A Chat for the 2025 New Year
Sorry for interrupting everyone's reading rhythm.
Time had passed so quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was 2025, and this book had somehow reached 750,000 words. It was time for me to get a little sentimental!
I actually started writing quite early. I was interested in different things at different stages, so I wrote different kinds of stories—old-school tragic romances, melodramatic CEO stories, incest, beastmen, older woman-younger man... I had written them all. Back then, I didn't care about quality. I just loved writing.
During that time, my results rose and fell. That was pretty normal in the webnovel world, so it wasn't worth mentioning.
The real problem began at the end of 2022. At the time, I started a book called "Isn't It Normal to Live in a Phone and Help My Boyfriend Solve Cases?"
I had never written a detective story before, so I was full of enthusiasm. I felt that regardless of how it performed, a new genre would be a challenge for me, and I would definitely feel a great sense of accomplishment once I finished it.
But less than two months into serialization, I could clearly feel that I couldn't keep writing.
My mind could no longer form images, and I couldn't quickly organize words when expressing myself. It felt as though my creative ability was slowly disappearing, and I couldn't understand why.
My friends comforted me, saying that I had placed too many expectations on the new book and developed psychological pressure. The greater the pressure, the less I could write. They told me to adjust my mindset.
I thought that made sense, so I gave myself a break. I stopped updating and stopped forcing myself to write 4,000 words every day. I just went