This is my Nth note about going premium, and there are only two minutes left before this book goes premium. To be honest, I'm panicking.
My panic doesn't just come from trying a new genre for the first time. It also comes from a certain "fear" of writing original fiction. After all, my longtime readers know how miserably my previous two original novels flopped.
Back in the day, I thought my writing career would stay in fanfiction forever, with nothing much ever changing. Thinking about it carefully, that might not have been such a bad thing. Sure, people might say I was stuck in my comfort zone and had no ambition, but if you had no worries, how would that be any different from living carefree?
But circumstances are always changing. Just as fate never lets everyone's life go smoothly, ups and downs are necessary too. They can force a lot of cowards to find their courage.
That's right!
I'm talking about this coward right here.
After Shadow Trail and Dawn Trail, I thought I'd found the limits of what I could do. But a series of upheavals in the fanfiction world that began midway through this year forced me to make a third attempt at writing original fiction.
The failures of my first two attempts were still fresh in my mind. When I sat down to write for the third time, I was more anxious and uneasy than I can put into words.
I could hardly find any reason to believe I'd definitely succeed in making the transition. After all, I was already in my thirties. In other lines of work, that's when they'd send you out into society as top talent—
Thank goodness our line of work doesn't have that kind of shameless practice.
But in the month