Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 49: On the Right Track

The next morning, Wang Jian looked at the website’s backend data.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" had been viewed 27,000 times, with an average of over 5,000 comments per viewing.

Despite a considerable part of the comments criticizing the incoherent plot and excessive descriptions of irrelevant characters and scenery,

it had not affected the number of payments.

As of 9 A.M. this morning, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" had generated over 50,000 US Dollars in sales.

After accounting for the website’s 50% cut,

the novel had earned the author over 20,000 US Dollars in just one night.

Wang Jian then looked at the sales data for "A Song of Ice and Fire" and his own "Arcane Throne" collected by Dorsey.

Excluding the highest sales on the release day for these two books,

he calculated further,

the income "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" brought to its author was even higher than the average daily income of the current bestsellers, "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Arcane Throne."

It should be noted that the author of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" was previously unknown.

This indicated that publishing works online was viable, from a revenue standpoint!

Wang Jian then picked up the agreement he had discussed with Tom and Dorsey last night and reached.

He began to think.

The agreement stated that Tom and Dorsey each held a 12.5% stake in the website and would also cover their share of the funds consumed during the website’s establishment.

He would hold 75% of the shares.

However, the agreement also required that starting with the second volume of "Arcane Throne," his works must be published in their entirety on the website,

not just using the site as a promotional tool like with the first volume.

Wang Jian hesitated for a moment but eventually signed his name on the agreement.

Then, he woke up Tom, who was sound asleep on the carpet, and said, "Arrange a lawyer’s firm to draft the formal contract, and then go handle the procedures to establish the internet company."

Tom, rubbing his still groggy eyes, put the agreement into his briefcase.

While nodding, he replied, "So, I’m officially becoming the copyright promoter for this original literary website?"

"Of course," Wang Jian smiled, "But as the chairman of the website, I require you to start with advertising and comic book copyrights."

"The most valuable film and television adaptation rights should wait until after the work is fully fermented."

"Understood." Tom picked up his briefcase, slapped the laptop, and laughed.

"Imagine that one day we would also have a shot at becoming ’Technology Heroes,’ haha..."

Wang Jian thought about the experiences of the past period and couldn’t help but marvel at how wonderful life was.

Dorsey had also been woken up by their conversation.

He rubbed his increasingly thinning hair and said, "So I’m the chief architect of the website now?"

"But I alone can’t support the daily maintenance of the entire site, we need to hire some people."

Wang Jian nodded, saying, "You call the shots when it comes to network issues."

"However, it’s best to hire some cheap ones."

"Of course." Dorsey replied, "I’ll recruit some interns from the university, as the school requires every student to have some practical social experience."

"When necessary, you can talk to them about dreams." Wang Jian said with a smile.

Dorsey was initially stunned, then laughed and cursed, "Indeed, people who stay in New York for a long time all turn into businessmen. Even writers are no exception."

Then, he went to the computer and checked the data.

Wang Jian pointed at the sales figures for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" and said, "Capture this page and put it on the homepage of the website."

"Ok." Dorsey’s hands flew across the keyboard swiftly.

And after he had finished modifying, Wang Jian sat in front of the computer screen.

After Tom and Dorsey said goodbye and left to busily undertake the tasks assigned to them.

Wang Jian also clicked on the contents of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" and started to review landscape descriptions that the readers had complained about.

Moments later, he shook his head helplessly.

He couldn’t blame the readers for constantly complaining.

These landscape descriptions were indeed too abundant and too stiff.

He opened his email and sent a mail to the author of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone."

In the email, Wang Jian first congratulated the other for yesterday’s huge sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone."

Then, he started discussing how to increase the word count without being too obvious.

At this moment, Rowling was nervously waiting for the sales data.

When the email notification sounded, she quickly entered her mailbox and clicked to check.

"Congratulations, up till now, ’Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ has made 50,000 US Dollars and your income from it is 25,000 US Dollars."

"This amount will be transferred to your bank account in the coming days, please check your account."

Rowling looked at the email, overwhelmed with mixed emotions.

She really started making money through writing.

And with this money, she also had the courage to leave that scumbag and completely escape her current predicament.

Then, she continued checking her emails.

Then, she discovered that the content of the email was a tactful criticism of the meaningless descriptions in the novel.

Most importantly, the sender of the email was "Wang Jian," the bestselling author of "Arcane Throne."

She replied, half excited and half helpless, "But without writing it this way, the novel’s content simply won’t reach the minimum required word count."

Moments later, she received another email.

She thought that the other party would scold her in the email for sacrificing a writer’s integrity for money.

However, after clicking to view it, she discovered the email was about how to significantly increase the word count without the readers noticing it.

Rowling was initially stunned, then she couldn’t help but start reading.

The email contained basic methods such as using more punctuation marks, adding more line breaks, and using fewer pronouns. frёewebηovel.cѳm

It also included slightly more advanced tips like adding psychological descriptions and launching subplots.

Finally, this senior named Wang Jian offered the most important technique.

"Even when describing scenery, don’t write from the author’s perspective. Describe it through the protagonist’s eyes to give readers the feeling that they are also seeing the scenery."

Rowling looked at the email, pondering while starting to smile.

At last, her smile became uncontrollable.

This "Arcane Throne" author was different from what she had imagined...

Speaking of Wang Jian.

After he had taught a few tips on padding the word count, he felt like he had completely emptied out all his tricks.

He thought about it, considering that the second volume of "Arcane Throne" was to be published online.

Why not translate it from Chinese to English while learning how the original author of "Arcane Throne" padded the word count?

So, he opened the author section on the website, entered the name of the second volume of "Arcane Throne," and started typing.

At this moment, among the circle of struggling writers, the sales figures of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" were like an atomic bomb.

They crazily calculated the income of this book’s author, while thoughts of "I could do that too" emerged in their minds.

Thus, on that day, there were surprisingly few struggling writers at the doorsteps of major publishing houses.

This made the passersby unusually uncomfortable.

While on wangwen.com, just in one morning, its novel index expanded by 30 pages.

That was a total of 1200 novels.

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