The time and energy to start a circle and not devote yourself to practicing your own works. If you have the money to buy a false reputation, it is better to add some rice, flour, oil and salt to your family. When you pay an unnecessary price for success, it means you have failed.
"I almost refuse any nonsense activities that have nothing to do with the quality of the work. Those who pay for publication, pay for literary review or publish a portfolio will not participate." He said this when chatting with a writer friend. Actually, this is what I have always insisted on doing.
In recent years, there have been many similar situations, such as a publishing house that wants to publish my works, but they have to spend money to sell books themselves, and publish them at their own expenses in disguise. Or I rejected all the literary annual meetings, writing meetings, seminars, essay competitions, etc.
If you want to publish at your own expense, there is a publishing item in my own work content. Can’t I do it myself at your own expense? We must let you institutional middlemen make a profit. As for various meetings, it’s nothing more than finding a topic to eat, drink, and make friends with small circles to keep warm.
Because of my work characteristics and I have a large media resource, many people have contacted me to publish my works. For literary creators, I have always respected them very much because I am one of them and know the difficulty of an author.
However, many authors have published more than literature itself, so they want to publish famous magazines and major publications. Some organizations even publish in groups, and many people ask me to coordinate the publications in the form of literary societies. Some people even have the title of "first-class writer" on their heads.
It is a fact that the difficulty in publishing literary works. In addition to some unspeakable reasons, the quality of the works must reach a certain level. Otherwise, you will be useless to be a first-class writer or professor at a prestigious university. No media will throw its own signature for a person unless the gray temptation is too great.
When in the newspaper office, there was a leader of a grassroots unit who kept submitting articles to us, mainly poetry and prose, but his level was really eye-catching. If he doesn't send it to him, he often goes to the newspaper, and later directly sponsors the newspaper with a large amount of advertising fees in the name of the unit.
Not long ago, a person who wanted to join a writers association in a certain city sent me a group of poems and asked me to help. I said, you can try the newspaper supplements or some literary internal publications of your own. As a result, he wanted to publish a famous magazine and give money to publish it. I said, "Do you think you can pay for money like this?"
As a literary creator, there is a natural contempt for those who want to pay for publishing literary works. Because spending money is nothing more than seeking fame and reputation. If you don’t have your own works, even if you buy a house of honor, you are just lying to yourself. Who can’t see it?
So I agree with this friend's attitude, and I have the time and energy to build a circle and not devote myself to practicing my own works. If you have the money to buy a false reputation, it is better to add some rice, flour, oil and salt to your family. When you pay an unnecessary price for success, it means you have failed.
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