Don't mind them... Once you publish your first novel, Qidan pays you 500k USD. A free trip to Singapore and a lifetime supply of spirit stones....
How much does a webnovel original author earn?
If you end up signing a contract you are guaranteed at least 400 USD per month if you fulfill certain criteria. But you can gain income without signing a contract by publishing on other platforms and from fan donations. You can also participate in the writing contests they sometimes hold.
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SweetsTomato maybe soon! 
ChrisX if you're fluent in chinese, you could just translate. You might even earn more for less work.
bachingchung the problem is my job is actually to teach Chinese improve their english. 
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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.
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