Chapter 222: Interview
Tong Yan and Tomato finally have time to turn on the computer, connect to the Internet, and log in to the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion, there are still two hours before the end of this month, and there will basically be no more storms on the monthly ticket list, "Supreme Scoundrel" winning the championship is already a sure thing, if there is still any suspense, it is the battle for the second and third places of "Emperor Immortal" and "Inch Mang". β β Top Novel, x.
Tomato glanced at Tong Yan: "Aren't you even better?" β
"No, what if I save a manuscript for the college entrance examination?" Until the last day of this month, Tong Yan was still a daily update, and he had no plans to break out at the end of the month.
"Then if you don't change it, I'm going to change it?" Tomato said embarrassedly, because "Cun Mang" and "Emperor Immortal" are only a dozen votes apart, if he adds more, incites readers, it should be no problem to surpass "Emperor Immortal".
"More, more, more."
Tomato thought for a while: "I won't change it, I won't be able to get the first place anyway, the second and third are the same, I'll still keep it for next month." β
"Fighting for the first place next month?" Tong Yan asked.
Tomato nodded firmly, his popularity is already there, with millions of recommendations, and he is the first in the search index of online articles, but he still needs something that can prove himself, such as the champion of a one-month ticket, "I have saved a lot of manuscripts, and I must fight for it next month!" β
Then the two began to code, living in a five-star hotel, not to mention enjoying the high-end facilities inside, enjoying the beautiful sea view of pushing the window and looking at the moon, blindly crackling, this is the Internet writer.
There is an airport in Sanya, and many people fly home directly from Sanya, and some of them first go back to the magic capital with the large army, and then transfer home.
Tong Yan is the latter, his two trophies are kept in Shanda Company, it is too inconvenient to travel with him, and another important reason is that he wants to be interviewed by a media in the magic capital.
This is when Sister Gua sued SΓΉ Tongyan when she was in Sanya. It was also decided by the company a long time ago, and from the moment Tong Yan signed the platinum contract, this matter was already a certainty.
Tong Yan is very famous in the online literature circle, especially in the online writer circle, his rise is a miracle and is talked about. But the online article is a very closed circle, and even the writers' circle and the reader's circle are very separated, the writers know Tong Yan's name and deeds, but the majority of readers may only know his books, not him as a person, or know his name, but not his affairs.
Now Shanda has invested heavily in the www.biquge.info of Biquge, and the ultimate goal may be to go public, which requires Biquge to www.biquge.info grow into a well-known and influential industry leading enterprise. The faucet is almost already there, but the plate in this industry is not yet large.
The top priority is to push the industry of online literature, which is hidden in the Internet, to the table, so that people in the mainstream world can understand, pay attention to her, and recognize her.
The more common means is to launch some influential works and authors, and the influence of the works can be achieved through guΓ² adaptation of games, film and television works, but now it seems that this aspect is not very mature, and only a few works such as "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" can see the future.
And the influence of the author needs the author to have his own explosive point and topicality, so as to facilitate media operation. Since Tang Jiasanshao wrote his book, it has never been a topic, and high-rise buildings once received three subsistence allowances at the same time. Now that the monthly income is more than 10,000 yuan, it is also a topic, but in the eyes of the senior management of Biqu Pavilion www.biquge.info, it is not as gimmicky as Tong Yan Wuji, a high school student platinum god.
Li Yunchong, a reporter from the East China Evening News, and his assistant Xiao Ding arrived early in the grand small conference hall, where there were materials about Tong Yan Wuji prepared for him by the staff of the Biqu Pavilion www.biquge.info, so that he could ask questions later. There are also a few questions that need to be asked by the www.biquge.info of Biquge.
The reason why the newspaper sent him was because he usually likes to read online novels, and the editor-in-chief felt that he should have a common language with Tong Yan Wuji.
Li Yunchong prepared for more than ten minutes, and Tong Yan also came to the small conference room under the guidance of the staff.
"Hello, I'm Li Yunchong from "East China Evening News", and this is my assistant Xiaoding." Li Yun rushed to his feet and shook hands. The young boy in front of him made him a little shaken, although it was already written that he was a high school student, born in 8'9, but the vigor of the teenagers still made him sigh.
