A Quick Word Before Release

It was finally time to release the premium chapters today.

By convention, this was usually where authors asked for subscriptions, but I felt it was actually pointless.

Putting myself in the reader's shoes, if I thought a book was good, I would subscribe without the author asking. If I didn't like it, then even if the author begged on their knees, I still wouldn't subscribe to a book I didn't enjoy.

So I won't put on a sob story to ask for subscriptions. I'll just let things take their course.

To be honest, the number of bookmarks hasn't been especially ideal. I'm still quite far from the "one thousand subscriptions" goal I set when I started this book. I've even prepared myself for fewer than a hundred subscriptions.

If it were an ordinary author, seeing this situation, they would probably have dropped the book long ago. But when I first signed my contract, I said that once I did, I wouldn't stop updating or abandon the story. Since I said it, I'll definitely follow through.

So, as I said before, no matter how this book performs, I'll finish it without stopping updates or abandoning it.

That said, there's also the major issue of "motivation."

Most of the time, writing isn't just entertaining myself. Only when people are reading does it give me motivation.

So let me talk about the update schedule going forward:

If the subscription-to-bookmark ratio is decent, there will be a guaranteed three updates a day. Four updates will be common, while five or six updates will count as an outburst.

On the other hand, if the subscription-to-bookmark ratio is truly too miserable to bear, then I can only maintain a more laid-back update schedule. Just like before release, I'll keep it at two updates a day. If