Chapter 37: Speed is King
On the playground, the black pressure was crowded.
The opening ceremony of the school sports meeting has ended, and then it will enter the official competition process, the highlight is of course the track and field events, in addition to swimming, basketball, volleyball, etc., anyway, the school is not short of money, the hardware facilities are complete, and the events are held in a good manner.
On the rostrum, Xiao Yulan, who was at halftime, walked down the steps, took out his thermos cup and opened it, and found that it had been emptied.
She looked left and right, and Zhao Dewei, who was quick-eyed next to her, handed over an unopened bottle of French Evian mineral water in a timely manner: "Drink this, I just bought it." ”
Xiao Yulan hesitated for a moment, but still took it, carefully checked the seal and found no suspicious traces, and then opened it and took a few sips.
A group of boys around who were eager to try all kinds of drinks suddenly let out a sigh of disappointment, and let this guy take the first step to win the opportunity to please the goddess, which is really annoying.
"The contract has already been sent, right?" Zhao Dewei wasted no time in asking.
Xiao Yulan nodded: "Yes, and the signing status has been changed, and the recommendation has been arranged, and then we will wait for the word count to reach the standard and put it on the shelves." ”
Since the headquarters of Qidian Literature Network is located in the same city as the coast, the contract arrived very quickly, and after going to work at 8 o'clock this morning, her new book was edited and changed to signed status. This means that in addition to favorites and recommendations, book lovers can also give tips, and the website will arrange recommendation columns for new books with good data.
As long as it is updated stably every day, and when the two-month new book period has passed, you can consider putting it on the shelves, and the chapters released in the future are all VIP chapters, which you have to pay to watch.
And because of the intellectual property protection in this world, pirate websites are almost non-existent, so as long as there is a certain level of work, the subscription performance will not be too bad.
In other words, the living conditions of the majority of low-level authors are a level better than the world in her previous life.
If you come to this world to open a book, you can eat at least two servings of instant noodles and add an egg.
Some people may say that piracy is more conducive to increasing popularity, and at the same time can also take care of the reading needs of those low-income groups, but this view is only meaningful to god-level authors, who have enough income anyway, and it is not a big deal to pay less manuscript fees.
But the majority of low-level authors are sad, there are few subscriptions, and there are a large number of readers who eat white food and don't give money, those days are really hard, and they are also a vulnerable group! Who will take care of them?
Zhao Dewei took out his mobile phone, clicked on the literary network and glanced at it, sighed and said: "It seems that there are a lot of collections, and it has only been ten days since the book was released, right?" It's more than 50,000. A lot of novels won't be half as good as yours by the time they're finished. ”
"73,115 to be exact, and counting."
Xiao Yulan said lightly that the data she saw on the reader's client was only an integer, such as 30,000, 50,000, 100,000 or something, but she could see the detailed numbers from her author's background.
Although it is a new book for newcomers, and the various data of Buddhism is the Tao, it has steadily occupied the first place on the new book list, and even some works with good results and serialized more than one million words cannot be compared.
Of course, the results of the new book are so exaggerated because she is not an ordinary rookie author, with the help of the identity of an Internet celebrity anchor, she has attracted a large number of fans from the live broadcast room, which can have such an amazing performance.
In my impression, in my previous life, there didn't seem to be any Internet celebrity anchor who was a part-time website author, and she was also a goddess-level author with a good appearance, so she was the first person to eat crabs in this regard, and the effect was unexpectedly good.
Imagine that when a stunning goddess is in the live broadcast room and asks the majority of sailors to pay attention to her works with a delicate and pleasant voice, even if people who are not very interested in online novels, they can't help but set up an account to log in to the website to see the situation, right? Anyway, it's not a troublesome thing, it's just a finger move.
In the past few days, Xiao Yulan would call on fans and sailors to support his new book near the end of the live broadcast in the evening, so he could quickly accumulate popularity that even god-level authors were keen on.
Zhao Dewei thought for a while, and saw that there were still some book coins in his account, so he rewarded a Dharma protector, and said with a smile: "There are not many book coins, don't dislike it, wait for me to go back and recharge in the evening, and then I will reward you with the alliance leader." ”
"Well, thank you."
Xiao Yulan smiled slightly.
A Dharma protector is not a few, of course, for Zhao Dewei, who is from a wealthy family, he really didn't take these hundreds of yuan seriously. It would be nice to be able to make the goddess happy.
"But ......"
Zhao Dewei said again: "I'm ready to open a new book, the outline and the first three chapters are ready, can you help me read it if you have time?" By the way, some suggestions? ”
Xiao Yulan did not refuse this time: "Okay, you can send it to my mailbox, I can help you see it now." ”
Zhao Dewei was overjoyed, and immediately logged in to QQ with his mobile phone and ordered her to send the file.
