We are all the same in the pursuit of our dreams

Chapter 24 The best time has just begun (6)
In this day and age, don't worry about your talents being overwhelmed.Now social networking platforms are so open and developed, such as Douban, Weibo, WeChat, Tieba, forums, and original literature websites, you can choose to post your works to the platform that suits you.If you write well enough, people will see it.When I first started writing, I had no access to the Internet, and I didn't even know what a computer was.I fell in love with writing when the head teacher of junior high school asked me to write a weekly diary and said "I write my heart by hand".When I was a freshman in high school, I wrote an essay, which was recommended by my Chinese teacher to be published in "Modern Writing News".Later, when I was in university, I tried to contribute articles to various magazines. At first, I failed again and again, but I gradually improved. Later, my writing appeared in "Shenzhen Youth", "Friends Good Day", "Contemporary Youth", "Lover", " "Youth", "China Youth Daily" and other magazines and newspapers, and also served as a special reporter for "Pengcheng Evening News" and "Education and Occupation".I published hundreds of articles in college, which seems like a lot, but at least dozens of manuscripts were scrapped. "Failure is the mother of success", this sentence still has some truth. On the way of pursuing dreams, no one can succeed casually.

The reason why I have to say so much about writing is because many people have problems with their original intention of writing, and because some people forget why they set out in the first place while writing.Some people wrote out of hobbies at the beginning, but after the book is published, maybe his purpose of writing this book is no longer so pure, and he pays more attention to royalties than the work itself.If you are a professional writer, royalties are not unimportant, but writers still have to pay more attention to the work itself, and the matter of royalties should be paid attention to by the writer's agent.Of course, a good writer's agent must be knowledgeable, professional, comprehensive and long-term visionary. If the agent is not professional and only seeks profit, it will also affect the long-term development of the writer.

Our company designer Tucao Zheng once said: "If you want to make money, don't just think about making money. If you want to do something well, you will naturally make money if you are capable." So, if your work is really If you are good enough and have a market enough, money will naturally fall into your arms.Knowing that it is not easy to write good works, I will do my best to strive for the best interests of all my authors.

I hope that a person who really loves writing needs to regard writing as a very sacred thing, and don't write for money.I remember that my Bole and my predecessor in the publishing industry, Shen Wenting, once said: "If you write for making money, the cultural industry will shed tears." I deeply agree, and she is the source of strength for me to stick to the publishing industry.

Back to your question itself, I have been publishing for ten years, and the first author I worked on was Hong Niangzi. Before I published her work, she had not published a book, and she was not well-known.However, the stories she wrote were suspenseful, and the emotional part of the suspense was well handled. I finished that story in one sitting, so I applied for the topic at that time.Later, I founded the women's reading brand "Butterfly Season", and published works by Piao Axi, Mu Fusheng, Qingshan Luotuo, etc., and none of them had published any books before. I made their books only because of theirs. The work itself moved me.

It was at the end of 2013 when I planned to write books by Gu Xijue, Ding Mo, and Mo Bao Fei Bao.Their popularity was limited at the time, the sales of their previously published books were mediocre, and their Weibo fans were not many, but what impressed me was their works themselves, which had their own characteristics and made people want to stop after reading them.Gu Xijue's works are relaxed and warm, and the mood is pleasant after reading; Ding Mo's works are exciting and sweet, with exciting plots;

When I discovered the author of Shu Hai Cangsheng, I was also moved by her work "Ten Years, One Grade of Wen Ruyan". Her new work "Zhaoxi Old Grass" has a well-conceived story and vivid characters. After reading it, I couldn't bear to put it down.

Therefore, as long as your work is good enough, distinctive enough, and has the power to move people's hearts, you don't have to worry about not being discovered.Publishing a book lies in strength and opportunity, and strength often comes first.

In this era where content is king, what we editors do is just icing on the cake. We are the discoverers of good works, and we package and promote good works and authors to let more readers know.

i want to be a writer

Q: I love words very much. I think everything in the world becomes very wonderful when expressed in words. I want to be a writer. I hope you can give me some advice.

A: Yan Geling said that a writer is 50.00% talent, plus 20.00% professional training, plus 30.00% acquired hard work.

In any case, it takes talent and hard work to become a writer.If you like something, even if you don’t have talent, as long as you stick to it, over time, a lot of hard work may become a talent.

Grandma Moses was an ordinary peasant woman before she was 76 years old. At the age of 76, she began to like painting, became famous at the age of 80, and continued to paint until the age of [-], becoming a famous primitive painter."The thing you're most willing to do is where your true talent lies," she said.

