Ming Pao Headquarters Building, No. 18 Kaye Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong.

Xu Fei threw a manuscript into the trash can in anger. After reading the manuscript for half a morning, it was either uninnovative and the writing was too bad, and the story was written in vain. Based on the professional ethics of an editor, Xu Fei patiently read a few copies. After all, he had dreamed of a writer before, and even if the effort he had created with his heart was not good, he still needed respect.

After reading a few articles, I stuffed them back into the file bag and prepared to return them to the front desk. Xu Fei, who felt that they were quite decent, commented on the article from the perspective of professional editors and made his own suggestions. If no better article appears and the author can modify the manuscript according to his own suggestions before submitting it, then hand over the manuscript.

Whether you can publish it is not up to you. There is also the leader of your editorial group on it, and there is also the editor-in-chief. Generally speaking, unless you involve sensitive topics, you will be sure to publish it after passing the editorial group leader and rarely rejected it. For medium and long novels with more than 30,000 words, you need to be careful when you want to publish it. Generally, the leader needs to submit a manuscript before meeting to review it, and finally the editor-in-chief decides.

Xu Fei is mainly responsible for literary manuscripts. The manuscript I just read is a novel. At first glance, he has a good foundation in the text. Although the subject matter is a bit old-fashioned, the story is well told. I thought I finally found a good work after reading it all morning, but later I felt more familiar. Finally, after thinking carefully, isn’t this a work published by other newspapers a few years ago? If you change the background of the age, you dare to use it to cheat the manuscript fee as soon as you change the name of the character?

As an editor, this kind of thing is the most hated and afraid of. The mainstream readers of Mingpao are middle-class and college students with higher education levels, and they are even more intolerant of this kind of thing. If you don’t notice the recommendation for a while and the editor-in-chief does not notice it, it will be a plagiarism incident that damages the reputation of the newspaper.

He recorded the signature address on the manuscript in a small notebook, which was considered to have added him to the blacklist, and threw it into the wastebasket. Xu Fei really wanted to call him according to the phone number provided by the person, but he thought that this kind of thing would happen once or twice every once in a while, and he couldn't even scold him.

After drinking half a cup of tea, I suppressed my anger and pulled up another manuscript to read it.

"Hmm? It's quite thick." Xu Fei was slightly surprised and read the title of the novel.

"Little Im the Home?"

I opened the file and roughly estimated the number of words in the manuscript. It looked like a hundred thousand words. The whole manuscript was sent from the beginning to the end. Needless to say, I knew that I was a newcomer.

Generally, for novels with more than 30,000 words, only part of the submission is submitted, and other manuscripts are placed in your own hands. After the editor takes a fancy to his work, he will only pay the remaining part after the manuscript fee is agreed upon in the interview. This is also the author's own method of protecting himself. The threshold for opening a newspaper in Hong Kong is not high, which has caused all the people who run newspapers. It is not new to newspaper editors cheat the manuscripts of careless authors for themselves.

Of course, Xu Fei disdains to do such things, but instead develops some favors for the novelist.

"Look first and then talk about it."

The novel is very ordinary and expected. The plot is also very simple. A little ghost who was forgotten by his incompetent parents and two funny articles that were targeted by his thieves who had a bad intention in the house. It is not a question of the thoughts, connotations, or anything else. It is just a simple text sketch, which looks relaxed and humorous, without any brains. After reading it in one breath, my heart was in a state of irritation.

"Haha, there's something interesting."

"Oh, are there any good works? Let me see." Guo Yuan, who was sitting opposite Xu Fei, raised her head with interest.

Like Xu Fei, she is an editor of the same group. Guo Yuan has obviously more manuscripts in the wastebasket than Xu Fei. She was not as patient as Xu Fei when reviewing the manuscripts, and she always threw away the unsatisfied works. It was a waste of time to think about it. There are only a few pages of a newspaper, and whoever has the ability will not comment on some articles that are destined to be unable to enter the page. If you are determined to go this path, you can think more about it yourself.

