Writing Web Novels In America-Chapter 216 - 214 Influence

"This is the ’Anomalies’ I wanted! They even shot the scene where the vampire turned into a bat to clean the furniture!"

"Ha, I think it’s the funniest when the werewolf girl asks the vampire to make her a steak, and it’s fully cooked!"

"Right, it was well-done!"

"No, no, no, the funniest part was after the Demon teleported the protagonists, and that cat licked up soy sauce, the heroes couldn’t teleport back!"

"Am I the only one who thinks the protagonist boarding the Space Station, with all its various details, was the most shocking?"

Wang Jian sat in his office, nodding in satisfaction as he read the comments on Twitter.

Finally, there were no loud protests from the original book fans in the topic area.

At that moment, he suddenly noticed a comment’s click rate rapidly increasing.

Curiously, Wang Jian clicked to see the message, "Look at the first episode, then at the next two."

"We can’t forget everything Wang did for ’Anomalies’!"

Wang Jian felt it was necessary to explain.

So, a few minutes later...

He liked every comment supporting this view.

At this point, Tom hurriedly entered the office.

"Wang, this is a review of ’Anomalies and Creatures’ by the famous critic Roger Ebert."

"Read it." Wang Jian said indifferently.

"Subversive character settings, humorous dialogues, an alternative comedy.

Although the fantasy and sci-fi plot has not fully unfolded yet.

But judging just from the texture of the fantasy world and the Space Station of the sci-fi world, ABC holds great ambitions for this series.

I believe that under the guidance of the two great directors, Michael Bay and Hill, the famous best-selling author Wang Jian’s ’Anomalies and Creatures’ will be perfectly presented before our eyes.

Recommendation Index: 4 stars

Anticipation Index: 4 stars"

"This Roger Ebert must have taken ABC’s PR money," Wang Jian said without looking up.

"Heh." Tom smiled and nodded, "Film critics, you know..."

"But the viewership rating chart isn’t fake." He handed over ABC’s statistics report to Wang Jian.

"Yesterday’s ratings for ’Raymond’ were less than half those of ’Anomalies’."

"Although it’s still a distance from ’Friends’."

"But the screen adaptation of ’Anomalies’ can already be considered a hit show."

"Oh." Wang Jian carelessly placed the document on his desk.

"Why aren’t you excited?" Tom asked curiously.

"Please," Wang Jian took a sip of coffee and spoke slowly, "The 2 million-dollar licensing fee has already been received."

"Will we get more if the ratings go even higher?"

"Ha, I guessed you’d say that." Tom smiled, taking out a document, "Then what about this?"

"It won’t be unable to bring us profit, will it?"

"What’s this?" Wang Jian looked at the document, then stood up immediately.

"Is this for real?"

"Of course, it’s real!" Tom said seriously, "Since the end of the ’Anomalies’ broadcast yesterday, the number of writers registering new works on the website has greatly increased."

"And among them, two-thirds are writers who have had their works adapted into films or TV series."

Does this mean, the wave of writers registering are all mid- to upper-tier writers?

Wang Jian looked seriously at Tom and asked a question.

"Have you done a survey?"

"Why are they coming to the site to create new works? Is it just because of the Writers Association’s announcement?"

"It’s a part of the reason." Tom nodded and continued, "Another part is seeing the Space Station in ’Anomalies and Creatures’."

"They believe that ’Anomalies’ production budget might really be the hundred million US Dollars advertised."

"And it’s not just a Hollywood number."

"And the crucial factor is you, the billionaire best-selling author."

"Compared to producers, you are one of their own, right?"

Wang Jian thought for a moment, then added, "And the 50-percent royalty split is also an important aspect."

"The copyright fee for many novels isn’t that expensive."

"This income could completely offset their losses on copyright fees."

"Authors with more expensive copyright fees, it seems, care more about the quality of the adaptations than the money," Tom said as he sat down, addressing Wang Jian.

"Mm." Wang Jian nodded, looking at ’Anomalies’ viewership ratings list.

"Fuck! This makes me really want to invest more!"

...

Meanwhile, after the Writers Association’s announcement, the first writer to declare he would start creating on the website, Dan Brown, was enthusiastically tapping his keyboard.

After watching last night’s drama adaptation of ’Anomalies and Creatures,’ he completely let go of any doubts.

To make the Space Station look so real and high-tech, the production costs had to be substantial.

And ABC, following Wang’s requests, added a lot of everyday life scenes.

What does this suggest?

It suggests that Wang has bargaining power before the production side!

And looking at ’Prison Break’ and ’Prison Break Special Forces,’ even if Wang were to produce the show himself, he would highly respect the original work.

"So, if my ’Angels & Demons’ could be adapted into a film or TV series," Dan Brown muttered excitedly as he typed.

"Doesn’t that mean I would also have a say?"

"When the time comes, I will definitely have Tom Hanks play the lead role."

Dan Brown, thinking of that scenario, couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

After inputting a third of his stored drafts, he clicked the upload button.

Then, Dan Brown saw his work sandwiched between ’Extreme Fist Demon’ and ’Arcane Throne’.

Uh...

He rubbed his eyes, realizing he wasn’t mistaken, it was indeed ’Extreme Fist Demon’ and ’Arcane Throne’.

"Pssh, these borderline plagiarized works..." Dan Brown scoffed.

Fortunately, according to the site’s recommendation mechanism, based on readings, comments, and so on, it would quickly refresh.

"Better refresh quickly, being ranked with these works is a disgrace." Dan Brown muttered under his breath as he poured himself a coffee.

After finishing his coffee and returning to his computer, he found that the ranking had been refreshed.

"Ah, as expected, no longer listed together." Dan Brown clicked into the comment section, only to find not a single one.

"Is there some kind of problem?"

He pondered for a moment and typed ’Extreme Fist Demon’ into the search bar.

Then, he saw dozens of comments already in the book’s comment section.

"This is so good, update quickly!"

"Continue, don’t stop..."

This...

There must be a problem!

Dan Brown immediately sent his work’s and ’Extreme Fist Demon’s comment situation to his editor.

A few minutes later, a new email notification popped up.

He clicked to read it and frowned.

"Novice writing guide, what in the world is that?"

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