Guan Tingting sat on the bus home, thinking about the boy today......!

Next to her was a middle-aged man with glasses, who looked very friendly, Guan Tingting also smiled back, and when the other party proposed to sit by the window, Guan Tingting agreed without hesitation.

The middle-aged uncle took out a newspaper after a while to read, Guan Tingting had seen it, it was a "Strange Hearsay" issued by the city, the distribution scope was only local, there was no original content, almost all of them were picked from other newspapers, what readers like to see, there was anything, it was generally some anecdotes.

The uncle looked at one side, Guan Tingting inadvertently swept the other side, and then her eyes couldn't move.

She saw a small piece of tofu occupying a small inconspicuous place in the newspaper, with the headline "They use the Internet to hype, we use the Internet to write!" was an article reprinted from the Southern Weekly.

Guan Tingting twisted her head and looked at the article with difficulty, and the first paragraph read, "The literary world intentionally or unintentionally snubs 'fantasy novels'." But there are nearly 10 million fans of 'fantasy novels', and the authors of 'fantasy novels' also have eye-catching income. ”

The "fantasy novel" here should refer specifically to the "online novel", because fantasy is the first category of online novels, and the most classic online novels are fantasy.

Moving on, the editor gives an example.

On a small road west of BJ City, there is a store selling auto parts, and Zhang Wei, 24, is in charge of looking at the store here, and the owner is his mother. There are not many customers in the store, and Zhang Wei often stays in the back room and sits in front of the computer for a long time. Occasionally, he heard the janitor's dog barking, so he went out to greet customers. Mom didn't blame him for not doing his job. Zhang Wei, who is 1.90 meters tall, pushed his black-rimmed glasses and said, "This is a legitimate occupation for me, and I make money." ”

The legitimate occupation Zhang Wei is talking about is not to look at the store, but to write fantasy novels on the computer. As for what constitutes a "fantasy novel", there is no official definition at present, but roughly speaking, "fantasy fiction" integrates Western mythology and Chinese legends, emphasizing unbridled imagination.

Zhang Wei has 6 years of "working experience". He graduated from vocational high school at the age of 18, and did 4 jobs related to website construction, but the more he did it, the more unsatisfactory he became, so he simply resigned and went home to see the store for his mother, and received a basic salary of 1,000 yuan plus a commission of about 500 per month. In his spare time, in February last year, Zhang Wei began to serialize the fantasy novel "Child of Light" on the Internet under the name "Third Brother of the Tang Family".

The third brother of the Tang family turned out to be the author who wrote what his classmates often said, Guan Tingting's interest was even stronger, but unfortunately at this time, the middle-aged uncle next to him folded the newspaper in half and covered the article at once...

Guan Tingting waited until the middle-aged uncle next to him lost interest in the newspaper and folded it casually, and then he asked, "Hello, can I take a look at this newspaper?"

"Of course, to you. "Uncle is very simple.

After getting the newspaper, Guan Tingting directly flipped to that page, and then continued to read the previous article, and now began to talk about the income of the third brother of the Tang family.

More than a year ago, the third brother of the Tang family wrote a book of "Children of Light" at random, and a few months later, the novel appeared on the website's click list, and then a Taiwan publisher approached him to publish his novel, and gave him the manuscript fee for three books at once, totaling 12,000.

can look at the first 12,000, Guan Tingting suddenly felt shocked!

The article also mentioned that since then, the third brother of the Tang family's monthly income has never been lower than 10,000 yuan, and then it soon became less than 20,000 yuan, and in March and April this year, his monthly income has stabilized at more than 50,000 yuan!

This number greatly shocked Guan Tingting, it turned out that writing online novels can really be rich to this extent, and as far as he knows, among the writers of Singularity, the third brother of the Tang family is not the highest income, and the strongest ability to absorb money should be Xuehong, who ranks at the top of the monthly ticket list and ranks first among the eight professional writers.

The third brother of the Tang family still has such a high income, how terrifying should Xue Hong be, has he really reached the legendary annual salary of one million!?

Next, the article analyzes the income composition of the third brother of the Tang family from the aspects of traditional publishing and online copyright, and he has recently sold simplified copyright and voice copyright, which will also become an important part of his high income in the future, which is very exciting.

Now Zhang Wei has relied on his writing income to pay off the mortgage in Beijing in a lump sum, and he is beginning to regret buying a small house.

This report is very long, the third brother of the Tang family is undoubtedly the core of the report, but it is not only about him, and then with Tang San's mouth, he introduced a friend of his peers, because this friend always changes his pen name, so his name is not mentioned, but according to the third brother of the Tang family, his friend writes books for three years, earning about 200,000 yuan a year, he usually writes 20,000 words a day, writes for three months, earns enough money, and does not write anything for the next three months, travels around, and reads all the scenery in the world.

This chic lifestyle makes Guan Tingting envious, thinking that even if she graduated from a prestigious university, she will inevitably work hard in the 9-to-5 workplace in the future, grinding off the edges and corners for the house, car and the so-called future, she can't help but feel sad, that's not what he wants!