From the perspective of work efficiency, Guo Yuan's approach is obviously more suitable. However, although Xu Fei knows it, he still can't do it. Although he can't become a writer due to talent and other reasons, if he can discover some good seedlings and help them grow, it would be considered a disguised realization of his dream. This is Xu Fei's expectation for his work. If it is not this expectation, he would rather change careers and do something else. College students who graduate from college are very popular in today's Xiangjiang and do not have to worry about their way out.

Xu Fei handed over the manuscript, and he also wanted to see her opinion. Different editors also had different evaluations of the same work.

The first sentence Guo Yuan said when she looked at the manuscript was, "The handwriting is not very good." Then she buried her head in the air.

"Puchi." Guo Yuan couldn't help laughing, "Haha, it's quite funny."

Guo Yuan's laughter could not stop. It seemed that her laughter was much lower than Xu Fei, which also attracted the attention of other staff in the office.

"What's so funny?" A fat man came over and took the manuscript that Guo Yuan had read and started reading it himself.

Soon, another laughter came to the office.

As a result, more people joined the reading team, and the office that was originally a bit dull also had a little more joy. Team leader Chen Chuan was also attracted by the atmosphere, and a small review meeting was taken.

"The story is pretty good, the writing is relatively rough, so I should say it is a relatively promising work. Of course, it is inevitable to edit manuscripts." After some discussion, Chen Chuan came to the conclusion.

The result is pretty good. Of course, this is a novel, and to decide to publish it, editor-in-chief Pan Yuesheng also needs to make a decision.

Not long after the manuscript was handed over to the editor-in-chief’s office, Xu Fei, team leader Chen Chuan and other team leaders were called to have a meeting. The efficiency of Xiangjiang Enterprise is quite high.

The editor-in-chief was also satisfied with the storyline of the manuscript and the comedy elements in it, but his writing style was a little unacceptable. Although newspaper readers pay more attention to the stories in the text, Ming Pao is still a newspaper with a relatively literary temperament. Good writing style and the ideological and connotation of the article are easier to gain the editor's favor. This simple and funny article is difficult to be elegant in the eyes of many people.

However, the competition among Xiangjiang newspapers is fierce, and this kind of comedy works are quite in line with the appetite of Xiangjiang people, and it may not be impossible to be popular.

The fast-paced urban life has made many readers unwilling to use their brains when reading newspapers and TV, but prefer some newspapers with strong entertainment. For example, Oriental Daily has begun to report some news about celebrity gossip and scandals that ordinary citizens like to read. Sales volume has increased greatly, and it is very likely to become the leader of the newspaper industry in Xiangjiang.

Ming Pao is more inclined to traditional literati because of his personality, and he is not willing to let go and reserve to compete with Oriental Daily for gossip. This is not in line with Ming Pao's purpose of running a newspaper. However, the newspaper is also a company first, and it is impossible not to care about readers' reading needs. This kind of comedy article is quite popular in Xiangjiang, and the plot is funny but not vulgar. In fact, it is still a masterpiece with the potential of hot selling.

It took not long for a long time to discuss the intention, and the intention was settled: agreed to publish.

Of course, revisions are inevitable. This is not only a matter of writing style, but also a different novel serialized by newspapers and magazines than the entire published books. In general, the novels published as a whole are like movies, and pay more attention to the overall structure under the premise of exciting plots. It is best to leave a foreshadowing in every chapter of newspaper serialization, and then end at abruptly, and readers continue to buy newspapers to read.

Therefore, newspaper novels require that the work can immediately capture the readers' hearts and the effect must be immediate. Otherwise, even if the novel becomes popular in the future, the novel itself will benefit. Readers generally wait to buy novel books instead of repurchasing the previous newspapers. Of course, this has little impact on "The Little Imperial". Apart from the beginning, the novel basically laughs from beginning to end.

Next is the novel's manuscript remuneration, which can basically confirm that the author is a novice. Generally, the manuscript remuneration for novice is between 15 yuan and 30 yuan. However, there are still certain preferential treatment for this newcomer who submits a novel for the first time and is of good quality. After giving Xu Fei a 100-word manuscript fee of 50 yuan, the newcomer will be responsible for.

"Li Xuechu, Room 305, Building A, Building 13, Sham Shui Po." Xu Fei looked at the address on the cover of the manuscript, "There is no phone number, it seems that he can only go there by himself."
Chapter completed!