Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

Thank you all for being with me every step of the way.

This book really wasn't written well. It started strong and faded later on.

There were all sorts of problems, big and small, but the biggest problem was that it ran on for far too long.

It never should have been this long.

When I finished my previous book, I said I no longer wanted to write stand-in battles, those utterly exhausting things.

And this book really didn't give me as many headaches as the last one did.

(In my previous book, I'd been taking leave by the week starting from 500,000 words.)

Writing cases might seem difficult, but it actually didn't require particularly ingenious ideas.

All it took was the patience to look up materials, take courses, and draw from vast amounts of forensic textbooks and papers.

As long as I blended the new knowledge I learned with the story a little, I could write a case that made people feel impressed without quite knowing why.

So the creative pressure for this book actually wasn't that great—

Unfortunately, that was only true at the beginning.

At first, there were countless cases to draw from. Calling it an endless flow of inspiration would not have been an exaggeration.

But as I kept writing, I only realized after reaching one million words:

While there were many forensic cases, there were only so many types of cases in total.

Blunt force, sharp force, falls from heights, gunshots, hanging, manual strangulation, ligature strangulation, drowning, death from illness, poisoning, Inhibition Death, mental illness.

I had basically written through every type I could write and every bit of knowledge I could show off.

After that, if I wanted to keep writing cases, I had to rack my brains to come up with