"Crimson Moon's Madness" is about to go premium, brothers. At midnight tonight.
It's already reached three hundred thousand words. The free period hasn't exactly been short. What's interesting is that when I first started writing this book, I never even thought about putting it behind a paywall. I figured I'd just write until I felt like stopping. Yet somehow, I wrote all the way to now, and it has turned out to be the best-performing of all my books.
Those of you worried about the outline and setting don't need to worry.
When I'd written a little over thirty chapters, I had a long discussion with several friends from the readers' group, and I'd already filled out the outline and setting. After all, I'd wanted to write this from the very beginning, so I already had a general direction in mind. Working out those details wasn't difficult. Besides, I'd been writing Xianxia for so many years. I was still quite familiar with the techniques involved in things like outlines and settings.
As for going premium, I really have to thank a few people. One is Bei He, the editor in charge of our second group, and the other is my editor, Fu Chen.
Someone who's written Xianxia for so many years suddenly coming over to write science fiction—just thinking about it sounds unreliable. Yet the two of them supported me so much anyway. They really came through.
Then there are the other two great authors, Quan Jin Shu Dan Ke and Rong Xiao Rong.
When I first came up with this style and wanted to write this subject, I had plenty of inspiration, but I didn't know how to begin or how to convey that feeling. It was after I had a long phone call with Quan Jin Shu Dan