Chapter 1387: Thank You, Everyone—Written on the Night of the Record
Tonight, Age of Light became Pighead's longest work by word count. I don't know how to put this feeling into words. For a book, the number of words has never been something Pighead cared much about. I just keep writing, putting what's in my head onto the page, and when it's done, it's done.
From the seven- or eight-hundred-thousand-word Rogue at the beginning, to the 1.3 million words of Gods and Devils, the 2.2 million words of Rising Dragon and Carefree Wanderer, the 3.9 million words of Evil Dragon, and the more than four million words of Steal the Heavens and Age of Light.
It seems the trend in online fiction is for works to grow longer and longer...
But Pighead never deliberately chases word counts. Once what's in my head has been written, it ends; once a story has been told, it ends. A new beginning always comes every year.
Pighead's total word count has now surpassed thirty million, and I'm striding toward forty million. Pighead hasn't really calculated it precisely.
It has been ten years since Pighead said I wanted my total body of work to reach one hundred million words, and now I'm already nearly halfway there. I have to admit that Pighead's journey from writing for fun to becoming a professional writer has truly been a very, very long one.
Ten years have slipped by in the blink of an eye, and Pighead has continued setting new records, one work after another.
And the most important reason Pighead has been able to persevere until now is everyone's support. Whether you casually read Pighead's books or especially love them, without your support, Pighead would have had no reason to keep going. After all, people have to