Chen Dehong, an online literary practitioner from the "Generation Z" Zhumeng online literary circle, came to Zizhou to start a business. Chen Kaiyu, an online article author who is writing online novels, said Guo Xiang, deputy secretary-general of the City Internet Writers Associ

"Generation Z" dream online literary circle

Chen Dehong, an online literary practitioner who came to Zi to start a business, said

Chen Kaiyu, an online author who is writing online novels

Guo Xiang, deputy secretary-general of the Municipal Internet Writers Association

Internet Literature Youth Valley provides resident writers High-quality creative environment

has endured the hardship of "coding" and "becomes a god" with a book.

For the vast majority of online novel authors, achieving "financial freedom" is not their original intention for writing. The writing process is arduous, and what supports them to move forward is their own literary dream -

There are many online novels , more than 20 years since its birth, classic works have appeared frequently. They are rooted in the "fan economy" of consumption attributes. Once adapted into film and television works, they will become popular IPs, such as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "Celebrating More Than Years", "Sister-in-law", etc.; some are praised by many netizens as " "Masterpiece", I stayed up all night and read repeatedly, such as " Three Body ", " Breaking the Sky ", "Sou Shen Ji", etc.

Internet novel writers all have rich imagination and strong writing ability. Regardless of academic qualifications or occupation, as long as they have literary dreams, as long as they can write sufficiently attractive works and can interact with readers, they can have fans and monthly income. Millions and success.

Online novels are accurately divided into genres, divided into male and female novels. The genres include fairy tales, thrillers, science fiction, time travel, etc. There is always something to attract you.

What is such a colorful literary world like?

Recently, reporters came to Zibo Internet Writers Association. Under the leadership of Deputy Secretary-General Guo Xiang, they met three young people from Fujian, Henan, and Xi'an. They have now settled in the Internet Literature Youth Valley of our city and are preparing for Work hard to create your own online novel dream.

If you have a dream, start it

28-year-old Chen Dehong is from Quanzhou, Fujian. Before entering the online novel industry, he worked as a copywriter director in an advertising company. He had a high position and a lot of salary, but he still resolutely resigned and changed his career to the online novel industry. "I have loved reading novels since I was a child. When I was in middle school, I read the novel "The Ultimate Weapon of Online Games" online and was even more delighted. Later I started writing novels and studied the market operation of online novels. Now I plan to establish Zibo An online literature company provides a high-quality platform for many online literature enthusiasts to cultivate their own contracted writers. "

According to Chen Dehong, the living situation of the online writer industry is pyramid-shaped, and a large number of online writers are. In the middle and lower part. In order not to "stop updating", they think hard every day, and in order to complete the task of 10,000 words a day, they have to spend about 6 hours a day "coding", confusing black and white, disconnected from society, and suffering from occupational diseases; they are fiercely competitive and directly Face the market and face the survival of the fittest. For some relatively good creations, if there is no considerable marketing and cultivation, they will soon be eliminated by the market, and it will be difficult for the "master" of online novels to reappear.

But this is different for the contracted writers of each platform. These "darlings" living at the top of the gold tower already have works that can continue to attract readers. For online novel authors, the first 100,000 words are free, and the 1 million words is just the beginning. After the completed works are paid to be viewed by batches of readers, they have a steady stream of income, plus the newly opened "book" , The high remuneration paid by the signing platform provides them with more favorable creative conditions, and there are many people with a monthly income of more than 100,000 yuan.

New New Humanity is the main force in reading

"I started reading online novels when I was in elementary school." Chen Kaiyu, who was sitting next to Chen Dehong, told reporters.

19-year-old Chen Kaiyu is from Henan. Out of his hobbies, he has published online novels at a young age and is a teenage writer in the online literary circle.. "If you want to attract readers, you have to update it on time, create ideas, and have fantastic ideas. Sometimes you have to consult a lot of information for a certain word or sentence, and you can't finish it early."Chen Kaiyu said that because he was still responsible for the script and killed the DM (host) of "The Banquet", he had work to do, so he put aside writing novels for the time being.

Chen Kaiyu introduced that "new new human beings" are especially students. The main force of online novel readers were those born in the 1980s and 1990s, but now they are those born in the 2000s and 10s. They have a strong desire to create and once had a good-quality "book". After the author learned about it later, he discovered that he was actually a primary school student. Chen Kaiyu believes that this is not an exception among the many online novel contributors. "I remember that in the fifth grade of elementary school, there was a classmate in the class who used the text to write novels. Watch it with classmates you have good relationships with. If primary school students now have computers, they will definitely have their own readers and fans. "

" I used to be a contracted writer for a certain platform, and now I have several "books" in the works. Although I am making money, my family still feels that it is not as practical as working normally. " Shen Yumeng, a 26-year-old girl from Xi'an, is now also working as a female video editor on a novel website in our city. She now has to review more than a dozen "books" with nearly a million words every day, and choose the best ones to "put on the shelves". On the website. “There are a lot of people who like writing, so there are a lot of submissions. Authors often ask me what the secret is to writing a good online novel. In fact, it depends on the logic, character setting, main line, and conflicts of your entire story. "Shen Yumeng said.

"Build a nest" for people with dreams

The threshold for online writers is relatively low, which provides everyone with the freedom and outlet to realize their dream of being a writer. Data shows that as of the end of 2021, my country's online literature The total number of users has reached 502 million, and its users have accounted for half of all Internet users. The online literature industry market is huge and is known as the "new economy" under the pen. It will also promote the development of film and television dramas, animation, games and other fields.

According to Guo Xiang, deputy secretary-general of the Municipal Internet Writers Association, our city has a profound literary heritage. As early as 2004, there was the "Zibo City Writers Association Online Branch" and established online literature positions such as the pure literature forum "Literary Scene", among which The activity is well-known throughout the country. Although the first Zhejiang Internet Writers Association was established in 2014, it was not recognized nationwide as it was not separated from the Zibo City Writers Association. In 2017, it was the first one in the province. There are also many "great figures" in the field of online literature in our city. The most representative one is the "post-80s" writer " 高楼" whose real name is Cao Yi, who is now the city's Internet writer. Chairman of the Writers Association, Chinese Writers Association member, starting point Chinese website platinum writer, Chuangshi Chinese website contracted writer, etc. His main works include "Wudi", "Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul", "The Wind and Cloud", etc., among which "The Wind and Cloud" was selected. Major publishing houses hail it as a model textbook for successful writing of fantasy novels

In the beautiful Xiaofu River Wetland Park in our city, the province's first online literature base "Internet Literature Youth Valley" is set up here, attracting people from all over the country. Internet literature entrepreneurs from all over the world have come to settle in the "Internet Literature Youth Valley". It is reported that nearly a hundred online article authors and online article operators have settled in, gathering young talents in the online literature industry, as well as related industry platforms and organizations. The related film and television industry has greatly improved the "modern atmosphere", "fashionable temperament" and "vitality index" of our city.

Texts are the carrier of culture and civilization. From ancient times to the present, people are more accustomed to the Internet. and familiar media, online literature has become an important form of expression of text. With our city’s efforts to build a complete industrial chain of youth online literature IP, the online literature industry will become a new growth point leading our city’s economic development, and cultural endowment. Able to support the construction of "Five Good" Zibo