1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 576 I don't write novels anymore, what do the people read?
The newly established Popular Literature and Art Publishing House occupied part of Lin Weimin's working energy. Because there was no separate planning room, the publishing direction and content of the publishing house could only be discussed by Lin Weimin and several young editors in occasional meetings.

Because it has just been established and there are few staff, the atmosphere in the editorial department is rather relaxed.

At present, the main energy of several young editors is still focused on Jin Yong's works, but at the same time, Lin Weimin also set a goal for them, asking them to contact more famous martial arts novelists in China during this period. The publishing direction of the publishing house will revolve around martial arts novels.

Now that the team has just opened, its foundation is too weak, so it is the wisest choice to specialize in martial arts novels.

In the 80s, with the continuous rise of cities, the continuous growth of the citizen class, the development of mass media, and the increasing demand for cultural consumption in the entire society.

In the early 80s, the development of popular literature in China was mainly based on imported Xiangjiang and Wandao works, such as Qiong Yao’s romance novels, Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, and Gu Long’s martial arts novels, and TV dramas such as "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen".

然后是刊物的百花齐放，1981年7月《今古传奇》创刊、1985年1月《章回小说》《传奇文学选刊》创刊、1985年11月《中国故事》创刊……

A series of works such as "Jade Jade Dragon", "Tianjin Hero Huo Yuanjia", "Legend of Li San, the Thief Swallow", "Jianghu Fengyunlu", "Captain of Criminal Police" and "Black Temptation" are widely welcomed by readers, and are popular in the domestic book market. Buying and selling are booming.

However, because ideology still occupies the central position in recent years, and pure literature still holds a strong discourse power, so although these popular literatures have developed impressively under the table, it is difficult to be elegant, and from time to time they have to be ignored by the mainstream consciousness. Form and pure literature were brought out for criticism.

In the mid-to-late 80s, as the energy of the country and people gradually turned to economic construction, the development of popular literature continued to accelerate, and a climate in the literary world gradually formed, and formed its own independent circle, quickly occupying the mass culture market.

Shanghai's "Story Club" sold 650 million copies in a single issue, Hubei's "Legends of the Past and Present" sold nearly 200 million copies in a single issue, Yanjing's "Woodpecker" sold 175 million copies in a single issue, Shanxi's "Folk Literature" single issue The sales volume of 100 million copies, as well as various street tabloids, the sales volume is mostly between hundreds of thousands and 200 million copies. This information is collected by Lin Weimin during this period.

Compared with the vast majority of pure literature publications that are difficult to break through the sales ceiling of one million copies, popular literature publications are almost crushed in terms of sales.

Even the sales volume of "Contemporary", the absolute number one in the field of pure literature in China, seems mediocre in the market of popular literature publications.

Now that we have just entered the 90s, popular literature is still unstoppable in the domestic literary field, especially as piracy continues to eat away at the pure literature market.

If the Guowenshe revives the sub-brand of the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, if it does not participate in it and get a share of it, it will be a godsend.

Lin Weimin still has the idea of ​​launching a publication of martial arts novels. Although martial arts novels have gradually declined in the Xiangjiang and Wandao areas in recent years, they still have a huge audience market in the mainland. At least they can enjoy the market dividends for more than ten years.

At present, there are no real martial arts novel publications in the country. The contents of the publications are not pure martial arts novel publications, such as "Wulin" and "Legends of the Ancient and Modern Times" that are closely related to martial arts novels. The agency opens up the market and delineates a part of the readership.

It's a pity that there are too few authors and manuscript resources in Tongwen News Agency, so this idea can only be sketched out gradually.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is March in the Gregorian calendar.

After a snowfall a few days ago, the temperature in Yanjing City began to rise gradually.

Yu Hua has been in the editorial department of the News Agency for a week, and he has just completed the entry procedures, and now he has officially become a member of the National News Agency.

Well, the Tongwen Society is a subsidiary of the Guowen Society. In theory, he is a member of the Guowen Society.

These days, he read Jin Yong's martial arts novels at work, and wandered around Yanjing City after get off work. He was happier than when he was studying at the National Academy of Arts a few years ago, after all, he had to study during the day.

This afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, Yu Hua was thinking about where to spend the night, but Lin Weimin called him to the office.

"Have you adapted to work these days?"

"Adapted, too adapted!"

"That's good. How's your progress?"

Yu Hua pondered for a while, "The proofreading should be completed next week."

Lin Weimin nodded, and reminded again: "Jin Yong's martial arts novel is the first attempt, so this time you don't need to ask how fast your progress is. The next step is to improve the efficiency, all are ready-made things, a few people It will take nearly two months to complete, which is too inefficient."

Being criticized by Lin Weimin, Yu Hua was not at all unhappy, but instinctively guilty. He has been in the editorial department for a week, and he knows the current atmosphere of the editorial department too well.

People go to work and say they are proofreading manuscripts, but they are actually reading novels. Sometimes they forget about proofreading, and they are happy there.

"understood."

After finishing his expression honestly, Yu Hua asked, "Mr. Lin, Jin Yong's work will be finished soon. Whose novel shall we write next? How is Gu Long?"

"It's a beautiful idea. Do you think you can write whoever's novel you want?"

