It's going premium.
Come to think of it, after my last book ended, I went more than half a year without starting a new one. I honestly thought I'd lost the ability to write. Mainly because there were too many messy things going on, and too many openings that got shot down.
Most of them were shot down by me.
Because basically, after I wrote a few tens of thousands of words, I'd feel like I couldn't think of how to develop it... I really didn't dare post them. I'd say I'm actually the kind of writer who goes with emotion and momentum. I understand some techniques too, but if you make me write entirely according to technique, I'll feel super miserable.
This situation continued until the end of last year. I felt like I really couldn't keep going like that, so I sent one of the barely passable openings to my editor. Unsurprisingly, it got rejected. I really made things hard for him too...
Then I revised it, and it still got rejected.
I also felt that kind of subject matter really wasn't what I was good at... and with the New Year coming up too, I figured I'd think about it after the holidays.
But facts proved that dragging things out wouldn't make the situation any better. After the New Year, I still couldn't think of an interesting subject, and even the ideas I'd originally wanted to write had become hateful to look at.
I really thought I was going to say goodbye to writing...
Until one day, I sat blankly in front of my computer, and the image of a young girl chopping off someone's head suddenly appeared in my mind. I thought it was pretty interesting... so I figured I'd treat a dead horse like a