"Hello, I'm Tong Yan Wuji." The first time he was interviewed by the media, Tong Yan was a little restrained, but fortunately it was just a text interview, and there was no camera, and Tong Yan was still able to cope with it.
The two sat opposite each other, and the assistant Xiaoding opened the recorder and put it in front of Tong Yan.
Li Yunchong: "Tong Yan Wuji, what is your real name?" β
It was all written on the information, but he had to ask it again with his own mouth.
"My real name is Tong Yan, Shanshi Yan."
"So the pen name is Tong Yan Wuji?"
"There's a reason for that."
"How old are you this year?"
"18 years old."
"Still in school?"
"Well, senior year of high school."
At first, the two were just chatting to understand the basic situation.
Li Yunchong also basically figured out the way of Tong Yan Wuji, he has a steadiness beyond his real age, he is not a person who likes to talk eloquently, if he can't bring up a topic that can make him want to talk, maybe his answer is a few words, so most of the content of the press release has to be written by himself, he doesn't want to do that.
Li Yunchong put the information aside and asked, "The college entrance examination is coming in two months, I'm more curious, how is your academic performance?" β
"It's okay."
"It's too general."
"Let's be in the top 10 of the class."
"Wow, that's pretty amazing," Li Yunchong was a little surprised, and he continued to ask, "How did you manage to create an online novel while still maintaining a good score in the top ten of your class?" I know that writing a web novel requires a large amount of updates, which takes a long time. β
Tong Yan thought for a while: "I used to be the top three in the class, and then I started writing novels, and then I was in the top ten in the class. β
Assistant Xiaoding couldn't help laughing, and Li Yunchong let out an "oh", so it was: "So before writing the novel, your grades were among the top in the class." β
"When I was a freshman in high school, the top three in the class were still guaranteed." Tong Yan is not exaggerating at all.
"But after your sophomore year of high school, you started writing novels, and your grades dropped, and you were only sixteen or seventeen years old, and I had a headache when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, how were you sure that you could write a long web novel of more than a million words. And succeed? What gives you this confidence? β
"Actually, when I first started writing, I didn't think about what would happen in the future, I didn't understand anything at that time, I just read a few online novels, and then I thought I could write, so I wrote, and this website www.biquge.info Biquge is still sued by others."
"Then you're really good. It was so successful at the beginning, and your debut novel "Rage Thunder" ranked on the 06 whiteness search list, ninth in the online novel category, and the results are obvious to all. β
"Thank you, in fact, "Rage Thunder" is not my online debut, before this, I wrote a web novel under another pen name, but it was only more than 200,000 words, and that book was not very successful. For this reason, I took more than two months of spare time, not to mention that I didn't earn a penny, and my grades dropped a lot. Tong Yan said frankly.
Li Yunchong was very happy, Tong Yan Wuji finally started to talk more, and he also took the initiative to break the news, reporters like this kind of interviewer, "So you have failed once before "Rage Thunder", and you have paid a certain price. Most people will definitely have to stop in this situation, after all, your grades should be able to get into a good university. You will also get a good job in the future, but if you continue to write novels, you may still get nothing, and your studies will be delayed, what motivates you to fight in the online literary world again? Is it your natural gambler mentality, or are you confident enough? β
"It's both. Although the first novel did not hit the shelves. But the grades are not bad among newcomers, and there are thousands of readers waiting for my update, and in their eyes I wrote well, just because it was the first time to write something so long, and I was not fully prepared. The more I got to the back, the more difficult it became, and at that time I thought, if I had to rewrite it once, it would definitely be better than the first time, and it would definitely make the reader more satisfied, and then I began to study what the reader likes to read, what kind of story can satisfy the reader, how to design the bridge, create a sense of expectation, this is my self-confidence, I am eager to try, I hope to show my talent. β
"At that time, another thing happened, that is, my mother was sick, and she spent a lot of money on hospitalization and surgery, and the family conditions were relatively poor. At that time, the online novel market was not as prosperous as it is now, but the top writers were still high-income people, I thought that more money in hand should be more secure, and it could also reduce some of the burden on the family, at that time I also thought about failure, after the failure, at most the academic performance dropped again, and in the third year of high school, I had the confidence to chase back, but if I succeeded, I would be able to support my family, for a boy, this is very tempting, because it means that I am already a man. β
"I didn't expect there to be such a story on your path of online novel creation, I'm glad that you succeeded this time, and now your family must have changed because of you, right?"
