There is no need to clock in at work, no overtime on weekdays and weekends, with a glamorous aura of writers, and Internet writing opens the door as countless fans.

Just by tapping the keyboard, you can earn money, become famous, and achieve success and counterattack in life.

Is that right?

　　Writers such as Zijinchen, Tang's three young masters, and Tiancan Tudou are among the top figures of the writing pyramid in China, and countless internet writers behind them exist in "hidden corners": the default writing volume of more than 6000 words per day, similar The bridge section, the same plot...in day and night, the keyboard is constantly tapping, and the last row of words on the computer screen is presented.

　　The market price of "3 yuan per thousand characters" was once regarded by many netizens as "better to beg".

What kind of people are the Internet writers hiding at the bottom of this "creation pyramid"?

How do they view the price of "3 yuan per thousand characters", and how do they make a living by writing impulse essays?

Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporters walked into this group of impulse writers, trying to reveal the "hidden corner" behind the web.

　QQ group orders: 2-7 yuan per thousand characters

　　In the QQ group, the avatar flashes, the news keeps on, and people keep talking.

This is a group of nearly 1,000 people. Since the establishment of the group in 2016, it has been a platform for Party A and Party B to purchase drafts.

　　"Introduction, both boys and girls channels are acceptable, no upper limit for submissions starting from 10 (yuan) per thousand (characters). Contributions can be submitted starting from 1-2w (characters) and a complete outline starting from 2000 (characters), the latest is 3 Reply within working days." At 8:11 in the morning, Party A started a new day's draft.

Party A also accepted the opening text of the scrapped manuscript, "The price of the manuscript is 2-7 yuan per thousand words."

　　After the news was sent, someone quickly followed up, "Does any studio need a writer?"

　　In the afternoon, there was a new draft from Party A: "A thousand characters start at 6 (yuan) to call for writers."

　　On the other side of the computer, new writer Kobayashi is eager to try.

The other party provided Xiaolin with an outline template.

The male protagonist's personality can be cold, facial paralyzed, and vigorous, while the female protagonist's personality can be calm, wise, and distinct in love and hatred.

　　The completion time is calculated by the hour.

"For 10,000-character body type, a trial draft will be produced within 6 hours and completed within 48 hours after the trial. For a 20,000-character body type, a trial draft will be produced within 6 hours and completed within 96 hours after the trial.”

　　In another QQ group for manuscripts, the scope of manuscripts was extended to articles, dubbing, and drawing.

Articles can be impulsive, why not sound and painting?

Here is an "impulsive rivers and lakes" constructed by writing, painting and sound.

　　All labor prices are calculated in single digits of RMB.

If it is impulse writing, most of the market prices are 3 yuan, 4 yuan, and 5 yuan per thousand characters; if it is a self-made emoticon, the price is 1 yuan each.

In order to expand the market, some new voice actors are even willing to accept free dubbing in the early stage.

　　At the beginning of this year, 14-year-old Qiushuang started to work as a painter to take online orders, and she learned to paint as far back as 6 years old.

Like painting facial expressions and avatars, the price she gave is 2 yuan, "If there are more (quantity), it will be (more) cheaper, and you can make animated pictures for free." Qiushuang has flexible time and can also be immediate according to the single main appeal. Draw, you will be able to produce pictures soon.

　　Qiushuang has always loved drawing. The reason she came into contact with this industry was that she couldn’t find a suitable emoticon pack. “I wanted to draw one by myself. When I found more and more inspiration, I incorporated my favorite anime characters into it. I went in. After that, I came into contact with the method of making GIFs, and it became what it is now."

6000 words per day

　　"Writing is more like building blocks"

　　"Here, writing is more like building blocks, filling it in according to the fixed keel. If you want a house or a forest, if you want red or green, you have to build it from the beginning." Xiaolin felt that when he was typing on the keyboard, it was more like It is a typing machine that follows the template.

　　According to the requirements, Xiaolin needs to submit a 20,000-word original manuscript and a 2,000-word outline, and continue writing after passing the review.

Here, 6000 words per day is the self-explanatory minimum requirement.

　　The thousand words that Xiaolin has just encountered are 2-7 yuan, which is almost the lowest standard for Internet writers.

Two yuan for 1000 words sounds unbelievable, but Xiao Lin said that this kind of manuscript actually doesn't require brainstorming.

"You can understand this kind of manuscript as a scrap manuscript, basically just use the correct name of the protagonist, and just let the water go." Xiaolin explained.

"Do not ask for quality, but only ask for quantity" is the standard for rejecting manuscripts summarized by Kobayashi. They have a more famous name in the industry-impulse text.

　　"Impact essays and quality essays are relative. In short, the requirements for articles are not very high. As long as the plot is reasonable and smooth, the number of words can basically be accepted. Some impulsive essays are spam, and there are some websites for Hang up your own library and directly buy from the author of impulse articles. Impulse articles are not for viewing, but for replenishing." Netizen @青烟烟 explained.

　　Online part-time writer Yu Muqing believes that the author’s remuneration of 3 yuan per thousand characters is a kind of waste to the author’s efforts. “It’s obviously not equal to the remuneration that took so long, and the contract card is getting more and more dead, and the more restrictions on the author are The greater the coming, the author's own rights are very small."

