1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 25 Seconded Writing

While Rong Shihui was talking with Lin Weimin, there was a knock on the door of his office. Rong Shihui was about to get up when he saw an old comrade poking his head in.

"Director Qin!" Long Shihui got up and quickly introduced to Lin Weimin, "This is Director Qin Chaoyang from our editorial department."

"Director Qin, this is Lin Weimin, the author of "The Death of Yula"."

Qin Chaoyang was over sixty years old, with gray hair and a face full of dimples, but he spoke with great vigor, "Comrade Xiao Lin is so young and promising!"

Lin Weimin got up and shook hands respectfully, "Thank you Director Qin, you can just call me Weimin."

What is his name Xiaolin? It's not his style to be a generation shorter when he comes up.

Tan Chaoyang laughed, "Okay, we'll call it Weimin."

Rong Shihui explained from the side: "I called Comrade Weimin over today to talk to him about his novel..."

Qin Chaoyang said, "I've read the novel and it's very well written. Is there any problem?"

The publishing and publishing of novels have to go through three reviews and three proofreading, and the final decision for publication needs to go through a meeting of the editorial department, and the final decision is made by the editor-in-chief. After "The Death of Yula" was handed over to Tan Chaoyang, there was no time to attend the meeting to discuss it.

"The quality of the manuscript is fine, but the style is too dark, which does not match the overall style of our magazine."

"Um……"

Qin Zhaoyang pondered for a moment, "The style is very unique, different from the current literary atmosphere. But this is also the advantage of this manuscript. In the past two years, scar literature has become popular, and readers sometimes get tired of reading it. Comrade Weimin is so young. , the quality of the work is also very outstanding, I think this manuscript can be used!"

Qin Zhaoyang's words are insightful. Scar literature is a product of a special era. After buzzing was smashed, it took advantage of the momentum and reached its peak in a few years. Instead, it was slapped on the beach by the tide of reform literature. The reason is that the attention of the whole society has turned to economic construction and material life.

Qin Chaoyang is now the deputy director and editor-in-chief of the editorial department, and he can't be said to be unanimous in the selection of manuscripts, but at least he plays a decisive role.

Seeing his support for the publication of this manuscript, Rong Shihui's worries disappeared, "This is the best, the best."

On the other hand, Lin Weimin was also very happy when he heard that Qin Chaoyang had confirmed that he would use his own manuscript. This trip was finally worthwhile.

Qin Chaoyang is an editor who attaches great importance to discovering and supporting newcomers to literature. During his work in People’s Literature in the 50s, he discovered such writers as Jun Qing, Qu Bo, Mala Qinfu, Wang Meng, Liu Bin Yan, and Xiao Ping. Famous writers.

Now he is half of the editorial department of "Contemporary", and he still maintains this habit, supporting newcomers and new works as always.

Lin Weimin, a newcomer in his early twenties, was what he valued the most. During the chat, he learned that Lin Weimin had also written an article that he wanted to leave for "Zhong Shan".

"In the future, if you have a new draft, you can show it to us first. I don't dare to guarantee it when I publish it, but it's also good to raise the quality of the work to improve the quality of the work."

Lin Weimin nodded, "Definitely in the future."

After chatting for more than ten minutes, Tan Chaoyang got up, "Okay, then you guys continue talking, I'll go first."

Several people got up to see each other off. After Tan Chaoyang left, Lin Weimin checked the time, and it was already past six o'clock in the evening.

"Mr. Rong, it's so late, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Let's go out and have some dinner together."

"No, no, no, I still have a few manuscripts in my hand that I haven't finished reading. Go ahead."

Lin Weimin sincerely invited him twice, but Long Shihui kept declining, so Tang Yuqiu held Lin Weimin back.

"He is really busy, wait for the next opportunity."

Rong Shihui smiled and said, "Yes, there is a chance next time."

After bidding farewell to Rong Shihui, Lin Weimin and Tang Yuqiu came out from the back building. It was already past dinner time. There was an open space between the front building and the back building. A basketball court was built here, and six or seven men were playing basketball. .

"These are writers seconded from various places to come here to revise their manuscripts."

Seeing Lin Weimin's eyes resting on those men playing basketball, Tang Yuqiu explained to him.

Lin Weimin nodded, thinking that there should be some famous people among these people, but unfortunately he didn't know any of them.

When the two were about to leave the gate, they saw a few people carrying a drunk man into the courtyard, Tang Yuqiu said, "Another one wants to pack his bags and leave."

In the past few years, domestic writers have suffered disasters, leading to the emptiness of the domestic literary world in the past few years of reform and opening up, which is why many writers of later generations became famous at this stage.

At that time, new works in the literary world were scarce, and it was difficult to support the literary reading requirements of Chinese people. Many publishing houses and editorial departments could only find promising seedlings in the contributions of some amateur authors.

But these good seedlings have no writing experience at all, or very little, so someone came up with the idea of ​​"seconding writing".

These potential seedlings are seconded to the publishing house and the editorial department to write, revise, eat and live here, and revise the work with the help of the editor until the publication or publication requirements and quality can be met.

The National Literature Publishing House is also doing this kind of thing now, and there are quite a few people seconded.There are many seconded talents living in the two buildings in the courtyard, and they live there for a few months or a year.

There are some authors who really can't understand the manuscript, and the work is eventually killed, so they can only drink a big drink to drown their sorrows, and finally pack up and leave.

This kind of approach really cultivated a group of talents for the literary world at that time.

For example, Ma Jicai wrote a copy of "Yihequan" which was favored by the National Literature Publishing House, and then he was seconded to the agency. He lived here for two years. The sister article "The Magic Lamp".

On the way back, Lin Weimin took Tang Yuqiu to a state-run restaurant for dinner.

He ran back and forth for his manuscript without even eating, so he couldn't let him go home hungry.

During the meal, Tang Yuqiu was still chatting with him about what he had seen in the National Literature Publishing House, and Lin Weimin felt a little emotional after hearing this.

For literature, this is really the best age.Another 500 years, or another 500 years, I am afraid there will not be such a good time.

Many people who have experienced such an era will always sigh or be angry from time to time after a few years. It has only been so many years. How can literature become something that people hate?
Only when Lin Weimin lives in this era can he understand that the times always make heroes, not the heroes make the times.

The names and works recorded on the inscriptions of the times, of course, have their own reasons for their talents, but the bigger reason is that this era has given them the opportunity to shine.

　I am ready to recommend it, and it has been updated three times in the past few days.

　　


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