Final Thoughts and New Book Recommendation

Every time I finished a book, the feeling was always rather strange.

On one hand, finishing a book felt like completing a task I had to do every day. Now that it was done, it was like a weight had been lifted.

On the other hand, suddenly no longer doing that work made it feel like something was missing, leaving an emptiness in my heart.

This book, The Homelander, actually had the same problem as my previous works: the protagonist leveled up too quickly and became far too overpowered, making it basically impossible to arrange any tense plotlines aside from playing with memes.

Because once the protagonist was that strong, any setbacks he encountered would only be me forcing them onto him because of my pretentious literary streak.

I generally did not suffer from that kind of literary pretension, so once the story passed a million words, the plot started dragging along without much excitement. Even I grew somewhat tired of writing it.

And infinite-flow novels, especially ones without a main storyline, did not really have a true ending.

It could go on for two million words, or even ten million, so I decided to let Downton's story end while it still had a little appeal.

Future Downton would continue exploring, and future me would learn from the lessons of Downton and put my energy into new works.

After resting for more than ten days recently, I had more or less sorted out the idea for my new book and finally decided to write a zombie-apocalypse novel.

The setting would be overseas, allowing the plot to be more unrestrained than if it took place at home, while also feeling a little more realistic.

New book: Apocalyptic America

Synopsis:

"No system, no superpowers, no saintly protagonist."

Serious version:

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