If you like something, you will try your best to do it well.

In my personal experience, the most important thing about writing is to really like it.

What does it mean to really like it? ——You must feel that writing is inseparable. Writing is as important as breathing. No matter who stops you, no matter who says your writing is not good or your story is not good, you will never give up writing.This is true love of writing.

Really loving writing is the first step in writing, and the second step is persistence.Only by persisting in writing can one develop writing skills, persist in reading to broaden one's horizons, think hard to improve the ability to write stories, and observe and experience more in daily life.

Writing is not something that can be accomplished overnight, it needs long-term accumulation.You may see that some writers are a blockbuster and have made great achievements in the first book, but he is either very talented, or he has read a lot of books before and has accumulated huge energy, or he has enough life experience.

If you are still writing alone without applause, don’t worry, keep going, read more books, practice writing, comprehend more, and walk more. When your writing level improves to a certain level, the applause will ring out.

what's right man

Q: Sister Yajuan, everyone says that you have to meet the right person in love, but what is the right person?

A: I think the right person does not necessarily have to be rich, charming, or knowledgeable, but he must be a kind and optimistic person who only loves you.

When you are sad, he comforts you; when you are depressed, he encourages you; when you are happy, he is happier than you.You will always experience more joy than sorrow with him.

The right person is someone who can make you feel happy and feel the beauty of life.

Some people say that love can withstand the mediocre fleeting years.It was also after many years that I realized that, compared with the vigorous love, the love that flows slowly, the love that has gone through the years is longer.

Many people say they don't believe in love anymore when their seemingly fairy-tale love is shattered.In fact, whether you believe it or not, the love is there, the love is in your heart, and the love never fades away.Even if the love has passed away, time has also engraved the traces of your love; even if the lover has gone far, you may still meet the person who loves you again.

If you haven't met the right person yet, don't worry, before you meet the right person, practice hard to become a better person. When the best person appears, he will see it from the vast crowd. you.

Having you in my life
Because of destiny, we walk hand in hand on the road of life.

Let's look at the roadside scenery together,
Let's work hard for our dreams together,

When you are confused, encourage each other; when you are happy, keep going,
The same belief unites us tightly,
Thanks to you along the way, I insisted on coming here.

Dreams are persistence in the secular world
college teacher with two kids
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As an author who likes to write novels on social reality topics, and a university teacher who teaches related courses, I like to understand a person from the perspective of "social identity", which does not seem to be foreign at all.And if this person is a close friend who has known each other for many years, then in the changes of identities, we may be bystanders, participants, or even a mirror of each other's fate - through each other, we can see the path we insist on, the experience we have experienced life.

So is Yajuan.

When I met her, we were both undergraduates.Across the geographical distance of several cities, we wrote articles for magazines together, each fell in love and fell in love, and we also studied together to get scholarships. I was shocked by her decisiveness.When asked why, she said that accounting is not her passion, and her dream has always been related to writing.She said she was going to Beijing to find a place for her writing.

I don’t know if you, who read this article, can understand those visions, fantasies about the future when 23 was four years old, and the kind of courage that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.At that time, in my imagination, "Beijing" was the background of high-rise buildings in fashion magazines, and "career" was the shuttle of white-collar workers in foreign companies under the exquisite makeup.So, with all my wishful thinking about big cities, I watched Yajuan, a fresh graduate of science, a daughter, and the girlfriend of a boy, in her early twenties, living in an unaccompanied How to break my naive positioning of "dreams" in a way of wandering in Beijing? If I remember correctly, at that time, she had a monthly salary of 1600 yuan but had to pay nearly [-] yuan in rent. Starting from the "actress" who goes back and forth near the photocopier, she takes off the coat of a newcomer in the workplace little by little, until she can save her salary to support her family, and even work together with her boyfriend to build a house and a family.

Four years later, she got married in Beijing.Finally, from the boy's girlfriend to his wife, the hostess of a family.At this time, not only is she no longer a rookie in the workplace, but she has become the founder of a brand book series after changing jobs twice and working in three companies.During this period, we talked about marriage, family, career-living, who has no grievances and hardships?So as an ordinary person in the secular world, I have seen her hesitation before job-hopping, her generosity in marriage, her putting herself in the shoes of the author, worrying about her relatives, going to work during the day to edit manuscripts, and going home at night to persist. Writing... I don't intend to blindly praise such a young girl to promote each other. I just want to say that after many years, I finally know her house in Beijing, her thriving career, and even the "backbone" in the hearts of her parents, siblings, husband and mother-in-law. How did the status of the family come about?

