It would go premium at midnight on Saturday, and Friday afternoon's chapter would be moved over as well.
Qidian would have a premium-launch event then, with rewards, though I didn't know the details either.
Updates after going premium would definitely be faster than before. For a while before going premium, I was posting two 1,500-word chapters a day, or a single 3,000-word chapter. That was still a bit too short and not very suitable for readers following along.
They definitely wouldn't be that short after going premium.
I guaranteed 10,000 words of updates for the first two days after going premium. As for the following days, that would depend on the situation.
Many readers, including my former self, had a misconception: novels were written by authors sitting in front of their computers, typing away at the keyboard.
That understanding wasn't entirely wrong. But in truth, authors weren't typists. A novel was something an author made up in their head, then typed out.
--Writing Bottlenecks--
Writing this book had been quite exhausting.
I kept getting horribly stuck.
The main reason was that I could hardly find any successful books in the same genre—at least ones that had made it onto San Jiang—to learn from.
(Books that performed very ordinarily at first and only took off after a million words were of no learning value to me either. I couldn't possibly browse the rankings and read a million words of every book. Was I supposed to write my own book or not?) Honestly, I hadn't planned to write about fairy tales at all in the beginning. I had wanted to write mythological fiction.
--So this book, especially in its early stages, still retained some of the flavor of mythological fiction in its writing style.
In the end, I found that every mythological