Speaking of essay competitions, in fact, for the current literary world, it is nothing new, major magazines have held it, but the scale is not large, unlike the later "Sprout" essay and "New Concept" essay, that pomp is called a big.

Of course, then again, although the current essay contest can only be said to be a "small fight", this does not mean that it is ineffective.

What is the purpose of the essay contests held by major magazines? It's just one.

Establish the reputation of your own magazine and increase the sales of your magazine.

Whether it is a mainstream magazine or a small magazine that is not well-known, the purpose is the same.

And the end result, in general, is still good.

Of course, there are many factors that affect the effectiveness of essay competitions, among which judges are a very important link.

Director Li was able to think of inviting him, a well-known young writer in the country, to serve as a judge, and it was obviously a lot of thought.

He Yun naturally understood this, but he did not refuse.

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A few days later, He Yun finished writing the essay "Wu Opera".

This essay is more than 3,700 words in total, and it took a week to complete, which is one of the fastest of his recent works.

In fact, although He Yun's literary level is getting higher and higher, the speed of writing is getting slower and slower.

He naturally knows the reason for this.

In the final analysis, it is he who has higher requirements for the manuscript.

Just like this essay "Wu Opera", he changed a total of six or seven drafts, and it is only today that it has been finalized.

And in the next few days, He Yun was also so strict with himself when he wrote another essay "Eight Hundred Miles of Dongting My Home".

It was even one more day than "Wu Opera".

And because he had to submit more than one draft, when these two essays were written, He Yun began to copy, and in the end, he copied more than ten copies each, and his hands were sour, so he stopped.

After that, he found another opportunity to submit all these manuscripts.

"Dongting" magazine naturally also voted for one.

It was the essay "Drama" that was "tailor-made" for it.

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Two days later, just as He Yun was creating the third part of the "Archaeological Notes" series, "Archaeological Notes: The Nine-Story Demon Tower", he received a letter from Xiangjiang again.

Looking at the time and postmark on the letter, he saw that it had been sent after the last letter.

To be exact, it was sent on the fourth day after the letter was sent.

The gap between the two letters was only four days, which couldn't help but make He Yun a little confused.

He couldn't figure out what this Xiangjiang publishing house meant.

However, when he read the letter, he understood.

"Would you like to publish the first two traditional versions of my Archaeological Notes? This ......"

"They don't look into my situation, do they? How else would they know that I also wrote this series? ”

He Yun's suspicions were not unreasonable.

After all, the pseudonyms he used in these two films were not the same, and if it wasn't for the investigation, it would have been impossible to know about it.

Although he was a little surprised, He Yun decided to agree to them.

However, when he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, the first two parts of my "Archaeological Notes" series add up to only more than 30,000 words, will this number of words be too little, or ...... I'm going to give them the traditional version I'm working on for publication? ”

After thinking about it, He Yun felt that his idea was more feasible.

So, he immediately wrote a reply letter to Xiangjiang Boyi Publishing House, and, at the end of the letter, he also attached a brief outline of "Archaeological Notes: Nine-Story Demon Tower".

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The next day, at half past six in the morning, He Yun had already gotten up.

He hurriedly washed up, sat down at his desk, and began to write.

This is his usual habit of writing, writing in the morning, his thoughts will be clearer, and his inspiration will be more than other time periods.

After writing for more than an hour, the sun came out, and He Yun took the book he borrowed from the library yesterday and came to Hunan Normal University.

However, as he passed by the guard's room, he saw two more letters of his own.

Looking at the envelope, he found that one had been sent by the "Monthly Magazine" and the other had been sent by the "October" magazine.

It was not the first time He Yun had dealt with these two magazines, so he didn't care, just regarded it as an invitation letter, so he casually stuffed the two letters into his pocket and came to the library with the book.

In the morning, he only has one class, so this time, he is going to stay in the library and read the book before going to class.

After reading the book for a while, he suddenly thought of something, and took out the letter from his pocket.

The first thing he opened was the letter from October magazine.

After reading the contents of the letter, he suddenly exclaimed: "The 3rd October Literature Award? My work "That Mountain, That Man, That Road" won an award? I was also asked to go to Kyoto's October magazine on April 17 to receive the award, which means that there is still more than half a month. ”

"Wait, I remember last year or the year before last, I was shortlisted for this award, I remember it seems to be "Lake and Mountain Love", no! It's "Far Island Spy", it's not right, which work was shortlisted? ”

Although He Yun's memory is a little blurry at this moment, he still can't believe that the award this time will be the work "That Man, That Mountain, That Road".

You must know that in his opinion, this work is the most inconspicuous one among the several works of the same type he has created.

But it was precisely this one that won the award, which really made him a little incomprehensible.

"April 17th, I don't know if I will have time by then?"

He Yun muttered in a low voice, and then turned his gaze to another letter.

As for the "Monthly", he vaguely remembers that his own work appeared in this literary magazine last year.

It's just that it was reprinted at the time, and later the Baihua Publishing House, where the "Monthly News" is located, also published his first collection "Man Jianghong Short Story Collection" for this purpose.

"I don't know what they wrote to do?"

After He Yun guessed, he still didn't come up with a reason, so he had to open the letter immediately.

After a moment, he burst into laughter.

"I see, this is a double blessing! I didn't expect my short story to win their Hundred Flowers Literature Award. ”

I have to say, this time it was a coincidence.

It turned out that he not only won the second "Monthly Hundred Flowers Literature Award", but also the award-winning work turned out to be the short realism "That Man, That Mountain, That Road".

Seriously, he really didn't expect this short story to win both literary awards at the same time.

But this is the case, which makes him happy at the same time, but also secretly thinking about the reason.

After some thought, he finally came to this conclusion.

Perhaps it is because some of the ideas contained in his article are just in line with the current wave of reform!

Of course, it's not that important.

Importantly, he was afraid that he would not be able to attend the awards ceremony for both literary awards.

The reason is very simple, the award ceremony of these two awards, one will be held in late April and the other in June, and it is still unknown whether he will be available by then.

"It seems that we can only send a letter to these two magazines to explain the situation."

He Yun muttered secretly, then picked up the pen and began to write.