Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 900 Author Signing System

After Wu Yafei came out of the box, the boy from before came over, "Old Wu, why did you come out so soon, don't you want to order food for them?"

"I said I wrote it myself, and I don't treat it differently." Wu Yafei shook his head and said.

"You earned it, Old Wu!" The boy patted Wu Yafei on the shoulder and shouted softly.

Wu Yafei didn't understand, and said, "What did you earn, I was surprised."

The boy is good at ordering Wu Yafei, "Old Wu, old Wu, how should I say hello. You said that Dean Zhang and the others order by themselves, so who will write the menu?"

"That should be the dean himself, after all, he is the host, what's wrong?"

"What's the matter!" The boy laughed angrily, "Do you know how many people want to ask for the dean's signature but can't get it? Do you know that there are still people who spend money to buy students' final evaluation sheets? Just because there are dean's signatures on it." Signature. Now the dean writes the menu himself, how many words must be on it, I said, is it still fake if you post it? Even if our dean did not write it himself, any word in it is very precious."

Wu Yafei came to his senses now, he patted his head, "You're right."

"Right, why don't you give me some reward? Give me another bottle of happy water?" The boy laughed.

"Have you finished drinking so much happy water? How about this? I'll give you another bottle of rice wine from my family. It's stored here. I'll drink it for you next time."

"Okay, remember to watch it for me when you get the menu."

……

After Wu Yafei got Zhang's rewritten menu, he couldn't help but sigh, "It's beautiful, it's so beautiful, I feel that my menu assignment is not suitable for this writing."

The happy water boy leaned over his head, looked at the words on it, and said, "You don't understand now. This is called having a strong sense of conflict in art. It has more stories than serious words. The only shortcoming is that you The name of our orange restaurant is not printed on this menu paper, otherwise, if you take a photo of this menu and post it on the Internet, the restaurant will become famous, let alone five boxes, even fifty boxes will not be enough. "

"As long as you have a lot of crazy ideas, I put this restaurant in the school cafeteria. Even if I want to expand it, I can't help it." Wu Yafei smiled and didn't take the boy's words seriously.

He thinks this is pretty good now. Although Happy Water's proposal is very tempting, it is also very risky if you think about it carefully. He is satisfied that the box can be filled every day.

……

Zhang Zhong in the box didn't know that a menu he wrote almost made Wu Yafei make a life-changing decision. He was chatting with Zhuang Yu and the others about the research meeting of the Nanhuai Literary Federation in Houtian.

Zhuang Yu said, "In the past two years, in order to encourage grassroots writers and stimulate their creative passion, many places have implemented a contract system. Nanhuai Province is the first batch of contract systems starting in 2020. The contract system is divided into one year and two years. , up to now, even if it is two years, it has reached the second round. However, the role of the writer contract system has not been fully reflected in the past few years. In order to complete the task, the works written by the contracted grassroots writers are not ideal. Liu Yuan and the others came here this time to discuss this issue."

Wang Yi followed up and said, "The writer's contract system has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages. I think it's a bit fanciful to rely on this system to make literature flourish."

Zhang Zhong doesn't know much about the writer's contract system, after all, he has never been a writer "within the system".

The so-called writer contract system was born to break the shackles caused by the previous professional writer's lifetime system.

This is not a new thing. As early as the end of the 90s, a province in China was at the forefront of the times in order to prosper local literature, and proposed such a contract system.

Writers are no longer professional and tenured. They just get paid and don't work, but sign once a year or every two years.

Contracted writers will have corresponding tasks. As for the task, it varies from place to place, but they are all similar. It is to quantify the contracted writers, stipulate how many works to write within the contract period, and which journals or materials these works need to be published on. .

Such a system full of "market economy" has indeed played a role in the past, at least it has provided some vitality for the literary market.

But with the passage of time, various places have also begun to find that the writer's contract system is at best a booster, and cannot fundamentally solve the problems faced by the literary world.

During the period from the end of the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century, there were still some talent reserves in the literary world, but due to institutional problems, these talents did not give full play to their due performance. The contract system for writers came into being, helping these grassroots writers find a way to show their talents. the path of talent.

So in any case, the contract system for writers is at least better than the lifetime system for professional writers.

But such a system, literature cannot rely on it any more, because there are only so many tasks it can accomplish.

"Has any of you signed a contract with the local government?" Zhang Zhong asked.

These writers in China glanced at each other, then shook their heads together, "No, not a single one."

This answer is pretty self-explanatory.

Linde was very interested in China's contract system for writers. He asked, "If I sign a contract with the Federation of Literary and Art Circles you mentioned, will there be a high salary?"

Wang Yi shook his head, "As far as I know, there is no subsidy for contracted writers, but this subsidy is dispensable for writers who can earn manuscript fees. I don't know about Nanhuai's side, but Bashu's side The subsidy is 600 yuan per month."

"It's true that there are very few, but it can be regarded as a guarantee for grassroots writers." Liu Yuan said.

"That depends on how you define grassroots writers. If you include those who can write articles, then the two thousand and six hundred yuan is indeed a guarantee for them. But how can such people be signed ?” Wang Yi said.

Llorente wondered, "If this is the case, why do those writers who can earn manuscript fees sign contracts? After all, there is only a subsidy of less than [-] US dollars per month, and they have to accept tasks assigned by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which puts pressure on themselves. At the same time, the creative freedom is lost.”

Wang Yi explained, "For most contracted writers, this is more like an honor. Selecting a few writers from hundreds of applicants is an affirmation in itself. Moreover, the contracted writers not only have financial subsidies. One advantage is that being affiliated with the Federation of Literature and Art Circles is tantamount to keeping warm in a group, and the Federation of Literature and Art Circles will also use its own resources to help contracted writers publish their works. As for creative freedom, sometimes it is not necessarily the first priority for some people .”

(End of this chapter)