Chapter 11 Every man has his own way

"I Am a Hooligan" is the first work of the first generation of online novels, and it is also a famous work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Writing web novels requires diligence and, more importantly, talent. Xue Hong is such a writer who has extraordinary talent and is more diligent than ordinary people, with a passionate writing style, and has always been a first-line god in the more than ten years since her debut.

This famous work, with a total of less than 300,000 words, can only be regarded as a short story compared to the millions of words in later generations, but it has created a genre of passionate and cool essays.

Strictly speaking, before "I Am a Hooligan", the stylistic boundaries between online novels and traditional novels were very blurred, and this novel clearly defined the difference between the two.

Whether it is published on the Internet or not is not the essential difference between the two, traditional novels pursue beautiful words, explore the human nature of life, and express ideas; Hope.

Traditional novels, exploring human nature, online novels, satisfying human desires!

The former should be deep, the latter should be cool, writing a novel is similar to some things, too deep is not pleasant......

In a sense, this short story is not only the originator of the hot-blooded and refreshing literary stream, but it can even be said to be the originator of online novels. At least one of the originators.

In addition to the change in the way of writing, this novel also attracted many netizens to become obsessed with online novels, laying a reader foundation for the development of online novels in the future.

In the last life, in 2003, this novel was published on the newly established starting point Chinese network, and at the beginning of its publication, it caused a great sensation and became popular.

After that, Xue Hong relied on the momentum of this novel, and within a year or two, she successively created "I Am a Rogue Comeback", "I am a Rogue Gang Huajian Lu", and "Dragon Wars Xinye" Four novels in the same vein, known as the 'Rogue Tetralogy', quickly became a well-deserved leader of Internet writers at that time.

In 2004, with "Evil Wind Song", he became the first online novel god with an annual income of more than one million.

At this time, it was only a year from the starting point to create an online novel fee system, and at this time, most of the later online novel gods were still very satisfied with an annual income of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, reaching only a handful of 100,000 yuan, which was already shocking.

After that, the starting point announced with a high profile that the total monthly manuscript fee exceeded one million, and in 04, Xuehong's annual manuscript fee was the same as that of the entire website in January in 05.

In Zhao Zejun's impression, the beginning of the online novel is actually this "I Am a Hooligan".

By 2016, the novel's fame was not very great, and many young readers didn't even know that Xue Hong had written this book under another pen name. The hooligan series of novels has long been blocked.

However, there are still many years before the book is blocked, and at the beginning of the birth of online novels, it is in a state of no supervision, and there is no danger of being blocked.

Everyone's style of writing is different, and the type of novel that suits them is different. The "Hooligans" series is simply tailor-made for his style.

Flow.. The whole book is very short, the outline is very simple, and it tells the story of Xiaoliu. How a scoundrel became a super-stream because of an adventure.. The story of the hooligans. The main character gets Chiyou power and memories when he is a student, and becomes an evil big villain, full of desire for destruction and conquest. Although the protagonist is brutal and fierce, he is affectionate and righteous, and his style is very appetizing to Chinese, especially young people.

After Zhao Zejun recalled carefully, he wrote it in less than two hours, including the storyline, characters, simple power system, world view, and so on.

There are four pages in total, less than 3,000 words, but the weight is heavy.

Zhao Zejun was a little curious, and gave this outline to Yu Zhe, if Yu Zhe became popular, what would happen to the snow-red god of this time and space? Dismissed the idea of writing online novels, and since then there has been no snow-red god in the online novel world, but Yu Zhe has replaced him? Or is it that with Xuehong's talent, he can still create another popular work?

Zhao Zejun didn't know, but this was an attempt, and he was a little looking forward to what kind of impact the butterfly effect he brought would have.

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The next morning, Yu Zhe began to move, and kept giving Zhao Zejun a look, as soon as he hit the class bell, Yu Zhe pulled Zhao Zejun to the corner of the corridor with a monkey look, and asked anxiously if the outline was written.

Zhao Zejun didn't give it to him immediately, saying that it had to be perfected.

All day, Yu Zhe was absent-minded, and when school was over, Zhao Zejun nodded at Yu Zhe, and then took the lead in walking out of the classroom, and Yu Zhe followed him in the back.

"You are in too much of a hurry, these drafts were written by me in class, and I have only written so much for the time being, you take them first, write this part according to the outline, and publish them to see the response. Zhao Zejun only gave Yu Zhe two pages, which can probably write more than 100,000 words.

"Enough, enough. Yu Zhe picked it up and looked at it.

At first glance, when he saw the name of the novel, Yu Zhe was dumbfounded.

What?

I'm the stream.. People?

"Is there a problem?" Zhao Zejun asked knowingly.

"The name of this novel ......" Yu Zhesheng was afraid of provoking Zhao Zejun, so he said very euphemistically: "Isn't it a bit 'weird'? How can any reader like the stream. Huh?"

He is very talented, Zhao Zejun analyzed him that day, the online novel must consider the feelings of the reader, what the reader likes, write what it will come in handy today.

"Look, the suspense is here. The reader will surely also wonder how the protagonist can be a streamer. What about hooligans? I can't help but take a look. Zhao Zejun said.

"Huh, why do you think it makes sense every time you fool me, boss?" Yu Zhe thought about it, this is indeed the truth, so he patiently looked down at the outline.

After only reading a page, Yu Zhe was completely immersed in the story.

This rogue protagonist, although he is in the black... Society, but doing things, is absolutely addictive. is similar to several protagonists in the Crazy Boy movie, who value affection, morality, decisiveness, and means.

Such a stream: Gangsters, and high school students have the impression of smoking and fighting at the school gate to extort students' pocket money. Hooligans are not a concept at all, but have the flavor of reckless heroes.

Don't dare to say readers, Yu Zhe feels that he likes this character very much.

In just two pages, there is a series of intriguing storylines, and it is conceivable that if written as a novel, it will be absolutely fascinating.

"Oh, remember to write in the first person. Zhao Zejun added.

"First person, me?" Yu Zhe was stunned, these days, online novels have been greatly influenced by traditional novels, and there is almost no first person.

Writing a novel is not an autobiography. Besides, if you write with 'I', doesn't it mean that the protagonist is the author?

"The specific reason can't be said for a while, you write first, and after you write tens of thousands of words, I'll talk to you about what the sense of substitution is. Zhao Zejun said very mysteriously.

In the first person, in later online novels, it is a poisonous point, and the first person cannot open God's perspective, which is not conducive to long-form writing and overall grasp.

But if the novel is only two or three hundred thousand words, there is no such problem, on the contrary, the first-person sense of involvement is very strong, direct and brutal and productive!

One of the core points of online novels is the sense of substitution!