1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 63 Editorial Work

Qin Chaoyang clapped his hands and said to everyone: "It will become a bimonthly magazine in the future, and everyone's work will be even busier. Lao Meng has already applied to the agency to increase the staff strength of our editorial department, so please don't worry."

There were smiles on everyone's faces. The strength of the editorial department proved that the publication was going uphill, and they were happy to be a part of it.

Lin Weimin was even happier, "I'm not the last one to enter the office, and someone will work for me in the future."

Seeing his embarrassing appearance, Tan Chaoyang couldn't help but lash out at him, "Don't think about good things, all the old editors here. You, just do odd jobs with peace of mind!"

Everyone in the office laughed and showed no sympathy.

The smile that Lin Weimin had just put on immediately turned into a bitter face.

He muttered, "Young people have no human rights!"

"Don't say weird words!" Tan Chaoyang reprimanded him, the old comrade knew the truth of slapping Tianzao, "You have contributed to planning the album, and the monthly reward will be an extra seven yuan."

Finally, some consolation. Although Lin Weimin is not short of the seven yuan, it is still a kind of affirmation of his work.

"Thank you, Director, I will definitely do a good job!"

"Well, this attitude is not bad."

After Qin Chaoyang left, everyone in the office temporarily lost interest in work, and discussed the upcoming revision and staff expansion.

At the beginning, the Guowen Society mobilized the whole society to organize "Contemporary", and all the editorial teams in the agency produced the best manuscripts. At the pre-editing meeting, they strongly recommended the works edited by the department, and hoped that through "Contemporary", the edited works could be published. The book is introduced to readers before it is published, and the pre-editing meeting is very lively every time.

Mo Yingfeng's "The General's Song", Chen Guokai's "Price", Yang Xinji, Hu Yuewei's "Crazy Festival", Zhu Chunyu's "In the Sea of ​​Crowds", Wang Meng's "Bu Li"...

It is precisely because of these excellent and high-quality works that "Contemporary" was able to gain great popularity as soon as it was born.

Now, the situation has changed. From quarterly to bimonthly, it means that the amount of manuscripts has increased by half at once. This is a huge test for both the agency and the editorial department.

It turned out that everyone selected the best manuscripts for "Contemporary" to contribute to "Contemporary". Now the number of manuscripts used has increased, but there are only so many excellent manuscripts. If you want to ensure the quality of manuscripts, you must expand the scale of manuscripts received. After all, it is impossible for the agency to continue Continuous blood transfusion to "Contemporary", "Contemporary" is his own son, and the other editorial teams were not born by stepmothers!

"It seems that in the future, it will not be so easy to organize manuscripts."

"Tired is definitely more tiring than before. Who made our magazine popular? Think about when it was first established last year, isn't it more tiring than now?"

The person who said this was Zhu Changsheng, the founding father of "Contemporary" and one of the first trio.

Xiao Yao suddenly mentioned Lin Weimin, and said, "It's a pity that Weimin, if he didn't join our editorial department, he would be a stable contributor."

Counting the novel "Cliff" published in the album, Lin Weimin has published two novels in "Contemporary".

Everyone in the editorial department knows that he is a fast shooter, and the quality of the manuscript is stable, and the speed is fast. So far, he has not been asked to correct the manuscript.

It is a pity that Lin Weimin joined the editorial department of "Contemporary", and he cannot be both a referee and an athlete. This is an unspoken rule in the industry. In the future, Lin Weimin's manuscripts, if there are no accidents, will not appear in "Contemporary" again.

"It's such a pity. If there is a shortage of manuscripts in the future, we can exchange Weimin's manuscripts with other groups."

Liu Yin shivered cleverly and made everyone laugh out loud.

Lin Weimin smiled wryly, "Thank you very much."

After joking for a while, everyone started to work seriously again.

Lin Weimin no longer studied the manuscripts received from old writers, he came to a corner of the office, where letters from readers were piled up.

When the publication was first launched, the editorial department did not receive many letters, only a few hundred. But at that time, there were too few people, and even drafting, reviewing, and publishing were problems. How could there be time to pay attention to letters from readers?

It wasn't until later that the manpower was a little more abundant that I thought of dealing with it.

Xiao Yao was in charge of this job before, but with Lin Weimin, Xiao Yao was liberated, and Lin Weimin completely inherited most of her odd jobs in the editorial department.

Even if there are people who specialize in handling letters, there are still more and more letters from the editorial department, and only a part of them are in the corner of the office. The real big ones are piled up in the secretary's office of the Modern Department of the agency. The scale only increases, but does not decrease. .

Lin Weimin now takes two hours a day to deal with letters, not because he doesn't want to spare more time, but because even if he specializes in dealing with these letters every day, it is impossible to finish them in a short time, and it will delay work. Take it slow.

The contents of the letters from readers are varied. The main content of the letter Lin Weimin is reading is to praise the magazine for its good operation. Lin Weimin, who has been a rainbow fart, is a little embarrassed. should be changed from quarterly to monthly.

Good guy, this reader is really a bit inappropriate. If you work directly from a three-month issue to a monthly issue, you are not afraid of the sudden death of the editorial department?

After reading the letter, he spread out a piece of letter paper, and briefly replied a letter to the reader named Liu Quanbin. The general idea was that the editorial department had noticed the voice of the readers and was planning to revise it. Good news for everyone.

Opening another letter, it was mailed recently. Lin Weimin glanced at the pile of envelopes, maybe it was messed up when sorting, and the letters were all put in chronological order.

The main content of the letter is to praise the "Thrilling Scene" published in the magazine in the previous issue, and there is no other content. This kind of letter without actual content does not need to be replied.

In fact, there is no need for letters from readers to praise. Lu Yao's "Thrilling Scene" has won unanimous praise from critics and readers since it appeared in the last issue of "Contemporary", although it has not yet reached the level of his later publication "Life" Height, but it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "up-and-coming".

Moreover, Tan Chaoyang also had a special preference for Lu Yao, even the title of the novel in "Contemporary" was written by him in official script.

Another letter was torn apart, asking for a subscription. This is the patron's father, so I have to reply briefly.

There are also local magazines that apply to establish a relationship with "Contemporary". This Lin Weimin can't be the master, so let's save a few letters and hand them over to the editor-in-chief Tan Chaoyang.

Some letters want to adapt movies and TV series published in magazines. Let alone him, the editor-in-chief can't do it, so just pass it on to the author.

After busy talking for more than two hours, the content of the letter was varied, and finally it was time to get off work.

(End of this chapter)