I still suspected those comments from the VAs on Twitter were just corporate talking points. As a Tachyon fan, how was I supposed to keep a straight face looking at that animation?
And low-effort fanworks here vastly outnumber the good ones...
Anyway, I couldn't take it anymore. My enthusiasm had worn away.
I write novels about IPs I'm interested in. But now...
Then there's my health. You all know about it; I posted the results before. If you missed them, I'll post them again.
Severe fatty liver, sinus tachycardia, and a slight case of kidney stones.
And lately, I've been getting stabbing pains in my chest now and then.
If I don't spend more time looking after myself, I might not make it through my thirties or forties.
But I can't look after myself right now.
I have to sit at my computer and write every day.
I'm past my peak, too. Four to six thousand characters a day is about my limit now. I can feel myself running out of steam.
And once I sit down, I'm there all day. I can't do anything else.
Meanwhile, the novel's subscriber count keeps falling, and there are fewer and fewer chapter comments... I took a look at CWM. Uma Musume is still niche, after all.
The passion is gone, my health isn't recovering, and the book is slowly dying.
I figure it's about time I thought about my future.
Barring something beyond my control, I plan to wrap this book up at two million characters.
That leaves around six hundred thousand characters of story.
Between the real-world arc and the Training arc... at the pace I've been writing, there's only room for one more Training arc like the previous ones.
So if I want to train several more Uma Musume, the