The Edge of War arc is complete!
I hesitated for a long time over the final chapter last night. I revised it several times, expanding it from just over two thousand words to nearly three thousand, and didn't settle on the final version until three or four in the morning.
This book has now reached nearly two million words.
Looking back, its performance has unexpectedly been pretty good?
But analyzing it calmly—
This practice work received these results more because it benefited from the "game" genre, which many people enjoy, not because my writing ability has improved tremendously.
I need to be clear about that.
Then comes the writing ahead.
I'm used to writing according to my own ideas.
I've done fairly well with that so far. The plot of each arc often drifted off course, and the endings turned out vastly different from what I originally imagined...
Well, never mind that!
In short, I've genuinely been trying a different writing method with every arc, even if the changes haven't been especially dramatic on the surface.
That's all for now.
This book's story is nearing its conclusion.
Linsey's journey from leaving his homeland to returning to it is about to come to an end.
The next arc should be the final part of the story.
I often see people commenting that an author who has written so many words can't possibly still be a Newbie, so why are they still practicing?
But on the path of writing, I'm just a very poor apprentice.
I have to maintain the proper mindset and study hard.
Lastly, this book was written as practice. While the previous chapters did venture into areas I hadn't tried before, in this final arc, I'm preparing to take a risk like Linsey.
I want to try writing in