The end! Time to celebrate!
First, a quick report on the results: this book had 600 first-day subscriptions when it went premium, an average of 4,200 subscriptions by completion, totaled 3.48 million characters, and took 20 months to write.
The results were fairly ordinary, but without everyone's support, I wouldn't even have achieved this much. It might have died prematurely long ago, so thank you all for your support!
As for the ending, while the current ending left some room for interpretation, continuing further would have strayed from the post-apocalyptic theme. Personally, since I was writing a post-apocalypse story, I felt it should stay pure and focus only on Earth's apocalypse. The final volume supplemented some of the earlier regrettable plotlines. Since the apocalypse had been resolved and those regrets had been made up for, it was naturally time to end the story.
This book began rather suddenly. At the time, I was playing all sorts of post-apocalyptic games and reading some post-apocalyptic novels, then on a whim, I decided to write one myself. There was very little time between starting the book and publishing it, and I hadn't prepared much. It was written entirely on enthusiasm, without an outline. I basically wrote whatever came to mind.
For naturally gifted writers, having no outline might be a good thing. They can let their creativity run wild without worrying about being constrained by rules and frameworks. But for an ordinary little author like me, having no outline made it very easy for the story to fall apart.
Sure enough, just one month after it went premium—at the end of the first volume—it fell apart. The number of readers keeping up with it was cut in half...
Don't scold me (_). Please allow me to defend myself regarding the plot at the