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

Zhang had been reading online novels for six years when he started writing his own.

The first work was immature, Zhang admits. Yet it brought in a small income and for the first time Zhang realized it's possible to make money writing novels.

In fact, he spent eight years leading a life which is typical for most online writers. It has been an essential part of his life to sit before the computer, busy typing and posting. The readers pay cents for every thousand words, sometimes offering "tips". It's how such writers earn money.

It took him six months to finish his second novel, a fantasy of 1.5 million words. The 2004 novel brought in 4,000 yuan, but made him well-known as an online writer.

Zhang says when he was writing the book, Wild God, he was so motivated by the flow of inspiration that he would write over 10 hours a day. The imagined characters kept talking to him in his head, and he sometimes had to take up to four showers to cool down and fall asleep, he recalls.

Now he has delivered 12 novels - more than 30 million words - on different themes. His works are read by hundreds of millions.

Zhang thinks his works, mainly fantasies, are interesting to young people and are suitable for making cartoons.

More than 10 million printed copies of his books and an equal number of cartoons based on them are sold each year. Besides the three existing cartoon books developed from his works, six others are being made.