The content mechanism and platform strategy of UC Story Club have helped many authors achieve the small goal of earning more than 10,000 yuan a month, and also allowed them to find more new possibilities in life here.
Author |Su Yu (Beijing).
The author of the short story, Xu Bai, has hardly been updated this month, but the short story released at the UC Story Club in March this year is still contributing to her monthly income of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.
UC Stories is one of the important categories of UC Browser channel, which has a large number of exclusive short stories. This kind of short story follows the classic type of traditional online articles in terms of content, but the length is shorter, the rhythm is more compact, and you can read a complete content in about 10 minutes, which is deeply loved by users.
Different from other short story platforms, the content of UC Story Club can not only be actively browsed by users under the story tag on the site, but also reach more readers through the information flow and search recommendation dual traffic of the entire UC browser. For creators, this undoubtedly means that it can increase the number of works and the number of readers, which in turn affects the popularity rate and income.
This new form of online text has attracted the attention of more and more creators and large companies in the past two years because it is more in line with the fragmented reading Xi habits of current readers, and it has also shown a continuous industry trend. Like most short story platforms in the market, UC Story Club's business model is also based on membership subscriptions, and authors can obtain continuous income through membership sharing.
Last summer, a large number of authors moved to UC Storytelling to write stories, and reaped far more than they expected when they moved in. As a result, the voice of the UC story club has been actively disseminated in the author's circle, and a group of new authors have poured in here for a while, producing many short stories that are popular with readers, and gradually forming a virtuous ecological cycle.
This year, UC Stories will further recruit short story creators and send out a call for good stories to the public. Not only are the original authors who created long-form novels willing to start the transformation, but some writers with full-time jobs have also joined in on a part-time basis.
For UC Story Club, no matter whether it is 0 foundation or not, good works are the only criterion for testing quality, and the editors of UC Story Club will also be like Bole, discovering authors with shining points, and helping authors find the feel of writing short stories faster through 1v1 communication.
Among the countless short story creators of the UC Story Club, many authors have achieved the small goal of earning more than 10,000 yuan a month, and have found more new possibilities in life here. At UC Stories, they will write short stories, which will bring them the transformation of their families from incomprehension to support, and they will also be more independent and confident.
1.An open creative ecosystem
In March of this year, Xu Bai was recommended by a friend in the same author's circle to come to UC Stories to create a short story. She had tried it on another platform before, but it was a bit dependent on the sky to eat, which was too painful. A story written by herself is not as good as the data pasted by others.
Narrator knows that she is good at feeling emotions and can translate them with words, so the stories she creates based on cruelty will always inspire many readers to empathize. After switching to the UC Story Club, she found that every article she wrote, the editor Huahua would apply for a certain amount of traffic recommendation for her on the platform.
Editor Dongfang introduced that considering the creation cycle and difficulty of short stories, UC Story Club did not classify the author group like a long-form online article, but chose a fairer distribution dimension: through the two refinements of the author and the official, the circulation of the story in the massive information flow of the platform will be improved. All the works are on the same starting line, and its market feedback is more credible. 」
For Xubai, it only takes a day or two to write a short story. In fact, the "Life for Life", which has brought her nearly 100,000 yuan in total, was completed in less than five hours. Of course, this is also because she has a long experience of writing full-time, and she has a clear goal, and when she takes writing as a career to support herself, her energy and determination to fight against the odds are unstoppable.
The lighter volume and more immediate feedback of short online essay creation have also helped many authors to flock to this track as part-time workers. Some authors who have been tortured to death by long-form writing have also found an outlet for expression and rhythmic balance by writing short stories.
Xiao Yan, a former full-time author, is now a CCB clerk in '94. At the end of October this year, she began to submit articles to the UC Story Club, and the official caliber replied within 10 working days, but she received a recording notice the next day, and the system also distributed an editorial foil to her. Unlike when I was a student, I submitted articles to the magazine and waited for a month to receive the rejection information, but the efficient feedback from the editors of the UC Story Club made Xiao Yan feel professional and warm.
Around 2020, Xiao Yan had a period of full-time writing experience, but she found that when a hobby turned into a career, it would be difficult to balance life and work. For a long time, her biological clock was disrupted, and her long-form work made her feel internal friction and her income was not stable. At the end of '21, she began to change her mindset to write short stories and was admitted to the local banking system.
Now that the pressure has subsided, she has become more open and flexible, and now she has found a new type and style of writing, and she is earning more than her job at UC Storytelling. I believe that there are parallel worlds, so I want to write the story well and feel the happiness of the parallel world with the characters. 」
Some zero-based creators are also more likely to start their writing life through short online essay creation at UC Story Club. Chen Pihua Mei Tang and Bray are both mothers with their own jobs, even if they take care of family and career at the same time, they can still find some time to serve their own writing.
