A Day Off

I'm taking a day off to sort out my plans for the chapters ahead.

Twilight Boundary had passed 2.6 million words, and Old Ghost was starting to hit his limits.

Not many folk-tale novels made it to the middle and late stages. There was nobody to copy even if he wanted to, and once the power system came into play, no matter how he wrote it, the story started to feel like fantasy or xianxia.

After finishing the Capital Arc, I kept thinking: Why does it feel like this is about to turn into a battle between immortals again? Old Ghost had written xianxia and cosmic horror before, so he had plenty of experience writing battles between gods and immortals.

That style felt a little dull. It wore the author out, and it wore the readers out, too. So with this folk-tale story, Old Ghost had planned to avoid that as much as possible in the later stages.

With that in mind, I brought the perspective back to the mortal world and wrote a bit about sorcerers fighting in the army. But after seeing some readers' comments, I found that some thought it was all right, while others didn't like it. Maybe it was because the plot had slowed down a little again.

Still, feedback was good. Everyone who'd made it this far was a true fan, and their comments carried weight. Old Ghost couldn't ignore them. Since he was experimenting anyway, he started thinking about how to strike a balance among all the different elements.

Yesterday, I spent the whole day reworking the outline and adding a few pieces of worldbuilding. I didn't write a single word of the actual story. I started writing today, but I'm still not sure I can finish a whole chapter.

Now that I've