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Chapter 9 Writing a book is a dead end

Fortunately, Teacher Xiao Xie is also a flexible person.

As soon as he rolled his eyes, he thought of the problem.

Immediately, Teacher Xiao Xie sent a message to Wang Jingbin: "Lao Wang, please give me 2000 yuan in compensation."

"Xiao Xie, what's going on?"

"Do you want "Ceper's Feet"?"

"Yes."

"Then don't give me 2000 yuan. As agreed, 2000 yuan for a thousand words."

"Uh...you really plan to make the difference."

Lao Wang made a teasing expression.

"You can really make a profit in other aspects, but let's forget about this matter. I'm going to make up the difference for Chen Yi."

"That's fine."

Lao Wang nodded, and then sent a red envelope of 1500 yuan to Teacher Xiao Xie.

Xiao Xie was taken aback: "Isn't it 2000 yuan?"

"Yes."

"Then you should give me 2000 yuan, why 1500 yuan?"

"Didn't you give 500 yuan to classmate Chen Yi? How much is 500 + my current 1500?"

"2000."

"Yes, it's 2000. Are there any other questions?"

"No."

"Then let's talk next time."

"Next chat."

Looking at the screen blankly, Teacher Xiao Xie always felt that something was wrong here.

I just keep thinking about it but can’t figure it out.

500 yuan + 1500 yuan.

Isn't it 2000 bucks?

There seems to be no problem.

……

"I have good news for you. Your book will be officially released tomorrow."

"Is it going to go on sale?"

"Yes."

Chen Yi has been in a good mood in recent days.

With more than 2000 yuan in hand, Chen Yi added a braised egg when ordering takeout at night.

Even better news is.

Yesterday, Teacher Xiao Xie even made up for herself 1500 yuan.

It was said that the literary newspaper quoted a price of 2000 words per thousand words, but they did not ask clearly about the situation at the time.

This made Chen Yi have a better impression of Teacher Xiao Xie.

Or he was thinking dirty.

He is a teacher, so how can he make the difference?

After receiving the news from editor "July" today, Chen Yi felt even better.

of course.

Chen Yi is not the only one who has received the news that the work will be released tomorrow.

In the "Chenyang Writers Group", there are also author friends whom I have chatted with before, Dangdang.

His new book is also said to be on shelves tomorrow.

and.

The two also made an appointment to go to the bookstore tomorrow to check on the sales.

Chen Yi agreed.

……

the next day.

Yueyou Bookstore.

A man in his 30s with shaggy hair and oily face appeared in front of Chen Yi.

"Are you Dangdang?"

Staring at Dangdang, Chen Yi thought he had recognized the wrong person.

"Okay, don't look at it all the time. We are all men, so what's the point? Boy, when I first started writing books, I was actually the same as you."

Dangdang patted Chen Yi on the shoulder.

This made Chen Yixiang come up with a joke circulating in the group.

Call it a joke.

Actually several pictures.

The first picture shows that in the first year of writing the book, I was extremely beautiful.

In the second year, I started not to care much about what I wore.

In the third year, not only did I not care about my clothes, I didn’t even pay much attention to my personal life.

In the fourth year, a lot of hair began to fall out.

In the fifth year, he has become bald and has a big beard.

In the tenth year, I was looking for work on the streets in rags and holding a sign that read, "Gold Medal Gunner, undertake urban, historical, athletic, fantasy... only costs 5 yuan per thousand words."

Final summary.

Writing a book is a dead end! ! !
Many authors will post these pictures when they are making fun of themselves.

In fact.

Writing a book is really not a particularly good way.

Just say Dang Dang.

After meeting Chen Yi, Dangdang talked to Chen Yi.

The reason why he is like this is because he wrote all night last night.

And why did I stay up all night writing?In addition to personal habits, it is also because the income from royalties is very average.

This time, both Dangdang and Chen Yi’s new books have an initial printing of 1 copies, and the royalties received are about [-] yuan.

But Chen Yi probably spent more than half a month on this 1 yuan.

But for Dangdang, it took him three months.

Calculate the average.

It only costs more than 3000 yuan a month, so it's better to go to the factory to drill screws.

But it's still a good situation.

After all, it was published.

But when it comes to writing, 99% of authors cannot publish the books they write.

In other words.

It may take many authors an unknown amount of time, but the income...

Is zero.

……

"See that guy in front of you?"

"Who?"

"The one sitting in the middle."

"Oh, you saw it, who is he?"

"[Liu Yang] in the group."

"It's him."

Although it was the first time to meet Dangdang.

But these days in the group, Chen Yi and Dangdang have become quite familiar with each other.

As for the Liu Yang Dangdang mentioned, he is also a writer in the group.

However, compared to Chen Yi and Dangdang, Liu Yang is undoubtedly a best-selling novel writer.

of course.

There are many best-selling novel writers in the group.

But Liu Yang is one of the more popular ones recently.

The bookstore’s first printing of his new book is 5 copies.

It is said that if the sales effect is good, additional printing may be considered.

This is not.

As soon as Liu Yang's new book was put on the shelves, Chenyang Publishing House arranged a signing meeting for him.

"You see, what is placed in the most prominent position is his work, "The Youngest"."

Dangdang easily took down "The Youngest", turned it over, and then put it in.

"Dangdang, where is your book?"

"Go further inside."

With Chen Yi, Dangdang came to the far corner: "This book is mine. Nuo, yours is here too."

Dangdang laughed at himself.

Chen Yi was also happy.

You can basically judge future sales by looking at where new books are placed.

However, Chen Yi still has some confidence in the work "Nine Transformations of the Golden Body".

Although written by a novice.

But the sales of this work in the previous life were very good.

Even if the glory cannot be recreated in this world, since it is such an identical parallel world, sales will not be any worse.

Of course, this will take a certain amount of time.

Just seeing Dangdang who was a little depressed on one side, Chen Yi picked up Dangdang's work and looked at it for a while.

"Not bad, Dangdang, I think your new book is good."

Chen Yi nodded.

Dangdang's new book is an urban romance novel called "Urban Men and Women".

Chen Yi watched it for about ten minutes.

Overall, the language is quite sophisticated and humorous.

But unfortunately, it still suffers from the old problem of traditional authors of paper media, that is, the progress is too slow.

There are often tens of thousands of words at the beginning, just explaining some things that are not very related to the main plot.

of course.

It’s not just Dangdang that has this problem, a lot of traditional paper media authors have this problem.

But Dangdang shook his head: "You think it's useless, the editor thinks it's good. You see, the editor thinks Liu Yang's book is very good."

As Dangdang spoke, he looked at Liu Yang who was at the autograph signing meeting.

Although Dangdang doesn't have much affection for Liu Yang.

But have to say.

There is indeed something exciting about this scene.

But Chen Yi shrugged and said, "The editor is not a god. He sometimes makes mistakes."

"That's true, but you can tell by looking at the number of first prints. When Liu Yang came, he printed 5 copies. With this scale, there will definitely be more prints. And we printed 1 copies, basically It is impossible to reprint."

"How about I tell you a trick?"

"What trick?"

Dangdang is a little strange.

immediately.

Dangdang saw it.

Chen Yi placed the "Nine Transformations of the Golden Body" on the edge of the corner and moved it to the middle position.

and.

Liu Yang's "The Youngest" was also placed on the other side.

(End of this chapter)