Later, the article gave the examples of Xing Shanhu, a partner of an online game company whose pen name cannot be said to be a master (representative work "Mercenary World"), a doctor of mechanics (representative work "The Agent of the Demon"), and Ming Mei, an online writer in Shu Province (representative work "Alien Proud World Record"), briefly describing the origin and current situation of fantasy literature and online writers, saying that this is a rapidly developing industry full of opportunities and possibilities!

So, Guan Tingting thought about the situation at home and felt that this was a helpful thing, and she could try it. Taking advantage of the opportunity to surf the Internet at home, she went to take a look!

Reading books at the singularity, one of the disadvantages is that he can only read a part of most of the books, and he will charge money for reading them later, so when he encounters this situation, he usually moves to other websites, and other people's websites do not charge, which is very beautiful.

On this day, Guan Tingting looked for a book on Singularity.com again, and he found that it was easy to judge the quality of a book from the ranking of this website on this website, which greatly facilitated him to find good books, especially the list called "VIP Works Monthly Selection and Voting" (that is, the monthly ticket list), the top books are almost all good, such as Xuehong's "Evil Wind Song" is very good (fifth on the list), and it is said that "Blasphemy" (third on the list), which has been ranked first for several months before, is also very good, as for the "Officialdom Style" that ranks first , A boy of Guan Tingting's age is not very interested in officialdom books.

In May, Singularity also held a "Singularity Third Anniversary - 2005 My Favorite Singularity VIP Author Selection Activity", in fact, it is the evaluation of monthly passes, Xuehong ranks first, the author of "Blasphemy" Yanyu Jiangnan ranks second, and the top ten are the first prize, each person has an LCD screen, worth 1500 yuan, and a reward certificate. There are 15 second prizes, each with an MP3 player worth 700 yuan, and 20 third prizes, each with a computer camera worth 150 yuan.

Today, when Guan Tingting retreated to the home page, he saw a new announcement in the announcement area, he was too lazy to look at this place before, but today, he ghostly opened the announcement about the "Singularity Eight Professional Writers", he was very curious about this title.

There are many full-time online writers on Singularity.com, including the third brother of the Tang family that Guan Tingting is very familiar with, Xuan Yu, the author of "The Legend of Little Soldiers", and Yanyu Jiangnan, the author of "Blasphemy", etc., but they are all outside the Eight Majors, and they should be ranked among the top eight professional writers, and they should be stronger, at least not weaker than those few.

Guan Tingting took a look, among them, he had seen the works of Xuehong (note: he was still called ricewhu before last year) and the wandering toad, and he had seen the works of the rest of Biluo Huangquan, Fat Duck, Zhou Xingwen, the last Ranger, Cloud Sky, and jokes, and he was not familiar with them, and there were their representative works on the announcement, so you can take a look at them when you have time in the future.

Now, Guan Tingting doesn't have time, because he is looking through the announcements on the bulletin board one by one, including some expired announcements, and he is beginning to be interested in these things that involve the essence and core of the online literature industry.

In addition to the announcement of the "Eight Professional Writers" in July, there are two other ones.

One is the "3rd Anniversary · VIP joins the new initiative, free membership fee!", to the effect that during this time, readers do not need to pay membership fees, only need to recharge 20 yuan, you can become a junior VIP member, pay 3 points per thousand words, recharge 50 yuan is a senior VIP member, pay 2 points per thousand words, Zhang Xiao is a senior VIP member during this event.

After reading the book at Singularity for so many days, Guan Tingting has some understanding of the profit model of this website.

Two or three cents per thousand words is really not much, but think about how many words I have read these days, that is, two or three thousand cents = two or three thousand cents = two or three hundred yuan, Guan Tingting immediately automatically blocked this announcement, only more than half a month to two or three hundred, wouldn't it be to put all his food expenses into it! Look down on it! Look down on it! At this time, Guan Tingting is still a complete reader.

Another announcement in July said that "the remuneration for June issued in that month is as high as 1 million RMB".

This number is very impactful to the eighteen-year-old Guan Tingting, but think about it, it is distributed to hundreds of writers, and it is estimated that it is not much on everyone's head, so it is relieved, it is estimated that it is not as profitable as the work of my parents.

Looking further back, an announcement in June wrote the "Start a million annual salary" plan, which means that online writers can make more money, with an annual income of more than one million, and a total of 1 million was issued in July, and in June I was ready to send 1 million to a person.

However, seeing an announcement in April, Guan Tingting felt that there seemed to be nothing impossible, in that announcement, Guan Tingting saw that "as of April 2005, Singularity has nearly 20 writers with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, according to the calculation of the remuneration of 1,000 words, the average remuneration has reached the standard of 30 yuan per 1,000 words, and the highest remuneration has exceeded 180 yuan per 1,000 words." "With the highest remuneration of 180 yuan/1,000 words, as long as you write enough, it seems that it is not impossible to earn one million a year, which is still under the condition that Guan Tingting did not consider physical publishing.

Even if the "nearly 20" have a lot of water, only 11 of them have a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, which is much higher than Guan Tingting's imaginary income, and even higher than the income of the vast majority of college graduates.