Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 300 Weird People

No matter how outsiders evaluate Ning Xin?From Ning Ting's point of view, it is true that her father had a huge influence on her.

Especially after Ning Jun had an accident, Ning Ting's nostalgia for her family has deepened day by day.On the one hand, I regret that my parents have to suffer this "robbery" when they are old, and feel sad.I should have reached the age of retirement when I have children and grandchildren, happy to enjoy my life, but I still have to work hard to take care of the patients;

On the other hand, she is also very grateful to her parents for nurturing her.Not only when she was studying, she gave her all.At the beginning of her graduation and entrepreneurship, her father was also her initial and most steadfast "investor".All her success is inseparable from the cultivation of her parents.

Ning Ting is a woman who knows how to be grateful. Just as Liang Teng expected, if her father Ning Xin came forward to lobby for the headquarters of her "24 Hour News" website to be located in Liang Teng's building, she would have no objection.

After all, with the expansion of the website's business volume, she has recruited talents and employees several times so far.

The originally rented office space of the company is no longer enough.Originally, I wanted to change to a larger location to serve as the company's headquarters.Liang Teng's ability to provide a "ready-made" office location, his father's proposal, and the geographical location of Liang Teng's "building" all met her requirements.The conditions offered by Liang Teng, and the unexpected discount... many factors will definitely impress Ning Ting.

What Liang Teng has to do now is actually the first step, which is to open Ning Xin's joints.

Does this old man have any "weaknesses"?

As far as Liang Teng knows, this Ning Xin's biggest hobby is writing.

As a member of the older generation, he doesn't understand computers at all, and relies entirely on handwriting, handwriting manuscripts on lined paper.

That's all right.The problem is that Ning Xin writes completely regardless of genre, such as novels, long poems, essays, and even long theories on a hot economic issue... He is keen to create everything.

But he's a little too smart.When writing novels, I basically take a lot of classics I read before, and the "bridge parts" that are relatively deep in my memory, when I write, I take them casually and "integrate" them into my novels.

When writing a long-form theory on a hot topic, I also take the opinions that I saw from all sides when I read the newspaper and left a deep impression on them, and I also take them over and use them in my own articles.

This kind of creation, if you are willing to revise it carefully and repeatedly, maybe you can also write articles that are not new, but also have a certain degree of "readability".

But how did Ning Xin do it?
The articles he wrote (including novels and theoretical articles) are basically "one-off final draft".Write whatever you think of on the letter paper, whatever you write, whatever you write... It won't be changed.

For one thing, he thought it was well written and there was no need to change it.Secondly, even if he wants to modify it, he has no experience and doesn't know how to modify it.

Simply change nothing.

When Liang Teng heard of this creative method for the first time, he really felt "stunned"!
Does this work too? !

But Ning Xin really acts like this.And from the age of more than 40 in his middle age, until he was more than [-] years old, he always used this method to write.

It is no wonder that he has been writing for two to thirty years, but his writing level has hardly improved.

It's just that when writing on letter paper, there are fewer and fewer typos.

Before Liang Teng was reborn, according to the information he had learned, that Ning Xin was very keen on "contributing articles" before his daughter "Ning Ting" made a fortune, and was wholeheartedly dreaming of the dream of "bestselling author".

The key point is that writing a "bestseller" is just superficial stuff. The key point is that one day when his book really sells well, he can reap a huge "authorship fee" (or "royalty", whichever is fine).

However, what he wrote before he retired had only the fate of being "rejected".Not to mention making a lot of money from writing, even if he wants to publish his works, even for free, it is very difficult, and he has never had any successful experience.After all, even if his works are printed for free, other "publishing companies" still have to invest in costs.The cost of paper, the cost of printing, and the cost of editorial staff are all money.What is saved is nothing more than the manuscript fee paid to you.That's only a fraction of the "issue cost".

Before retiring, the works written by Ning Xin were either on the way to the "publishing company" or on the way to "reject the manuscript".No surprises.

