Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 1081: Film Project for the Inspiration Class!

Pei Qian arrived at Zhongdian Chinese Network’s inspiration class half an hour later.

The ‘study class’ and ‘inspiration class’ were on two different floors. Pei Qian went to the study class first to take a look.

There was only one room for the class when they started and expanded to three rooms subsequently. Now, all three rooms were filled. One could hear the sound of mechanical keyboard typing from the entrance. It was like a cheerful ocean of crisp typing.

Most of the authors here were unfamiliar faces to him, but their expressions were very focused. They looked quite excited, as if they could not wait to convert the story in their minds into words.

Pei Qian could not help but feel his heart ache.

The number of mid-tier writers that this class had nurtured for Zhongdian Chinese Network was uncountable. This income was not worth mentioning when compared to Tengda’s current size but Zhongdian Chinese Network’s library was constantly being filled. The number of authors and readers were also expanding.

There would be a huge increase in the possibility of explosive books as time went by.

Pei Qian did not disturb these authors. Instead, he continued upstairs to the floor where the inspiration class was.

It was much quieter on this floor. Pei Qian only heard one person typing. What’s more, it was intermittent. It was obviously very difficult for that person to continue.

There were a total of three areas in the inspiration class. They were the inspiration collection area, work area, and large-scale film studio. The inspiration collection area and work area had a long conference table that was occasionally used for meetings or brainstorming.

In the inspiration collection area, every author had an armchair, television, and game system. The lighting in the entire space was relatively dark. There were reading lamps beside each person’s sofa. They could read novels, comics, watch movies, and play games.

On the other hand, the entire room of the large-scale film studio was soundproofed. There were cinema-level projectors and sound systems inside. The authors could broadcast the movie according to their needs and make reservations to use it.

At first, there were only about 10 people in the inspiration class. However, they continued to expand until there were 25 people in total.

These 25 people were basically the top writers of Zhongdian Chinese Network for a period of time. They were ranked among the top in the various zones.

Now, there were only about 10 people in the inspiration collection area. Some were playing games, some were watching movies, and some were reading under the reading light. They were all wearing earphones, so it was very quiet. They could only hear the sound of pages flipping and the press of the handle.

There were two authors in the work area. One of them had his hands on the keyboard and would only type a few words every now and then. The other was holding his chin with one hand and staring at the computer screen in a daze, thinking about something.

Where did the other half of the authors go?

They were obviously watching movies in the studio.

The entire studio might have been soundproofed so that it would not affect the inspiration collection area and the work area, but they could still vaguely hear voices outside the studio door. It seemed to be playing a very tense war film with intense gunshots.

Pei Qian was overjoyed.

Hear, hear!

The difference was obvious compared to the study class!

The authors in the study class were all writing with their heads down. On the other hand, the inspiration class was seriously “collecting inspiration”. There were only two people in the work area and they were all in a daze.

Pei Qian could not help but feel a little proud. After all, he was the one who thought of the inspiration class. The facts had proven that it was very effective.

Everyone was very focused and no one noticed Pei Qian’s arrival.

There were no restrictions on the inspiration class after all. It did not matter if they were late, left early, or did not come for two or three days in a row. Normally, authors would walk around when looking for books on the bookshelves, game discs, and going to the toilet. Everyone was already used to it.

Pei Qian found a random place to sit down in the work area. Both authors were focused on their own work and did not notice him.

After a while, the movie in the studio was done. The authors walked out one by one.

A few authors were discussing the plot of the movie in low voices, but they obviously did not look very excited. They returned to their seats.

Pei Qian could tell that these authors were very confused and needed his guidance.

Cui Geng walked in behind the crowd and turned around subconsciously. He happened to see Boss Pei sitting in his seat in the work area, smiling at the authors.

“Boss Pei?!”

Cui Geng’s words made everyone turn around. Then, shame appeared on the writers’ faces.

