The first part, the definition.Its concept can be divided into the generalized and the narrow.And it can also be divided into boys'and girls'in another way.

　　The second part, the classification of their authors.Generally speaking, there are four kinds of authors.The first kind is some people who have favor of literature, they are writing but not for fame.Then, there is some one has favor for literature and also be for fame.The third kind is some people who have explicit goals at the beginning of his writing.And the last kind are some people who just want to express their view, their viewpoint and their feeling with no desire of being published.They take up the most of the authors.

　　The third part, the development.The network novels'development can not separate form the development of the net and the literature websites.Its developing process may be divided into three stages approximately.The first stage is from 1996 to 20xx.This times literary work often did not strive for (were also not aware of) the fame and fortune, and moreover received the control of tradition.The second stage is beginning of 21st century, mainly contains 20xx and 20xx.In this period, the whole network presented the situation of "chaos". The third stage is from May, 20xx and continues until now.In this period, many schools come into the world, and when a school became a hit there must be many people mimic it.

　　The last part, the forecast.Looking from the internal strength pattern, the outstanding writers in our country mainly hold one kind of critique and the pessimistic manner to the network novels at present.If each big literature website enlarges their own supervision, the vulgar works, the pornography and bad works like those things, meanwhile hanker for new person's new article as well as depth ones, the network novels can be accepted by more people.

　　Not a low-level novel but a kind of enjoyment.