Reborn since 2005

Chapter 24 Set a small goal first

Chen Li worked very hard during this period. After getting off work every morning, he would go to the Internet cafe and click on the keyboard to code.

I worked from about three o'clock in the afternoon until ten o'clock in the evening, and then went back to the dormitory to sleep.

He didn't even go back to the canteen for dinner. Yan Xin went to the canteen to get some food for him and ate it in front of the computer.

I spend more than six hours in an Internet cafe every day, coding, revising, publishing, browsing comments, checking my ranking on the new book list, and occasionally interacting with readers, all included in these six hours.

His hand speed is very fast, and he can basically type out about 10,000 words every day. After signing the contract, he published two chapters and saved one chapter, and the number of manuscripts he saved became more and more.

This book entered the new book list and was recommended. The data kept rising. It soon exceeded 3,000 collections, then 5,000 collections, and within a few days it exceeded 10,000 collections.

On the night when the collection exceeded 10,000, Chen Li was so excited that he even treated Yan Xin to a barbecue. The two of them spent fifty or sixty yuan on food and drinks.

Although he hasn't made any money from this book yet, in Chen Li's heart, he no longer cares so much about the fifty or sixty yuan.

While eating barbecue, he said to Yan Xin: "Now the collection has exceeded 10,000. According to this trend, when it is put on the shelves, the average order may reach 1,000, and we can eat this bowl of rice."

Yan Xin almost spit out his beer and looked at him:

“One thousand orders per order?”

Chen Li nodded vigorously: "Yes, a thousand orders! I think it is very possible to do it!"

Yan Xin was speechless and thought to himself: "I gave you the representative work of the son of the plane in the Internet literary world just so that you can order a thousand copies?"

He laughed and said, "Are you sure you can afford this bowl of rice with one thousand uniform subscriptions?"

Chen Li nodded: "Definitely and definitely!"

He calculated for Yan Xin:

"Qidian's VIP chapter subscription price is two cents per thousand words for high V. One chapter counts as three thousand words, which is six cents. The author and the platform share it equally. A subscribing author can get three cents, with an average of one thousand per chapter.

Subscription costs 30 yuan, which is 900 yuan a month, which is equivalent to my current salary."

"This is just the income from publishing one chapter."

"If I publish two chapters and 6,000 words a day, I can earn 1,800 yuan a month, which is double my current salary."

"If I quit my job, I can make a living by writing novels. I can publish three or four chapters a day."

"What is that concept?"

"That means I can earn more than 2,000 to 3,000 yuan in royalties a month!"

"Doesn't this count as eating this bowl of rice?"

Chen Li was calculating the bright prospects, and the more he calculated, the more excited he became. If it weren't for the lack of money, there would only be two months left for the new book, and he would have wanted to quit his job right away and write full-time.

Yan Xin looked at him and shook his head, feeling helpless:

"It's no wonder that you are still an online novel author. Why do you have so little imagination? Can't you just think about getting higher subscriptions?"

"How high do you think it can be?" Chen Li asked.

"Young people shouldn't aim too high. It's not a good thing to set goals too high. We can set a small goal first," Yan Xin stretched out a finger, "Let's say ten thousand."

"Ten thousand royalties?"

Chen Li looked at him blankly, thinking, "You are crazy!"

A little transparent author with no foundation, still wants a monthly fee of 10,000 yuan?

Yan Xin said slowly: "Every order is ten thousand!"

He didn't want to scare Chen Li, so he set a relatively low goal.

After all, it is now 2005, and the development of online novels is not that prosperous. No one would believe that such an online novel could generate hundreds of millions in revenue.

An average order of 10,000 is a goal that can never be lowered.

"You...you have too much imagination..."

Chen Li smiled bitterly.

He has great confidence in this book, but he does not have that strong confidence.

There may be online novels with an average subscription of 10,000 in these years, but the number will not be too many. That is definitely an achievement that can only be achieved by top masters.

For a new author to achieve such results, it is indeed a bit fanciful.

Yan Xin smiled and did not argue with him, but just said:

"You can use your imagination to go higher than this number, but don't go lower than this number."

It’s not like he hasn’t understood the current situation of online writing.

But the book he took out is absolutely unprecedented in terms of sales data, and it cannot be measured by common sense.

He said something very pretentious to Chen Li:

"I didn't spend so much effort just to produce a book that won't even reach 10,000 subscriptions."

Chen Li looked at him and had a strange feeling.

Reason told him that the average score of 10,000 yuan was impossible to achieve. This young man was too arrogant and a little ignorant.

However, looking at this young man's determined look, I felt that it was really possible to achieve this goal.

I secretly thought for a moment: "If I can really achieve an average subscription of 10,000 yuan, wouldn't I be able to get a royalties of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month? Even if I give half of it to him, then I will be rich!"

I don’t know if it was because I drank too much beer, but suddenly my mind wandered a little.

Instead of arguing with Yan Xin, he raised the beer bottle:

"I hope so! Come on, let's go together!"

The small goal proposed by Yan Xin that night gave Chen Li even more motivation to code.

The data for this book is very popular, making the whole site pay attention to this novel written by a newcomer.

No one doubts that this is a new account by an old author, because this kind of writing style has never been seen before, and it is not comparable to any old author that everyone is familiar with.

Judging from this passionate writing style, only a young man can write it.

The editor-in-chief and Chen Li also had more exchanges. They chatted a few words almost every day, and they talked about the future of this book.

The editor was also very optimistic about this book and said that he would get a better recommendation position for him.

——For an editor, if the authors under his staff write hit books, that is also their achievement. From now on, saying "I brought such-and-such" will also give him a lot of face in this industry.

As Chen Li became more and more comfortable in writing, Yan Xin could give less and less guidance. When the two of them discussed together, they discussed more about the subsequent plot and character design.

Yan Xin had a feeling that Chen Li seemed to have adapted to the way of writing online articles in the future, and he could still survive in this line of work even without the creativity he provided.

——Even if your imagination is still not enough and you can't come up with new settings, you can at least repeat the routine of this book and write two or three books to last a lifetime.

However, it doesn't matter if one day comes.

He is just having a hard time now. Once he gets through this period of difficulty, with his understanding of the future world, he can select one or two nodes to start and achieve financial freedom.

His future is not in plagiarizing Internet articles, but in other places.

As long as this book Chen Li can give him certain benefits, he will have achieved his goal.

Therefore, he didn't think too much about it and just worked hard to finish the book.

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