Bray's work is punctual and free, and her mother and mother-in-law often help take care of the children together, so she has plenty of personal time to plan. In February of this year, she settled in the UC Story Club because of her hobby of writing, and she usually writes from 8 p.m. to about 11 p.m., maintaining a monthly update frequency of 3-4 articles.
Bree loves stories of reunions and has been trying to do so since he started working. But she found that the characters seemed to have thoughts, and the direction of the story was not under her control at all, so she changed several short stories to be endings. Bray is happy to listen to the editor's advice to try different directions, and she recently wrote an ABO article, and plans to try the genre of revenge again.
Since Bree started writing at UC, her husband opened a membership of UC Story Club in order to show his support, and soon discovered the new continent of male frequency, and now he has become a loyal fan of UC Story Club.
Dongfang told Xinsheng Pro that due to the higher proportion of male users in the UC browser product as a whole, UC Story will develop in the previous stage, and there are naturally more male readers and male members than other platforms. However, with the guidance of the producer team and the cooperation of the creators, the proportion of male and female members of the UC Story Club has stabilized.
From the perspective of the whole team, we will ensure that the type of key breakthroughs at each stage and the overall supply have a high-quality normal distribution, which is the basis for us to move forward. 」
2.Be the pride of your family
My husband is now proud of recommending my work to his colleagues. Bray also remembers that when she stopped walking together after dinner because she wanted to write, her husband laughed at her, "What's the use of writing so much?".
The change in the attitude of the family often comes from the fact that the author has gained more and more platform recognition, in addition to the praise of readers and the selection of the site list, a more tangible embodiment is the climbing of income.
Recalling the first experience of writing essays to make money, Bray was even surprised. At that time, she didn't pay much attention to it after submitting the contract backstage, but one day she suddenly found that her story had been refined and put on the shelves, and the system prompted her to confirm the earnings. In the months since, personal accounts have been coming back to ......
In the UC Story Club, the author enjoys the benefits by signing a supplementary framework agreement and a single agreement, and the cooperation model with the platform is a pure work contract. Among them, the platform provides three kinds of works for authors to choose flexibly: guaranteed base, pure score and buyout.
Specifically, the minimum guarantee starts at 50 yuan per thousand words, and after a certain percentage, you will get a share of the platform;The composition of the manuscript fee of the net cash profit is split equally between the platform and the author;A buyout is a one-time payment by the platform to purchase the copyright. Xubai, who has a total income of more than 100,000 yuan in manuscript fees, has been choosing the form of guarantee, while Bredo has been released in the form of pure points.
Sometimes the editor will also give some personal suggestions based on the author's work, for example, in July this year, Bray wanted to conceive a story that incorporated a stand-in stalk, chasing his wife in the crematorium, and at the same time abusing it, from framing to writing and then repeatedly revising, it took two months to complete the 20,000-word "Han Mountain", and I felt sorry for the protagonist when I wrote it.
When Bray's editor saw the story, he judged from experience that he should get a guaranteed manuscript fee for her. Although the income is more secure, two of them need to be deleted for space reasons, and in the end, Bray chose to present a more complete story, and the editor also respected Bray's personal wishes. Later, when a reader left a message saying that he had seen a niche treasure, Bray felt that he had found a soulmate and resonated with the reader, and he was very moved.
At the UC Story Club, Bray's writing story has reaped real benefits, as well as more touching and recognition.
Another mother, Chen Pi Hua Mei Tang (hereinafter referred to as Chen Pi), in addition to earning a total of more than 100,000 yuan from writing at the UC Story Club, rescued her from postpartum depression and gained confidence and respect.
Chen Pi entered into marriage not long after graduation, and her husband is a colleague in the same system, but she feels that her business ability is not as good as that of her partner, and she needs to be supported and helped in many jobs. Over time, I have become more and more inferior, and I feel as if I have no special skills, and I have to rely on others for everything. 」
Due to the influence of her physique, her pregnancy preparation process was not smooth, and she experienced premature birth after taking medicine to adjust her pregnancy, and there were many difficulties in her life that needed to be overcome. Until the end of this year's production, she felt that the backlog of negative emotions had exceeded the threshold and she had to find an outlet to vent.
Chen Pi has been obsessed with watching ** since he was a child, and he has a lot of story prototypes stored in his mind, but he hasn't started for a long time. When she decided to use her creation to build a small inner world for herself this year and find an outlet to decompress, she went to look for creative opportunities and a suitable platform, and the news of the call for papers from the UC Story Club happened to come to her at this time. After settling in the UC story meeting, she wrote several articles in one go, perhaps because she had polished it many times in her heart, and she became a hit, and the income in the second month was 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan.
