A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 146 I would like to dedicate this book to every poor kid with a dream!

River or sea?

To be honest, when Editor Mo saw this name for the first time, he couldn't remember who this was for a moment.
For editors and authors, it is a two-way choice.

Author, with the option to edit.

Then naturally, editors can also choose authors.

Do you think that the editor-in-chief approaches authors one by one slowly when commissioning them, talks to one after the other, and then moves on to the next?
No.

When an editor-in-chief commissions articles, he may be working with dozens or even hundreds of authors at the same time.

Although I sent an email to Jiang Hai, to be fair, these emails——

Is he actually sending messages in bulk?

Editor Mo was stunned for a while when he saw the email that suddenly flashed on his computer. Then he thought:

"Jianghai?"

"Is he the author of No Longer Human and Xu Sanguan Selling Blood?"

"I remember, I remember"

Judging from its potential, Jianghai’s future is indeed limitless.

At such a young age, he not only wrote "No Longer Human", an excellent work that is known as the "culmination of mourning literature".

Even in China, through "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", he has a group of middle-aged and elderly fans?

To be honest, Editor-in-Chief Mo got to know Jiang Hai through the book "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", and then sent him this email to ask him to write an article.

In fact, he was just trying it out and didn't hold out much hope.

Who would have thought that this river and sea——

Did he really reply?
"This seems to be the email I sent two days ago asking for an article?" Editor-in-Chief Mo stared at the computer screen, stunned for a moment, "In just two days, you wrote the beginning of the outline directly. Is it that fast?"

Reading and reviewing manuscripts is the job of Editor-in-Chief Mo. He looked at the beginning of the letter sent by Jiang Hai with the title "Dragon Tribe I: Dawn of Fire" and subconsciously clicked on it.

A line of characters typed in [楷体] immediately caught my eye:
“I would like to dedicate this book to every poor kid with a dream.”

Looking at the definition labels that Jiang Hai himself gave to "Dragon Tribe I: Dawn of Fire", they are [youth contemporary language] and [magical realism].

Looking at this series of definition labels, combined with the above sentence, Editor-in-Chief Mo suddenly sighed:

“This seems to be quite interesting.”

You can question Jiangnan's character, but you should not deny his talent.

In his previous life, in the field of youth fantasy, writer Jiang Nan was known only for his novels in the "Dragon Clan" series.

It created a sales miracle!
According to statistics from official channels alone, excluding pirated copies, the sales of best-selling books in the "Dragon Tribe" series have exceeded 20 million copies!
This influence is huge!

In fact, when Jiang Hai first submitted his manuscript, he didn't think of the book "Dragon Clan", but the keywords given to him by the "Youth Preface" magazine were [Youth] [Juvenile Readings], and all of a sudden -

It awakened his forgotten memories!

"In a sense, should 'Dragon Tribe' also be considered a tragedy?" Jiang Hai sat in front of the computer screen, staring at the 26,000-plus words he had typed out in three hours, including the Chinese version and the outline. He immediately sighed, "The senior sister who cannot be loved is full of regrets in her youth."

"Missed in my youth."

"And Eri, who treated me with all her heart, but in the end they have to part forever."

In terms of tragic tone, this "Dragon Tribe" should be the most comprehensive one?

Jiang Hai glanced at the introduction he wrote for "Dragon Tribe I: Dawn of Fire" again:
【Lu Mingfei is just an ordinary and ignorant high school student. A letter from Kassel College changed his ordinary life. Under the call of passion and mystery, under the choice between love and dreams, he resolutely chose the unknown. A black helicopter crossed the sky, and the door of a strange country slowly opened to him. An ordinary Chinese child embarked on an extraordinary road to slaying dragons.】

“This is a story about love, dreams, and youth adventure.”

In fact, Jiang Hai doesn't care about these bullshit love and dreams at all. The reason why he chose to write "Dragon Clan" is also very simple -

Knife!

I'm done with the knife!

After I’ve stabbed the elderly, I’ll stab the middle-aged people. After I’ve stabbed the middle-aged people, I’ll stab the children!

As long as life continues, there will be more swordsmen!
Literary works with themes like "Dragon Clan" are different from ordinary online articles. It is more appropriate to follow the traditional magazine serialization route.

Because there are not even tens of thousands of words in the whole article!
First, find a literary magazine for teenagers to read, and publish the story about "Dragon Clan" there, and wait until the publicity is in place and the influence reaches a certain level.
Then turn around and go the publishing route!
A fierce knife!

Also make a lot of money!

Just as Jiang Hai was planning this, he happened to come across the novel magazine "Preface to Youth" that was delivered to his door. Isn't this just like falling asleep and hitting the pillow?

"Although I only wrote 6,000 words of the main text, the main text plus the outline has a total of more than 20,000 words." Jiang Hai looked at the word document sent to the editor-in-chief of "Youth Preface" and immediately began to think, "This youth book was such a best-seller in my previous life. You won't reject my manuscript again, right?"

