Writer dream

For most people, writing is more suitable

A dream that has a strong meaning but not poked

Picture/Xiao Zhenduo

Many people have worked as a writer's dream. Modern employment pressure is huge, and this dream has become more and more realistic. According to statistics, the author of Chinese online literature reached 19.36 million in 2019. In the case of "inner rolls" in various industries, many people want to make a living with code words. They feel that writing is both romantic and elegant and easy to famous. Sitting in front of the table every day to knock on the keyboard, they can earn enough money. They have a large number of fans. Not only do you have the opportunity to travel everywhere and think about the past and future of the world, you can also talk about it, and are not subject to the constraints of worldly etiquette.

Although there are many people who have eaten fragrant and spicy life with ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, many writers who have achieved well -known and famous, referring to their experiences all the way, are also very clear how hard to make a living in this field. Some people often come out to say. Lin Yutang persuaded people to "be a warlord as a strategy", and it is necessary to be a vendor if it is not good. Regardless of coal selling or wine trafficking, it is better than writing. Mr. Ye Shengtao is even more benevolent, knowing that the writers are generally poor. I am afraid that someone will not be able to hold the hotel as shy. Before he died, he handed over a house in Suzhou. Essence

Sulor said that wealth is the ability to fully experience life. White Poet, the same poet, is probably added to the end of this sentence -it is even more so for the writer. In order to earn $ 125, Whitman wrote a novel "Franklin Evans" for the book dealer. After the publication, he sold 20,000 copies, which made the bookman send a small fortune. However, Whitman's poem "Grass Leaf Collection" has been released for more than a hundred years, but there has been no more than 20,000 volumes. Many writers are not only trapped by the economy for life, and writing is also affected. The creative process has always been unable to get rid of the trouble of money.

After all, not everyone is Shen Sanbai in "Six Ji of the Floating Shengsheng". The family has enough financial support, which can remembers the boudoir. Song Yilang, executive of Zhang Ailing's legacy, analyzed Zhang Ailing's writing direction from an economic perspective. It was found that Zhang Ailing's best short stories were published from 1943 to 1944. During this period The depreciation speed of the currency is too fast. If you write a long article, according to the standard fee standard stipulated in the contract, regardless of whether the pre -savings or monthly, the author suffers, and the manuscript fee may not even buy a packet of match next month. During this period, Zhang Ailing concentrated on attacking short stories, which played a top level.

The same thing happened to Zhang Henshui. As the first best -selling book writer in the Republic of China, he was proud of those years of spring breeze, and wrote serial novels for several newspapers. Every night, people who newspapers were waiting at his doorstep. The text he just wrote was immediately taken back to the newspaper for making Serialized. Its thousand -character manuscript fee was 8 yuan, and more than 200 kg of rice was available at that time. Therefore, he wrote novels as much as possible, 900,000 words in "History of Spring and Ming", 1 million words in "Golden Fan Family", and 220,000 words in "Laughing Laughing". His more than 70 people were supported by punctuation, and he also had Li Li to buy a yard of Jiujin in Peiping.

Later, inflation, the price is different every day. Zhang Henshui's writing career encountered severe challenges. "The manuscript fee per 1,000 words was approved at the beginning of the month. Maybe you can buy two or three pounds of rice. By the time you receive the manuscript fee at the beginning of next month, half a catty of rice will be received. I can't buy it. "Every time he submitted the manuscript, he had to discuss the new manuscript fee standard with the newspaper. In 1947, the paper was as expensive and Zhang Henshui was forced to stop. The twenty or thirty books he published in Shanghai before was also published because of no proficiency. He had to sell the house to heal the disease.

Masterpiece is like this, and ordinary writers are even worse. I wanted to collect some column articles in the past two years, and the publisher was also interested, but because I was silent and worried that the sales of the book were not good, let me find a big Internet celebrity V in the short video platform. A few words of big V, and then let the big V of "co -ies" sell books. I can only stop.

For most people, writing is more suitable as a dream that has a strong and unpredictable dream, or a period of pilgrimage full of pilgrimage full of pilgrimage, it is not advisable to make a living. Because in the age of Whitman or modern, writing is largely subject to traffic -the quality of words is not the key to creating benefits. Traffic is.

Therefore, being a shortcut to become a writer instead. As long as the number of fans is enough, naturally someone will take the initiative to come to the door to ask for "cooperation" and easily realize the dream of the writer.

Send 2022.7.11 Total Issue 1051 "China News Weekly" magazine

Magazine title: Writer Dream

Author: green silk

Edit: Wang Xiaoxia

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