This morning, Sun Quan rarely slept in. When he woke up early in the morning, he picked up his phone and looked at 7:21. He muttered "so early", fell down on the pillow, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
He has been too tired in the past two months. In June, he was busy typing to save enough manuscripts for "My Decathlon" for two months. In July, he worked day and night to write "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon".
I have been working on it for a month. At the end of this month, if I only look at the amount of code words, it is actually not too much, only 210,000 words.
This amount of code words is really not that much compared to his current hand speed, especially compared with the amount of code words he had in June.
But his brain cells that died in July were definitely no less than those that died in June. There were too many things that required him to use his brain. He thought about every paragraph clearly before writing it. After he finished writing, he had to go back and review it at least once.
.
Sometimes it is obvious that a chapter has been written, but when I look back, I feel more and more dissatisfied, so I feel cruel and reluctantly delete the chapter I just coded.
Two consecutive months of high-intensity coding made him lose weight again, and he was one step closer to becoming a lightning bolt.
Therefore, when he decided to submit a manuscript to the publishing house last night, he had already decided to sleep in today and wait for Qidian to announce last month's manuscript fee data. After all, today is the 1st again, and Qidian has announced the manuscript fee data.
days.
It's not that he is just lazy, but he knows his urine. He knows very well that on the morning of the 1st of every month, before the starting fee data is released, he will never be able to find the code word status. This is already
It's not a bad habit of one month, two months, one year, or two years, but a consistent habit he has had since he has been in the industry for more than ten years.
So, instead of getting up early and wasting time and life, it is better to sleep in late.
He didn't open his eyes until after 9 a.m., and stayed in bed for a while, then got up, went downstairs, washed up, and had breakfast.
By the time he returned upstairs, it was already early 10 o'clock.
Log in to the Qidian Author Backstage and check your last month's manuscript fees. As expected, the data has been published.
24327.5 yuan.
This income, compared to most people in this era, should be considered very good, but it can only make Sun Quan silent. With the slow update of "My Decathlon" for several consecutive months, his monthly royalties figures
It has set a new low this year.
A drop in revenue is always disappointing.
In this disappointed mood, he no longer hesitated, logged into QQ, found the QQ account of Qing He, the editor of Pioneer Press, and sent her a brief message.
"Beauty, are you there?"
Soon, Qinghe replied, "The beauty is not here, but I am!"
The text was followed by a grinning emoticon with bared teeth.
Is she actually being cute?
Sun Quan smiled slightly and asked again: "Then who are you?"
Qinghe: "I am Qinghe!"
The text is still accompanied by the grinning smiley face.
Sun Quan was powerless to complain and quickly got to the point, "I have created the beginning of a new book, are you interested in discussing cooperation?"
This time Qinghe finally became serious, "Oh? Of course! You can pass the manuscript to me or send it to my email!"
Sun Quan laughed again, "Don't worry, I want to make two points first. If you don't have any objections, I will give you the manuscript."
Qinghe: "Oh? Tell me! I'm all ears."
Sun Quan: "First, this new book is not in the same genre as "My Decathlon", and I have also changed my pen name. Is there any problem with this?"
Qinghe: "Haha, it doesn't matter! It mainly depends on the quality of the manuscript, but if you don't use your original pen name, the fee for each episode may be a little less. After all, you should also understand that if you don't use your original pen name, your book
The sales volume of your new book will definitely be a little bit different, at least in the early stage, but don’t worry, based on the sales volume of your last book, as usual, when you open a new book, the royalties we will give you will definitely increase.
, but if you decide not to use the original pen name, the increase in your manuscript fee this time may be smaller.
After sending such a long paragraph, before Sun Quan could reply, she sent another brief sentence, "Now you can move on to the second point!"
Sun Quan thought for a while and replied: "Forget it, let's not talk about the second point for now. I will give you a 50,000-word manuscript for review first! We will talk about it when your review results come out!"
Qinghe: "Oh? That's okay! Then give me the manuscript!"
Sun Quan: "Wait a moment!"
…
After temporarily ending his communication with Qinghe, Sun Quan found the 50,000-word manuscript he prepared last night from his computer hard drive and sent it directly to Qinghe via QQ.
After receiving the manuscript, Qinghe responded with an OK gesture and said: "The manuscript has been received. If you have nothing else, please wait patiently for our review results. I will urge the review editor to speed up
The speed of review.”
At the end of the text message, she added a grinning smiley face in a vulgar way.
Sun Quan: "Okay! Then I'll wait for good news."
Why did he just temporarily decide not to mention the second point he wanted to make?
The reason is actually very simple, because the second point he originally wanted to make was the issue of royalties. He originally planned to declare to Qinghe that the royalties for each episode of the new book should not be less than 10,000 yuan.
