Write on the beach
Can you earn more than 10,000 a month?
The Spring Festival is coming, and Wenwen is particularly busy.
What she does every day is to write good wishes on the beach with sticks to the sound of the waves, and then take photos or videos of these works and send them to customers.
Recently, more and more people have asked her to write their blessings, and social platforms have 99+ unread messages at every turn.
She plans to stay Chinese New Year's Eve night, set up a tent by the sea, and work overtime to convey beauty to everyone.
"Beach ghostwriting" is not new, it has been around for two years, but since last summer, it has suddenly gained traction.
Many young people who are difficult to go to the beach are keen to spend a little money and write customized blessings, which is both a romance and a joy.
For them, there should not only be fireworks in life, but also poetic existence. These beauties may not seem necessary, but they can bring us real warmth.
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Spring Festival does not close
Write down a thousand blessings
When chatting with Wenwen, she said with a smile: "Underestimated everyone's expectations for the Year of the Rabbit. ”
Since December last year, she has been approached to book the Spring Festival schedule. Most people use this special form to send blessings, and the words that appear more frequently are "everything comes true", "everything goes well", "Wishing you prosperity" and other blessings.
Others will wish themselves "going ashore for graduate school", "successful in the public examination", or "playing mahjong without losing money"
Before each write, Wenwen will talk to the guests for a long time to figure out their needs.
What impressed her most was a Heilongjiang boy who wanted to write a holiday wish to his girlfriend in Kuwait, who loved the sea. The boy asked her carefully: "What gifts do you think girls like, what is appropriate to write, can you help me think about it..."
This intention and sincerity made the corners of Wenwen's mouth rise while listening.
In general, more than 90% of the people who write to her are female customers, who are more willing to pay for romance. Such boys are not common.
Every time she writes blessings, Wenwen is especially happy and infected by the happiness of others. Although the Spring Festival this year exploded, she did not increase the price, the price is similar to usual, ranging from a dozen yuan to hundreds of yuan.
The more difficult the screen, the higher the charge. If you just write a few words, it's just a few dollars.
However, if you want to draw cakes, flowers, portraits and other patterns, or if you must add sunrise and sunset when taking photos, it will be more expensive.
Some customers will ask for fireworks sticks, lamps, candles, wishing bottles and other props, and the price will rise according to the cost.
A little more diligent a day, earning three or five hundred yuan is not a problem
At present, she has written hundreds of New Year's wishes, and many lists will be written in advance and will not be left for the day of the festival. After all, this is an industry that "eats by the sky", and if it is cloudy or rainy, it will not look good to photograph.
02
From niche to explosive
More and more involution
Unlike Wenwen, who has not been in the industry for a long time, Xiaoxi has been writing for 2 years. Her home is more than 300 meters away from the sea, less than 10 minutes away.
At first, she posted poems she wrote on the beach on the Internet, and someone in the comment section asked for the same style. After writing for free for a while, she found that she couldn't be busy, so she hung up a link and could receive an average of four or five orders a day
At that time, there was almost no competition, and she treated it as a side hustle to make pocket money.
But last year, the situation suddenly changed, many people poured into the industry, and it became difficult to take orders. She has to rack her brains to write promotional copy on social platforms, and she also has to reply to various private messages as soon as possible.
There were also some challenges in the creative process, with a surge in tourists visiting the sea, and she couldn't find a beach without a stampede on her doorstep, so she could only walk a few kilometers to write in a more remote place.
Once, she went to the beach after 7 o'clock in the morning, and she looked around, all writing and painting. There were also people who were doing live broadcasts in the cold breeze, which surprised her, and it used to be very deserted in the morning.
The requirements of customers are also rising, not only to look good, but also to have a sense of atmosphere. To this end, she specially signed up for a photography class to learn how to improve aesthetics and how to color grading in P pictures in the later stage.
The biggest headache for her is that when the tide is high, it becomes difficult to write. A wave in a dozen seconds, write a washed away one.
Some time ago, a girl who celebrated her birthday temporarily approached her and wanted her to help write a birthday wish, but she wrote it 5 times, and before she could take pictures, she was washed away.
Another time, she was writing, and a child came to play, surrounded by footprints, and could not capture the effect that the customer wanted, so she had to find a new place to draw.
Xiao Xi laughed at herself that she belonged to the Buddhist business, and there were many Bao's mothers around her. Sometimes in the morning, before dawn, they go to the beach to write with flashlights and wait for the sunrise.
The most beautiful moment of sunrise is less than 10 minutes, so you have to write it in advance and take advantage of this time to take pictures.
This is also a practice can make perfect industry, common cakes, flowers and other pictures, Xiao Xi used to draw more than half an hour, now can be done in ten minutes.
03
Fight to the end
Fight is physical strength
Xiao Xi told us that "beach ghostwriting" is essentially manual work.
Some people who live by the sea take advantage of the location and try to follow the trend, but not many can stick to it.
Just waking up early dissuaded many people. Coupled with squatting on the ground all day long and writing with your head down, cervical spine pain and back pain are the norm.
Wenwen has only been doing it for a few months, and she already has an occupational disease, and her knees hurt as soon as she walks. On New Year's Day this year, she wrote more than 60 orders, so busy that she couldn't take care of eating and resting, and she didn't even have the mood to swipe her mobile phone when she went home, so she fell asleep.
Although she will wear sun protection before going out, and will wear a sun hat and sunglasses, she can't withstand the outdoor wind and sun, she is still 2 degrees darker, and her skin has become rougher.
The seaside is hot during the day, and mosquitoes are infested, and her legs are full of mosquito bite bags.
Even when she returned home, she always had a string in her head, searching the Internet for beautiful pictures and fonts, and practicing repeatedly.
But despite the hard work, Wenwen didn't want to give up. For her, the freedom of working hours, a decent income and the ability to take care of two children are much better than a job that requires sitting at work.
Her current list, in addition to individual customers from social platforms, is more studio dispatch. Some studios on the Internet are only responsible for receiving orders, and then package the lists to ghostwriters to earn the difference.
The studios found her after seeing her work online. Once I am familiar with her back and forth, I will give her a fixed source of customers
Wenwen wondered, when she can't write in the future, can she also make a studio? But at the moment, she doesn't care about studying these, and writing every blessing on hand has taken up all her time.
Some people also questioned why she would charge so much money just to write a few words? In her view, this in itself is a two-way choice. These words may seem less practical and will soon go with the wind, but they are full of emotional value
Handwriting is both a sense of ritual and companionship. Writing your name, wishes, blessings, confessions, and messages on the beach is a unique and romantic gift.
From unattended to highly sought after, behind "Beach Ghostwriting" is actually people's unchanging expectations for the future.
In the new year, we hope that everything we hope for can be expected and everything we wish will come true.
Text/Silence Shin
The picture comes from Photogram Network, Little Red Book @ Sanya Beach ghostwriting blessings, released after authorization