Jing deleted part of the original content on the basis of not breaking her muscles and bones, making it look more "new".
It is precisely because of the revision of "Kunlun" that she writes relatively slowly, and it took a lot of time to write more than 200,000 yuan, and she has not yet written the prequel "Iron Blood".
The reason why "Kunlun" is followed after "Heroes" is entirely to reflect a concept of seeking innovation and change, a concept that can be used as a beak.
Of course, Lin Jing actually did not seek innovation and change, because "Heroes" and "Kunlun" are not her real works.
When all the remaining drafts of more than 3 million words of "Heroes" were paid to Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu of the "Ming Pao Evening News" at one time, all the editors of the evening newspaper were greatly shocked.
They were all surprised that Lin Jing wrote millions of words in such a short period of time, and the fastest writer in Xiangjiang at this time was undoubtedly Ni Kuang, a fast hand, a record that has been maintained since the beginning of his debut, but he didn't expect it to be broken so easily.
Of course, Lin Jing didn't come to shock them, "Heroes" doubled the price due to the interview incident, reaching 70 words per thousand, which has reached the top, and there is no possibility of further price increases, although it is also well written.
After all, "Ming Pao" has always been known for its low remuneration, especially in this era, even high-level academic journals such as "Ming Pao Monthly", university lecturer-level submissions, are 80 words per 1,000, and professor-level applications are only 100 to 1500 words per 1,000 words.
It is not that the manuscript fee for engaging in academics is necessarily higher than that for writing martial arts novels, and it is better to sell tea and eggs than to engage in missiles in the mainland at this time, but the rules of "Ming Pao" have always been like this, and they are not subject to human will.
In the past, even Ni Kuang, who was already famous and flourished on the Xiangjiang Aishang Novel Network, was still very good friends with Jin Yong, he wanted to increase the price, and in the end he was forced to silence by Jin Yong with a letter.
In a word, it is simply difficult for "Heroes" to break through 70 thousand words again.
Since there is no hope of raising the price, it is better to simply pay off all the remaining manuscripts and take the money home to pay off the debt.
Recently, because of Lin Jing's interview draft, his family was known in the streets, and the creditors who knew that their family was poor and couldn't come up with money to repay their debts did not move, but at this time they forced the door, because they thought that you have become a celebrity, and being famous is beneficial, can't you even take out that little "little money"?
The reporter can't get in, but they are creditors and "uncles", and it is natural for them to repay their debts. When the door is opened, there is no longer peace in the house.
Therefore, it is better to pay off these debts later than to pay them off early.
If you really pay the manuscript once a week and receive the manuscript fee, you don't know when you will be able to receive the full manuscript fee.
When collecting the manuscript fee, Jin Yong, who wanted to meet the 7A champion in the "legend" and the author of "Heroes", came forward in person and wrote a check for 300,000 yuan to Lin Jing.
"Isn't it two hundred and fifty thousand?" Lin Jing didn't take the check.
"The manuscript fee is indeed 250,000 yuan, and the rest is the donation of some enthusiastic people who are unknown." Jin Yong saw that Lin Jing hesitated and didn't take it, and his smile disappeared, as long as his Chinese face became serious, it would have a somewhat non-angry and threatening effect, "Don't you need it now, or is everything written in the interview script fake?" ”
"Thank you!" Lin Jing took it hard, not because Jin Yong's attitude scared her, but because of the vicious creditors who were guarding downstairs every day, it really made the family unbearable.
300,000 yuan, just enough to pay off the part of the loan shark, and part of the urging is very urgent and fierce.
"This is your new work "Kunlun"?" After Lin Jing took the check, Jin Yong took the bag containing the manuscript of "Kunlun".
"Yes, it was inspired by chance when I was studying mathematics, combined with martial arts novels." Lin Jing had already made up an excuse to answer, "At present, I have only written more than 200,000 words, and according to the outline, there are about 1 million." ”
"More than 1,200,000 words."
Jin Yong frowned slightly when he spoke, writing martial arts novels is not as difficult as academic papers, but he doesn't say that he can write it, not to mention that it is still a million words. His longest novel is "Dragon Babu", which is only about 1.5 million words, but Lin Jing has just written a "Heroes" with more than 3 million to 4 million words, and now it is "Kunlun" with more than 1 million words, and this creative efficiency makes him feel a little worried.
