Not many full-time writers because of their interest

Absrtact: Compared with the traditional tome, the online novel is now a favorite reading for many young people. How did these online novels come into being? How do Internet writers work? Yesterday, the reporter interviewed more than a local network of Foshan writers. In his

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Compared to the traditional "voluminous", online novels are now a favorite reading for many young people. How did these online novels come into being? How do Internet writers work? Yesterday, the reporter interviewed more than a local network of Foshan writers.

Among them, both full-time writers and part-time "amateurs" white-collar workers. In his writing career, interest is the driving force of the beginning. But thousand words dozens of yuan or even a few cents of "sweat" fee standard, daily writing nearly million words of hard work, let love writing interest into a livelihood work, they are not relaxed happy ...

Their motivation: There are not many full-time writers for interest

Nowadays, online novels are popular. Reporter learned that in Foshan in fact, there are a lot of online writing, but as a professional full-time writer is not many. "I really don't know any full-time writer in Foshan, who works mainly through online contact with the website editors, but not with other writers." "The name of the flower Rain Butterfly" Foshan people miss, online has been serialized three novels, and the vast majority of online writers, the most began to write almost all because of interest. At the age of 14, Miss has started to serialize a campus novel on the Internet, gradually accumulating some experience, "from the age of 18, I decided to formally transfer to the career writer." She said, because the early works by netizens welcome, she also through the website to make money, "the 18-year-old basic can support themselves, to now have been 2 years of full-time writers." ”

But in Foshan, more or part-time writers, "mainly because the online writer's pay is too low, a lot of people who love literature just as a lianbi of the internet novel." "Miss Lin is an advertising company in Foshan staff, as a white-collar, she also began three years ago in the network on the serial novel," The monthly fee received although few, but see some netizens support comments, the heart is quite a sense of achievement. ”

Their hard work: network thousand words money but a few cents

Not long ago, a 25-year-old well-known network writer died, causing the community for the network writer's survival state of concern. "Flower rain Butterfly" to the reporter said, "The network writer is a high-risk work, not Iron Man can not do." She revealed that she usually writes about 10,000 words a day, ranging from 5 hours to 10 hours. Ms. Lin, however, says she has to work more than 10 hours a day. "This also varies from person to person, the income is good every day needs to write 6,000 words above, the income difference wants twenty thousand or thirty thousand words all possibly." ”

Originally, the net writer's income mainly is with the reader pays the reading to relate, but the pay standard generally is very low. "Flower Rain Butterfly" revealed "thousand words but a few cents." There are other web site writers introduced, thousand word royalties will not exceed 20 yuan. "After the reader pays, the author also divides the website 55." ”

"Flower rain Butterfly" said, his own series of three novels, fee income is low but thousands of yuan, high only tens of thousands of yuan, a novel reader about two thousand or three thousand people, this is a very good result, "the highest peak, one months have 10,000 yuan, of course, compared to some of the most popular writers, this is not much." "However, this kind of income is also a very individual case," 100 network write hands, probably only 1 can live very well, there are 9 can barely support themselves, the rest of the support of their own is very difficult. ”

Their dream: Work can be published as a novel

The reporter learned that, when their works accumulated a certain popularity, some writers will contract with the novel website, stipulating a certain time period or a novel must be completed in the website. Because of the particularity of the Internet browsing, unless the famous author, otherwise determine the writer's income is one of the important factors, that is, can be edited to recommend to the homepage of the website.

Ms. Lin said she had also been a signing writer for a certain site for some time, but because it was not recommended on the homepage, the whole novel was only a poor hundreds of yuan, "some new writers may even be earning 0." "However, whether it's a signed writer or a regular writer, the amount of income linked to reading makes the overall income level less high." Many full-time writers are struggling to keep up with income problems.

However, for most writers, the publication of their own works is the ultimate dream. But in the vast number of writers, the number of published works is very few.

"In general, the work to be published must first be approved by the reader, and the editors will be interested in it before the website can contact the publishing house." "Flower rain Butterfly" said that his most popular novel, has now been recommended to publishers, is preparing to publish. Talking about this, she regrets a lot, "after several hard, also be realized the original dream." ”