She opened it and browsed it, and it was indeed a lot of progress compared to the previous book, and the poisonous spots of those thunderous people had disappeared, but there were still many irrelevant environments and character descriptions.
"The writing is really good, but can you delete all of this? Things that have little to do with the main plot of the work, try not to waste pen and ink, okay? Xiao Yulan said.
Zhao Dewei said a little confused: "But isn't the quality of the writing an important criterion for judging the author's level?" ”
Xiao Yulan shook his head elegantly: "However, this is not the case, that is the standard of real literary works, not the standard of online literature, online novels are not harsh on the author's writing, as long as the author can use more concise words and sentences to describe things clearly." ”
"Is that so......"
Zhao Dewei was thoughtful. In the past, he did write online articles according to the standards of writing realistic literary works, and Fei's brain cells are not many, but the pay and return are really disproportionate, is this the root of the problem?
Xiao Yulan smiled and continued to explain: "For a chapter of this level, it will take you at least three or four hours to write 3,000 words, right?" However, readers can read it in five minutes at most, or even sweep it in a minute. ”
"But if you relax your writing requirements, you may be able to write 3,000 words in just over an hour, and readers can still read them in a few minutes."
"Think about it, which one is better for you?"
“……”
Zhao Dewei showed a thoughtful look. Online literature belongs to fast food literature, and the audience is naturally fast food readers, which is a common sense concept in this fast-paced era where everything must be efficient.
However, is fast food a derogatory term? Apparently not. It's just that some writers of literary youth fanes stubbornly think that it is a shame to write such things, and they are echoed by a small number of literary and young readers.
For online writers, the number of updates is king, and if you update slowly, a large number of readers will choose to collect and fatten, rather than chasing updates every day.
“…… The author's update is really turtle speed, I can't stand it! ”
"Author, please state your address, I'm going to send you a blade!"
"I really want to catch the author, lock him up in a small black room and update the code, and don't come out if you don't finish ten chapters a day!"
There are many similar grievances, all of which are the voices of readers who are waiting for more, which shows how important the update speed is for an online writer, and even to a considerable extent related to the subscription performance of the work, and whether it can become a god.
Those god-level authors, none of the update speeds are bad, and they are basically above the qualified line.
Because now is an era where speed is king, eat and drink quickly, update code words quickly, pay public food quickly, and health care even faster, otherwise you will cry if you are slow and caught by the river crab beast!
"Well, thanks for the reminder, I'll improve."
Zhao Dewei finally said that no matter whether the goddess's opinion was right or wrong, he decided to try, and there was nothing to lose anyway.
Xiao Yulan took two sips of water, turned on his phone again to read his book, and went to the author group to peek at the screen.
At this moment, in the author group, there are already many street writers discussing the Buddha is the Tao:
“…… What's going on with this book? It's only been ten days of hard work, and it's actually rushed to the first place on the new book list? ”
"That is, it is less than 100,000 words, and the collection is more than 50,000!"
"There are also ridiculously high recommendation votes and clicks, is there really no fraud?"
"And I remember that I only changed the status of the contract this morning, and after a few hours of hard work, there were actually a bunch of people rewarding, even the alliance leaders appeared four, and there were a bunch of grandmasters, heads and protectors, are today's readers so tyrants? So generous to a newcomer? ”
"Lao Tzu worked hard to write hundreds of thousands of words, but not a single reader showed mercy and rewarded me with an alliance leader or something, even if it was a helmsman or a deacon!"
"Nine out of ten probably swiping data, right? What newcomer can do so well? He's not the boss of the website's own son! ”
"No, it's too much, we have to report him!"
"Yes, yes, yes! I can't let this brush be so arrogant, I'll tell the editor! ”
……
The fact that authors spend money to brush up on tickets and collect is no longer news on Qidian Literature Network, especially in the new book stage, in order to make the data of their works look better, so as to attract the attention of editors, so as to win more and better recommendation opportunities, many new authors have played like this.
Of course, the editor in charge is not stupid, and it is easy for the background of the website to screen the authenticity of the data, so experienced old authors basically don't play this routine much, because it doesn't make much sense.
There will be no shortage of recommended positions for you, and don't force it if it's not yours.
Just a few minutes later, Ying Hu, the editor in charge who had been diving, came out and said briefly: "Buddha is the Tao and there is no ticket swiping, all the data is true." ”
There was a sudden silence in the group.
If there are readers who don't give up and continue to ask questions, Shadow Tiger will be silent, there are a lot of things in charge of editing, how can he have the patience to explain endlessly to a group of people who are sitting on the street?