I will never give in to Miss Death

"Only... only two or three months..."

"It's only been two or three months. You dropped out of school the year before last. Not long after that, we received the first report. It was you who stole the bag from the front desk of the Linjiang Hotel at No. 3 Yingbin Road, Central District, right?"

"what……"

"Yes or No!"

The sudden loud voice of the police frightened Uncle Bei San who was sitting on the chair. He hesitated for a moment and lowered his head again:

"Yes...I took it."

"What did you do with the stolen money?"

"Surf the Internet..."

"play games?"

"Play games, and sometimes write...write novels to make money."

It can be clearly seen from the video that this "Uncle Bei San" was covered in cold sweat and he probably didn't expect that he would be caught.

"We have another interprovincial case here. A novel author said in his reader group that he had no money and couldn't make ends meet, so he borrowed money from readers. He borrowed more than 800 yuan and didn't pay it back for two years. Is that you?"

"what?"

"No, is it you!"

"Yes... but I didn't say I wouldn't pay it back, it's just that I don't have any money recently..."

"Why don't you find a proper job instead of doing this kind of petty theft?"

"I……"

As I was watching, I heard footsteps and saw the couple who had just entered the apartment walking over. When they saw me, they were both stunned.

"Little sister, didn't you go out on your bike?"

The woman walked towards me quickly and asked, "Why are you taking the bus here again?"

"I gave my car to a friend."

I turned off the video, put away my phone, and put on a good look.

"Oh, so you want to go out and play now?"

The girl sat down next to me and asked: "You are so cute, how old are you?"

"Ah... I... I am an adult."

"So young when you're an adult?"

The girl was surprised and asked, "Aren't you going to class today?"

“I don’t study anymore.”

"Oh, that means you have graduated."

The way the girl kept asking me questions made me unhappy, so I decided to "strike back": "Are you taking the bus too? Where are you going?"

"I'm accompanying my boyfriend to that art exhibition. Have you read online novels? They're online novels, the ones that...travel novels, Son-in-law, Soldier King, Invincible God of War."

"Seen."

"My boyfriend writes about this, although his income is not high, only two to three thousand yuan a month."

The girl pulled the boy over and said, "He writes books on that novel website called Honey Melon Bag. I heard that Honey Melon Bag has an author conference today, but it's a pity that he is not eligible to attend."

"Oh……"

I nodded and said nothing more.

"I feel like if your job doesn't pay well, you could try writing novels."

Seeing that I didn't respond, the somewhat familiar girl continued, "My boyfriend now earns a stable two to three thousand yuan in royalties every month, which is enough to live in this small apartment. If he gets tips from readers and recommendations from editors, he can probably earn more than four thousand yuan, and he doesn't even have to go out. How do you feel about that?"

"I……"

At this time, the bus I was waiting for arrived.

"I'm going to the exhibition, too. I'm also writing a book in Honeydew Bags during this time."

Putting on the rabbit backpack, I smiled at the couple:

"It seems that we are colleagues. Please give me your advice."

"..."

……

No. 177 Stealing Stars in September

The relationship between authors is sometimes extreme and sometimes friendly, and overall it is at a very strange level.

I vaguely remember that Ji Tu Tonglong, also known as Su Yunjin, had investigated relevant information and then wrote a similar paper. The theme of the paper was the relationship between the authors of each different subject matter.

While we were playing the game, Su Yunjin told us the general results of his investigation, which is that although authors are "peers" in terms of common sense, in most cases they are "colleagues."

Writing is not like product development, nor is it like a small store or rice noodle shop outside. I use your things, and if the noodles in your store are delicious, I will steal the recipe and open a similar store next to you to steal your business. Novel authors do not have a similar relationship.

Because in product development or noodle shops... customers can be considered "one-time". If a person wants to eat noodles in a day, he will only choose one place to eat it once. He will not eat in one place and then go to another place to eat the same taste. Novels are different. If readers want to read a book and feel unsatisfied after reading one, they may actively search for another novel with the same routine. In terms of "reading novels", it is not like "eating", there is no online service.

Readers who subscribe to this novel are very likely to have also subscribed to another novel, so strictly speaking there is no strict opposition between the novel authors.