　　After four years of part-time online writing, Yu Muqing can change 6000 words a day.

She introduced that the minimum guarantee is only 3 yuan per thousand characters, but there are also short stories that can reach 120 yuan for 1000 characters. In essence, it depends on whether the book is well written.

　　The income of web authors generally includes three parts: attendance, subscription, and gifts.

Yu Muqing said, "The most common full attendance of 600 yuan (monthly) is equivalent to 3 yuan per thousand characters. Originally, writing a novel is a very boring thing. It is a waste of time and you can't make much money. The hard work is also for yourself. Hobbies. There are many people who enter the industry and don't even get 3 yuan per thousand characters."

　　Even so, Yu Muqing still does not consider herself a writer of impulse essays: "I haven't accepted impulse essays in the true sense because my hand speed can't keep up."

　　Last year, the income from writing online articles to Mu Qing was less than 3,000 yuan.

After 4 years in the industry, she feels good about her current online contribution remuneration. “It can be regarded as a proof of hard work.” She posted a Weibo to tease herself, “a book of 600,000 words, full attendance for 3 months, 1,800 (yuan) ), counted down and wrote a thousand-character impulse essay of 3 (yuan). Although I am not reconciled, keep on working hard. In any case, when the first medium-length story is over, I still encourage myself."

　　The writing dream that many people yearn for may only belong to the figures at the top of the pyramid, and the impulse writer is the bottom of the creation pyramid.

The well-known writers such as Zijinchen, Tang Family Sanshao, Tiancan Tudou, etc., are all figures at the top of the writing pyramid in China.

　　Under the impulse "cabbage price", does the writer at the bottom of the tower have a "survival"?

Some people put aside the price and enjoy the process of order creation

　　The order artist Qiushuang is perhaps one of the most contented group of people in this "impulse rivers and lakes".

　　Although the price of the paintings is only about 15 yuan per piece, for Qiuhua, the price itself is not important.

"My price has always been lower than others. I won't be more cost-effective or not. I just enjoy the process of painting." For her, the desire for painting and the feeling of being needed far exceed the money she gets back.

　　Such orders are more like reflecting Qiushuang's "self-value".

"I want to maximize my art, at least to prove that I am not useless. I paint in the group, although it is not the best, but I try to meet the requirements of the guests to the extreme, and do my best Be patient. My previous painting technique has been stuck in a bottleneck period for several years, and it was a breakthrough in the past two years."

　　Qiushuang still remembers the excitement when his work was bought for the first time. "It was the single owner I took the initiative to find. After all, I just joined the group at that time. The whole process took three or four days with the background." This first order was given. She brought in an income of 15 yuan, "I used this money to buy art tools with the money I earned later."

"Thousand characters 3 yuan"

　　Someone can earn tens of thousands a month

　　Many people question whether it is possible to write so many words 24 hours a day?

A practitioner told reporters that hand speed itself is the basic skill of an author.

　　"I myself wrote 2000 words in an hour to more than 4000 words, if the quality is almost 6,000 (words per hour)." The practitioner said.

　　Some people also questioned the income of 3 yuan per thousand characters, why not go to other jobs?

Delivering food and express delivery are much more profitable than this.

The practitioner explained, "What if I say that some people can write 10,000 characters in an hour? Working for 10 hours a day is nearly 20,000 yuan a month? Besides, 3 yuan per 1,000 characters is just the lowest price in the industry."

　　The practitioner feels, “At the speed of 3,000 words per hour, a skilled author can write works of great quality. Perhaps these 1,000 words can bring him hundreds of thousands of income. This is very common among middle and upper-level authors. The impulse is only The bottommost."

　　"After the epidemic, perhaps because many people have poured into this industry, most platforms have higher and higher requirements for the quality of manuscripts. The full attendance adjustment of some platforms is a bit big, and it is very unfriendly for authors who eat full time. It is recommended that full-time tens of millions Don't enter the industry, just find a part-time job is more reliable than writing an article." Yu Muqing said.

Zijin Chen:

　　Earn more than work or only a few hundred people

　　On Zhihu, many insiders explained the reasons for the existence of impulse articles: "Some small websites need impulse articles to impulse, and the original role of these articles is also impulse."

　　Even if they are in a "secret corner", for internet writers, "Zijin Chen" is like a beacon, illuminating the way under the feet of countless writers.

　　With the popularity of a series of crime novel adaptations of "Undocumented Crimes", "Hidden Corners" and "Long Night Difficult to See", the original author Zi Jin Chen gradually entered the public eye.

From the beginning of writing on the Tianya Forum, to the media titled "Chinese version of Keigo Higashino", and nowadays, a well-known reasoning writer, Zijin Chen achieved a "life counterattack" by writing.

　　However, in the eyes of Zijin Chen, online writing is "a single accomplishment and a dead end."

"The people who really eat this bowl of rice in the country can earn more than 5,000 yuan a month, no more than two or three thousand people. There may be only a few hundred people with a higher salary than work. There are very few great gods with high incomes." Zijin Chen said.

　　Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yan Xue and intern Liu Yuanhang