Written Before Going Premium
Four updates today, because after midnight, it will be going premium.
It always had to go premium. After all, this is my job—what I rely on to put food on the table.
I felt anxious. Basically, every author suffered from gains and losses when starting a new book: sleeping poorly, eating poorly, constantly refreshing the dashboard to check the number of favorites, recommendation votes, monthly votes, investments, chapter comments... In the industry, this symptom was called New Book Syndrome. It was especially severe before going premium.
Before I started this new book, many people told me that traditional fantasy no longer had a market, that the rankings basically had no place for traditional fantasy. But I thought that someone had to write it. There were still plenty of readers who liked traditional fantasy, and it was precisely what I was best at.
When I started this book, I was also reading other people's new books. I saw authors get cursed into shutting themselves away, choosing to eunuch their books. I saw authors wield the blade and castrate themselves because their premium-launch results were poor... It left me feeling bleak.
Those authors were all veterans. One of them was someone I personally admired greatly. He had written a classic traditional fantasy novel with excellent results, but ideals could not withstand reality's blows in the end.
But don't worry, everyone. Little Mo's mental resilience was still decent. I would not do anything drastic just because I got cursed at or because my results were poor.
When you wrote a book, there would definitely be people who disliked it and cursed you for it. Being cursed at would naturally leave you downcast and depressed, but there were still many people who liked it. Some even read while cursing me