World of Warcraft: All Things Wither
Chapter 826

Final Thoughts

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This book is complete.

In fact, I had considered ending it early long ago. It wasn't because I couldn't keep writing. This novel had been updating since October 2019, and by the end of March this year, it had been running for nearly a year and a half. I could have continued, but whatever I wrote no longer met my own standards. I felt dissatisfied with everything. I had good ideas but couldn't fully express them in words. To quote the Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino—whose novels I greatly enjoy—if a chef lacks skill, even the finest ingredients cannot become a delicacy.

This was a problem with my own abilities. I simply couldn't grasp the vast framework of World of Warcraft. But it also taught me a lesson: when writing this kind of game-world transmigration novel, it is best not to encompass the game setting's entire worldview. Otherwise, the novel becomes very long, and if you can't offer readers anything fresh later on, it starts to feel dragged out and tedious. Unfortunately, this problem had long been exposed in my novel, and it was one of the reasons for ending it.

Next, I want to answer some questions readers may have:

1. Why stop updating, and why did the final chapters move so quickly?

I understand that readers will not be satisfied with this ending, and there are still many plotlines that were not fully explained. Here, I will give two reasons.

The first is personal life, and it is also the main reason. I have had more and more problems to deal with in life, and it has become difficult to balance both sides. I considered stopping regular updates and writing slowly in the future, but dragging it out like that would have been truly exhausting. I always felt it

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