In the beginning, the publishing company was not bad.Seeing that Ning Xin sent such a big tome by mail (his manuscripts start at 30 words, only a little more), although he found it extremely "horrible" during the review, but he also felt sorry for "his ambition is commendable" "In addition, the "publishing company" at that time was not as careful as later generations, so for these long-form manuscripts, postage would be attached, sent back, and the manuscripts would be rejected.

As mentioned earlier, it was an extremely long process for Ning Xin to encounter rejections, and that was from "before retirement" to "after retirement".From a happy and happy family, until encountering the misfortune of his son.

Even, Ning Xin returned the manuscript at public expense from the "publishing company", and waited until he had to pay the "postage" in advance before the other party "rejected the manuscript".This is all tears, full of all kinds of bitterness and helplessness.Often it has been several hours since the manuscript was sent out, and there is no news.Ning Xin found the phone number of the editorial department of the "publishing company" by himself, and called to inquire.I know that my manuscript has no "publishing possibility" with the other party, and I want to return the manuscript.Ning Xin had to send "postage" in addition.

Or it is too troublesome to earn the "postage" of tens of dollars to send to the publishing company through the "post office". You can also directly send a simple "registered letter" stating that you want to return the manuscript that "cannot pass review", just go to " "Registered mail" with "stamps" with a face value of tens of dollars attached is also acceptable.

When the time passed and the times were developing, "returned manuscripts" could even be "cash on delivery with postage", and Ning Xin was relatively easy.Those who don't need to send letters to each other "paid the postage in advance" before the other party returned the manuscript to him.

Ning Xin's creative path is such a "dismal" operation.

But he himself didn't have much feeling.Because he belongs to the kind of "high-yield" writer whose "quality" can't improve, but the quantity is amazing.

According to his writing speed, Ning Xin is almost constantly producing "words. Garbage" at the rate of one or two "long novels" or "long essays" every month.Therefore, the number of works submitted by Ning Xin is also astonishing.There are dozens of publishing companies that he chooses to submit his manuscripts to (some manuscripts are only "one manuscript, one submission", and some novel manuscripts, if Ning Xin is particularly satisfied, he will vote for several more authoritative publishing companies. At the beginning He still had the idea of ​​giving it to the one with the "highest bid". Later, there were too many "rejections", and he no longer had such extravagant expectations. He voted for a few more just to shorten the waiting time for "review". After all It will take two to three months for a publishing unit to review one of your works. Ning Xin thinks it is a good work, and he will not submit to a few more. After reviewing the manuscripts one by one, it will take more than a year to know if there is any. Do people appreciate it? I can’t wait).

Ning Xin can create about 20 novels a year (including novels, reportage and novel theory), and this kind of "creative career" has lasted for 20 to 30 years.Therefore, after so many years, there are almost 500 manuscripts accumulated.

There are so many "long novels" that are constantly pouring into dozens of "publishing companies" with "confidence", and they are constantly returning home from the publishing unit "sadly"... Ning Xin broke through the "two" in his works. After counting the number of digits, I began to record it secretly in the "diary" behind my back.

For example, on a certain day of a certain year, which work should be mailed to which "publishing company", and when is the expected time (usually three and a half months later), call to inquire about the result of the "review"?
On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, from which publishing unit did I receive the rejection?

On a certain day of a certain month, which publications, agencies, and institutions will be distributed to the proud work "XX" (title of the book) at the same time.How much is the postage in total.

In short, records of various trivial matters related to submission are essential.Otherwise, as time passes and the number of submissions increases, Ning Xin, no matter how good his memory is, will not be able to remember everything clearly.

The rush of more than 20 years was spent like this.

From the perspective of a bystander, it is really thankless for Ning Xin to be engaged in something like this "toil for nothing".But from Ning Xin's personal perspective, he didn't think it was painful or sad - he had almost no time to think about these things.He is very self-disciplined every day, and must complete so many text creations.

Although he doesn't revise his works very much, he has to conceive characters and plots.Therefore, conception and writing have taken up almost all of his "spare time".

Yes!

