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"Dear Ms. CM,

We are proud to inform you that,

Our family and life column decided to adopt the two short articles on clothing collocation skills submitted by you, and plan to modify the two articles into one and publish them in our future life column.As for your other article about fashion trends and news, since you have no cooperative relationship with us and you did not provide a "reliable source of information" in the article, please forgive us for not being able to keep it.

If Ms. CM has rich travel experience, you can try to contribute to our column of travel notes and essays.Our readers are interested in travel stories from continental Europe and places like New York.

We are willing to pay four yuan for the above two short articles.If you accept our conditions, please bring this letter to the second floor of No. xx, xx Street, between [-]:[-] am and [-]:[-] pm on weekdays to collect your remuneration; or please indicate the full name and name of the recipient in the reply letter address, we will pay you as soon as possible by mailing a check.

Best wishes to you,

Charles N.

Editorial Department of Chicago Urban Life Newspaper”

As soon as Caroline received the letter, she saw that the mailing column on the envelope was the address of the newspaper, and immediately opened the letter excitedly on the spot.After a quick scan, she couldn't wait to reply the next day, so she simply bought stationery at the post office, borrowed a pen, and sent a brief consent form before the post office closed.

Naturally, she couldn't pick up the remuneration in person, so she could only choose to send it by registered mail.

In fact, four dollars is not a lot to Caroline now, and its long-term significance is far greater than its actual value at the moment.

In fact, from the second day after the manuscript was sent out, Caroline began to prepare a new article.

Different newspapers have different styles and preferences, and Caroline cannot submit an article to different newspapers at the same time, so from the beginning, she planned to mail her latest manuscript to the "Chicago City Life" she chose every week .

If there is no response to the manuscripts that have been submitted for more than half a month, she can revise these old manuscripts and submit them to other newspapers for a try without violating the submission rules.

Therefore, although the longest article was not passed, two articles were selected for the first submission, which was already a pleasant surprise for Caroline.

It must be mentioned that after starting to write articles, Caroline, who was originally adapted to life, began to miss her laptop like never before.When she used a computer to type and make courseware, she never noticed how convenient the display screen is to use, how easy it is to undo changes, how easy it is to copy and paste...

Until she started writing manuscripts by hand.

As long as there is a revision, Caroline has to recopy the entire article, and the newspaper office generally will not return the manuscript, so not only must the draft be kept well, but also the handwriting should be clear, in case she can't figure out the idea after revising the manuscript.

Caroline heard that some authors have already started writing with typewriters, or have written drafts on paper and printed them out with typewriters.After copying by hand for a while, she also began to think about whether she should consider buying a typewriter if she intends to take column writing as a long-term sideline. At least the printed handwriting is clear and clear, and the line spacing can be adjusted to facilitate marking and modification.

After leaving the post office, Caroline carefully put away the reply letter from the newspaper.As for whether to share the good news with the people around her, after thinking about it, she just waited for the newspaper to be published and told her family.

In the following days, Caroline resumed the busyness she had when she first started working.

She writes articles for two hours every night, mainly focusing on the summary and recommendations of the latest clothing styles in department stores and matching skills.She is also very interested in the travel notes mentioned in the editor's letter, but unfortunately her travel experience is too poor, so she can only talk about it later.

In order to expand the scope of writing, she also tried to contribute articles on story emotions.Most of the popular articles in the newspapers were about high society, or they were attention-grabbing urban legends.Caroline racked her brains to make up two similar stories, but the editor only gave a reply of "the story has no sense of substituting, and it is recommended that Ms. CM choose the subject she is good at".

Caroline admits she's a bit overwhelmed, and instead puts most of the time back in familiar directions.But occasionally she still writes some short stories based on her current life to change her mind. As long as she doesn't deliberately pursue those unfamiliar themes, it is quite interesting to write.

After forming a habit, Caroline will mail two to three short articles to the editorial department of "Chicago City Life" every week. The editors there will usually pick out one or two articles, or select interesting parts from them to synthesize one article , published in the next week's newspaper.

Some authors don't like editors to delete and modify their works at will, but Caroline doesn't care. If it's a story, she thinks it is necessary to maintain its integrity, but this kind of article is like a later public account tweet to her. In her opinion, the most important thing is that the content and length of the article are suitable for the column.

Probably because of this cooperative attitude, one month later, the newspaper office proposed in a letter that they hoped to reach a long-term cooperation with Ms. CM. Caroline needs to provide two latest manuscripts of the same style every week, as long as the quality of the articles can be guaranteed , no matter how many words are finally published, a fixed payment of six yuan per week will be paid.

