The editors who attended the meeting had seen the new storyboard before the meeting, and they will go through it again to deepen their impression when discussing it here.

"For a newcomer, it's incredible." Deputy editor-in-chief Duan Chang said after reading it.

"Not only that, but in addition to the winner's work, there is also a short story that has been selected at the same time, and I heard that the author is also a middle school student."

"Hey, isn't that the same as Gu Chengfeng?" Chen Qi, the leader of the other group, said in surprise that he looked at Liu Xiang beside him.

As Gu Chengfeng's editor-in-charge, Liu Xiang was obviously the most vocal among these people, but he stared at the manuscript without saying a word, and only after a long time did he suddenly ask: "It's so strange." ”

"What's wrong?"

"This author was selected by virtue of the SD Script Competition, and the submission to the SD Script Contest is also because of poor painting skills, otherwise why not directly submit to the Golden Apple or the Red Dragon Award, after all, the prize money of the Script Contest is only one-third of these two competitions, but you look at her storyboard, it is very tense, and it doesn't feel like a novice drawing at all."

Liu Xiang mentioned this, and everyone naturally realized that the script contest is not only this year, but when it comes to the storyboards of previous champions, it is called miserable, and a random elementary school student on the side of the road can draw better than them.

"That's true."

"Will someone ghostwrite for her......?"

"Ahem." Just as the discussion among the editors intensified, the editor-in-chief, who had been silent, coughed: "Don't digress, what we should discuss now is the quality and prospect of this storyboard as a serial, and other irrelevant things can be put down first." ”

Hearing him say this, all the editors also reacted, even if this script passed this serialization, according to the charter, it would have to be handed over to a certain artist to paint, and the original author's painting level was not so important.

The conversation on the scene was brought back to the point by the editor-in-chief.

"The story of this work revolves around Go, but as a shonen manga, isn't this kind of theme too obscure?" Someone said so.

A fine sweat broke out on Ye Chuan's forehead, sure enough, this work is going to be serialized, and this problem is destined to be a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

But soon, Liu Kannan, the leader of another editorial team, retorted: "Sports competition works are very popular in many magazines, and the kind of depiction of young people's vigorous spirit has a positive impact on the magazine, and it can be seen from the storyboard that this author's narrative is very set, if you didn't tell me that she is a junior high school student, I wouldn't have imagined that such a young person can create such an interesting story, since the magazine now advocates young innovation, then I think this work should be serialized." ”

"But Go is not like a ball game, it almost doesn't even have many movements, won't readers feel bored when they read such comics?"

"In this way, it strengthens the logic of the story, and more intense psychological warfare is an advantage of this type of story."

After the two argued, deputy editor-in-chief Tong Cheng also joined the debate: "But considering that it was able to win the SD script competition, it means that it is quite popular among readers." ”

Seeing the opportunity, Ye Chuan continued: "I have a voting statistic for the SD script contest here, the work "Go of Light" has a 72% support rate over the second place 64% by eight percentage points, and most importantly, more than 3% of the readers who voted are female readers. ”

Ye Chuan distributed the photocopied form, and all the editors present were silent when they looked at the data of the table, they were all professional, and naturally they would not say that our juvenile comics do not need female readers to support this kind of stupidity, on the contrary, the more such a well-oriented magazine wants to increase sales, it has become a very important thing to attract other potential readers.

"Because the original author is a woman, do you understand the psychology of women...... But while it's important to attract female readers, it's more basic to be able to meet the needs of the magazine's mainstream readers, and she's still a junior high school student, and I'm worried about whether she'll be able to handle that. ”

"But this storyboard is very well done," the editor-in-chief stepped up at this time to interrupt the conversation, "since the opinions are not very unanimous, let's start voting." ”

"Pass."

"No."

"I can't vote either."

This time it was Ye Chuan's turn, and he hurriedly said, "I will also vote." ”

After the four team leaders voted, it was the turn of the deputy editor-in-chief, Duan Changzai said: "Two to two, I am optimistic about young people, so I vote for support, how are you, Tong Cheng?" ”

As we all know, there are two deputy editors-in-chief in the editorial department, but there is only one position of editor-in-chief, in case the editor-in-chief is promoted and leaves, then one of them will ascend to the position of editor-in-chief, so Duan Changzai and Tong Cheng have always been in a competitive relationship.

This made Ye Chuan pinch a cold sweat, if Tong Cheng voted against it here, that is to say, is the person who finally decides whether to serialize or not be the editor-in-chief?

But to everyone's surprise -

"I agree." Tong Cheng put on his glasses and said: "Compared with the work in front of me, I am more optimistic about the future of this author." ”

What, the guy who likes to pretend, Duan Changzai showed a boring face, but Ye Chuan let out a long breath, now that there are four votes in favor, then the matter of passing is a certainty.

In the end, the editor-in-chief who was in his turn did not vote again, but said directly: "Then this is passed, this work will be released on the 15th of next month, Tong Cheng, the matter of contacting the artist will be handed over to you." ”

"Okay." The deputy editor-in-chief replied.

Hey?

Ye Chuan was stunned, why did this work skip itself and let the deputy editor-in-chief take over?

"If that's okay, then we'll dismiss the meeting." The editor-in-chief sorted out the copy on the table and stood up.

"Wait a minute!" At this time, Ye Chuan couldn't be silent anymore, otherwise the things he and Guo Pinyuan had so hard to prepare for would be yellow here.

"Is there anything else, Ye Chuan?" The editor-in-chief asked.

Worst-case scenario.

But now Ye Chuan can only make a desperate bet: "In fact, the original author called Liang Yu and another painter are a fixed combination, that is, the person who draws the storyboard for her." ”

"What!?" The editors were shocked.

Liu Xiang reacted at this time: "So that's the case. ”

But the editor-in-chief's face was already covered with a layer of frost: "Are you saying that an author with a regular partner went to participate in a script contest to screen the original works for the artist, since you already knew it, why didn't you say it at the beginning?" ”

"That's ...... I didn't know that long ago. Ye Chuan said hesitantly.

"I don't think you found out that it wasn't long ago, and it was instigated by you at all!" The editor-in-chief's words made Ye Chuan's heart skip a beat, how did the other party know?

"I ......"

"In short, the result of the meeting remains the same, and the editorial department will arrange the selection of the artist, if the original work is not satisfied, then it will be regarded as taking the initiative to give up the serialization, and the second place in the script competition will be topped!"

In a word, all retreats are sealed.