1978 Synthetic Writers - Chapter 509: Manuscript Signing on the Eve of Synthesis
1978 Synthetic Writers
Chapter 509: Manuscript Signing on the Eve of SynthesisChapter 509: Manuscript Signing on the Eve of Synthesis
"Inspiration [Replacement] Progress +1, Current Progress (93/100)"
Hearing the familiar voice in his mind, Jiang Xian let out a long sigh.
After working tirelessly on the progress during this period, I finally pushed the progress to a level where it is almost unlocked.
On the other hand, on that day, the China Writers Association sent several leaders to conduct research at People's Literature. While listening to reports on recent work, they also deployed key tasks.
The person who came is Tang Dacheng.
Tang Dacheng is a famous literary critic. He previously took over Guang Weiran's work in the China Writers Association and held a high position of power.
In addition, it was he who advocated moving the four major newspapers and periodicals of the Writers Association and the four secondary units of the Writers Association into the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building to change the working environment. However, his comrades in the China Writers Association, including himself, still insisted on working in the earthquake-resistant shed.
However, Tang Dacheng was still somewhat dissatisfied with Jiang Xian replacing Wang Meng as the editor-in-chief of "People's Literature".
Because he is unapologetically left-wing.
So compared to Jiang Xian, he supports Liu Xinwu to take over Wang Meng's job more.
But the final result produced by the Writers Association was beyond his expectations.
Tang Dacheng was not very satisfied with this result.
But the matter was done, and there was nothing he could do to change it.
I have to make some comments somewhere else.
Well, those who have worked in the workplace know that deliberate obstruction by a leader is often a step before voluntarily resigning.
Of course, Jiang Xian was not unprepared for Tang Dacheng's aggressive attack.
He heard the news early in the morning and knew that according to the original plan of the Writers Association, Tang Dacheng was not originally going to be in charge of this investigation. However, Tang Dacheng showed very positive interest, so he was finally the one to lead the investigation.
He and Tang Dacheng are old acquaintances. They have been in contact since they ran the Literary Museum. Later, they met each other frequently in the Writers Association. When "You Have No Choice" was severely criticized by the critics, Tang Dacheng was one of the authors of the review article.
Of course, the dispute between the two was limited to academic debate, and they did not dislike each other in real life and would not fight as soon as they met.
Including Tang Dacheng's disapproval of Jiang Xian taking over Wang Meng's job, it was also due to his thoughts on the publication at work, not because he really had any opinion about Jiang Xian.
The two chatted and laughed, walked around the editorial office, and then sat down to conduct a research seminar.
As the editor-in-chief, Jiang Xian briefly reported on recent work and the next development ideas.
What efforts are made to tap into grassroots creative forces, cultivate new literary talents, and explore broader and more diverse ways of literary expression in the new era?What is to actively improve the quality of the content of the publication, intervene in the entire process of writers' creation with a forward-looking vision, explore and present the creative fields, creative themes, and innovative propositions belonging to the new era, insist on the output of high-quality literary content, enhance the effective dissemination of literature, and continuously improve the social benefits of the works?At this critical moment, we should be full of energy and complete our work tasks with high spirits.He just said this out of the blue.
The speech was flawless.
Tang Dacheng also felt regretful and surprised when he heard this.
Judging from the level of his speech, this guy should be a complete leftist. How come the novel he wrote is so outrageous?
On the other side, Tang Dacheng asked a few simple questions, then made a summary speech, and began to inquire about Jiang Xian’s recent work situation from the editorial board of People’s Literature.
For example, whether you are used to the recent work pace, whether you feel that the style of the publication has changed too much from before, and whether you think Jiang Xian has a problem with his work attitude.These are all clichés. The editors certainly won't stand up and criticize Jiang Xian at this time, saying that he has done outrageous things after taking office. They are just saying nice things. This is a fixed procedure.
According to the process, this step was about to end, but at this time Tang Dacheng suddenly said something.
"Are there any manuscripts that Comrade Jiang Xian has reviewed recently? And the manuscript signature he wrote, I want to see it."
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This is quite surprising.
The other leaders of the research team were also a little confused.
The so-called manuscript signature is the final opinion written by Jiang Xian.
Jiang Xian had only been in office for a short time, and in such a short time, he had to take over a myriad of tasks. How could he have the time to calm down and review the manuscripts and write the final opinions?
Therefore, Tang Dacheng's question was obviously meant to be difficult.