Don’t forget, Ning Xin is not a full-time writer.If it was a full-time job, I would be starving to death, and I guess it would be impossible to persist for such a long time.He is a part-timer. His job is easy and he can earn income to support his family's fixed expenses. He engages in creation in his spare time as a "income-generating side job". He is not under much pressure and his articles are poor and of low quality, but it is also miraculous. In the past 30 years, he has not stopped creating.

Can such a life be said to be sad for Ning Xin?
Ning Xin devotes himself wholeheartedly to the sideline of "writing manuscripts". He is not contaminated with the four "harms", and he doesn't even have the problem of drinking and smoking. Can you say that his life is useless?

A very useless life is the kind of "cheating. Old people", but Ning Xin has his own job. Not only can he support himself, he can even support the children and the elderly at home.He did not evade the responsibility that should be borne by him at all, and he did not lack responsibility.

But Ning Xin's use of his spare time to create day after day also left too many regrets for his family.

For example, his son Ning Jun and daughter Ning Ting, in his impression, never had their father take them on a trip when they were growing up.

Daughter Ning Ting has grown up and is promising (in fact, she has made a lot of money). In this case, she can take her parents on a long-distance trip, or even go abroad to "travel around the world", and it is no problem at all.

Only Ning Jun in their family became a "vegetable" in that accident. If his parents wanted to take him on a trip to make up for the dream of "family travel" that they didn't realize when they were young, it would no longer be possible.

Don't mention the news of "a vegetative person miraculously awakening after several years" that happened in the report.That's a special case of "one in a million".To put it bluntly, expecting Ning Jun to miraculously suddenly wake up from his "vegetative state" is not as good as expecting the 500 "words and garbage" written by Ning Xin in the past few decades to become bestsellers overnight.

The latter is more likely than the former.

During the long period of amateur creation, the wife's biggest complaint to Ning Xin was not that he didn't take his family to play.From the bottom of her heart, my wife also belongs to the kind of "thrifty and frugal" generation, and never advocates spending money and enjoying things indiscriminately.

She is a vulgar person, so don't travel if she doesn't travel, and she doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.Or "owed" something to his son.She is not so sentimental.On the contrary, his wife was heartbroken. In the past 30 years, Ning Xin spent the "postage" on the manuscript.

One day after the wife retired, she had nothing to do, so she took the notes about "postage" in her husband's "diary" to calculate them one by one.

In the end, she came up with a data that shocked her: the postage of a book manuscript needs 40 yuan (this is an average, the postage in the first 15 years is not so expensive, but the postage in the next 15 years is not only so cheap Ning Xin sent "registered" items, and the postage was much more expensive than ordinary items at that time).

The postage for each manuscript is about 40 yuan, and he has created 500 novels in total, all of which have had more than three "submission records".The "number of submissions" is also taken as an intermediate number, let's submit 4 times for each work, and he will pay for the postage for submission and rejection, which is equivalent to a work, and he will get at least 8 times Postage.What a burden! ! !

For 500 works, 8 times of postage for each work, then 4000 times of postage will be obtained.

Even in the first 10 years, the publishing company "rejected the manuscript" and did not require the author to "pay for postage", but in the first 10 years, Ning Xin did not enter the "peak period of creation", then subtract him 800 times "postage".In this way, even if he paid postage 30 times in the past 3200 years.

The "average" of each postage is 40 yuan, multiplied by 3200 times, then the postage is 12 yuan.

It's not that I don't know, it's a shock.

After so many years, Ning Xin's is completely free of water, and it really cost nearly 13 in postage.

Such a postage, now looking back and calculating the ledger carefully, of course I think it is quite a lot.But after a detailed analysis, Ning Xin has been creating for a full 30 years, which is equivalent to more than 4 yuan in postage per year.

Is that a lot?

It is quite a lot, and the annual expenditure on postage is several thousand yuan.But to say how big this number is, that's not necessarily it!

For example, some men smoke one or two packs of "Hongtashan" for 10 yuan a day, and the monthly cigarette money is between 300 and 600 yuan.After one year, the cigarette money will be between 3600 yuan and 7200 yuan.

Ning Xin is just taking money from other people's cigarettes to contribute articles.

(End of this chapter)