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ChrisX No, as far as I know, completed novel is not a necessary for a contract, but update frequency, writing quality and popularity are.
How much does a webnovel original author earn?
dapenggaofei Oh I see. Thanks for the response I'll work hard then. 
BTW you can apply for a contract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchNZTTmOK7vz3cOrrtcm0rFKXT6PIgIZ-7CaT6ZonB_leg3w/viewform
ChrisX don't need to think so much about the payment. If you really have a passion as a writer, the most important thing is to increase your writting skill. After that the payment will automatically followed. There will always a good ending for hard working people. So let's work hard together!
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China Literature (Qidian's Parent company) has 6.4 million authors, only a select few ever actually received contracts. It's all a numbers game.
As far as the $400 for 120,000 words/month is concerned. That's the equivalent of writing 2-3 novel length books every month (Or one epic-length novel). In page count terms, it's writing between 400-480 pages every month.
If you can maintain that pace, especially if you have a decent writing style of any sort then you are better off just publishing to Amazon where the self-publishing royalties can be around 70% to the author if they solely publish on Amazon, meaning that they remove the chapters from other websites. Otherwise, if they leave/make the content available elsewhere it's 30% otherwise).
Plus Patreon/donations are a must if you become semi-popular.
Just beware that if you sign with QI they will make you take down your Patreon.
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Just use this web as a learning platform. If your skill improve, you can self-publish your story. Skill. The most important thing is skill.
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I guess i need to join another english course :))
Just use this web as a learning platform. If your skill improve, you can self-publish your story. Skill. The most important thing is skill.
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I guess i need to join another english course :))
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Nothing. Nilch. We're all broke over here. ToT
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I see a few ways to do it:
- Already have a story partially written, say 200,0000 words were already done. Then you only need to write 2000-3000 words per day.
- Write as a team that way the words per day requirements can be spread out. Either as a small writing team or something huge like the Stratemeyer Syndicate (Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys etc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate
- Be one of those rare prolific writers that do exist (Isaac Asimov or Frederick Faust(best known by his pen name Max Brand) for example) See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prolific_writers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brand#Legacy
Wait a minute... so it won't enough if you write only 2000 words per day?? But if you write 4000 words, they'll pay you?!
checkm8 What that translates to is, either it's impossible for one person, or be a freak of the nature. Even the most prolific writers can at most touch the 4k words a day speed. And quite frankly they are indeed freaks of nature. Writing 4k words a day would equate to someone like J.K. Rowling pumping out new books every 1.5 months. So it's not that viable even for full time professional writers, let alone amateurs with other jobs. Ofc, it gets alot easier if you use cliche patterns and filler. Rather, it's almost impossible without them. You can also structure the novel in such a way that just the names mentioned in the chapter fills up %25 of it. It's quite common in face slapping novels. Create scenes that have about 4 characters with back and forth confrontations so just the names of the characters being repeated can take up to %25 of the whole chapter. Add the cliche trash talk patterns and voila! Suddenly it's not that hard to write 4000 words a day...
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They earn "Disappointment".
Another system "Quantity over Quality", more novels like True Crap World, where only authors care about word count.
Patreon is your best shot.
Ridiculous signing method.
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N0xiety I think it will be possible to write 400 words a day IF WE USE OUR OWN LANGUAGE T_T
English is my secondary language and my vocabularies are so....
And don't mention about grammars. I am hopeless.
In a day, I only able to write 1000-2000 words. So pathetic!
And it is very tiring to browse your dictionary again and again everyday. My eyes get easily sore...
N0xiety I think it will be possible to write 400 words a day IF WE USE OUR OWN LANGUAGE T_T
English is my secondary language and my vocabularies are so....
And don't mention about grammars. I am hopeless.
In a day, I only able to write 1000-2000 words. So pathetic!
And it is very tiring to browse your dictionary again and again everyday. My eyes get easily sore...