A New Year's Letter to My Readers

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The New Year is almost here. I wish you all a happy New Year, may all your wishes come true, may everything go your way, and may you make a fortune!

Time flies. In the blink of an eye, this novel has reached 2.2 million words, and the story is about to reach the Triwizard Tournament in the original's fourth year.

Writing a novel really isn't easy. What sticks with me most is one day when I was in especially good form. I wrote not only the three chapters due that day but also the three due the next day. I thought to myself, Finally, I can take it easy tomorrow.

Then...

The next day, I was stunned to realize that apparently I still had to write three chapters for the following day.

What was the point of going above and beyond to write extra chapters, then?

Haha~

That's more or less an author's daily life. Every day, I wake up, sit down at my computer, and start planning the chapters ahead. Sometimes my mind races ahead to the next volume and I get all kinds of inspiration, but when it comes to writing something exciting and interesting for the next day's update, I just can't figure out what to write.

I'm not a particularly clever person. I spend an hour or two every day studying writing, but I still make very little progress.

So I can only use a rather dumb method: keep writing. Eventually, inspiration comes, and then I often end up deleting most of what I've already written. Just like that, half a day's work goes to waste.

Sometimes I write late into the