The number of manuscript signatures can indeed directly reflect the level of responsibility of an editor-in-chief.
However, the editor-in-chief's intangible contributions to the publication cannot be reflected in the manuscript signature.
"Is it inconvenient?" Seeing that no one from People's Literature reacted, Tang Dacheng laughed.
"That's right. I just took office not long ago and may not have signed many manuscripts yet. But I want to say one thing. I understand the desire of young people to do something big, but when doing work, you still have to be down-to-earth, especially when working on literary journals. Don't focus entirely on personnel reforms, but start with the most basic work."
"Comrade Dacheng, the manuscript has been signed."
Jiang Xian interrupted Tang Dacheng at this time and asked, "Would you like to take a few articles or all of them?"
"Ok?"
When Tang Dacheng heard this, he naturally thought that Jiang Xian wanted to ask him for a way out.
In his understanding, Jiang Xian's intention was simply for him to ask to just take a few articles to have a look, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation of having to hand in all the articles but not having many to sign.
"Then bring them all over and have a look." Tang Dacheng chose to ignore the hint in Jiang Xian's words.
This also made the leaders of the Writers Association somewhat embarrassed.
With so many people present today, Tang Dacheng insisted on seeing Jiang Xian's manuscript signature. It was obvious that he wanted to make Jiang Xian unhappy and embarrass him.
"Ok."
Jiang Xian winked at Zhu Wei standing beside him, "Come, feed the cake to Mr. Tang. No, show the manuscript to Comrade Dacheng."
"it is good."
At the command, Zhu Wei acted quickly.
Taking advantage of this free time, Tang Dacheng started playing the Jiangxian again.
"The editor-in-chief of a publication is the soul of the publication. What determines the main tone of the publication? The editor-in-chief's manuscript signature."
Tang Dacheng was talking a lot, while Jiang Xian was smiling all the time.
"Well, time is tight and the task is heavy. It will take too long to sort out the manuscript. Let's review it privately later. I think we should proceed with the next work arrangement first." Kong Luosun interrupted at this time.
The meaning is very clear, which is to help Jiang Xian out of trouble. Privately speaking, even if Jiang Xian wrote fewer manuscripts, it is not a problem worth discussing.
"Now that the symposium is over, there isn't much left to do. I think we should spend less time on those formalities and empty stuff and instead tell Comrade Jiang Xian more about his experience as an editor-in-chief. This is the important task at hand," said Tang Dacheng.
"This..." Kong Luosun felt helpless.
Tang Dacheng is not a bad person, but in his opinion, Jiang Xian is not suitable for the position of editor-in-chief, so he must find a way to remove him.
Although today's manuscript signing incident will not lead to Jiang Xian's dismissal from his position at People's Literature, it is enough to lower Jiang Xian's reputation as the editor-in-chief and to spread the inherent impression that "Jiang Xian is irresponsible."
"Comradeship achieved."
Kong Luosun wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Jiang Xian, "Comrade Luosun, it's okay. Comrade Dacheng is right. We are all acquaintances, so let's not be formalistic. Let's listen to Comrade Dacheng tell me about his experience as an editor-in-chief."
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Kong Luosun was also very confused when he heard Jiang Xian's words.
He didn't think Jiang Xian didn't realize that he was trying to help him out.
But the source of his confidence is"After all, I used to be the editor-in-chief of People's Digest. I didn't think it was a big deal before. But after I became the editor-in-chief of People's Literature, I found that there is a big difference between the final review of literary journals and the final review of digest journals. I often feel overwhelmed when writing." Jiang Xian said to Tang Dacheng on the side.
"Well, I'll help you take a look at your final opinion later." "Comrade Dacheng, you are so busy, how can I do this?"
"Oh~ No need to be so polite. It's nothing to take a look. I can help you revise it later."
"Is it?!"
"Editor-in-chief, I have sorted it out."
While the three were talking, Zhu Wei came over with a stack of manuscripts. They were not very thick and looked almost the same as a book.
Zhu Wei handed the manuscript to Jiang Xian, "These are the manuscripts you wrote these days. I have sorted them out temporarily."
Tang Dacheng, Kong Luosun, and several leaders of the Writers Association were all attracted by the pile of manuscripts.
"Is this the manuscript signature I wrote during this period?"
Manuscript signing is not like writing a novel, which can be several thousand words long.
The manuscript review is the final opinion. Generally, one page of manuscript review is considered a lot for a novel.