At that time, Su Yunjin conducted a special investigation on several types of novel themes: fan fiction, yuri (including yuri), and harem. In Su Yunjin's words, the authors of novels on these three themes are... The authors of yuri novels give people the impression of a group of young and beautiful girls. Both their way of speaking and their personalities are cute. They basically never quarrel with each other and are all acting cute. The emoticons they use are either cute pets or loli.

Fan fiction writers are more like an alliance. They will share various settings and information with each other. When a certain work or game becomes popular, they will vaguely analyze whether it has commercial value, whether it can be popular if written, whether it can make money, and what type of fan fiction to write for the next new book.

As for the authors of harem novels... Su Yunjin said that he had once joined a harem author group and found the atmosphere there a bit weird. Every day they would either send a QQ voice message saying "APEX is short of one", "Is there anyone who wants to play chess?", "New mode coming soon", or they would repost all kinds of weird jokes, or post funny pictures of Billy and Wang Jie. They rarely discussed writing books.

If there is any "antagonistic relationship" between novel authors, the only possibility is that two authors of the same type are in the same editing group, and then in a certain month both authors want to be recommended and want to improve their data, but the editor's recommendation positions are limited, so only the one with better data can be recommended. This situation will lead to the two authors fighting with each other, canvassing for votes and updating frequently, but they will not really fight. Anyway, the one who is more capable will be recommended, and those with bad data will come next time.

This is true for authors of the same category, not to mention those who write on different topics, among whom there is basically no conflict of interest.

The current type of novel can also be called "new media text". The main tone is "fast, exciting, and long". The pace is extremely fast. The conflict is directly thrown at the beginning to reveal the protagonist's golden finger to create a strong contradiction, and then it starts to create exciting points and a sense of anticipation. After luring readers in, it starts to repeat the exciting points in an infinite loop.

In fact, it's not just novels, games are the same. At the beginning of the game, all kinds of advertisements are used to trick you into joining, claiming that it is free to play. In the early stage, you can kill monsters in one second and have fun. In the later stage, they start to tempt people to spend money, and then the templates for the activities are designed. Every time they organize an activity, they just change the skin, but the core remains unchanged.

Nowadays, most authors who start writing novels tend to flock to the new media genre. As an ordinary author of serious novels with male protagonists in another world... it is generally unlikely that I will run into colleagues in the same field, let alone meet a novel author who has the same editor as me in real life.

So I naturally called the boy in the couple who got on the car with me "colleague".

"No way? You're also writing novels in Honeydew Bag? Is that true?"

After we got into the taxi together, the boy probably thought it was too unusual for a girl this young to write a novel, so he walked around my girlfriend and asked me, "What's the content of the novel? How are your grades?"

"Hmm... It's just so-so. A very ordinary different world theme."

I found a seat by the window in the back row as usual and sat down. “I haven’t received any test submissions yet. The editor said he would give me one when I have 40,000 or 50,000 words.”

"Does that mean you're new?"

The boy looked relieved, and pulled his girlfriend to sit in front of me. "I was scared to death. I was just thinking, if such a young girl writes novels... and becomes a big shot on the website, then I have wasted these years."

what?

Is there any direct relationship between writing novels and age?

In response to the boy's emotion, I was stunned for a moment and then just gave him a faint smile and said nothing.

As far as I know, the most important thing required for writing online novels is "talent" or the degree of overlap between your aesthetic taste and that of the "public".

Online novels do not require high writing skills. As long as what is written is readable and there are no obvious grammatical problems, it is fine. For example, some people like to write a sentence like "I want to buy a TV" as "A TV I want to buy" or "Buy a TV I want" or "I want to buy a TV". The meaning is almost the same. Ordinary people can understand the content of the sentence when reading it, and this kind of writing style is enough.

The first difference between novelists is "talent". Some people have read many books but still don't understand what people nowadays like to read, or what kind of content they want to write. Some people can type smoothly just by typing. They feel refreshed after writing in one breath. They feel comfortable writing and readers also feel comfortable reading, so they make money naturally.

Secondly, whether a novel is popular or not depends on how much the author's aesthetic taste overlaps with that of the "public". Just like the Snail House Apartment here, many "bad" people like to pursue "happiness", smoking, drinking, and acting like hooligans, and then treat girls as their "personal belongings". However, there are authors who hate smoking and drinking, and when writing books, they will focus more on describing the personality of women and respect women. The heroine in the book is also a flesh-and-blood person who will not blindly stick to the male protagonist. The books written by such authors are destined not to belong to the audience of people in the Snail House Apartment.

