Half the sky in the cyber economy: The Gold rush of literary writers

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The Rascal Cai, He Hui outside, Ning Mammon ... These names are not unfamiliar to everyone, they are all because of the popularity of online literature. Today, college campuses, many college students have become online writers. Some of them earn a huge income, or even millions of dollars in income. Although writing is only their after-school part-time, but their creative speed is extraordinary fast, one months can write 500,000 words.

　　Incredible income.

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Zhang Lei, senior student of Bioengineering, Shanghai University Life Sciences College. In the school has been unknown, but he used to make his own network writer 1.5 money to buy a modern car, became the campus "car minority". At this time the students know that every day in front of the computer "crackling" of his typing, has been three of the network novel, a total of 2 million words of the author.

Zhang Lei as a network writer is purely accidental, he likes writing since childhood, very early on the Internet to write prose habits. The year before last summer, Zhang Lei began to try to write a novel, writing side to upload to a literary website. To his surprise, his text immediately attracted a lot of readers, the click rate quickly soared to hundreds of thousands of. He then received a signing request from the website and began his career as an online writer. Now Zhang Lei's debut, "My Korean rogue wife," online cumulative hits already tens of millions of.

"I just wanted to write something on the internet to make time, and I never dreamed of making so much money," he said. "What made Zhang Lei the most unexpected was the sudden windfall of income," he said. He has signed two literature sites, the author from the website he now contracted to learn that from May 2006 to date, Zhang Lei from the site has received more than 100,000 yuan. According to the introduction, the student network writer a lot of income is quite abundant, Hunan also appeared a yearly income already more than million of writers.

　　Amazing speed of Creation

One months to write 500,000 words "magnum opus"

"This group of students online writers, writing a lot of content can be counted as a fictional online game." "A literary website editor said that this group of writers to create things, with magic, fantasy-oriented." Many people are inspired by their favorite online games. There is no limitation, unrestrained, arbitrary imagination in the style and manner of writing.

These student writers ' works are more of a fantasy story, and they are not very demanding in writing. Many people create amazing speed, Zhang Lei on average three months to complete 600,000 words, but only medium speed. Some people can write 7,000 words in one hours, and can even finish 500,000 characters ' novels in one months. "Our writing is generally coherent, almost without modification." Zhang Lei also believes that, from the traditional literary point of view, their works, although there are fine, but mostly belong to the "Wenhua" for the purpose of entertainment for people.

Many literary sites like the magic theme does not need the author has a lot of social experience, more material to the film, comics or games, so the network writers are mostly college students, and even middle school students. The author learned that the smallest writer, is a junior student in Zhejiang province, he has written in less than a year more than 400,000 words.

　　Extra academic worries.

Writing and learning are often not mistaken

The author learned that in these network writing hands, science and engineering students accounted for the majority. Study science and engineering general courses are very nervous, so every day on the Internet to write things will affect learning?

Zhang Lei's father, Zhang Jianxin, told the author that he had been worried about his son's online writing. But then he found out that Zhang Lei handled the relationship between writing and learning well. "He doesn't write too long every day, an average of one or two hours. Zhang Jianxin said, Zhang Lei likes to look at writing things from childhood, in fact, before writing online novels, he will spend a lot of time writing essays and poems every day. Zhang Jianxin doesn't feel that Zhang Lei is any different now than before. "Although he did not take a scholarship, study is not particularly good, but there is no failure of the situation." Zhang Lei's University counselor Li told the author that she had just started to find out that Zhang Lei had often been on the internet, so he talked to him, hoping not to influence learning because of "playing". Later, she saw that Zhang Lei did not decline the study, it is believed that online writing will occupy students a lot of time, but if students particularly like, and can moderate time, there is no need to worry too much.

The fate of the writer's development

Many famous writers will suddenly disappear.

"The network novel in the University, a dormitory at least one person is looking, four dormitory will have one person to write." "In the circle of online writers, there is a saying that the degree of participation of college students in online literature is conceivable."

17K Literature website Editor Liu Ying told the author, according to the statistics they have done. Only 4 of Shanghai's larger literary sites, hundreds of thousands of people in the writing, and the site signed more than 2000 people, Shanghai locals accounted for about one-fifth. In the signing of the network of writers, students as the main body, the others are just graduated from college.

Although the current network of original literature is booming, but the real can write a few famous, most people can not become a signing writer. Liu Ying said that, limited by subject matter and experience, even if the current million-year writers, the next book will not be seen, is also unknown.

Zhang Lei in this year, also deeply felt the network writer creation Environment instability, many famous writers will suddenly "disappear." He believes that online writers are only a part-time job, and students are better off not to use this as a career. Now he is anxious to find a job in addition to writing everyday things.

　　Related: Online writer's Way of making money

A student online writer like Zhang Lei has a deeper "web footprint". They are not like former Internet writers, rely on the internet to become famous, and then make money by publishing. Their income comes mainly from the base salary after the contract, the online payment subscription and the website royalties.

Now there are many literary sites in the country, anyone can put their own works published in these sites for readers to read for free. If your work gets a certain amount of reading, the website will contact you and negotiate a part-time work contract with you.

When you become a signing writer, some websites will pay the basic salary to you, others will not. But the things that were written to the website during the contract period began to earn revenue. One is to get a fee directly from the website, as well as from the pay-reading and the site of the profit. For example, a 2000-word chapter of the novel, the website will charge readers 4 cents, the writer has 2 cents. Small profits but quick turnover, some writers can earn hundreds of yuan a chapter.