The world of film and television begins with Zhou Bingkun in the human world.

When Zhou Bingkun returned home with the 16 yuan manuscript fee, Zheng Juan was overjoyed to see it.

On the one hand, the family gained an extra source of income, and on the other hand, Zhou Bingkun's talent was truly recognized.

Although Zhou Bingkun's novels were published in newspapers, he didn't receive any compensation. Even though it was a form of unpaid work, many people felt that Zhou Bingkun didn't have much talent and that his novels were only published in newspapers for free.

Free things are free, so why not take advantage of them?

So even though Zheng Juan thought Zhou Bingkun was very capable, she was too embarrassed to show off in public.

But now that Zhou Bingkun has received his royalties, the situation is completely different.

"16 yuan, 16 yuan! That's half a month's salary for you, Bingkun! You're amazing!" Zheng Juan exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the money Zhou Bingkun brought back.

"Hehe, that's normal. After all, I've been writing for so many years. Now that the policy has changed, it's normal for me to get royalties. Tsk tsk tsk, if I write two novels of this quality a month, I can earn 32 yuan a month, which is no less than my salary." Zhou Bingkun sighed.

To be honest, at this point, Zhou Bingkun was even considering resigning from the soy sauce factory.

After all, working as a laborer in a soy sauce factory is no easy job, and while writing novels is a bit mentally taxing, he's gotten used to it over the years. He even feels awkward if he doesn't write something.

However, despite having this idea, Zhou Bingkun had no intention of putting it into action.

At least for now, he hasn't considered doing that.

In this era, a job represents a secure livelihood and stability. With a job, others will respect you when you go out.

More importantly, Zheng Juan only feels at ease with this job.

What if Zhou Bingkun quit his job and started writing novels to earn royalties? Zheng Juan might not say anything, but her emotions would definitely not be stable, and even the neighbors would definitely laugh at Zhou Bingkun openly or secretly.

That's just how times are. So, even though Zhou Bingkun didn't want to continue making shoddy work, he still had no choice but to keep doing it.

Next, Zhou Bingkun began to devote himself even more to writing short stories.

Previously, Zhou Bingkun didn't like the kind of novels that were particularly positive and uplifting, and there were no royalties at that time, so he wrote according to his own whims, producing a short story of a few thousand words every month or even two months.

But now that the royalties have been clearly stated, Zhou Bingkun is full of motivation to write.

Abandoning his usual laziness, Zhou Bingkun would go to his study to write novels whenever he had time after work. Only when he got tired of writing would he switch gears and start studying math and physics.

"Bingkun, don't work too hard. I know you can write, but there's no need to rush. Let's take it slow, like before. Write a novel every month or two and earn some extra income. Don't exhaust yourself." Zheng Juan was worried about Zhou Bingkun's health and advised him not to work so hard.

Whenever this happened, Zhou Bingkun would happily agree, but after Zheng Juan left, he would bury himself in writing again.

So, half a month later, the second short story was completed under Zhou Bingkun's hands.

This second short story is also about educated youth going to the countryside.

The first story was about female educated youth, while this second story is about male educated youth.

The story is about a male educated youth who, after being sent to the countryside, is targeted by the village chief's ugly daughter. Under the village chief's leadership, everyone in the village targets the male educated youth. In the end, in order to survive and have food to eat, the male educated youth has no choice but to compromise and marry the village chief's daughter.

After Zhou Bingkun took the novel to Shao Jingwen, he received 18 yuan in royalties from Shao Jingwen.

The price remains the same at four yuan per thousand words, but since the word count is five or six hundred more than the first article, I got two yuan more.

I wrote two articles in a month and received 34 yuan in royalties.

While Zheng Juan was happy, she kept reminding Zhou Bingkun not to overwork himself. To this end, Zheng Juan even exchanged some tickets with her colleagues at the timber processing plant to buy two kilograms of walnuts for Zhou Bingkun, because Zheng Juan had heard that walnuts could nourish the brain.

As for Zhou Bingkun, he naturally wanted to continue writing and continue making money.

After all, the initial stages of a job or career are often when motivation is at its peak, and that's exactly the case for Zhou Bingkun now.

Unfortunately, Shao Jingwen said that their supplement would only accept Zhou Bingkun's two short stories for the time being, and asked Zhou Bingkun to stop for a while. Their supplement also needed to include articles by other authors, so they couldn't publish too many of Zhou Bingkun's stories.

Zhou Bingkun felt somewhat helpless. He hadn't expected that editors these days would complain about authors writing too fast.

However, since Shao Jingwen and his team had created a supplement and even offered royalties to invite authors to contribute, Zhou Bingkun suspected that similar situations existed elsewhere.

It's possible that some magazines or books that were previously suspended will be republished soon, so Zhou Bingkun started making inquiries.

After all, Shao Jingwen's publication was ultimately just a weekly supplement, which couldn't contain much content.

With such a strong creative desire, Zhou Bingkun naturally wants more platforms.

After Zhou Bingkun made some inquiries, he received good news: "Story Club" was going to be republished, but it would be renamed "Revolutionary Story Club".

Although this "Revolutionary Storytelling" follows the style of the former "Storytelling", it adopts a bimonthly publication model, meaning that a new "Revolutionary Storytelling" will be published only every two months.

However, "Revolutionary Stories" is a book, and it contains more content than Shao Jingwen's weekly magazine.

Most importantly, "Revolutionary Storytelling" is ultimately just a storytelling magazine, and it doesn't have very high requirements for writing style.

Or rather, what *Revolutionary Stories* values ​​is, firstly, the entertainment value of the stories, and secondly, the reading difficulty. If the reading difficulty is too high, like other serious literary works, *Revolutionary Stories* might not accept them.

Therefore, compared to other publications, Zhou Bingkun actually preferred "Revolutionary Stories," or rather, "Revolutionary Stories" was more to the liking of later generations.

When it comes to writing novels, later generations are more willing to submit their work to "Revolutionary Stories" rather than top-tier literary magazines like "Harvest".

Of course, this is mainly due to differences in reading habits, writing style, and creative ability.

After all, writing a novel that can be accepted by "Story Club" is much easier than writing a work that can be accepted by "Harvest".