Yes, then? It’s impossible to invite someone to dinner, just to listen to your complaints and talk about the history of revolutionaries, right?

Wu Qifei seemed to be immersed in sadness and could not extricate himself. He was in the mood to answer Jiang Shuiyuan's question. Fang Quan explained to him: "It is difficult to run a magazine these days, and it is easy to say it is easy to say it is because every step cannot be made by setting up a magazine, applying for issue numbers, forming manuscripts, editing, printing, finding sales channels, etc. But even if each step is perfect and impeccable, as long as the magazine cannot be sold, all the efforts made before will be in vain.

"Now in this society, wine is also afraid of deep alleys. It is not that the manuscripts you have organized are good and magazines can be sold. They must have enough fame. Where does fame come from? One is to spend money on advertising. As long as you are well-known to everyone, there will always be people who are willing to be a guinea pig to try out the poison, and then the quality of the magazine will be better, and the market will be cultivated after a few years. But advertising is a gold-swalking beast. Not to mention that you have one or two million, even if you have three or five million, you may not hear the sound of water when you spend it in. If you are not careful, you will lose all your money.

"Another good way is to attract famous artists to stand up. If you can invite Nobel Prize winners of literature and other front-line writers to write articles for you, it won't take long to make the magazine's fame naturally. The key is to invite these famous artists to write articles for you. The price is not cheaper than advertising, and the quality may not be guaranteed. It will be a dilemma whether to use it or not. How many people who make literary magazines can withstand such torture?

"It's easy to say that famous writers like Guo Siming and Han Shu already have a large number of loyal fans. Not to mention editing a magazine, even if they copy a soft copy with their own photos, it will sell better than ordinary magazines. If they run the magazine themselves, they don't have to worry about sales. If they lose money, they will naturally be much easier to make.

"In the past, we had two of them supporting us in the magazine "Gengyun", and the name of the new concept composition competition was not worried about sales. Now they plan to set up a new door, and the market positioning is similar to ours. The cake of youth literature is only so big. You can imagine that the exhibition of "Gengyun" magazine will definitely be difficult in the future. Thinking of this, the president will inevitably worry about it and it must not be cut off!"

Jiang Shuiyuan vaguely guessed the intentions of Wu Qifei and Fang Quan: "You will never sit and wait for death, right? So you have already thought of a countermeasure and have already started to make arrangements, right?"

Fang Quan nodded: "We made some adjustments in the early stage to deal with it, but their market appeal is there, and one force reduces ten times, and we cannot break up with them, so the effect is basically zero. After thinking about it, we can only hope that this new concept composition competition can produce a few good seedlings, and then gather the strength of the whole society to create a new generation of youth literary idols and fight with them. Fortunately, I will not lose my life, so we will meet you!"

"Me?" Jiang Shuiyuan said: "Why is it me?"

Fang Quan replied carefully: "The basis of cooperation is frankness, so what I said next is more straightforward. If there is any inappropriate thing to offend you, please forgive me. First of all, you are good at writing skills. I have read the poems, dramas, and novels you write. Whether you are carefully created or read casually, each of them is excellent, and it is full of spirituality, not inferior to the current Han Shu and Guo Siming. This is the prerequisite for you to compete with them from a distance.

"The second is that you can promote and hype enough. Forgive me, I searched and searched for your information online without your permission. According to the existing information, Jiang's study life is rich and colorful, and he has achieved very excellent results in many aspects. For example, he led the Chinese Studies Debate Team to the fourth place in the provincial selection competition, singing is the champion of your Huaian Prefecture Competition, and his long-term and short-distance running scores were also outstanding in the school sports meeting, and his academic performance is firmly ranked first in the grade. He is the president of the Chinese Studies Debate Society, a member of the three groups of the Olympic Games, and so on."

Wu Qifei reminded: "You missed the most important point. He will be the winner of the first prize in the 53rd New Concept Composition Competition!"

"That's right!" Fang Quan admitted his mistake frankly, "Maybe, classmate Jiang, you think these things are meaningless to a writer. The foundation of a writer is ultimately the pen in his hand, and all of them are false. Is this the truth? I have studied with the president for so many years before I realized that my writing style is smooth and exquisite in conception is certainly one of the requirements for becoming famous and famous, but if you want to become a big shot, it is far from enough to just write articles. For example, literary talent is like the wings of a bird, and other talents and skills are the color of feathers. Wings can determine how high and far you can fly, but what really attracts others to look up and watch you fly is based on gorgeous feathers! What does the saying in "The Analects of Confucius" say? That is to say, appearance and inner self are equally important?"

