First of all, let me state that the following content is transferred from me. Although I donĄŻt agree with all of it, most of the opinions are similar to what I think! After reading it, I was really touched. The authorĄŻs feelings were exactly the same as mine! Without further ado, here is the reposted content:
LetĄŻs first talk about the current financial resources of full-time writers! The so-called full-time writers naturally refer to friends who specialize in writing, make a living from it, and make money from it. Friends who work and write novels are not included, because you have a fixed income and writing novels may be a hobby. , how much you make will not have much impact on your life.
As long as people write novels, the ways to make money are: 1. Join the siteĄŻs VIP; 2. Publish physical books, both simplified and traditional; 3. A few people will be spotted by game companies or crews and made into movies or TV series.
Let me first talk about publishing as a regular physical book. Let me reveal a piece of information here. Basically, one out of every twenty or thirty online novels you see now will be published as a physical book, and three out of these twenty or thirty books will be published as a physical book. Go to Wubenhui and join the VIPs of major websites. Publishers in mainland China have stricter approval requirements for publishing. They cannot involve pornography, violence, politics, society, etc., and they also need to apply for a publication number from the Chinese Cultural Bureau before they can be published. Therefore, the books published now are in Taiwan and Hong Kong. For the most part, for books that can be published in mainland China, it is good to have one or two copies out of a hundred. Books published in Taiwan range from 20 yuan to 50 yuan per thousand words. Of course, there are also books that cost more than 100 yuan, but they are just a minority among the minority. We who write novels all hope that our books will be published, but if we sign with the wrong agency, Company, just wait to be deducted at every turn! For example, for a book worth 50 yuan per thousand words, an agency will charge you 25%-30% or more in agency fees. In this way, a book with 1,000 words will be reduced to 30-40 yuan, and will never exceed 40 yuan. And some Taiwan The publishing house will take a portion of it for publishing fees or other expenses, about 20%. In this way, for a book originally signed for 50 yuan per 1,000 words, we actually get less than 30 yuan. Although it's not much, after all, a book has more than 500,000 words, so it's okay to get 10,000 copies. But pirated books limit the sales of genuine books. In fact, if we can get them for 15-20 yuan per thousand words, itĄŻs pretty good. As for the number of people who can be adapted into games or even scripts, only one in ten thousand people is pitiful. Needless to say, I have never experienced it, and I donĄŻt know their income.
LetĄŻs take a look at VIP works. Nowadays, VIP clicks on major websites are basically 3 cents per thousand words, and the website takes about 1/3 as website income (people also want to make money, long live the understanding!), so writers who join VIP , a thousand words is just 2 cents. Those friends who are shouting that we are reading white books and those friends who are shouting that we have no money, you only get 30 cents if you click on a chapter of 10,000 words! What is the concept of 3 cents? You might pick a dollar on the ground, but if there were 30 cents on the ground, I guess you wouldn't bend down to pick it up. Even if you saw it, you would pretend you didn't see it. But have you ever thought about how we can make some money from this? The living expenses, internet, electricity, cigarettes and water expenses are all accumulated by the few cents earned by our VIP members who support us. It is easier to read than to write a book. In other words, if you donĄŻt raise children, you donĄŻt know how hard your parents are. I have never written about it. People who write novels will never understand what it feels like as a writer to write novels at the speed of a thousand words per hour, and ours only costs 3 cents per hour, haha! We are considered low-cost workers!
I would like to ask those friends who are clamoring to read the white book, have you ever understood the hard work of us professional writers? But I donĄŻt blame you. ItĄŻs better to have a white book to read than to spend money to read it. ItĄŻs really pleasant to sit there, smoke a cigarette and drink a drink, and then spend five to ten minutes reading a 10,000-word article that we wrote for more than ten hours. Very good. If you have time, please send us a book review and we will thank you very much.
