Another volume was over.
A lot happened during this volume.
At over two million Chinese characters, I had entered a period of fatigue.
I often felt, "This is so boring. I want to start a new book," but when I remembered that so many readers were still supporting me, I could keep going.
While I was at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature, I talked about my difficulties with many highly experienced authors, all top authors and veteran writers from Qidian. They helped me a great deal, and I came to recognize many of this book's flaws-the mistakes a newcomer would make.
For example, I had always been proud of how well the beginning of this book was written, but I was criticized for it.
The big names said that anything written at an emotional extreme did harm to the book.
Because readers needed it to keep getting better, and an author could not deliver that. But as an emotional author, I could never keep my hands in check.
One of the big names also said that Luo Ling should never have appeared as a character, that he had done considerable harm to this book.
But I really did like Luo Ling.
The big names said it was already quite remarkable that I had only run into difficulties after writing over two million characters of this book.
But I wanted to write four million characters. Sigh, writing a book really was hard after the two-million-character mark.
Much of my current predicament was caused by my tearing up my own outline. When I got fired up while writing, I would throw everything else aside and pour out my emotions.
I conceived the next major storyline while I was at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature. Yes, I tore up my outline