Sh*t, Boss Pei caught them red-handed!

When they first came to this inspiration class, most of the authors were in a state of high fighting spirit. They might be writing a fixed-rate contract but with such good conditions, they must definitely make a name for themselves.

However, they realized that their motivations became a little weak as they continued. The more good works they read, the more inspiration they would accumulate. It had instead made them feel that their writing was rubbish. Naturally, their writing speed slowed down and the more they wrote, the more out of shape it became.

As time went by, it degenerated into the current lazy state. They worked eight hours a day, and would watch movies, read novels, and play games to accumulate materials or conceptualize plots for seven hours. It would be good enough if they could write for an hour.

If they had known that Boss Pei was coming, they would have prepared seriously and brought out their best mental state.

After all, Boss Pei had arranged such a good working environment for them and prepared such a generous treatment. In the end, not only did they not write any particularly exciting works, they did not even maintain the most basic creative passion. How could they be worthy of Boss Pei’s kind intentions!

Pei Qian smiled. “If everyone has time, can you put down your work for a chat?”

Everyone nodded.

They were “collecting materials” most of the time now. There was very little time to really maintain a highly focused state to create. There was no “work on hand”.

There was a long table beside them. Everyone quickly took their seats. The other authors pulled their chairs from the work area and surrounded them.

Many authors were very nervous, feeling that they had been caught by Boss Pei.

Boss Pei would definitely make some adjustments to the format of the inspiration class even if he did not criticize them.

Maintaining this inspiration class would burn a lot of money after all. Not to mention the cost of the entire venue and daily expenses, the authors’ articles would be sold at a high price. In the end, they would produce novels of this quality. That would definitely not satisfy Boss Pei.

Some authors were very ashamed. They could not wait to pat their chests with Boss Pei and guarantee that they would not slack off and work hard in the future. They had to write a classic even if they had to write until they were foaming at the mouth.

There were also some authors who made up their minds to admit their mistakes to Boss Pei and consciously quit this inspiration class to go back and write in their own old ways. They were not cut out for this and should not waste Boss Pei’s good intentions.

Pei Qian looked around at everyone and smiled. “It’s been three or four months since the inspiration class was opened. I’ve seen everyone’s efforts during this period.”

“I think the inspiration class is very successful. It completely met my expectations!”

Everyone was petrified.

Huh?

It had completely met his expectations?

Don’t we know what we’re like now? How is this ‘very successful’?

This made the authors who wanted to seriously repent and admit their mistakes fall into a collective silence, not knowing how to respond.

Cui Geng said weakly, “To be honest, Boss Pei, most of the authors in the inspiration class are not doing well, including me... What’s more, our results have not reached our expectations...”

Cui Geng was the most familiar with Boss Pei among all the authors. Naturally, Cui Geng could only tell him the truth.

Pei Qian waved his hand. “Of course, I know that.”

“But this is normal!”

“You are in the stage of exploring the transformation. It’s normal for you to feel a little pain. A story with a few million words and a story with hundreds of thousands of words are completely different. You are equivalent to starting from scratch. How can you succeed all of a sudden?”

“When you first started writing online novels, you couldn’t have succeeded in your first novel, right? You had to have accumulated millions of words at the very least.”

“It’s the same for creative writing in the inspiration class. Without the inspiration class, you might never touch this theme in your lifetime, right?”

“As for the results, to be honest, to be able to use such slow updating word count on a web novel website and such unpopular content to rank in the top fifty on the internet, isn’t that highlighting your strong foundation?”

Boss Pei’s words confused the authors.

According to Boss Pei...

So what we wrote was actually very good?

It had to be said that people were very easily guided and hinted at by the external world.

If a large group of people went to the book review section and said that the book was trash, the author would also doubt himself and not dare to write the content that he had originally thought of. He might even want to give it up.

However, if many people encouraged the author even though the data of the book were not good but the content was very exciting, the author would also be encouraged. He might even be bolder to try new plot designs and ideas.

