A new month had begun! As usual, I'll recap last month, then post the giveaway results.
There didn't seem to be much to recap for February, honestly. It was a short month to begin with, and I took so many days off for the New Year that there wasn't much content, so I won't say too much.
Plot-wise, I wrapped up volume two and started volume three.
Personally, I wasn't particularly satisfied with how volume two alternated between the undercover storyline and the secret realm storyline. Part of it might have been that I didn't properly establish the importance of that Fox Demon secret realm, which made some readers think it was just an ordinary dungeon instance and wonder why I spent so long on it.
Then, for the undercover storyline, I kept suffering from insomnia during that period and was in terrible shape. I didn't come up with any particularly clever plot developments either, and things progressed a little too hastily in the middle.
Comparing the two, I actually thought all the ridiculous antics in the Fox Demon secret realm were more fun.
Volume three will focus more on the competition. I've noticed that I always instinctively want to run two storylines in parallel, switching things up to give my brain a change of pace, but it seems that as I keep writing like that, the main storyline always ends up losing its tightness, making the pacing feel loose.
For this volume, I plan to try fighting that habitual way of thinking and maintain the pace of the main storyline. We'll see how well I can do.
I don't know whether it's because I'm getting older or what, but my nerves are extremely frazzled. Basically, if I work until eleven at night, I have trouble falling asleep and often