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

Chapter 169 If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight! Not changing the manuscript is my principle and bottom line! (4k)

Fairy tales are common, but dark fairy tales may not be that common?
In fact, Jiang Hai sometimes wonders, is it appropriate to let children read these stories that subvert traditional cognition?
Is there any suspicion of spreading negative energy?

After thinking for a while, Jiang Hai finally confirmed his original idea:

"That doesn't really count."

Let's not talk about these dark versions of fairy tales. What childhood shadow series are there, such as the female mantis in "Black Cat Sheriff" openly eating her husband, the male mantis, on her wedding night, or the Ultraman series, where Taro was beheaded, Leo and Jack were forcibly dug up.
Compared with these childhood traumas, what Jiang Hai wrote is simply child's play?

Looking back at the previous generation, everyone grew up watching childhood animations like "Black Cat Sheriff", but we didn't find many people with psychological deformities, nor did we find many children whose values ​​were affected by these childhood traumas?

If we say that just relying on a few slightly realistic fairy tales can scare children and affect their outlook on life,
So what we need to reflect on is not the fairy tales themselves, but the parents who educate their children?
"Just do it!"

Looking at the current literary world, to be more precise, the children's literature world.

Most of the literature provided to children is positive and uplifting.

From the perspective of genre characteristics, younger children value enlightenment and puzzle-solving, while older children value literary influence. However, it is almost certain that no matter whether it is younger or older children, as long as it involves stories that children watch -

They must all be the type that promotes positive energy!
"Children's Literature", Review Editorial Department.

The review editor was a little undecided, and hesitantly forwarded the fable fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" submitted by [Anonymous] to the editor-in-chief's email:

"Editor-in-Chief, look."

I think everyone has heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood?
But this is the first time I've seen such a realistic enlightenment fairy tale mixed with a little bit of gloom?
The hunter who represented justice did not defeat the evil big bad wolf.

The evil wolf not only ate the grandmother in the end, but also ate Little Red Riding Hood bit by bit after defeating the hunter.
"Can we accept a fable of this scale?"

“Isn’t this a bit inappropriate?”

"Will this slightly depressing children's story have any impact on the three perspectives that children are forming?"

Judging from the writing style and framework, the author named [Anonymous] has very strong writing skills.

The characters are lifelike.

The story described is fascinating.

This is obviously the kind of text that can only be written by an author with outstanding writing skills.
Although the story itself is very exciting, the plot itself is full of ups and downs and can keep people reading, but some of the plots in the book are slightly mixed with a little violence, and the wording is not very refined and there are some similar
Adjectives such as scarlet blood and broken bones
In fact, if we only talk about the story itself, it is a very excellent fable. It can serve as a warning to children, such as not to trust strangers easily and not to tell their home addresses to strangers casually.

But this ending may be a little hard to accept?

How can evil defeat justice?

How could the hunter, who represents justice, be defeated miserably by the evil big bad wolf?
The editor-in-chief of Children's Literature, who is in charge of receiving manuscripts, tried to contact the author named [Anonymous]:
"Dear anonymous author, could you please modify the ending of your Little Red Riding Hood? Because this is a children's book, our magazine may need a more sunny ending."

But who would have thought that the author named [Anonymous] would have a very tough attitude:
"I can't change it."

For Jiang Hai, the significance of writing these depressing fairy tales is not to make the children who are growing up in a greenhouse recognize the cruel and cold reality as soon as possible?
If the originally gloomy ending was changed to a bright one, then what would be the point of all his hard work?
As expected, Jiang Hai’s tough attitude directly led to his submission being rejected:

[Your manuscript has not yet met the magazine's manuscript acceptance requirements]

Looking at the bloody words on the computer screen, Jiang Hai lit a cigarette and silently exhaled a thick puff of smoke from his mouth:

"As expected."

Those who achieve great things are never fussy about details.

Which writer, especially a famous one, has not had a few submissions rejected in the early days?
Just as the thing that the world lacks the most is writers, the thing that the world lacks the most is also—

It's a magazine!

If you, the first-rate journals, don't like my manuscripts, I will find lower-rate journals to submit to. If the first-rate journals don't like me, I will submit to second-rate journals. If the second-rate journals reject my manuscripts, I will find third-rate journals to continue.
The main point is to never give up!
To Jiang Hai, I can accept rejection, and I can also accept your suggestions and corrections, but what if you want me to revise the manuscript?
This is absolutely impossible!

"It can't be changed at all." Having made up his mind, Jiang Hai frantically searched the Internet for the submission email addresses of major children's magazines.

From national journals, to provincial journals, to municipal journals, and finally to some small district, county, and city journals.
In the end, things did not go as planned.