I would like to ask those friends who are calling us poor because we donĄŻt have money to enter VIP, are you tired of saying this? Saying this is like farting, you should go online to read! How much does the internet cost? How much does the electricity bill cost? You canĄŻt afford it, which is only 30 cents per 10,000 words? Then I despise you. You are not even as good as those friends who say they will never support VIP and always read white books. At least they have a clear stance. And you are not as good as those who just reduce your living standards to a life of picking up garbage. , but in fact, you may spend more than 20 yuan or more every day, and you are reluctant to give even a few cents to us hard-working writers. You and Grandet, you and Zhou Papi have nothing to do with each other. What's the difference? But you are just talking, so I will just say a few words here. Anyway, it will not do any harm to us professional writers or to you casual talkers. If it does, then I will only I can't help but say I'm sorry, this was not my intention.
Friends who have joined VIP and have always supported us, brothers are here to say thank you on behalf of the majority of writers. Without your support, perhaps there would not be the heyday of Chinese online literature today. After all, hobbies cannot be used as food. Drinking water has economic benefits.It is understandable that writers can devote more energy to novels. Because of your support, we professional writers can sit in front of the computer with peace of mind and work with purpose and goal. No matter how hard it is, it still counts. What's going on? We are here to repay your kindness, so it doesnĄŻt matter. There is a famous saying of the Crusaders: everyone for one, and one for everyone. Those who can truly understand this meaning are the people who have always supported us writers, which naturally includes our friends who like us in the book review area and those of you who have joined VIP to read the novels we write.
What I want to talk about now is the individual scum that exist among VIP friends. Although the VIP area is basically prohibited from being used as a restriction to prevent copying of VIP articles, the fact that the mouse cannot be used does not mean that copying cannot be done. I think as long as the keyboard is Anyone who knows a little bit about computers should know it by heart! You do not understand? Then I will teach you how to use the left mouse button to draw a range. The keyboard shortcut is!
Whether they are pirated booksellers or disguised book thieves, they are nothing compared to this kind of people. This kind of people rely on their privilege of being a VIP member to read VIP chapters, copy VIP works, and then paste them to other sites. Forum area, the euphemistic name is: I don't take any money, this is a great cause to serve the people. In other words, it is an update to help those of you who are obsessed with money.
To this kind of people, I donĄŻt represent other people, I represent myself. I sincerely say to people like you: ******!
Don't think that people who write books are all civilized people. Civilization is used for people who respect the fruits of other people's labor, not for people like you who have no morals and no education. For you, nothing but dirt will be poured out on you. Water, IĄŻll give you a beating, thereĄŻs nothing more to say. Even children can memorize: ItĄŻs noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat drops from the soil. DoesnĄŻt this poem want people to learn to cherish the fruits of other peopleĄŻs labor? Are you no better than a child of several years old?
Here, the author friends who have not joined VIP are lucky. At most, the updates are a bit slow and they are called eunuchs. But like me, who joined VIP, only to have some chapters of VIP stolen by such despicable and shameless people and posted on other website forums. Brothers on the Internet, we are unfortunate. The money we can get from a chapter is pitifully small, but the people who steal our VIP chapters have made it difficult for those of us who have worked for dozens of hours to get tens of dollars or even only ten dollars. The blow was so severe that we who write novels have offended anyone.
When a writer sees his only means of survival being stolen by others, may I ask, those who stole our VIP works, have you ever thought about how we feel? Are you still a scholar? In other words, are you still a human being? No matter how unpleasant the words are, I donĄŻt know how to scold you. I can only scold you to this extent. IĄŻm sorry.
Every writer who writes novels has his or her own writing habits, but most of them write novels in the middle of the night, because the silence of the night is the most inspiring. Every time I ask in the author group at two o'clock in the morning: Who is still there? Many people will answer: I am here, writing a novel! How is your writing going?
Please all my friends read this sentence, I am writing a novel! At two o'clock in the morning, maybe you are having a good dream, maybe you are drunk, but what about us? We are still working hard to complete our works under the high-intensity radiation of the computer. If you understand us, then I thank you on behalf of all my friends who write novels. If you say, this is nothing, I often stay up until what time in the morning. , if you are a writer, I will pat you on the shoulder and say thank you for your hard work, brother. If you say this because you are playing games or reading white books or anything else that has nothing to do with work, then I despise you.
? What is consumed before midnight is physical strength, and what is consumed after midnight is hard work!
Finally, thank you to those friends who have always supported us ordinary writers. Piracy is normal and we understand it, but we despise those who post the VIP chapters that we rely on for public reading on the forum.