The reason I only got around to writing this now was because it was already midnight by the time I finished writing last night. Today, Big Tree had to get up early and head to Chengdu. When driving, you naturally have to stay sharp—I didn't want to end up in one of Xiao Ming's Bilibili compilations... I thought I wouldn't be back today, but unexpectedly, I finished everything pretty quickly.
And that was Big Tree's daily life as a writer.
Since I wasn't a full-time writer, I had to weave back and forth between work and writing, scrambling around to find a balance where neither interfered with the other. Making sure nothing went wrong at work, and making sure updates didn't go off the rails.
So sometimes I joked that an author as conscientious as me...
[Grandpa Feng's Face]: Who else is there?!
And over the past two months, I'd even had to set aside time specifically to spend with my girlfriend. A three-way balancing act—that feeling... Should I just find an excuse to break up?
Every time, I had to go at it as hard as those "last five minutes." So tiring. [doge]
Thor was estimated to settle at around 2,000 average subscriptions. I couldn't call that good, considering premium works going on sale every month were everywhere, but I couldn't call it bad either. At the very, very end, there were still 500 readers willing to keep following along.
When I thought about how everyone was still so enthusiastic despite some plot holes I hadn't even noticed, where the beginning and end didn't match up, I felt ashamed!
Including this one, Big Tree had been writing for two and a half years, give or take—starting in May 2017(?) and now it was September 2019.
I summed up my