Because from beginning to end, she is herself.

Dreams, struggles, perseverance, love, every step of her journey is a trek under the guidance of her clear goals.If she chose to major in accounting that year because of her respect and trust for her parents, then after the age of 24, the most admirable character of Yajuan I know is that she clearly knows what she likes, and then goes forward without hesitation.

In those years, my impression of her was about a "workaholic" enjoying herself in a spinning top life.

Until she became a mother—the little girl named "Xinbao", a little angel with big eyes, white skin, and as beautiful as a doll, not only "rescued" us writers who were urged to publish every day, but more importantly, It is to slow down the mother who was still working overtime to promote best-selling books until she was due to give birth, and to appreciate life.

So, later, we saw her posting about her daughter on Weibo, showing her affection, not at all deliberate, but warm and warm-this is the life of an ordinary person, with a family, a career, running around, and resting, Romance, reality, poignancy, fearlessness...

In the spring of 2015, she came to Jinan to give lectures to my students.In the middle of the speech, "Women must not be trapped by their families", there was thunderous applause from the audience, and I smiled.Yes, I know what she means - she always thinks that family is a source of warmth, but it will not be her bondage.It is precisely because I have witnessed her struggle every step of the way that I can understand how she "establishes" herself first, and then establishes a family, and can freely switch between these identities.

Her independence enables her to be relied upon.

So, when this book came out, I read her first draft, and the first sentence that came to mind was actually this sentence—dreams are persistence in the world.

Because what is fleeting is imagination; what is long-term is dream.

Because what is full of flowers is deduction; what is sweet and bitter is life.

Because those who retreat when they face difficulties are ordinary; those who face difficulties are those who persevere.

……

Because you are here, you have always been.

When we first met, we knew each other

The Jiangnan girl who can write warm and cute stories best

Gu Xijue

In 2013, I met Yajuan.I am a very slow person, which can be seen from my love experience, but I hit it off with Yajuan inexplicably, which is incredible.

In retrospect, the first time Yajuan and I chatted on QQ, we just talked about books, but her attitude towards books and the author made me fall in love with this girl who is five years older than me. Sister—she really loves every book written with heart, as well as authors like us who work silently.

It can be said that before I met her, I had never met a book publisher like her.Every work is the painstaking effort of the creator, and they all hope to be treated with respect, rather than being treated as a commodity, produced casually, and sold at will.As for Yajuan, she really treats every book she makes as her own—sometimes when it’s too late, she will send me the first draft of the cover of several editions of the same book, and let me read from readers. Choose the one you like from the angle of choice, and briefly talk about the reasons for the choice and the areas that need improvement.After I finished my opinion, I asked her if she was home or at the company, and she said she was still at the company.I continued to ask if you had dinner, and she said no, she has been busy, and she has to grind the cover of this book until she is satisfied before going home.I advised her to go home early, but she never said "right away", but always said "I'll come back when I'm done".

Occasionally, I would think: "This workaholic sister's stomach problem is completely caused by herself."

Once she broke the news to me with both irony and laughter. She thought of a good copy in the middle of the night and excitedly sent it to Mr. Li.

We met officially for the first time in Hangzhou.Her mild-mannered husband accompanied her, along with her lovely daughter, Xin Bao.She and I are like meeting relatives, we are not unfamiliar at all, even though it is the first time we meet face to face.

That day, Yajuan's husband BOB took Xinbao to play outside, and Yajuan and I were chatting in a coffee shop by the West Lake.

I used to feel that I had a hard time when I was a child. My parents were busy. I started to take care of my younger brother when I was more than ten years old. My younger brother was naughty. He refused to eat what was fed to him. I didn’t know what to do when he had a high fever. I also cried when he cried.

After hearing Yajuan's growth story, I realized that my hard work can only be regarded as "pediatrics".Her family has many younger siblings, and she is the elder sister. She is working part-time while going to school. The tuition fees are all earned by herself. In addition to working hard for her dreams, she also needs to take care of her younger siblings and parents.Adversity hurts people, and it also makes people better.Yajuan sailed against the current, paddled with her own strength, and finally arrived at the place she was going to.She is the most amazing peer I have ever met.

She told me that she was also an author in the past. Her pen name at first was "I Shed a Night of Tears", and she wrote various articles with millions of words.She said that because she used to be an author, she understands the author's weakness. She is a book planner. One is her dream, and the other is that she does not want to see authors being fooled and bullied.

She has realized her dream, and she maintains the authors she co-operates with like her own children, like an eagle guarding a chick.She did what she said.

(End of this chapter)