揭秘中国年轻网络作家的生存现状_BEC初级作文

揭秘中国年轻网络作家的生存现状

Writing can be a difficult and boring process. However, the support from readers gives her passion, says Liu Chenfeng, another young writer.

"They make me feel that I am not writing alone," Liu says.

Liu used to work in IT in Shanghai. She has posted over 5 million words on Hongxiu.com, one of the major literature websites.

Liu says it's hard to predict whether a novel will be popular.

"Sometimes I am very confident that people would love my story. However, it is really not something under my control," Liu says. "Gradually I became less concerned about popularity and focused more on quality."

She's working on a few modern love stories, and has plans to try some fantasies and historical novels, both genres favored by online writers.

In the past five years, Zhang Wei has racked up 177 million yuan ($28.53 million) by just moving his fingertips.

For two consecutive years since 2017, he has topped the list of wealthiest Chinese Internet novelists, with an income of 33 million yuan in 2017.

The 33-year-old Beijing native, better known as Tangjiasanshao online, was the only online writer to be listed on the 2017 Forbes "Chinese Celebrity List".

Zhang presumably has the biggest number of Chinese readers among all authors, but he admits that making a living as an author was beyond his dreams.

After graduation with a degree in law, Zhang had worked in several different jobs, including an IT position. He was laid off by his last employer before he "accidentally" tried online writing and eventually created a whole new world for himself.