Similarly, if there are 70 billion people on the earth, 30 billion like white stockings, and only 20 billion like black stockings, and you, an author, like fishnet stockings, then your "aesthetic overlap" with the general public is not high, and your audience will not be large. If you write a book based on your own hobbies, the book will most likely fail. You should either change to writing content you don't like, or treat this as a hobby and find another job to support yourself.

I remember that in the Elodie group, the 20th on the best-selling list was a 17-year-old high school student. He had good grades in the class, was a representative of the Chinese class, had beautiful writing skills, and had a more "masculine" personality. He wrote about the passionate harem of the male protagonist, and relied on his own attributes such as "brotherhood" and "so cool" to write according to his own understanding of the world. His first book took off directly, with a monthly income of more than . He wrote for a year or two, and when he was in his third year of high school, he bought a house and a car for his family.

In the eyes of the editor, the 17-year-old high school student is a talented writer who is "highly gifted" and "in line with the public's aesthetic taste."

"So...what's your editor?"

Seeing that I didn't respond, when the car started, with the sound of the engine turning steadily under the car, the boy in front of me turned around and said, "It's rare to meet an author who is from the same website as me. Can you add me as a friend?"

"Hey?"

The girl next to the boy was unhappy when he said that. She pinched the boy's thigh fiercely and said, "You're rebelling, huh?"

"Ow!"

The boy felt hurt and turned around to comfort his girlfriend with grievance: "Yan'er, I really didn't mean to flirt with her. You know it yourself. There are so few authors now, and they are female authors. They are also tenants of the same small apartment as us, and they are actually writers for Mi Gua Bao. This is really a coincidence..."

"So what if it's a coincidence?"

The girl obviously didn't buy his trick: "I'm telling you, don't think I don't know your little tricks... I shouldn't have accompanied you to that exhibition today."

"It's unfair..."

The boy had a sad face and said, "I really don't have that idea. The books I write are all pure love stories. This kid doesn't look more than 14 years old. I don't want to go to jail!"

"Yes."

After the boy said this, the girl seemed to react. She turned around and asked me curiously: "Girl, are you an adult? Otherwise, how can you write a book?"

"I've signed it."

I said vaguely, "I'll go with the inner sign."

"Wow! They actually signed a contract!"

Hearing this, the boy couldn't wait any longer: "I remember that Honey Melon Bag is a male-oriented website, and there are very few female authors, right?"

"There are still some."

I remembered the notice that Catmint had posted in the group before: "It is not recommended to publish transformation or yuri novels in the near future": "There are many books with female protagonists."

"You mean transformation or yuri? Those are all written by male authors. Girls love to read BL now."

The boy gestured to his girlfriend next to him: "Compared to this girl in my family, she goes to that Xijiang novel website to read BL novels every day, and she even wants to drag me into it and ask me to write about gay novels. I'm almost going crazy..."

"What are you talking about? Even though I watch gay movies, I can accept yuri, okay?"

The girl pinched the boy's thigh again: "I see you're just trying to find a topic to flirt with this little loli. You otakus just like this."

"I really don't have any! Little Lolita is just something you see on the Internet. At most, they only exist in the second dimension. I'm not looking for a Lolita from the third dimension..."

The boy raised his hands in surrender: "I don't want to go to the police station. The maximum penalty is death penalty!"

"OK OK."

Seeing that the couple seemed to be in love, I felt a little sorry: "I am an adult, and... I have a girlfriend too."

"what?"

This time it was the girl's turn to widen her eyes: "What did you just say?"

"I'm an adult."

"The latter part."

"I have a girlfriend."

"hiss……"

The girl made an exaggerated "gasp" expression, gave me a thumbs up, and said "I wish you all the best."

"If that's the case, I won't make a fuss anymore. This is something in your academic field, so you guys can talk about it."

Patting her boyfriend's shoulder, the girl turned around and said, "Don't you have a new author signing group? You can bring others in so they can get to know each other and help each other."

"Yes."

The boy turned around and held his phone, looking very enthusiastic: "Little sister, since you have signed a contract, which editor did you sign with?"

"Catnip."

"Catnip? Which editor is Catnip?"

"Eh?"

The boy looked so confused that I thought I had traveled through time: "It's just catnip. Aren't you the author of Honeydew Melon Bun?"