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Nowadays, young people engaged in side business has become a kind of "obvious learning". According to media reports, writing online articles is one of the side jobs that are quite popular with young people, and many young people hope to expand an income channel through online articles.
In the line of online writing, as long as a computer, you can start writing, and there is no time or place restriction. At the same time, there are many "suddenly rich" stories in the online literary circle, attracting people to enter the game. Low investment, high ceiling, many post-95s and post-00s flock to the online literature industry. According to some platform statistics, more than 80% of the new writers in 2021 are "post-95", and the proportion of post-00s and post-95s overseas writers on the platform is also more than 80%.
The industry of online text, as the name suggests, has arisen with the development of the internet. The earliest domestic online text should have appeared more than 20 years ago, when a small number of social elites and intellectuals had just touched the net, and those who could create online texts also had a good writing standard, so at that time, some network works that were small but could be called fine or even classic emerged, such as Ning Ken's "The City of the Masked", "The First Intimate Contact" of Leper Cai, and Anne Baby's "Farewell to Vian", and later the "Ghost Blowing Lights" sung by the world. These works have become the indiscriminate pursuit of online literature, and also represent the height of early online literary creation.
In the first decade of the new century, with the popularization of the mass network, the threshold for online creation was lowered, especially the establishment of a number of professional online literature websites, which stimulated the creative enthusiasm of a large number of literary enthusiasts, and a group of online novelists quickly became famous and obtained considerable benefits. During this period, the creation of online novels officially became a profession in a sense.
Entering the era of mobile Internet, the threshold for online literary creation has been further reduced, and network creators have also entered a blowout period. This is also the stage of online literature that we are in at the moment. Due to the support of the platform and the "successful experience" of the predecessors, young people have entered the game with a fist.
But this period has shown a big change: if the original intention of the early online literary creators was to write excellent works for more people to see, then many of the current online literary circles are aimed at "making money" and "realizing". Of course, there are still many pure creators with literary dreams in this track, but the color of valuing material returns has become more and more intense, and the classical value of online literary creation is fading.
Industrialization is actually a normal development direction, and online literature is no exception. However, in some media reports, we can see that many young online writers, who do not have enough literary literacy and lack basic experience accumulation, almost step into the red sea of online literature with a "small white" posture.
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Reality should be faced squarely, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the "2019 China Internet Literature Development Report", once the income of online authors statistics, online authors average monthly income of 5133.7 yuan, but of which, 2000 yuan / month or less and no income accounted for 44.6%. It can be seen that making money through online texts is not so easy.
Not to mention that literary creation is an industry that relies on genius, even if most people do not have the talent to create, but at least they should have a certain literary literacy and life experience. The only "literary literacy" of some authors is to read a few online novels, and they have not undergone any decent text training at all, so they are ready to engage in online literary creation, I am afraid that they will also disappoint themselves.
An obvious trend in the past two years is that online literature has begun to enter the era of picking gold from sand, and high-quality online literary works are still limited. One of the important reasons is that many authors believe in the assembly line literary creation template, are accustomed to using the same routine, lack sufficient inspiration and imagination, and readers are easily aesthetically tired.
Readers read in bookstores. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Liu Jianhua)
It is not wrong for young people to make money, but there must also be a way to make money: you always have to respect the laws of an industry, always learn more and accumulate more, and you must also have the mentality of sinking down and be willing to be a friend of time. Always thinking about making quick money, in the end it just can't make money. Young people who want to make money through online articles should realize this heavy truth.
In recent years, online literature has developed rapidly and has become an increasingly significant cultural phenomenon, and people also hope that more works can emerge in online literature. However, it can be expected that with the increase of entrants, the competition will be more intense, which will also put forward higher requirements for innovation and breakthroughs. I also hope that young people who are interested in this will be more psychologically prepared for this and be more fully prepared to enter this Red Sea.
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