Jiang Hai submitted his work from Children's Literature to Natural History, and then from Natural History to Science Fiction World. Finally -

The condensed versions of the stories of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" were picked up by a children's magazine called "Feng Hui" with a French joint venture background.

[Dear anonymous author, your original manuscripts "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Wolf is Coming" have been included in the children's magazine "Fenghui".]

There is an old Chinese saying:

All beginnings are hard!

Although it is difficult in the middle, it is also difficult in the later stages!

However, as long as there is a magazine willing to accept it, as long as my short story can be published in a magazine or journal——

This means that my efforts have not been in vain, right?

[Your original manuscripts "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Wolf is Coming" will be published in the 321st issue of "Fenghui" children's magazine. The specific release time is tentatively scheduled for next week. Please contact the review editor for remuneration]

For children's publications like this one, the price of manuscripts is not particularly high.

Jiang Hai's manuscript price was set at 80 yuan per thousand words.

According to the "Measures for Remuneration for the Use of Literary Works" issued by the National Copyright Administration in 2014, a remuneration of yuan per thousand words is the lowest price for submissions to paper magazines.

Although the price of receiving the manuscript was relatively low, Jiang Hai didn't care about it at all, and was even a little happy:
"It's good enough to be published. Why are you so picky? What else do you need a bicycle for?"

In the dormitory, from sunset to dusk.

Jiang Hai, who had been busy from the afternoon till evening, stretched his body vigorously.

"it is finally over"

He took out a can of iced cola from the portable refrigerator beside him, unplugged the pull ring and took a big gulp.

"Comfortable."

In fact, the first sip of a can of three-dollar Coke is worth two dollars and ninety cents, so this statement actually makes sense.

The first sip of Coke——

The coldest!
The coolest!
It is also the best thirst quencher!
This is like the relationship between people, which is always the best when you first meet. The more you drink Coke, the less gas it has. Friends are also less valuable. In the end, the bottle will be thrown away, and both the discarded can and the friend will become worthless.
Just as the rivers and seas are expressing their feelings about life.

The next moment, he received a complaint message from the editor-in-chief of Youth Foreword:
[Jiang Hai, someone threw paint at our magazine office.]? ? ? ? ?

To be honest, when Jiang Hai received the letter from Editor-in-Chief Mo, he was a little confused:

"What does being splashed with paint have to do with me?"

"I didn't throw the paint. If someone threw paint at the magazine, you could have just called the police and that would have been the end of it."

Unexpectedly, in the face of Jiang Hai's rebuttal, Editor-in-Chief Mo directly pointed out his rebuttal:
[Jiang Hai, what I mean is, can the subsequent plot of "Dragon Clan" be slightly changed? Can we make the scenes warmer, and can the subsequent plot not add so many tragic elements? I really can't stand it.]

It turns out that since the last time "Dragon Clan II: Eyes of the Mourner" was written about [Xia Mi's death], her life was ended by the love of her life, Chu Zihang.
This plot is quite heroic!

It has caused dissatisfaction among quite a number of readers!

But Jiang Hai, not only did not restrain himself in the slightest, but became more and more tragic and sad as he wrote more and more!
[After Chu Zihang killed the love of his life, Xia Mi, with his own hands, he came to the small house where Xia Mi had lived before. He lay quietly on Xia Mu's bed, feeling everything in the house, feeling every bit of Xia Mi's life. Although Xia Mi's familiar outline appeared before his eyes, Chu Zihang knew that the person he loved would never be able to survive in this life.]

It seems that Chu Zihang lost his father in childhood, his spouse in youth, and the person he loved was killed by his own hands, which was not tragic enough.
In the next scene, Jiang Hai directly started sending the girl away.

As of "Dragon Tribe II: Eyes of Mourning", there are two popular female characters in this book, namely the little dragon girl [Xia Mi], and Chen Motong, the so-called senior sister [Nono], who has saved the protagonist Lu Mingfei from distress many times and whom Lu Mingfei regards as the only salvation in his life.

Chu Zihang and Xia Mi are the official couple, but it has been a bad ending, and it is a very bad ending.

I thought that after such a complete tragedy, any author with a conscience would sprinkle some sweetness on the readers.

Is this a kind of comfort to readers who are filled with grief and anger?
But who would have thought that after killing [Xia Nuo] unexpectedly, Jiang Hai turned around and attacked [Nono].

Nono should be the most important female character in the entire book "Dragon Clan", and also the woman that readers love the most in the book so far?
The teenagers who are in the sensitive period of puberty call themselves "bad kids". Since they are bad kids, they naturally take on the role of the protagonist Lu Mingfei. Just when the bad kids are in love with [Senior Sister Nuonuo], they also regard [Senior Sister Nuonuo] as the only salvation in their lives, just like Lu Mingfei, who would have thought that the next scene...
Senior Nono directly agreed to her boyfriend Caesar’s proposal!