Caroline agreed with little hesitation.If matching skills still require her to remember and prepare, she writes the recommendation summary of the latest popular styles more and more smoothly. As long as Meisi Department Store and other shopping malls keep buying the latest styles of products from all over the country and even the world, she will never have to worry about running out of things. Write.

Caroline also saved a small 20 yuan for the manuscript fee. Instead of withdrawing the money, she opened a personal account at the First National Bank of Chicago, where the newspaper paid the check, and deposited the money in it.

Although this kind of account is not used by many people and there is no interest, but in fact there is no handling fee, and the account can be opened as long as the deposit is deposited.In the future, if Caroline wanted to, she could write checks from her own checkbook to pay the bills.

However, Caroline didn't plan to use the money, but planned to save it as her own "reserve fund".

……

This Saturday happened to be a new play at the York Theater. Except for Annie who was going back to her parents' house, the other girls had already made an appointment to go to the play together after dinner.

The York Theater is about three tram stops away from Deeborn Street, where Max is located.It is a medium-sized theater, and its performances are naturally not comparable to places like the Chicago Grand Theater, but the ticket price for an ordinary seat for a show here is only about one yuan, and people will not look down on you because you don’t dress well enough, so it is very popular among the middle and lower income Audience welcome.

The scene they were watching was called "Nancy and Clyde." It was about the love between the daughter of a small grocer and the son of a coal merchant.Later, the coal merchant went bankrupt, and the heroine never left her. Everyone finally discovered her kindness and beauty, and the two young people finally got married.

Although for Caroline, the plot of this drama is nothing new, but the actors on stage are very devoted to the performance, and the heroine is also very good-looking, so she enjoyed watching it at first.It's a pity that when she saw the scene where the hero's father was the "coal boss", she couldn't help laughing, and was immediately stared at by Vivienne and Laura on the left and right. Look at the expressions of the people around you.

Vivienne took it very seriously, and would act surprised or sad with the plot; Laura and Joanna were quite sincere, especially Laura, when she saw that the hero and heroine in the middle had to be separated temporarily, she couldn't help but start Tears; as for Charlotte... Well, she fell asleep in the middle, and was awakened by the audience's applause when the actors came out for the curtain call, and then clapped in unison.

After it was over, everyone lined up to leave the theater, and Laura took out her handkerchief from the left pocket of her coat as she walked, probably to wipe away her tears.Accidentally brought out a pair of off-white gloves inside, she immediately picked it up and stuffed it back, took out another pair of brown gloves from the right and held them in her hand.

No one noticed this little detail, except Caroline, who was standing just behind Laura.

Gloves at the hat counter in Meisi shopping mall can be divided into two types. One is ordinary lace or satin gloves often worn by ladies and ladies. This kind of gloves is generally simple in decoration, and many of them are machine-made and hand-made. Malls buy in bulk, and wealthy customers like to buy by the dozen.

The other is purely handmade gloves. Most of these gloves are made of finer workmanship, or are made of high-grade silk satin, deerskin, lambskin, or decorated with pearls, crystals and other decorations. Unique, the most important thing is that there is usually only one pair of one style, which is very much in line with the wishes of the rich.Each counter of Meisi Department Store has some of these products. Caroline guessed that there should be a group of handmade manufacturers who have long-term cooperation to supply Meisi.

If Caroline is not mistaken, the pair of off-white gloves with small pearls that Laura just stuffed back may have been sold from their counter.

She was very impressed with the gloves.Not only because there was only one pair of gloves in the store at that time, and the price was eight yuan and two cents, but also because,

I think the person who bought these gloves was Drouet.

Caroline doesn't jump to conclusions.First of all, she wasn't sure that she read it correctly. Furthermore, Meisi Department Store only sold that pair recently, which didn't mean that other stores didn't have similar models.And when she thought of Drouet, a character in the original book, she felt an inexplicable sense of weirdness. If he hadn't appeared as a customer before, Caroline didn't want to see him at all.Every time Caroline thought of him, life seemed suddenly unreal to Caroline.

Does Laura know Drouet? If Caroline is a nosy person, she must ask. But Caroline doesn't like prying into other people's privacy, and she doesn't want others to pry into her in the future, so she Just as if I didn't see it, I continued to chat with everyone about the plot just now.

The author has something to say: Labor Day, suitable for late night updates~

ps "Chicago City Life" is edited; Drouet and Hansheng are both surnames, and people who are familiar with them will not call them that. A code name to the end~

In addition, those who are interested in the novels and movies of "Sister Carrie" can go and see it

(However, this story mainly uses some settings, which have little to do with the plot of the original book)