I'm not a fool

Chapter 42: The Dilemma of Physical Magazines

"How come?" The girls in the literature department all showed surprised expressions.

The girl who asked was even more puzzled: "Minister, isn't that the magazine that your mother owns? I remember that most of the things you contributed before were published by you. Why did you prepare more than half of them this time?" Months of novels have been rejected?"

The others were also puzzled, and looked at Xia Fan with questioning eyes.

Xia Fan shook his head and said, "This time is different from before. When the magazine had no problems before, my mother would let me be a little self-willed and put what I wrote in an inconspicuous small section of the magazine. Occupy the position. But now the magazine has encountered a lot of difficulties. My mother can no longer spoil me like before, and although I want to help share part of the pressure, the things I write are still comparable to professional ones. It’s too far behind, and this result is also expected.”

Her expression was gloomy. Obviously, although it was expected, she still felt a little disappointed and shocked by the rejection of the manuscript.

"Can you tell us what happened to the magazine?" Bai Mufan asked curiously.

Xia Yan didn't shy away from it either, and explained: "In recent years, electronic literature has gradually formed an irresistible trend. While it continues to grow, it has also caused a lot of impact on the physical industry. My family's In order to get better development, the authors of the magazine have all gone to online literature. In particular, one of the authors who was trained by the magazine breached the contract and quit, which caused a serious loss of readers for the magazine. Now it is the most difficult time. There is an urgent need for an established author who can stabilize the scene, or a good work of good quality to appear. But..."

She shook her head and didn't continue, but everyone got her point—both situations were too difficult.

Now that people's pace of life is getting faster, online literature that can be read online anytime and anywhere has become the mainstream. The market and cake for paper books will inevitably be squeezed smaller and smaller by online literature. Xia Ming's mother's magazine The crisis encountered is believed to be the predicament of most physical magazines and publishing houses today.

Bai Mufan thought for a while and asked, "Has the magazine tried to transform into an online section?"

If you want not to be eliminated by this big trend, the best way is not to cling to the "old soil" of the physical version, but to boldly open your arms, embrace the emerging online literature, and strive not to be caught by the times. Only by leaving behind the current trend can we continue to prosper.

Xia Fan glanced at him in surprise, nodded and said: "After discovering that the trend of online literature is unstoppable, my mother has been trying to let magazines enter the Internet literature in the form of enterprises. But because of the missed opportunity, most of them The readership market has been seized by other competitors who have settled in for the first time, so there are almost no great writers who are willing to settle in our magazine. And most of the new writers also submit articles to us with the attitude of giving it a try. Basically, we can’t find a few high-quality manuscripts, let alone the top-level works that we urgently need and can support the scene.”

Bai Mufan nodded knowingly.

As the saying goes, one step at a time, one step at a time, with other magazines and publishing houses already taking the lead in occupying the online market, Xia Fan’s mother, who was a step behind, wanted to snatch a piece of meat from these powerful opponents. easy thing.

Bai Mufan pondered for a while, and said, "Minister, can you show me your manuscript?"

"Of course I can, but I don't write very well, I hope you don't dislike it." Xia Fan handed him the manuscript in his hand generously.

Bai Mufan sat upright and looked at it seriously.

Xia Yan wrote a short campus love story, the full text is about 10 words, Bai Mufan read it not too fast but not too slow, and finished it in about three to ten minutes.

When he finished reading the last line, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and fell into deep thought.

How should I put it, on the whole, this is a well-behaved love story.

Because the concept of men and women in this world is reversed, so in the novel, girls pursue boys. After several twists and turns in their relationship, they finally overcome many difficulties. The lovers finally get married and come together. Congratulations!

So the question is, why was it rejected?
Because although this novel has no poisonous points or shortcomings, it also lacks new ideas that make people shine.

Bai Mufan can only see that Xia Yan's writing skills are very solid, and he will feel a little satisfaction when he sees the ending where the hero and heroine come together, but that's all. Maybe he will forget everything when he wakes up tomorrow morning.

A truly excellent love novel must make readers close their eyes and think about it for a long time after reading it, completely immerse their minds in the story of the novel, and miss the characters and stories in it for several days afterwards. Xia Yanli’s state It's still a lot worse.

Under normal circumstances, this novel should be barely published in the small section of the magazine. It is at least qualified, but now that the magazine is in the most difficult time, the requirements have also increased a lot, so this novel will be rejected. It is not difficult to understand.

Xia Fan has been paying attention to Bai Mufan's reaction, seeing that he has finished reading the last page, he can't help but ask, "How is it?"

Bai Mufan came back to his senses, and he returned the manuscript in his hand to Xia Fan, and at the same time told her his evaluation.

Xia Yan sorted out the manuscript, and couldn't help but smile helplessly when he heard the words, and said: "The editor who rejected the manuscript also told me so, and I really can't do it."

Seeing her disappointed face, Bai Mufan couldn't help but casually suggested, "How about trying a new routine? For example, swapping the souls of the hero and heroine."

"Let the souls of the male and female protagonists be swapped?" Xia Yan thought about it carefully, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "It's still possible? This kind of idea is too amazing! Afan, how did you come up with it? "

"Is it great?" Bai Mufan was a little puzzled, this kind of routine should be considered an old routine, right?Many people have already played in the fields of film and television and literature.

He suddenly remembered something, took out his mobile phone and searched, and looked up after a while, with a strange expression on his face.

The routine of exchanging souls between men and women has never been used before!

Whether it is the field of film and television works or literary works, this kind of subject matter is blank, as if the person who turned the world upside down had never thought about it in this direction.

Bai Mufan couldn't figure it out, and in the end he could only blame the difference between the two worlds for this result.

(End of this chapter)