In addition to reviewing manuscripts and other professional work, which accounts for the majority of the work in the editorial department, learning and improving oneself is also an important part. This is especially true for a young editor like Yang Yin.

As the print media market is gradually shrinking, considering future career development, it is even more necessary to constantly think and summarize, and strive not to become one of the "eight" ones in the 28-20 theorem.

Yang Yin, with a hint of gloating, underlined an obscure typo in a magazine, then closed the magazine and put it aside. The notebook at his hand was already filled with a page of new words and

He lowered his head and sorted it out again before picking up "Obtain" from the top of another stack of books.

Studying other magazines is a part of learning. You have to read the good ones as well as the bad ones. They focus on being eclectic. The top magazines in the industry like "Get" need to be studied carefully.

Typesetting and binding are the last things to learn. The most important thing is to learn other people's vision for selecting manuscripts, and to accumulate more names for your own author library.

There are a lot of people in China who can use a pen, but those who can really write clearly are just a drop in the bucket. In the current literary world in China, there are only a few at the top, and several magazines are rushing to get manuscripts.

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As the editor-in-chief, Yang Yin’s biggest headache is not the hard work of reviewing and correcting typos, but the compilation of manuscripts. To compile a good manuscript, it is like picking a mountain to cook the sea - picking a treasure from the vast mountains and taking the best from the vast sea.

A drop.

Therefore, he must find more people who can write to fill his author reserve.

It is not enough to just review the submitted manuscripts. You also need to take the initiative and invite those authors to submit manuscripts. Other magazines are a channel to get to know the authors.

Yang Yin opened the "Get" magazine.

When opening "Acquisition", the first thing he did was to open the table of contents. Yang Yin fixed his gaze on the author's column and scanned it from bottom to top. This was his working habit.

There is also a reason for his work habit - when reading "Get", he first looks at the author in order to find out if there are any new names, so that he can know the primary goal as soon as possible. And the authors who are new to "Get" magazine are usually ranked

It's at the back, so looking from the back to the front is the most efficient way.

Shan Xuetao, Bi Feiyu, well, they are famous names, no need to ask; Xu Haofeng, A Yi... these are also old faces; Gu Zao, regrettably missed...

In fact, it is extremely cost-effective to find new authors in "Get" because there are very few non-famous works published on it. Works submitted by famous authors have to be queued up, let alone new authors?

However, Yang Yin never considered actually finding a new author from "Get".

Even if he didn't consider it in terms of work, he was still happy to read "Acquisition". Rather, he chose this high-investment, low-return job of making wedding dresses for others because he could read other people's works to his heart's content.

Watching "Get" is both his mission and his welfare.

After reading the table of contents, Yang Yin was about to turn to the second page, but halfway through, he suddenly frowned and turned the page back again.

He looked intently at the top of the catalog, rubbed his eyes, and stared hard, as if trying to see through the white paper.

At the top of the catalog, a line of words was printed grandly and without explanation:

"Fire in the Stone" - Wang Zixu.

Before Yang Yin even realized what he had seen, his heartbeat had already begun to speed up, and hot blood could not stop rushing to his head. When his consciousness returned, he found that he had stood up against the table.

"What's wrong?" asked the colleague next to me.

Yang Yin waved "Get" in his hand, but he couldn't hold back a word for a long time. After a while, he threw the magazine on his colleague's desk, pointed hard at the first line of the catalog, and showed it to his colleagues.

The colleague looked at him in confusion, and then read along his fingers:

""Fire in the Stone", Wang Zixu...hiss, I'll go! Isn't this the manuscript you accepted?!"

Yang Yin was still speechless, and his colleague patted his arm and said, "Is it the same person, the same manuscript? You should quickly open it and take a look!"

He reminded Yang Yin. Yang Yin quickly opened the pages of the catalog, and his hands shook uncontrollably as he turned. After turning the pages roughly, what came into view was the familiar beginning.

"It's him, it's him..." Yang Yin sat down slumped, holding "Get" in his hand and wanting to cry without tears.

"Oops!" my colleague yelled regretfully, "you let go of the "Get" headline!"

The colleague screamed, which alerted several other colleagues behind him and looked over.

"What's wrong?"

Yang Yin said angrily: "No matter what, let me make it clear that I did not let Wang Zixu run away! Everyone knows what is going on!"

My colleague said: "Don't worry, now is not the time to sort things out. Let's take a look at his manuscript first. Have there been any changes? Has the full text been published?"

Yang Yin flipped through a few pages, raised his head and said, "It has been changed. It has been changed a lot. It is no longer the original manuscript."

The colleague breathed a sigh of relief: "If he changed it, that would be fine. This is not the same manuscript as the one he got from our agency before. In this case, the responsibility for losing the manuscript will be smaller."

Yang Yin raised his voice and said: "The fact that he modified a work that can be featured in "Get" shows that if this work is polished and polished, it can also shine in our "Yangtze River". I just hate why it wasn't me who asked him to change it? Why do we

The magazine didn’t give him this stage?”

