"Literary and Art Boy" magazine and Lin Zixuan discussed the matters of manuscript fees and manuscript tables.

As a well-known domestic writer, Lin Zixuan’s current royalties are not worth a few dozen yuan. With the economic development, the writer’s royalties have also risen and become polarized.

The gap between the royalties of famous writers and new writers is getting bigger and bigger.

In the past, the remuneration of writers was determined by the state, but now the market has been relaxed, and the remuneration of newspapers and magazines has fluctuated greatly.

In 1977, the State Administration of Publications stipulated that the manuscript of a writer's work was two to seven yuan, and the manuscript of a translation was one to five yuan. By 198o, the manuscript of a work was three to ten yuan, and the manuscript of a translation was two to seven yuan.

It was a special period, and it was understandable that such a low royalty was paid, and there was not much difference between the royalty of newcomers and famous writers.

At that time, a song or poem could only get a dozen yuan in royalties.

Some literary and artistic workers once sighed: My creations can't support my art.

Later, the royalties were increased too much, but the increase was not large. It was not until the 1990s that the economy was revitalized that the royalties system was loosened. Some magazines offered high royalties to attract famous writers to contribute.

For example, a famous writer writes a column in a magazine, and can get 3,000 yuan per article without asking about the number of words.

Another famous writer offered a sky-high price of five yuan to the magazine, and a thousand words is five thousand yuan, which deviates from the market rules and is a bit suspicious of self-hype.

This year, the manuscript remuneration stipulated by the State Administration of Publications is 40 to 100 yuan in a thousand words.

In other words, a writer can only get a maximum reward of one hundred words.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below. Magazine can compensate famous writers' remuneration through other methods to attract them to contribute, which will lead to the gap between the rich and the poor in the writer industry.

Besides, writers nowadays don’t value royalties much, they care more about royalty income.

The royalties for a best-selling book often cost millions, which makes many famous writers the ones who become rich first.

This is true for Lin Zixuan. Now he can live a good life by relying on royalties alone.

"Literary Boy" offered Lin Zixuan a manuscript fee of 80 thousand words, which is equivalent to the price listed in the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the magazine "Legend of Ancient and Modern Times". Popular literature is lower than the manuscript fee for serious literature.

Fairy tales are generally considered popular literature, and this "Xiaoxue's Big Adventure" can get a reward of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Lin Zixuan had no objection to this. He told the magazine about a general writing plan. He would write about two stories in a year and would take three to four years to finish.

The magazine society made corresponding arrangements based on this to promote this story.

They have already thought of the promotional gimmick, the latest masterpiece of the author of "The Gourd Brothers", and the adventure of the magic world.

After six years of accumulation, the cartoon "Gourd Brothers" has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. I believe that children across the country will not miss this "Little Snow's Big Adventure".

For Lin Zixuan, this is just the beginning of the entire plan.

In June, at the shooting site of "The Endless", Lin Zixuan was talking to Feng Xiaogang about the advertising implantation.

Due to the success of the first two New Year films, advertisers targeted Feng Xiaogang's third New Year film. Unlike the people in the circle who are not optimistic about this "Endless", advertisers are full of confidence.

Advertisers think that as long as Ge You plays, it is worth their investment.

Nowadays, the concept of advertising implantation is no longer new, and can be seen everywhere in urban TV series. This trend is spreading to the film industry. Art movies disdain to do this and think it is a blasphemy to art.

Advertisers have seen entertainment films, especially those that sell well at the box office.

To be honest, as an audience, Lin Zixuan was quite disgusted with the implantation of advertisements in the movie. When he was filming "The People of Beijing in New York", there was no way to do so, so he went around to find manufacturers to invest and put the advertisements in the series.

However, he is now the boss of a film and television company. From a profit perspective, implanting advertising is the fastest way to recover costs.

Advertising fees are not box offices, and you don’t need to share the accounts with theaters. You earn your own money. As long as you implant a few more advertisements, the investment can basically be recovered.

It is normal that there are advertisements embedded in those Hollywood blockbusters and Cheng Long's action movies.

When filming "Party A and Party B", no one believed that they would succeed, so no advertisers came to the door. They went abroad directly for filming "Seeking Away" and there were no advertising implants. Now many companies have come.

If an advertiser collects 200,000 yuan, ten advertisers will have two million yuan, which is equivalent to half of the investment in the movie.

Wang Zhongjun is an advertisement. He agrees with this approach. Making money is important. Entertainment films are just for fun, not that artistic, and implanting advertisements has little impact on the movies, and perhaps it can make the audience feel fresh.

From the perspective of capital, this makes sense. Starting a company is to make money.

But Lin Zixuan is a little pretentious and can't let go. He feels that he doesn't value money so much. After all, he is a cultural person and cannot be so eager for money.

This "Endless" tells a story about money, and the characters in the play are busy just for 90,000 yuan.

He felt that this film produced people's impetuous mentality of seeking profit.

Of course, he was standing and talking without a headache. He was rich himself, but those who had no money, ordinary people, laid-off workers, and people who had no money could not live, so they could only look at the money.

After all, the times have changed and society has changed.

Lin Zixuan also wanted to make changes. He discussed with Feng Xiaogang and thought that it was possible to implant advertisements, but not too many. Three advertisements were enough and could not affect the audience's movies. Each advertisement was charged 300,000 yuan, which was considered an additional benefit.

"How is that Shu Qi?" Lin Zixuan asked.

"It's okay. I have cooperated well these days and am willing to communicate." Feng Xiaogang responded, "She has a lot of insight in her performance. With such a good appearance, as long as she can meet a good opportunity, she should have a future."

With the last explanation, Shu Qi let go a lot, but her accent is still not as good as Beijing, and she needs to find someone to dub in the later stage.

Lin Zixuan saw Guo Degang in the crew, who played a small supporting role in this drama, but he didn't have many roles.

After several contacts, he found that Guo Degang was a very strong person, or a society-based person, and was born in a rampant family.

When not filming, Guo Degang likes to tell a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere of the crew. He also talks about his own learning experience and how to endure hardships in order to become a disciple.

"Then you should remember to treat others well when you accept your disciples in the future and not be too harsh." Lin Zixuan said so. (To be continued.)8

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