Thoughts on Going Premium

Thank you for the website platform!

It gave me a low-barrier place to write my stories and share them with readers.

Thank you so much, editor!

From signing the contract to getting the book published, without the help of Mr. Good Luck, this book would have been impossible to get anywhere.

Although this book didn't perform well, it only received a trial recommendation and a final recommendation before it was officially released.

Looking at the increase in the number of favorites, I'm starting to doubt whether my writing is really that bad.

The same recommendation gets others five or six hundred favorites a day, but mine only gets a little over a hundred. So I go back and continue reading my own content, which is barely readable.

However, regardless of the circumstances, this book has been updated with 84 chapters in 42 days, from its release on June 20th to today, July 31st, at two chapters a day, without ever missing a day.

This book has a brief outline, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, it should have no problem reaching a million words.

I still hope to write a story that I can read myself after it's finished.

The story in my heart...

I unexpectedly came across a new review today, saying that the book is extremely rigorous.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

If you're a reader who enjoys reading the comments, you'll find that I've pointed out the sources for many of the minor details raised by other readers in the comments.

For example, Gao Feng's strength in the Fire Hammer Squad;

When did Luo Feng get his nickname?

I've read the original work countless times, and I even read through many comments before writing this fanfiction.

So I also wrote the chapter about rescuing Lu Gang, which was to write out my own reason for Lu Gang's death.

The original text also mentions that there were several War God nearby at the time, but only Lu Gang perished.

There are so many things I love about the original work.

I think the villains in the original text were all very well written.

Even Wang Xing'an, Wang Xingping, Li Wei, and even the future King Yanzhu —which of them was a mindless villain?

They are villains, but their actions are quite reasonable.

Li Wei, driven by jealousy of Luo Feng's talent, believed he could easily overpower Luo Feng. In the Wilderness Area, killing Luo Feng seemed like a trivial matter, even earning the gratitude of a warrior of the War General Level. So he died. To him, Luo Feng or releasing Luo Feng wasn't wrong. You can call him evil, but not stupid. After all, how could he lose when the dragon was charging in?

As for Wang Xingping, he was very rational...

Wang Xing'an, though a terrible person, isn't entirely brainless...

The foreshadowing of the tomato was also perfectly concealed.

How many people would have noticed the foreshadowing of Earth that runs throughout the entire story on their first reading?

Even the King Yanzhu had foreshadowing; he sent his subordinates to place the Token on Earth, otherwise he wouldn't have been the first to arrive there.

So, I also tried to plant a few small foreshadowing elements and try to develop a few characters. For example, Lu Qing, Wang Zhi, and even Manager Fang from the HR Alliance.

Although it wasn't a complete success, I could still accept it as I was.

The female lead for this book has not yet been determined, but it will definitely be either a book with no female lead or one female lead.

Many people say the pacing is too slow, and it won't even leave Earth by the time it reaches 100 chapters.

However, this book is not a mindless leveling-up novel, otherwise I wouldn't have written about several supporting characters in detail, and even given them decent roles.

In order to take a different path from the protagonist, I changed the weapon from a one-handed sword to a spear, and changed the dual cultivation of martial artist and Spiritual Master to a single martial artist.

Everyone understands that writing about Spiritual Master is simpler, especially the early stages of Nine Great Controller Weapons.

I'm currently reading the original novel to see if it mentions the Nine Great Divine Weapons of Nine Great Divine Weapons Arts, and if so, how they are defined.

How should a martial artist proceed in the early stages of cultivation? It's only interesting to write about it this way. If I were to slowly follow the path that Luo Feng took, I don't think I could surpass Tomato.

At the very least, I've read Swallowed Star at least seven or eight times, but how many fanfiction writers would actually reread it?

Therefore, I still hope to be able to write something different.

My only hope is that when friends who have read my book think of Swallowed Star, they will also think of this book Swallowed Star: Time Simulation.

I don't expect you to come back and reread it all. Just saying, "I remember that fanfiction, it was pretty good," will make me completely satisfied.

That's all for now. Finally, here are my rules for bonus chapters.

The daily update consists of 4,000 words, with an additional 2,000 words for each bonus chapter.

On the day of release, I will update five chapters totaling 10,000 words (I may not be able to finish writing them all. I originally had some drafts saved up, but the plot of the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins overlapped too much with the original work, so I skipped it. I will try my best to finish it).

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--2022.07.31