The colleague said: "Look at you, you are so anxious! Is now the time to think about this?"

Several colleagues gathered around and heard the whole story clearly. Their expressions suddenly varied, some were anxious, some were sighing, and some were gloating about the misfortune.

Yang Yin turned the pages faster and faster, until he reached the last page. He pinched all the content between the first page and the last page of "Fire in the Stone" between his fingers. It was a thick stack that almost took up the entire page.

It covers one-half of the entire book "Getting".

"With so much content, 200,000 words, "Obtain" has published 200,000 words of Wang Zixu's works!"

As Yang Yin spoke, his face gradually turned red.

He recalled the previous opinions of the ministry on rejecting the manuscript, and also mentioned that "the number of words was too many."

He got angry when he thought of this. There were too many words. No matter how many words there were, "Get" would have been published 200,000 times in one go, which was equivalent to publishing a book! Whatever the status of "Get", they all had this

Courage, I don’t know why they are still looking forward and looking back!

Another reason for the rejection of manuscripts before was that ""The Ancient City" was also rejected. So what if "The Ancient City" was rejected, what about the rejection of "Yangtze River"? Isn't "Acquisition" exactly as published? In the future, people will only remember it as ""

"Winning" published the article "Fire in the Stone", and "Ancient City" and "Yangtze River" rejected the manuscript, and it will only be mentioned as a joke!

Yang Yin was completely furious. He was now disappointed with Editor Wu, the Editor-in-Chief, the editorial department, and himself.

It's not because his author has gone to other places. It's normal for authors to submit manuscripts everywhere. What he resents is that this work had a chance to stay, but he took it around with his own hands and failed to keep it. It was lost. This is

This feeling is worse than anything else.

Thinking of this, he angrily picked up "Get" and walked towards the office.

"What do you want to do?" asked the colleague.

"I'll show it to Editor Shen."

When Yang Yin opened the door to the editor's room, Editor Shen was still smiling. He had just invited a manuscript and was in a happy mood. When he saw Yang Yin walking in with resentment, he asked in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Yang Yin slapped "Get" directly on the table: "Wang Zixu's "Fire in the Stone" is on "Get"."

Editor Shen's expression became solemn, he took out his glasses from the table and put them on.

""Fire in the Stone" is the manuscript I got last time?"

"Yes. The whole text has been changed, but it is indeed the same work."

"How did you publish 600,000 words?"

"The first issue contains 200,000 words, so it should be divided into three issues."

"Did you tell Wang Zixu after you rejected the manuscript? Did you know that he voted for "Get"?"

Yang Yin smiled bitterly: "I rejected the manuscript for that reason, so how could I have the nerve to go to him? He only said he wanted to change it, and I gave him some opinions. Then he didn't hear anything from him for a long time. I asked him

He didn’t reply to me either.”

Editor Shen sighed deeply and stared at "Fire in the Stone" for a long time. Yang Yin did not dare to disturb him. Then Editor Shen stood up and said:

"Let's go and report to the editor-in-chief."

Editor-in-chief Shen took Yang Yin, spread out "Get" in front of the editor-in-chief, and repeated almost exactly what Yang Yin said just now.

After listening to it, the editor-in-chief remained calm, picked up "Get" with both hands, read it for a while, then put down the magazine, picked up the landline on the table and made a call.

"Tell Editor Wu to come to my office!"

Soon Editor Wu knocked on the door and came in: "Chief Editor, are you looking for me?"

The editor-in-chief reached out and clicked on "Get" and said: "I only want to say one thing, listen. Wang Zixu's "Fire in the Stone" was published in "Get", and it was the headline article. The full text was published in the first issue.

200,000 words were published.”

Editor Wu listened blankly to what the chief editor had said, and then asked:

"Editor-in-Chief, I'm sorry, can I ask who Wang Zixu is?"

Hearing what he said, the three people in the office couldn't hold their nerves. Yang Yin was especially angry and said loudly: "It's the manuscript that was rejected by "The Ancient City" last time it was submitted to me. Do you remember?"

Although he was angry, he was still able to control his emotions and did not say to his face, "This is the manuscript you urged to reject last time!"

Editor Wu had a slight sweat on his forehead: "That article? Oh, that article was published in "Get"? How did it get published? Yang Yin, do you have any news?"

The editor-in-chief waved his hand and said, "You guys go out, Editor-in-Chief Wu stays."

Editor Shen and Yang Yin went out and closed the door. Soon, angry curses came from the office.

"I haven't heard the editor-in-chief lose his temper like this for many years," Editor-in-Chief Shen said.

Yang Yin felt that he was even a little gloating about his misfortune.

"This manuscript was almost saved. If it hadn't been for Editor Wu... Sigh." Yang Yin sighed deeply. He was still regretting the loss of the manuscript.

Editor-in-Chief Shen whispered: "Go ahead and scold him. It doesn't hurt to scold him at this time. I even want to scold him."
To be continued...