Moreover, Lu Mingfei, as a poor kid, knew all of this and saw it all.
What is Jiang Hai’s routine?
Jiang Hai’s routine is to first create a nearly perfect female character for you. This female character is so good that you simply cannot find fault with her!
Just as readers gradually fell in love with this character, thinking that she was the light in the protagonist's life, she was the only salvation in the protagonist's life -

Otherwise, just kill her with a knife!

Otherwise, just send her out decisively!
[Xia Mi] and [Nono] are the best proof of this routine!

"No, buddy??? Senior Nuonuo can also marry someone else, right? If Nuonuo was destined to marry someone else, then why would she be so nice to Lu Mingfei? Then why would she be so close to Lu Mingfei? The most important thing is that you let Lu Mingfei know the news the whole time. This is simply murderous!"

"I can't stand it anymore. Which bastard came up with this plot? Jiangnan, I'm going to kill you!!!"

"I thought Nuonuo was the heroine, but you suddenly did this to me? It's written like this, right? Wait for me, I'll go to the kitchen to get you something."

"What the hell??? I shouldn't have bought this issue of 'Youth Preface'. As long as I don't know about proposing, as long as I don't know that Nuonuo is getting married, then the senior sister Nuonuo that I've been thinking about will never get married, wuwuwuwuwu"

"First it was Xia Mi, then Nuonuo? Who will be the next one? Jiangnan, you are not a human! "Youth Preface", you have no heart"

If we hadn't experienced the plot of [Xia Mi's death] first, perhaps everyone would still be able to accept the plot of [Nono accepting the proposal of her fiancé Caesar]?
But, this damn Jiang Hai and "Youth Preface"——

Don’t even want to give the readers a break?
In the last second, Xia Mi was written to death.

The next second, Nuo Nuo was sent out directly?

“Have you ever considered our feelings when you write this???”

As expected, on the second day after this issue of "Youth Preface" was printed and sold, the magazine "Youth Preface" suffered a baptism like a thunderstorm!

A flood of negative reviews from readers came from all over the country and from all directions.

“How come there are so many negative reviews???”

in the office.

Editor-in-Chief Mo became anxious when he saw the mountain of negative review letters in front of him.

Unexpectedly, Editor-in-Chief Mo didn't even have time to process the letters from readers.

The next moment, the security guard rushed into the editor-in-chief's office and looked at Editor-in-Chief Mo with an extremely panicked look:
"Editor-in-Chief Mo, someone threw paint on the doorplate of our magazine."

A few days ago, someone splashed chicken blood and duck blood on the doorplate of a magazine office. Although these things are indeed somewhat insulting, they can still be wiped clean with a towel.

But this splash of paint
How do I wipe this?
When I walked to the door, I saw that the brand new doorplate had been splashed all over and was beyond recognition.

Editor-in-Chief Mo was immediately furious:
"Call the police!"

"We must call the police!"

The police arrived at the magazine office and retrieved the surveillance video, only to find out that the suspects in the crime, namely the paint throwing, were two teenagers who looked young.

As if they had planned it in advance, they stepped into the elevator with an iron bucket in their hands and headed straight for the 16th floor.

After seeing the doorplate of "Youth Preface", he picked up a bucket and poured water on it and ran away.

“Why did they splash your doorplate?”

"Why do these two kids only splash water on your house and not on others?"

Faced with the police uncle's questioning, Editor Mo naturally felt a little guilty:

“Maybe we did something wrong.”

After finishing his statement at the police station, on his way back to the magazine, Chief Editor Mo immediately contacted Jiang Hai:
[Jiang Hai, can we change the subsequent plot? Can we change the subsequent outline of "Dragon Clan"?]

Unexpectedly, Jiang Hai responded very firmly to Editor-in-Chief Mo's question:

“Absolutely not”

Jiang Hai didn't even want to revise the manuscript for a short story, let alone a long story of over a million words?
Not revising the manuscript should be Jiang Hai’s principle and bottom line?

"You're the one who asked me to write the knife, and you're the one who asked me to revise the manuscript. What's the matter with you two?"

Jiang Hai still remembers what Editor-in-Chief Mo said to him:

"The more you cut, the better our magazine's sales will be. Just go for it."

However, even though he said that, Jiang Hai felt a little guilty about what happened in the magazine?
After thinking for a while, Jiang Hai sent a message to Editor-in-Chief Mo:
[Editor-in-Chief Mo, I'm very sorry for what happened today, but I'm really not used to revising manuscripts. If you find it difficult, I can switch to another magazine to continue serializing the subsequent plot of "Dragon Clan".]

Unexpectedly, Editor-in-Chief Mo's attitude towards Jiang Hai's solution was just as firm as his:
“Absolutely not”

(End of this chapter)