But before he said this, he saw Qinghe saying that their publishing house was planning to raise the price of his new book, so he naturally didn't want to raise the price to no less than ten thousand.
What if the royalties originally planned to be raised exceed 10,000?
In that case, he first declares that it is not less than 10,000. If someone really gives him 10,000 for an episode, doesn't he lose money?
The number of ten thousand per episode was not randomly determined by him. He had a reference object, and this reference object was tomatoes.
He remembered that before he was reborn, probably around 2007, one afternoon, he was chatting with people in an author group, and a receiving editor from a Taiwan publishing house who had been lurking in the group for a long time suddenly appeared and spoke.
The receiving editor, Sun Quan had submitted articles to him before, so he knew that he was not a fake, but what the receiving editor suddenly said in the group at that time was, "Is there any friend in the group who can contact Tomato?
If so, please tell me that our publishing house is willing to make an appointment with him. The fee is negotiable and will not be less than 15,000 yuan per episode. Thank you!"
The circle of online article authors is really not big. You can see the accounts of Qidian.com and other great writers in many author groups. There were about a dozen author groups that Sun Quan joined at the time, and Tomato was in one of them.
Sun Quan clicked on Tomato's profile, so he remembered that Tomato wrote this sentence in the notes of his profile: "Log in to QQ once every half month. Please leave a message if you have any questions."
At that time, he roughly guessed why the receiving editor wanted to find someone in the author group to message Tomato. It was probably because he sent a private message to Tomato, and Tomato, who only logged into QQ once every half month, had not responded for several days.
he.
At that time, for Sun Quan, he was just a little envious of the popularity of tomatoes.
He, Sun Quan, had submitted a manuscript to that publishing house, but it failed to pass the final review of the review editor. However, this publishing house tried every means to sell Tomato's new book at a high price, no less than 15,000 yuan per episode...
You must know that Sun Quan's monthly manuscript fee at that time was only about two thousand. If he was lazy occasionally, he would not even get two thousand.
But now this little thing, which was very inconspicuous in his memory, gave him something to refer to.
He is still publishing "My Decathlon", and "Legend of the Flying Knife" which once exploded with tomatoes on Qidian's monthly ticket list. Although at the end of the month, it was blasted back by tomatoes again, but he is still popular after all.
More than tomatoes.
Therefore, if he plans to pay less than 10,000 per episode for "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", he will not sign it!
Anyway, these days, there are a lot of publishing houses in Taiwan and Wanwan that accept manuscripts from mainland China. If we can't reach an agreement with Pioneer Publishing House, we can try applying to other publishing houses. Now, he has proved it with a book "My Decathlon"
Live your life, whether in Taiwan or in the novel market in Taiwan and Dongwan.
Therefore, he is confident that other publishing houses will be willing to talk to him even if they cannot give him the high price of 10,000 per episode.
…
After submitting the manuscript, Sun Quan continued to write the remaining chapters of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", but the speed was slightly increased, and he was no longer as careful as he was when writing the first 210,000 words, because the first 210,000 words were enough to meet the requirements of Qidian's free new book period, and the 21
Once the 10,000 words are published, it should be enough to be put on the shelves.
Once it is put on the shelf, you can see what the real performance of this book is.
As for the chapters after they are released...
He kept the style he had before it was put on the shelf, and it was OK to continue writing along the outline and details. It no longer made much sense to continue to carefully carve out the text and consider the shaping of the characters and the advancement of the plot as before.
reason?
Because the first 210,000 words have already finalized the style of this book.
What's more, the rule of charging for online articles based on the number of words determines that no matter how many subscribers a book has when it is published, if you want to make more money, quick updates are the most effective magic weapon!
Even if the quality of the text can be improved a little, most paying readers will be disappointed after it is put on the shelves, because they will think: It is on the shelves, we spend money to read your book, but you still don’t work hard to update it? Are you worthy of our support?
?
…
Maybe Qinghe was not lying when she said she would urge the review editor to speed up the review process.
Only five days had passed since Sun Quan sent her the manuscript. On the morning of the sixth day, Sun Quan received her text message.
Qinghe: "Old Sun! Let me tell you some good news! The final review results of your new book are out. The final review editor's opinion is that the manuscript is of high quality and it is recommended to be published! So, after you go online, let's talk about the signing!"
Although he had expected that with the results of "My Decathlon" and that his book "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" would be 90% published, Sun Quan was still relieved when he saw Qinghe's text message.
It is better for the other party to recognize the quality of his new book than to reluctantly agree to publish his new book.
Moreover, with this final opinion, he would have more confidence to negotiate with the other party about the royalties for each episode.