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My mindset got thrown off balance.
Actually, I'd already mapped out the outline and writing pace in my head long ago.
For example, the appearance of the Star Gate was meant to give myself another direction to write in.
After all, military-themed novels can easily get 404'd when they touch on certain things.
You've all been reading novels for so many years. You know what I mean.
Writing about the Star Gate would lose subscribers.
I knew that—it was inevitable.
But maybe it was because I'd never written a book with results this good before.
When the subscriptions really dropped, my mindset fell apart.
Later, I tried to write it back.
And what happened? I disrupted my own pacing, and then lost another wave of readers.
The Star Gate itself didn't actually cause a severe drop. The bigger drop came later.
Over this recent period, I've reflected on a lot. I admit that I was influenced by many comments.
Logically speaking, an author who had been writing for more than a decade shouldn't have failed to see that.
But people are just strange like that.
When your results surpass everything you've achieved before, you want them to become even better.
And the result is often the opposite of what you wanted.
I'd known long ago that what you write can't possibly satisfy everyone's needs.
No one in the world can do that.
Where there are people who like something, there will be people who dislike it.
Knowing that is easy, but truly ignoring it is so hard.
My mind became unsettled.
Then my pacing became unsettled too, and that only made more people drop the book.
Recently, I've come