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The official Weibo account was a little speechless when it received this private message. But then I checked her profile and found that she was studying Chinese and mentioned children on Weibo. I felt that she had the conditions to create fairy tales, so I replied to her: "Sure. Please send the outline to our email address and we will reply to you within a week."
The publishing house adheres to the principle of "rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go", so they accept all the manuscripts they receive and only know after reading them. As long as the quality is up to standard and there is a selling point, they will publish it, and they don't care about anything else. They just have one thought: what if it becomes popular?
Although fairy tales are not mainstream, they have one advantage: they are for children. Who can make the most money in this world? Women and children! When fairy tales are published, they can be sold to schools, which is easy to do through connections. If children like them, they can be reprinted.
There are so many children in China. If every child gets one, even if every ten children gets one, they will make a fortune! So we can’t let it go. Although there are very few people who can write good fairy tales… But we would rather kill three thousand people by mistake than let one go!
Wanqing didn't expect the other party to really reply. She didn't know the other party's mentality of receiving manuscripts. She thought that the other party really needed a fairy tale, so she hurriedly turned on the computer. Waiting for the computer to start up, she replied on the iPad: "I don't have an outline now, and the text is all drafts. I have a fragment in the outline. Do you want me to send it to you first? I'll give it to you after the outline is sorted out."
"Okay, let's add QQ and chat."
Wanqing added her on QQ. She was an editor at a publishing house. Wanqing copied a few hundred words and sent it to her. After reading it, she said, "It feels a bit like magic realism. Your writing is good and easy to understand. It shouldn't be a problem for children to read it."
"Then I'll put together the outline and send it to you?"
"Yeah, remember to summarize the main plot in one sentence. Fairy tales are for children, so the central idea must be positive and uplifting, and it's best if it has some healthy educational significance or something, you know."
Wanqing smiled and agreed. I spent half a day writing the outline and sent it over. The next day I got a response. This time the other party was very excited: "Your story is great! Very good! It's like a Hollywood cartoon!"
Wanqing said: "I like Hollywood cartoons."
"I like it too. DreamWorks and Pixar are my favorites. Ahhhh - your story is good, but some parts need to be changed."
"Well, go ahead."
"This Wangwang... Hey, let's talk about the name first. I think Wangwang is not a good name. What if our book becomes popular and we say the name of the protagonist out loud, how cowardly would it be? Look at Doraemon, Snoopy and the like. Names are very important. Even if it's Pleasant Goat, it's still Pleasant Goat, not Bae Mee or Yangyang~"
"Yes." Wan Qing nodded, and suddenly an inspiration came to her mind.
"Of course it can be used as a nickname. Don't you have two children here?"
"Yes. I thought of it. When Wangwang went to the Ghost Country, he was afraid that people would laugh at him if he was called 'Wangwang', so he gave himself a name that sounded very domineering."
"Yeah! That works! I feel like the puppy's personality is coming out. This personality is really Hollywood~ Then the kids go there and call it 'Woof Woof', right?"
"Yes." Wan Qing said, "Everyone will definitely laugh at it if they hear it, but it won't object to its young master."
"What a good dog!" The editor was touched and said, "The name is it. In addition, the dog's visit to Ghost Country must be changed. First, the place name Ghost Country is too Westernized and has been used by others. Something as important as the place where the incident took place should be completely original. Also, the dog died and turned into a ghost, so it must not be used. Although other novels can write about ghosts, you still have to be careful when writing for children. You know, Nie Xiaoqian in the new version of A Chinese Ghost Story has changed from a female ghost to a fox... Writing about a ghost probably won't pass the review. And if someone uses it to make an animation, it can't be made into a ghost. How much trouble will it be to change it later?"
"Yeah." Wan Qing was a little embarrassed. It turned out that she had been promoting feudal superstition to her children for so long...
"You can learn from Harry Potter and pass through the wall to another world. Or learn from Alice in Wonderland and fall into the underground kingdom!"
I remembered that after Wangwang died, he was thrown into an abandoned biogas tank in the bamboo forest. It is indeed possible to write that the puppy fell into the biogas tank and traveled to the underground kingdom. But will it teach children bad things? What if the children really think that they can go to another country from biogas tanks, wells, etc.?
Wanqing told the editor about this concern. The editor was silent for a moment and then said, "Then think about it again, and then send me the first 50,000 words of the story. If you can't think of a good one, don't worry about it, just write it. If children do something wrong, it's because their parents didn't teach them well. Why should it be anyone else's business? When I was a child, I read Journey to the West, but I didn't jump into the pond to touch the golden hoop stick, nor did I get drunk and make trouble in the Heavenly Palace."
Okay, Wanqing is convinced.
Wanqing spent more than half a month to revise 50,000 words. She immediately sent it to the editor by email, and then continued to type the manuscript written on paper into the computer.
She didn't dare to say anything and kept doing it secretly. Because if it didn't get published, she would lose face. Even if it was published, writing a fairy tale-like story would be childish, right? People would definitely laugh! Moreover, she asked the editor, and the manuscript fee was at most 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Unless she could print millions of copies later, she would have money. But for the Mu family, no matter how much, it would be a drop in the bucket, so it was better not to say anything.
After inputting all the drafts on paper into the computer, Wanqing felt that she had accomplished a great task. She hadn't reviewed foreign languages for a long time, so she put aside the drafts for the time being and memorized the words in her book.
Ding Ding Dang Dang was also memorizing words beside him: "Banana! Apple! Egg!"
Wan Qing: “…”
Two days later, the editor of the publishing house contacted Wanqing again: "We have decided to publish your book. Let's find a time to sign the contract! By the way, which city are you in?"
"City C."
"What a coincidence! Our publishing house is also in City C! Do you want us to meet in person or send the contract to you?"
"Well……"
"Let's meet and talk!"
"Okay." Wan Qing agreed. If there was anything she didn't understand, she could ask her. "When is it convenient for us to meet?"
"Anytime is fine. I'm working anyway."
"Then let's do it on Friday afternoon." She didn't have classes on Friday afternoon, and Mu Tianyang had to go back to City A that day and would probably not be back until the evening.
After Wanqing met the editor, the editor was amazed by her beauty: She is so talented and beautiful! There are not many beautiful women who write books. If you are not ugly, you can be called a beautiful writer. This one is simply a fairy!
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