"Well, my parents used the money I gave them to open a small restaurant, and they had a good life, and my sister became the fashionista in their class, wearing the most beautiful clothes and using the most advanced electronics." Speaking of this, a wave of pride surged in Tong Yan's chest.
"It seems that your income should be quite considerable if you use the manuscript fee to open a restaurant, if it is convenient, can you reveal a little bit?"
"Actually, there is nothing inconvenient, the income of online novels depends on the speed of writing, because I still have to go to school, so the speed is not very fast, and now the monthly income can be about forty or fifty thousand." The meaning of Tong Yan's words can be understood as that my income is not high, not because I am not successful enough, but because I write less.
Assistant Xiaoding has been shocked, forty or fifty thousand, which is equivalent to his salary for a year, even if his master Li Yunchong, the sum of all kinds of bright and dark income in a month is only 10,000, this high school student is so powerful, is there any heavenly reason!
Li Yunchong is relatively calm, he knows a little about online novels, and it is not uncommon for those top gods to earn tens of thousands of dollars a month, and even Xuehong and Xiao Ding have already earned millions a year.
"So what is the composition of this monthly income?" Li Yunchong asked again.
"In the past, website subscription income was the bulk of the income, but now it only accounts for about one-third, and my main income now comes from physical books, the traditional and simplified Chinese of "Rage Thunder", the traditional Chinese of "Emperor Immortal", especially the simplified book sales of "Rage Thunder" are very good, the back is not finished, the front has been reprinted, and the other two books I also sold the audio copyright, and enjoy part of the audio copyright income, but this part of the income is relatively small."
Li Yunchong listened and nodded again and again, "This is indeed a high-income group, what is the level of income like yours in the entire online novel industry?" β
"It's not the highest, but it should be relatively high." Tong Yan said modestly.
"It is said that there is a platinum contract in the www.biquge.info of Biquge, which is specially prepared for the top online writers, and there are many terms in it that are different from ordinary contracts, have you signed this contract?"
"It wasn't long after I signed it."
"So you should be considered one of the top writers in the www.biquge.info of the Pen Fun Pavilion by now?"
"Wouldn't it be too immodest to say that? That's right, yes. β
"Haha, so you're very optimistic about your career, aren't you?"
"Of course, Shanda Group, the parent company of Biquge www.biquge.info, has just injected 100 million yuan into the www.biquge.info of Biquge, which shows that this industry is promising, if it weren't for the fact that I still have to go to school, writing novels should be a relatively easy job for me, and it is also a job that I personally like very much, and I won't feel heavy if I like it."
"So you don't give up writing when you go to college."
"Definitely not."
"What about the college entrance examination period? Will there be a pause? β
"Writing will be paused, but updates will not stop, I will use April to save up enough manuscripts for the college entrance examination in May and June, even if I don't write, there will be updates every day, readers don't like to break the update, I also promised that there will be no interruption during the serialization period, children's words can be taboo, but my words must be true to my word."
"That's a lot of hard work."
"Internet writer is a very hard career, and those who want to be comfortable should not come in, they will not be able to bear it."
"Is that your advice to someone who is interested in the industry and has the potential to get into it?"
"It's not advice, it's just a kind reminder that you can only know what it's like when you're in it."
"I'm very happy to have chatted with Tong Yan Wuji so much, we have done our best to sort out the manuscript and publish it in the East China Evening News, can you leave a contact information?" Li Yun rushed to his feet and asked, he had already developed an extremely strong interest in this young man.
"No problem."
A few days later, an article titled "An 18-year-old high school student with an annual income of nearly one million, the cool life of the platinum prodigy!" The press release was published in the East China Evening News, and the seductive article was later reprinted by many media outlets, and the pseudonym Tong Yan Wuji began to appear frequently in the mainstream media.
Li Hu is an ordinary high school student in Deyang, Siqi, and his favorite thing is to play games and read novels...... (To be continued......)
ps: [ps: very, very stateless, often staring at the movie screen for half an hour and don't know what to write, let me know, don't ask for a monthly pass next month, just want to pay off the debt owed, and then write slowly, waiting for the state to come back~]
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