He has read a little bit of "Heroes", and he feels that it is quite meritorious, this little author is only fifteen years old, if he can continue to study, he is likely to achieve greater achievements in the future. Therefore, he was worried that his actions would have the effect of pulling out the seedlings and encouraging them, and the result would be to hurt Zhongyong.
"Well, it's not very long, I hope to get Mr. Cha's guidance." Lin Jing guessed some of Jin Yong's thoughts under the observation of words, but she didn't have anything to do, could it be that these novels were not written by me, and I just played the role of copying and polishing them?
The consequence is nothing but laughter!
"Okay, stay here for now, I'll take a look first."
The result of a first look is that three days later, Lin Jing came to the head office of "Ming Pao" again.
"Kunlun is very well written, and I like the application of mathematics in it, which is a useful and successful attempt to write martial arts novels."
Jin Yong's sentence determined the value of "Kunlun", and directly raised 30 yuan on the 1,000-word 70 of "Heroes", reaching 100 yuan for 1,000 words, and serialized it in the supplement of "Ming Pao".
No matter how much the sales of "Ming Pao Evening News" increased, it never had "Ming Pao", because "Ming Pao" has a perennial subscription of 80,000 copies. Moreover, being able to serialize articles in the supplement of "Ming Pao" is a great affirmation of the writers.
"Would you like to ask Mr. Cha to grant me one more request?"
"Say, hopefully, I can do it."
"Inscribe the title of Kunlun."
Didn't the "Kunlun" of later generations have an inscription by Mr. Liang Yusheng, and after crossing, I asked Mr. Jin Yong to inscribe it. Lin Jing had an ulterior secret in her heart, and asked Jin Yong very sincerely.
"As long as you don't think I'm poorly handwritten, it doesn't matter."
The final result, of course, was that Jin Yong impromptu and wrote down the two big words "Kunlun".
Three days later, Jin Yong's "Kunlun" appeared in the novel edition of the "Ming Pao" supplement, which immediately aroused widespread discussion in Xiangjiang.
The serialization of "Heroes" in the "Ming Pao Evening News" is still in the ascendant, followed by another "Kunlun", which directly hit the supplement of "Ming Pao", and also received Jin Yong's inscription affirmation, which undoubtedly surprised the editors of those newspapers that published martial arts novels.
In the hearts of many ordinary martial arts novel lovers, the signboard of Jin Yong's martial arts novels is well-known and undoubted. The fact that he was able to inscribe a novel is indirectly proof of the novel's high readability, although he did not make any verbal comments about Kunlun.
All of a sudden, whether it was "Heroes" or "Kunlun", they were all hot in a mess.
Lin Jing's martial arts novels are loved by the majority of readers, and many editors of hot-eyed newspapers have taken action one by one and opened a column asking her to write on them.
has completed "Heroes", and there is only one million words left in "Kunlun", Lin Jing readily agreed to the requests of those newspapers, and the family still has debts that have not been paid off, and it is imperative to make money by writing. However, she doesn't plan to write martial arts novels this time, and there are only these two better martial arts novels in later generations.
Since those newspapers originally intended to publish things about her, why didn't she write a romance novel and give it a try, didn't they say that she "doesn't like romance and loves martial arts"?
The length of romance novels is generally relatively short, most of them are hundreds of thousands, and rarely have more than a million words, and they are written quickly, published quickly, and paid quickly. Moreover, romance novels are known as women's opium and films, and the number of people who read romance novels is not less than that of those who read martial arts novels.
The newspaper did not object to Lin Jing's preparation to write romance novels, and the editors of those newspapers believed that Lin Jing, a "martial arts novelist", wrote romance novels with a very big beak, and there was no need to worry about sales at all.
After deciding to write a romance novel, Lin Jing decided to write a novel that she thought would be better.
In addition to writing "Kunlun", he also had to write a romance novel, and he had to make a lot of drastic revisions in the process of writing, so that these novels had a sense of the times of this era, so as to avoid some unnecessary "hard injuries", Lin Jing was suddenly busy again.