Cuttlefish That Loves Diving, and also loves writing
Cuttlefish That Loves Diving is not really a cuttlefish. This is the pen name of Yuan Ye (袁野), a famous freelance writer who always tries new themes in his new web novels.
In the past, those who write online were not treated seriously, as what they wrote were generally arrogant daydreams, unlike the published paper books with literary value and fascinating writings. Yuan Ye himself is a powerful counterattack, as he is a member of China Writers Association, which acknowledges his achievements in writing.
He is a freelance writer, and all his novels are published online at Qidian. Several of them were translated into English and published, which shows how popular his works are. The most famous one of his works, named Lord of Mysteries, was included into the “China Internet Literature Influence List: Overseas Influence List”. The English translated version of it is available at Webnovel.
This is undoubtedly good news, as the foreign readers are able to read a translated web novel easily rather than being bothered by websites and the novel itself in Chinese. Also, Yuan Ye can make his work international, which will certainly bring him more income and fame.
All his works are published on the website named Qidian. This is an online reading flatform started in 2003, and it provided him a stage to show his talent, helped promoting his works, and profited from them. At the same time, Yuan Ye could focus on writing, as he was paid with every chapter instead of being forced to finish a whole book and waiting for published to get remuneration.
Such an online platform could provide the writers much benefits, but the negative impacts cannot be ignored. The appearance of online platforms lowered the barrier to writing and publishing, which not only keeps talented writers from being buried, but also brings authors with low literary quality. Everyone can post their works online. This brings much more bad works, and the readers are forced to find good works from the bad ones.
Also, there are other platforms he used. In China, there is an “app for everything” named WeChat. Besides chatting online with anyone with a WeChat account, this application also allows you to share your life moments and makes it possible for everyone to become a self-media. After resisted as a pubic account, others are able to follow you and read whatever you post in the account. This was just what Yuan Ye did. He built his own public account. He shares his weekly diaries and interacts with his followers in the comments.
What he did in his public account brings such a famous writer closer to his readers instead of being several cold lines on the introduction page. He has chances to get the readers’ minds, and his readers can share their ideas to him, and this is what he just did in February 10th. He was asking for ideas about side characters in his upcoming novel!