Don't think that writing only one page means less work.
This page of final review opinion represents the author's careful consideration after reading the entire novel. The author must have read the novel several times and analyzed the editor-in-chief's initial review opinions and the editor-in-chief's second review opinions before writing such a manuscript signature.
The final review opinion in Jiang Xian's hand at the moment was as thick as a book. Judging from the thickness of ordinary manuscript paper, it would be about a hundred pages.
In other words, during the period just after he took office, he wrote nearly a hundred final opinions!
"This"
Tang Dacheng's face was full of disbelief. He only knew that Jiang Xian had recently been carrying out a major personnel reform at People's Literature, and had been seconding editors every now and then.
I didn't expect this guy to put so much effort behind the scenes.
How long has he been in office?
Have you written so many manuscripts?
On the other side, Kong Luosun couldn't help laughing out loud when looking at the scene in front of him.
No wonder this kid showed such confidence and magnanimity just now.
It turns out that the confidence comes from here.
"Comrade Jiang Xian, you are really serious and responsible."
"Editor-in-chief, here are a few more."
As they were talking, Zhang Dening came over with a stack of manuscripts, and then everyone remembered.
What Zhu Wei said just now was "just sort these out temporarily".
In other words, it hasn’t been completely sorted out yet!"This, this, this"
Everyone in the Writers Association, including Tang Dacheng and Kong Luosun, looked at each other in bewilderment.
This cannot be called diligence.
This is truly extraordinary diligence!"Young people are really full of energy." Someone sighed quietly.
Jiang Xian had only been in office for a short time, but he had already written so many manuscripts. With such a strong work ethic, old guys like them would probably get sick from exhaustion.
The look he gave Jiang Xian was suddenly filled with envy.
Don't be afraid that you are young.
Young people have the advantage of being full of energy, but they tend to be superficial and impatient when doing things.
But Jiang Xian is a young man who is down-to-earth and energetic. How can people not envy him?
"Let me see."
Someone picked up one of the copies and glanced at Jiang Xian's manuscript.
Because he had experience in calligraphy, the manuscript was written very beautifully, and the font was obviously his own, rather than Zhu Wei and Zhang Dening signing some other people's manuscripts to make up the numbers.
"This is a work that expresses love for the country and the people, and it shows that so-called problem literature, as long as it is well written, still has vitality."
The man took a quick look and nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, it's OK. The manuscript signature is very well written."
Although I haven't read the novel written by this manuscript, at least this manuscript seems to be written with great skill and insight.
Tang Dacheng also read a few articles and felt that Jiang Xian's manuscript firmly adhered to the red line of public tolerance. It was not shocking enough, but it was not lacking in trendy ideas.
Judging from this point of view alone, this guy is doing a pretty good job as editor-in-chief. At least in his opinion, he can maintain the good situation left by Wang Meng.
"Comrade Dacheng, please return these manuscripts to our People's Literature as soon as possible." Jiang Xian said at this time.
"bring back?"
Tang Dacheng was stunned.
What do you mean?What should I take away?
"Didn't you say you would help me revise it and give me some constructive comments?"
"Pfft."
Kong Luosun moved directly to Bengbu.
Just now, Tang Dacheng mentioned that he would help Jiang Xian revise the manuscript.
As a result, Jiang Xian took out so many manuscript signatures at once.
How do you change it?Old Tang, Old Tang, the old comrade plotted against the young people, but in the end he failed to gain anything and was caught by them.
After making fun of Tang Dacheng, Kong Luosun turned his attention to Jiang Xian.
This kid is really good.
Full of bad intentions.
As for the modification just now, it was not him who hinted at Tang Dacheng.
He, Kong Luosun, would even be willing to have his head chopped off.
It was obvious that this guy did it on purpose, and he coaxed the unsuspecting old comrade into making such a promise.
The matter was over. Although Jiang Xian had said that it was not necessary, Tang Dacheng still insisted on taking the manuscript back and insisted on helping him to revise it.
Jiang Xian could also see that Tang Dacheng was indeed feeling embarrassed about what happened today.
In that case, I didn't stop him, but just told him to finish writing as soon as possible and send it back to People's Literature. I was busy with reviewing and typesetting, so there was no time to delay.
After this incident, Jiang Xian entered into the rhythm of brushing [Replace] inspiration again.
Just when Jiang Xian's [substitute] progress was about 2 points short, an uninvited guest suddenly found Jiang Xian's home.
(End of this chapter)