"Writing is like quality, and quality is like text. The horns of tigers and leopards are like dogs and sheep. It comes from "The Analects of Confucius - Yan Yuan Chapter 12." Jiang Shuiyuan replied silently.

"Yes, that's the sentence! If there is no fur pattern on the leather, who can tell which one is the skin of a tiger and leopard, and which one is the skin of a dog and sheep?" Fang Quan seemed to be a top student in the Mandarin Department. Otherwise, ordinary people would not know what "天" means. "Take Guo Siming and Han Shu as an example, they seem to be famous all by their own talents, and then everything comes naturally, but only our president and themselves know how hard they each have to do in the process, such as finding someone to write articles and flatter, creating momentum on forums, hiring people to call them naive writing, suing them for attacks and plagiarism, making up all kinds of scandals, giving money to newspapers, and giving them money to publish... If you relax your horizons, you can even consider dropping out of middle school, playing publications on the Internet, acting as a publicist, acting as a free endorsement, and becoming an image ambassador as part of marketing!"

Jiang Shuiyuan originally thought that the literary and artistic circle would be a little fresher, but he didn't expect that there were so many tricks in it, which really opened his horizons!

Of course, Fang Quan would not reveal all the pickled matters in the sauce jar. Let the newcomers smell the smell first, and be mentally prepared for everything in the future. Then continue the previous topic: "The last point to choose you is that you are good-looking enough. There is no way. Now it is a society that looks at the face. There is a natural advantage in everything you do. What's more, after our investigation, women account for more than 65% of the readers who buy our magazines. A young and talented handsome guy will definitely be more likely to be accepted by readers. On this point, Guo Siming has obvious disadvantages. Although Han Shu is good, he is already married, but you are the young and handsome guy in the year of fighting. This is the decisive condition for you to compete with them from a distance."

"That's all?"

Fang Quan didn't know how to answer him: "Uh, that's all I can think of for the time being..."

Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head: "The three things that Editor-in-Chief Fang said just now may be able to convince your editorial colleagues, but they are not enough to impress me. Besides, I am a science subject, and I only write essays to deal with the Mandarin exam. I came to participate in the competition just to add points to the college entrance examination. I never thought of being a writer. Thank you for your kind hospitality. If nothing happens, I will say goodbye first!"

"Let's go!" Wu Qifei and Fang Quan stood up at the same time, "Student Jiang, don't hurry to leave, everything is easy to discuss!"

Fang Quan also hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, everything is easy to discuss. Even if you don't want to be a writer, you can still write articles for our magazine! As long as you become the exclusive writer of our magazine, the royalties will definitely be better. We can calculate according to the standards of first-line writers, 600 words, 600 yuan; if you are selected as a cover article, the standard will be increased to 100 words. You should know that those online writers nowadays have only a few dozen dollars, or even a few dollars. Thinking about Han Shu and Guo Siming, when they first became famous, their articles in our magazines were only three or four hundred dollars. How about it?"

Jiang Shuiyuan didn’t know what the remuneration standard given by Fang Quan was in the industry, but after a little comparison, he knew that what he gave was definitely not low! For example, during the three hours of today’s competition, he wrote more than 3,000 words. If it was calculated according to the standard of 6,000 yuan, it would be 2 ooo yuan. You should know that my father Jiang Shuiyuan worked tirelessly every day at school, and his monthly salary was only 3,000 or 4,000 yuan. Jiang Shuiyuan also did business for a few days on weekends. Excluding purchase prices, venues, taxes and other costs, the money earned in a week may not be as expensive as the manuscripts for this article!

My mother lived in Icu before, and she spent the savings at home like flowing water. Now all kinds of rehabilitation treatments are all costing money. Jiang Shuiyuan is not enough to make money. Just relying on my father's salary to maintain the family plan, I will sooner or later live to eat. If there is an opportunity to make money, Jiang Shuiyuan naturally doesn't want to miss it: "What if I wrote a novel of 10,000 words?"

"That's best! Now the summer is coming soon, and the magazine has plans to launch supplements or single-books. If you take advantage of the first prize of the new concept composition competition, then a masterpiece will be released, and its level is no less than your level in the rematch, you will definitely become famous in one fell swoop! According to the standard of 600,000 yuan in a thousand words, that's also 60,000 yuan!" Fang Quan was overjoyed and asked anxiously, "Do you have a copy of the manuscript on hand? Why don't you show us first?"

Wu Qifei said: "If Jiang Shuiyuan really wrote a novel of 10,000 words and his level is enough, I will make arbitrary decisions and the remuneration standard is calculated based on 10,000 words and 1000 words!"
Chapter completed!