Chapter 85: Thoughts on Going Premium
As a washed-up old web novelist who’s been failing for years, there’s really not much for me to say.
Even as the book goes premium, I maintain the consistent composure and calm of a failure artist from a bygone era!
So how did this book come to be?
It was born from stacking Steel of the Heart in URF.
From binge-watching Warhammer lore videos.
Lu Xun once said: "The longer one ponders, the more one yearns for knowledge; the more one knows, the more one thirsts for thought..."
Honestly, before this, I’d started many books under other pen names. I would pour my heart into crafting the settings and writing the outlines, but they always flopped, completely and utterly. Each one dove headfirst into the sewer and disappeared without a sound.
So when I started this book, it was completely on a whim. There was definitely an element of just messing around and adopting a "whatever" attitude in there, because hey, failure is a constant in life!
Of course, this book could only have made it this far thanks to the support of all you readers. Without you, its ending would surely have involved me pulling some kind of stunt for comedic effect before going to work for the Eastern Depot. So here’s a huge smooch for all of you~~
So...
Loyalty is its own reward!
I will absolutely finish this book! I will also pour my heart and soul into the upcoming plot and settings! You don’t need to worry about that. There’s no chance I’ll write half of it and then dip!
I really like a quote from the creator of Family Guy: "Happiness is cheap, but creating happiness is priceless."
The only regret is that I was only notified on Thursday that the novel would be going premium...
For someone like me with absolutely no backlog of Chapters who’s also busy fighting a losing battle with real life, I was completely screwed.
But not releasing extra Chapters for the launch would be disloyal!
There will be two extra Chapters released late tonight. You all can read them tomorrow.
Sigh. I’m just a Loose Cultivator who’s been at it for years and still can’t gather enough Foundation Establishment Materials. I’m not some brilliantly talented prodigy from a major Sect who’s a monster at churning out Chapters, nor was I born with the "Sacred Physique of Web Novels," able to write 10,000 characters a day without the quality dropping. A feat like that is like fighting a boss way above my level—this humble servant truly cannot do it!
(One last lingering regret: I never felt truly satisfied with how I wrote that *Demon Hunter* book! It’s a shame my health gave out back then, so I chose to end it. Oh, my dear Cole... makes me want to light another one.)