Chen Pi and her husband's family status has also changed. In order to make Chen Pi more focused on creating, now my husband will not only consciously take on the responsibility of taking care of the children, but will even say to her, The ** you write must be the best. Don't worry to start a business, and I will take care of my family. 」
From the campus romance he liked when he was a child, to writing family emotional stories based on more life experiences, Chen Pi found that he had completely the initiative in a new world and a place to hide. Now, even if she is uninspired, she will sit in front of the computer every day and type, write from 90 to 1 or 2 in the morning after work every day, and sometimes she can put more than 10 works on the shelves a month.
Chen Pi's father is also proud of his daughter, and every month he squats down to ask her about her writing. This loyal user of UC Browser's information flow has now developed the Xi of reading ** in UC.
3.It's Bole, and it's also a friend
The four UC storytelling authors we interviewed all mentioned the role of the platform's editors in it, and even the friendship they developed through their writing.
In fact, UC Story Club is not the platform where tangerine peel is submitted for the first time. At that time, she collected information through Xiaohongshu and contacted many third parties, but the story that had been brewing in her mind for a long time that she was very satisfied with hit a wall one after another. Just when she was about to give up, she found that the manuscripts bought out by a third party from the author at a low price would eventually be submitted to the official short story platform in the market.
Why don't you just vote for the official?After deciding to do so, Chen Pi received an offer of employment within two days. The back of the editing knife fished me out of the mailbox. I really realized at that time that it is no wonder that the ancients said that Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often exist. 」
Later, each manuscript of Chen Pi will be involved in the whole process. From the direction of topic selection, to the content outline, to the first draft**lacking** that needs to be deleted, Daobei will patiently give suggestions, and Chen Pi also trusts her content control and market sensitivity, and will make corresponding adjustments at any time.
Sometimes Chen Pi's inspiration runs out, and the back of the knife will send some explosive models inside and outside the station for Chen Pi to Xi, and will also share some writing experience with her. Sometimes when Chen Pi falls into self-denial, the back of the knife will also be very warm and masculine to encourage her, It's okay, you are always the most important thing in my heart. Whenever I see these sharing and affirmations, tangerine peel will feel very heartwarming and regain motivation.
In the eyes of Daobei, Chen Pi is a very comprehensive creator, with a strong writing style and shaping mode, and a wide range of themes and types that can be controlled. She replied with a smile, "I haven't said that to many authors. Tangerine peel has also changed and helped me a lot in my career at UC Browser. 」
At UC Storytelling, editing and operations work as one. In addition to communicating with authors about content production, editors also need to consider how to bring more revenue to authors on the operational side, and promote their works to more positions such as on-site information flow in addition to **tab.
Once the work is online, both the author and the editor will see a dashboard to help identify the follow-up points of creation. For example, if a work is issued in the same situation, and the user bottoming rate is high or low, the author can modify the position of the paid section in a targeted manner. Similarly, the open rate of declining users is also high, and you can make adjustments to the introduction or title.
The editors will also help authors determine a clearer creative direction based on the account dimension. In the eyes of Editor Dongfang, the colleagues in his editorial department are all people with many years of experience in the content industry, and a keen sense of smell, and they often collide with new inspirations every day. When summing up his daily work, he said that in addition to daily communication with manuscripts, it is more about being friends with authors.
Bray also said that her editing knife back has been a great help to her, not only with the encouragement of the editor to try to develop more styles, but also to give meticulous support in the process of editing and editing. Editors know better than I do what I'm fit to write about. 」
In her recollection, almost all of her more than a dozen manuscripts will be changed at least once, from how the introduction is more gripping, how to end, how to adjust the structure, and how to straighten out the abrupt characters. For example, in the article "The Cold Mountain", the editor suggested that it was best to put a small climax at the beginning, not so much foreshadowing, and Bray followed the guidance, and all the four or five thousand words of content were cut.
Even now that I am comfortable with writing, and even the readership of the UC Story Club has received the confession of the apprentice, I also sighed, In the early stage, I was more assaulted in my creation, and I often bothered the editor Huahua, and he always responded patiently. I've come to this point, and the UC Story Club platform accounts for at least half of the credit. 」
Xu Bai had just finished writing a new short story, and he already had a premonition that it would explode. Her next creative expectation is to produce one or two articles per month, increase the volume of hits, and obtain hundreds of thousands of earnings. She believes that the UC story will offer such a possibility.