I need to take today off too...
When I typed those words, I was honestly so anxious I was about to lose my mind.
Lately, a lot of readers, old and new, have been very unhappy with this book's updates. Whether they were cursing me out or objectively pointing out problems, I read it all, and I replied to some of them.
There's a lot I want to say about my health, the state I'm in, the story of this book, and so on, but I haven't really had a chance. Every time I want to put up a separate post, I always end up agonizing over it.
Let's have a chat today. We'll just talk and see where it takes us.
First, my health. Ever since I finished writing Wind Rises in Dragon City, my energy has dropped sharply. Longtime readers who know me should know that I used to take very few days off. Even when I did, I always followed the rule of making up two chapters for every one I owed, and I made them up quickly, usually within the same week.
But when I got to Immortal World, I began facing a huge shift in both my approach and my creative direction. My comfort zone was gone, and with my health no longer what it used to be, I started taking more days off and taking longer to make up the missed updates.
Some longtime readers had their reading routines disrupted, so they felt that I often no longer kept my promises; my updates weren't on time anymore, and I was always dragging things out, never posting an entire climax in one go, always cutting things off right when they were getting good...
So maybe success had gone to my head, I'd made enough money,