Chapter 897 - SUCCESSOR (1) (1/2)

At the same time, in Zhongdian Chinese Network’s inspiration class.

Cui Geng looked at the time. There were still two hours to go.

A week passed in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow was the weekend again.

He left the film area of the inspiration class and went to the work area to find an empty workstation to continue writing the plot of ‘Successor’.

Of eight working hours a day, six hours were spent watching various movies, novels, and comics to gather material. Only two hours could be used for creative writing. That was the rigid rule of the ‘inspiration class’.

At first, Cui Geng felt that two hours was too short. He was not used to it.

The timing was exactly the opposite when he was writing web novels after all. He would spend two hours at most collecting materials and spend the rest of his time writing.

On the other hand, Cui Geng felt like he was not used to the fact that he had only two hours to write. He felt as though the time had gone by before it even started.

Cui Geng felt that the rhythm of his creation was not right during the first half of the week. It took him the entire two hours to get into the right mood.

The computer in the office would record every author’s writing time. They could not write for more than two hours.

Of course, it would not matter if the author wrote on his own laptop or went to the internet cafe after work or on weekends. However, there was no requirement for the number of updates and the total number of words in the novel. Who amongst those who chose to participate in the “inspiration class” would write during their break?

That was why Cui Geng found it difficult to adapt at the beginning. He wrote slowly, leaving his readers hanging which was why they scolded him a lot.

However, he gradually adjusted his creative mode.

He used six hours a day to collect materials and finalize the details of the story nowadays. The remaining two hours were enough for him to concentrate on writing. All the content had been carefully considered. He generally did not experience any writer’s block.

What’s more, the story seemed to be more compact since he had to compress all the content he wanted to write today into a two hour time frame.

Cui Geng felt that it was not bad after gradually adapting to this creative rhythm.

Cui Geng arrived at the work area and quickly got into character after turning on his computer. His hands quickly tapped on the keyboard as each part of the story turned from the concept in his mind into actual words one after the other.

Cui Geng did not dare to delay any longer because he knew that once it was time to knock off, all the mice in the office would come alive. They would run around like real mice and would not be caught anymore.

He had to finish today’s work before the mouse ran away.

This week, the “inspiration class” had more people.

More authors from Zhongdian Chinese Network completed their old books, accepted the new Fixed-rate Contract, and came to the “inspiration class” to collect materials while writing.

However, most of them were still being scolded.

The readers of Zhongdian Chinese Network were also aware of the existence of this “inspiration class”, and their opinions were growing.

That was because only a small portion of the authors at Zhongdian Chinese Network had finished their old books and started writing Tengda’s custom-made IP novels. The range of readers was not that wide.

However, more and more authors were being affected!

Over the past week or so, the readers had watched as the authors who had finished their old books were “unable to protect their integrity”. The number of new books that they liked to read had also decreased. Naturally, they were very dissatisfied. They felt that Zhongdian Chinese Network was just messing around and giving instructions blindly. They were biting off more than they could chew. If they took too big of a step, they would easily end up achieving the opposite effect.

However, Zhongdian Chinese Network did not respond to this.

The authors had different reactions.

Some people felt that the current way of writing was quite good. It was very free and could write content that they liked freely if they ignored the protests of the readers. Another group of authors regretted it. They felt that they were not satisfied with the content that they wrote, and the readers were not satisfied. They wanted to go back and continue writing on royalty contract after writing this story.

Obviously, the ‘inspiration class’ would eliminate a batch of authors after a month or two and leave behind a portion of them.

However, everyone still had to fulfill the current creative contract no matter what. Fortunately, the highest word count requirement was only 500,000 words. It would definitely be completed in at most three months without any delay.