This book began at the end of February and made its way here over more than five months, with over 800,000 words at last coming to an end.
Though it is regrettable that it did not reach one million words, it is already the book I have stuck with the longest, written the most words for, and achieved the best results with.
It went premium at 320,000 words, with 2,400 bookmarks at the time and 160 first subscriptions.
It currently has 23,000 bookmarks and an average of 900 subscriptions.
I am satisfied with these results.
Here, I want to thank my editor, Starry Night, for giving this book continued exposure after it went premium.
I also want to thank all of you readers for your support along the way.
There were both external and internal reasons for not continuing.
On the one hand, after the idea for a new book began growing wildly in my mind, my enthusiasm for this one fell off a cliff. I would often sit in front of the computer for hours and still be unable to squeeze out a single chapter.
In fact, I had had all sorts of ideas for new books several times before.
What I did was write down the ideas for the new book, save them in a file, and look at them again a week later.
If, after cooling down, I still found them interesting and my desire to write them outweighed my desire to write the old book, then I would consider whether to wrap it up quickly.
I checked my files. Aside from the new book I have decided to write next, there are already four "corpses" lying there—ideas that had sprung from a sudden flash of inspiration, only to be passed over in the end.
Among them