1980 My literary era

While Rong Shihui and Lin Weimin were talking, there was a knock on the door of his office. Rong Shihui was about to get up when he saw an old comrade peeking in.

"Director Tan!" Long Shihui stood up and quickly introduced Lin Weimin, "This is Director Qin Chaoyang of our editorial department."

"Director Qin, this is Lin Weimin, the author of "The Death of Yura"."

Tan Chaoyang is over sixty years old, with gray hair and ridges on his face, but he speaks with great energy, "Comrade Xiao Lin is really young and promising!"

Lin Weimin stood up and shook hands respectfully, "Thank you, Director Tan. Just call me Weimin."

What's his name? Xiao Lin, it's not his style to look shorter than him.

Tan Chaoyang laughed, "Okay, let's call it for the people."

Rong Shihui explained on the side: "I called Comrade Weimin here today because I planned to talk to him about his novel..."

Tan Chaoyang said: "I have read the novel and it is very well written. Do you have any questions?"

The issuance and publication of a novel must go through three reviews and three proofreadings. The final decision on publication requires a meeting of the editorial department, with the editor-in-chief making the final decision. After "The Death of Yura" was handed to Tan Chaoyang, he didn't even have time to discuss it in the meeting.

"The quality of the manuscript is fine, but the style is a bit too dark, which is inconsistent with the overall style of our magazine."

"Um……"

Qin Chaoyang pondered for a moment, "The style is very unique and different from the current trend in the literary world. But this is also the advantage of this manuscript. In the past two years, scar literature has become very popular, and readers sometimes get tired of it. Comrade Weimin is so young. , the quality of the work is also very outstanding, I think this manuscript can be used!"

Tan Chaoyang’s words are a true insight. Scar literature is a product of a special era. After Hum Hum was crushed, it took advantage of the momentum and reached its peak in a few years. Then it was slapped on the beach by the tide of reform literature. The most fundamental thing is that The reason is that the entire society's attention has turned to economic construction and material life.

Qin Chaoyang is now the deputy director and editor-in-chief of the editorial department. He cannot be said to have a single say in the selection of manuscripts, but at least he plays a decisive role.

Seeing that he expressed his support for the publication of this manuscript, Rong Shihui's worries disappeared, "This is the best, the best."

On the other side, Lin Weimin was very happy when he heard that Qin Chaoyang personally confirmed that he would use his manuscript. This trip was finally not in vain.

Qin Chaoyang is an editor who attaches great importance to discovering and supporting new literary talents. While working in "People's Literature" in the 1950s, he discovered the following writers such as Jun Qing, Qu Bo, Malaqinfu, Wang Meng, Liu|Bin|Yan, and Xiao Ping. famous literary figures.

Now he is half of the editorial board of "Contemporary", and he still maintains this habit of supporting new people and new works as always.

Lin Weimin, a newcomer in his early twenties, was what he valued most. During the chat, he learned that Lin Weimin had written an article and wanted to leave it to "Zhongshan". He was quite sorry.

"If you have any new manuscripts you write in the future, you can show them to us first. I can't guarantee them when they are published, but it's good to give your comments to improve the quality of the work."

Lin Weimin nodded, "Definitely."

After chatting for more than ten minutes, Tan Chaoyang stood up and said, "Okay, you can continue chatting. I'll leave first."

Several people stood up to see each other off. After Tan Chaoyang left, Lin Weimin took a look at the time. It was already past six o'clock in the evening.

"Teacher Rong, it's so late, haven't you eaten yet? Let's go out to eat together."

"No, no, no, I still have a few manuscripts in my hand that I haven't finished reading. You go ahead."

Lin Weimin sincerely invited him twice more, but Long Shihui kept declining, so Tang Yuqiu grabbed Lin Weimin.

"He is really busy. Let's wait for the next opportunity."

Rong Shihui smiled and said, "Yes, I'll have a chance next time."

After bidding farewell to Rong Shihui, Lin Weimin and Tang Yuqiu came out of the back building. It was already past dinner time. There was an open space between the front building and the back building. A basketball court was built here, and six or seven men were playing basketball. .

"These are writers seconded from various places and come here to revise their manuscripts."

Tang Yuqiu saw Lin Weimin's eyes lingering on the men playing basketball and explained to him.

Lin Weimin nodded, thinking that there should be some well-known figures among these people, but unfortunately he didn't know any of them.

When the two of them were about to leave the gate, they saw several people carrying a drunk man into the yard. Tang Yuqiu said: "It's another guy who wants to pack up his luggage and get out."

Domestic writers have suffered a lot in the past few years, resulting in the domestic literary world being empty in the past few years since the reform and opening up. This is why many writers in later generations became famous during this stage.

At that time, there was a lack of new works in the literary world, and it was difficult to support the literary reading requirements of the Chinese people. Many publishing houses and editorial departments could only find promising seedlings from the submissions of some amateur authors.

But these good candidates had no writing experience at all, or very little, so someone came up with the idea of ​​"writing on secondment."

These potential seedlings will be seconded to the publishing house and editorial department to write and revise manuscripts. They will provide food and accommodation here, and with the help of editors, they will revise their works until they can meet publication or publishing requirements and quality.

The National Literature Publishing House is also doing this kind of thing now, and has a lot of people on secondment. There are many seconded talents living in the two buildings in the courtyard, and they stay there for several months or a year.

There are some authors who really can't understand their manuscripts, and their works are eventually rejected. They can only drink a lot of wine to drown their sorrows, and finally pack up and get out.

This approach did indeed cultivate a group of talents for the literary world at that time.

For example, Ma Jicai wrote a book "Boxing of Boxing" and was noticed by the National Literature Publishing House. He was then seconded to the publisher and stayed here for two years. Not only did he revise the manuscript of "Boxing of Boxing", he also wrote another book during this period. The companion piece "Magic Lamp".

On the way back, Lin Weimin took Tang Yuqiu to a state-owned restaurant for a meal.

People were running around for his manuscript without even eating. We couldn't let them go back hungry.

During the meal, Tang Yuqiu was still chatting with him about his experiences at the National Literature Publishing House. Lin Weimin felt quite emotional after hearing this.

This is truly the best era for literature. Five hundred years in the future, or another five hundred years in the future, I'm afraid there won't be such a good time.

Many people who have experienced such an era will always sigh or get angry from time to time after a few years. It has only been so many years, how could literature become something that people dislike?

Only when Lin Weimin was living in this era did he understand that it was always the times that created the heroes, not the heroes that created the times.

The names and works recorded on the monuments of the times certainly have their own reasons for their talents, but the bigger reason is that this era gave them the opportunity to shine.

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