Boss Pei might be the only one who gave such high ratings, and most traditional online literature readers did not think highly of these works, but that was Boss Pei!

Boss Pei’s praise could at least offset the criticism of ten thousand readers, right?

Thus, the authors quietly felt confident.

Many people had the illusion that what they wrote was still alright.

Pei Qian smiled. It looked like his Great Deceit had improved.

In the past, it had always been a one-on-one bluff. Now, it could fool a group of people, and the effect was not bad.

However, he could not be satisfied yet. He had to strike while the iron was hot.

Pei Qian paused for a moment to let the authors calm down. Then, he continued. “In order to consolidate the results of this inspiration class and to support and reward outstanding authors, I have decided to choose the top three authors of this inspiration class to reward them!”

“I will arrange for the games department to develop a large-scale documentary for Repent and be Saved using the book ‘Eternal Reincarnation’ as the background story creation. The author will be able to participate in the production and can propose his own modification of any details in the game.”

“Cui Geng’s ‘Successor’ is a superhero theme. I will entrust it to Fei Huang Workspace to make an online drama. Similarly, the author can participate the entire time and give his own opinions.”

“And the last one.”

“The story of ‘Executor Academy’ is based on GOG. However, it is more relaxed and humorous. What’s more, with a little prank, I think the animation would be more suitable.”

“Therefore, I will ask Fei Huang Workspace to buy an additional animation workspace to turn the ‘Executor Academy’ into its first work!”

“What’s more, the authors will get a 15% share of the profits from the revision!”

All the works in the inspiration class had already paid a fixed-rate fee that was higher than the market price. Logically speaking, there was no need to give this share. However, Pei Qian would definitely not let go of this opportunity to spend more money. Thus, he gave a rather generous share.

Pei Qian paid more attention to the first two works while the third was purely to make up the numbers.

This ‘Executer Academy’ was based on GOG, but it did not portray GOG’s official story background. Instead, it was more like a light novel. It was formed from many short stories. It was overall humorous, humorous, and a little unreasonable.

This work’s results were not as good as the first two. After all, similar topics would look out of place on online literature websites. It was actually more difficult to write an outstanding short story than a long one. Many jokes that could only be expressed through tone and action would be greatly reduced if they were written in words.

The works of these authors had already been proven to be not very successful in business. Since that was the case, he should glorify them!

It was not successful to begin with. Wouldn’t it be even more unsuccessful after it became a movie or anime?

How much money could a novel waste? It was just a small amount of fixed-rate money. However, if the novel was changed to an online drama or anime, the cost would be high!

Wouldn’t it be perfect if he spent so much money and the audience did not like it?

As for why he wanted to make web dramas and comics...

Fei Huang Workspace gave Pei Qian a headache.

They had filmed so many themes before, short videos, documentaries, and two movies...

They were all on fire.

It was obvious that Zhu Xiaoce had the power to turn something rotten into something magical by making Fei Huang Workspace film, a rubbish script personally written by Boss Pei.

What if Fei Huang Workspace turned these books into movies and took off again?

Therefore, they should change the topic.

The web series this time was different from the previous ones. It was not a low-cost production. Instead, it had to be a huge production. However, it was not a movie and could not enter the cinema. Naturally, the possibility of losing money would increase greatly.

Comics was a field that Tengda had never stepped foot into before.

Pei Qian could spend a sum of money to buy an animation studio. If he could not get to the movies, the animation would not be affected, right?

These three works could be turned into movies and animations. It would definitely give the other authors a lot of encouragement and motivation.

The other authors would definitely squeeze their heads into the inspiration class if they could change games, web series, and comics with such rubbish.

That way, all the top writers on the website would enter the “large-scale incubator” of the inspiration class. Wouldn’t it become better over time?

Pei Qian could not help but feel overjoyed.

What a perfect plan!