"I'll just ask!"

Lin Weimin said: "Gu Long's novels are too messy. There are many publishers who have dealt with them. It will take a long time to coordinate them. Next, we will focus on famous martial arts novelists from Xiangjiang."

After being scolded for a few sentences, Yu Hua didn't dare to ask any more questions, and muttered in his heart: Then Liang Yusheng!

He was right, Lin Weimin's next goal was indeed Liang Yusheng.

But the premise is that the collection of Jin Yong's works can be published as soon as possible. Only after seeing the effect can we decide whether to continue to import.

"How is your contact with the author of the novel?"

"I got in touch with Nie Yunlan and Can Mo. Nie Yunlan said that he is in poor health and has stopped writing. Can Mo's manuscript fee is a bit high."

"How much?"

"50 yuan for a thousand characters."

Regardless of Wang Shuo's reasons, writers have already started to take royalties, but that is in the field of pure literature and has little to do with popular literature writers.

Most of the time, this group of people contributed articles to publications, ranging from ten to dozens of dollars per thousand words.

Nie Yunlan is the author of "Jade Jade Dragon". Many people should be familiar with this name. It comes from Wang Dulu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "Jade Jade Dragon" is the novel written by Nie Yunlan based on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Speaking of Nie Yunlan's rewriting of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", there is a public case involved.

After he rewrote "Jade Jade Dragon" based on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it was published in "Legend of the Ancient and Modern Times" in 1983, signed by Nie Yunlan, but did not indicate which novel or whose work it was adapted from .

After "Jade Jiaolong" was published, it was warmly welcomed by readers.After the serialization of this novel ended, Nie Yunlan made persistent efforts to rewrite Wang Dulu's "Iron Riding Silver Vase" into "Spring Snow Vase" and continued to serialize it on "Legend of Jingu".

The serialization of these two martial arts novels has boosted the circulation of "Legend of the Ancient Times" from 41 to 273 million.

After that, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House even released the separate editions of "Jade Jade Dragon" and "Spring Snow Bottle". Within a few years, Nie Yunlan became a well-known martial arts novelist in the domestic popular literature circle, gaining both fame and fortune.

In 87, Wang Dulu's wife Li Danquan learned about Nie Yunlan's rewriting, and negotiated with Nie Yunlan through letters.

Nie Yunlan wrote back to express her apology, and finally, under the mediation of "Legend of the Ancient Times" magazine, Li Danquan did not pursue further.

"Nie Yunlan is getting old, and there are no new works published in the past few years, so don't look for him. Can Mo can agree to his conditions, and Wuji will contact you again. I heard that the old man can write 50 words a month now. , and also gave him a price of [-] yuan per thousand characters."

Remnant Mo began to publish martial arts novels in 82. In recent years, he has written works such as "Shenzhou Lei" and "Blood Splattered Mandarin Duck Tent", which are very popular.

Wu Ji was originally the deputy editor-in-chief of "Foshan Literature and Art". In order to let "Foshan Literature and Art" get out of the trough, he began to try to create the first martial arts novel "Legend of Wulin". tidy.

Many works such as "Legend of Jianghu", "Legend of China" and "Legend of Heroes" have been published successively, making him one of the most popular martial arts masters in China today.

The three people mentioned by Lin Weimin and Yu Hua are all leading players in the domestic martial arts novel circle. He wants to organize a martial arts novel publication, and the best shortcut is to attract famous writers to serialize novels.

"Okay, we'll get in touch later," Yu Hua said.

After chatting about the business, Lin Weimin asked again: "It's been half a year since "To Live" was written, do you have any ideas for a new novel?"

Yu Hua looked bitter, "Mr. Lin, I've been a little busy at work recently."

"Busy fart! Do you think I don't know? You are yelling in the office all day, are you busy with work?"

Yu Hua was so scolded by Lin Weimin that he shrank his neck. He couldn't find the reason, so he had to say: "I don't have any inspiration for now. When I have time, I will go out to collect folk songs. I should have it soon."

Lin Weimin stared at Yu Hua twice, this guy really didn't blink his eyes when he was talking nonsense!

"Work is work. Don't forget why you came to Yanjing. If you are an editor, you will be satisfied. I think you might as well go back to Jiaxing."

Yu Hua said depressedly: "You are right, I understand."

After he finished speaking, he felt a little unconvinced, just talking about me, haven't you written a novel for such a long time?
He took a peek at Lin Weimin, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Lin, do you have any new works recently? I'll go to your place to find inspiration."

"I write mine, you write yours. What's the matter? If I don't have a new novel, you can't write it? Are you going to blackmail me?"

After being reprimanded a few more times, Yu Hua became even more depressed and secretly slandered.

It seems that there must be no inspiration, take it out on me!
Yu Hua left feeling depressed, while Lin Weimin was thinking about the novel.

In fact, Yu Hua was right. Since he finished writing "No One Less" in 89, he has not published a new work for a year and a half.

In his creative career, such a long blank time is the first time.

For more than a year, there were reasons for married life and reasons for being busy with work.

Lin Weimin rubbed his chin, he should find some time to write recently.

He is only in his early thirties this year, at the time when he is at his most energetic, and he has stopped writing novels. What do the people read?
(End of this chapter)