It seems that more than three hours have passed since the email was sent.

There is still no news from the other side.

This couldn't help but make Jiang Hai a little nervous:

"You can't be so unlucky, right?"

"You can't just reject my manuscript of 'Dragon Tribe'."

Just when Jiang Haidu began to doubt himself, a letter suddenly flashed in his mailbox. It was a reply from Editor-in-Chief Mo:
"Classmate Jiang Hai, add WeChat and discuss in detail!"

In fact, in the world of novels, or literature, unless one is a particularly famous writer——

It should be that very few people can get a high guaranteed price?

For example, if a writer of average reputation is asked to write for a magazine,

Is 1,500 words the limit?
According to Jiang Hai's historical achievements in writing books, if Jiang Hai wants to get a super high price guarantee without revealing his online literary pen name -

Is this really difficult?

In terms of popularity, Jiang Hai is considered a rising star in the literary field, but look at the sales performance of his two books.

One book, "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", was released within two weeks and sold a total of 500,000 copies.

Another book, No Longer Human, has no release date yet and the sales quantity is to be determined.

Although I know that the sales of your two books are on the rise, as a magazine company that is on the decline and even on the verge of bankruptcy
How can they afford the gamble?

How can they afford such a high guarantee?
In fact, according to Jiang Hai’s historical performance in writing books, Jiang Hai’s final manuscript price will not exceed five hundred yuan per thousand words.

As for the reasons, there are two points.

Firstly, youth fantasy themes are not Jiang Hai’s forte. In other words, Jiang Hai has never written a work of this type.

The magazine has no way of judging whether he has the ability to handle a novel based on his previous works?

Secondly, according to the magazine's rules for commissioning articles, perhaps only a writer of the level of "Fairy Tale King" Zheng Yuanjie could offer a four-digit guaranteed price?
Jiang Hai is pretty good among young people, but compared with great writers like Zheng Yuanjie who have been famous for many years,
Then maybe he is really far away?

However, despite his qualifications, Jiang Hai does have some shortcomings.

However, judging from the text and outline Jiang Hai submitted, Chief Editor Mo gave him a high price for the first time.

800 words!

"Mr. Jiang Hai, are you satisfied with the price of this commission? If it doesn't meet your expectations, I can ask other editors-in-chief for an application."

Jiang Hai was actually quite satisfied to get this price for a manuscript that he had typed out in three hours?
What he cares about is not the tiny profit of a few hundred words or a few thousand words.

What he cares about is to use the platform of "Youth Foreword" to exert the influence that "Dragon Clan" should have.
"I accept this price, but I have two conditions. First, the full copyright of the work belongs to me."

“Second, you cannot interfere with my creation.”

You want to buy out a famous writer’s literary works for just 800 yuan per thousand words?

This is certainly unrealistic.

Therefore, Editor-in-Chief Mo readily accepted Jiang Hai's first proposal and agreed very quickly:

"Of course, our magazine only enjoys the priority right to reprint the works."

However, regarding the second condition proposed by Jiang Hai, Editor-in-Chief Mo was a little hesitant:

“Can’t interfere with creation? This.”

Logically speaking, since the magazine paid for the work, they do enjoy certain co-creative rights.

In the event of a major quality warning in a work——

Editors can actually intervene!

If we don't intervene, the work may end badly, and the author may let himself go and come up with a series of toxic points to disgust the readers.
That might affect the magazine’s reputation to some extent?

Regarding this point, you can refer to the story of how after Jin Yong wrote the plot of "Little Dragon Girl was defiled by Yin Zhiping", extremely angry readers rushed into Ming Pao and smashed and looted the newspaper crazily.
Editor-in-Chief Mo wanted to ask Xuan: "Can we discuss this?"

But Jiang Hai was very strict about the second point:

"If you don't agree to the second point, then I will have to switch to another magazine."

Unable to resist, Chief Editor Mo had no choice but to agree to Jiang Hai's request:

"Okay, it's up to you."

In fact, the reason why Jiang Hai raised this second point is also very simple, just as he said -

He didn't want someone to intervene in his writing when he was halfway through:
"You can't write like this. It's too toxic. Readers will explode."

I can write my book however I want and edit it however I want.

What does it have to do with you?

In addition to this reason, he also didn't want to be like a series of cartoonists in Japan, because their works made too much money, even if they didn't want to write, they were forced to write by the animation company, which led to a rapid decline in the quality of their works.

For example, the "Attack on Titan" has a terrible ending, and the "Dragon Ball" has long since collapsed into a pile of shit.
With the permission of Editor-in-Chief Mo, the electronic contract was signed online.

It's like a new life.

Jiang Hai stared at the screen with eyes wide open:

The computer on the left contains the outline of "Dragon Tribe I: Dawn of Fire".

The tablet on the right is about the drama "The Injustice of Dou E".

He picked up the Red Bull on the table, took a gulp, and then shouted:
"Don't be a salted fish anymore, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)