The average writer can regard the manuscript fee as his own salary. Unless more than half can't be sold or the publication volume is quite small, it is no problem to support one or two people in first-and second-tier cities. Of course, if the book is published too slowly, the income may not be guaranteed.

But if you are writing for a periodical, you can contribute monthly and get the contribution fee.

Don't writers who make money have many living specimens at present? Jing M. Guo, first buy bestsellers, then sell expensive bestsellers, and finally publish a super-expensive monthly magazine, JK Rowling, bestsellers plus movie copyright fees, Jin Yong, super bestsellers, and so on. Writers can make money as long as their books are unanimously welcomed by the public. Make money anyway. Of course, the condition that the whole people like is that the aesthetic threshold should also be very popular. It needs an aesthetic that the public can accept and love, and a selling point that makes the public scramble to buy books. For example, the selling point of the Harry Potter series is magic. For example, Jing M.Guo's selling point is being silly and young. For example, Jin Yong's selling point is the king of martial arts.

Zhang Wuben's selling point is the imperial doctor's keeping in good health.

But all writers who make money are not necessarily good writers.

Take Jing M.Guo as an example. Now he is red and purple. 100 years later, it is impossible for any publishing house to print his books as "masterpieces to read" and then reprint them. As far as profit is concerned, this "writer" is very successful, but as an artist, he is a failure.