It's done, it's done! Toss the confetti~
I was going to post two chapters at a time, but then I thought, since we're so close to the end, I wouldn't keep you all in suspense!
A few more bonus chapters, and the whole book will be complete. Finishing a book really does leave me with a lot of feelings. Honestly, I originally intended this to be a comedy, but somehow, once the story got going, it went completely off the rails.
A hundred donkeys couldn't rein in my imagination. This story seemed to have a mind of its own, and somehow, I just couldn't get back to where I'd started.
What I initially imagined my writing process would be: first, draw up an outline, write tens of thousands of words with ease, and then, when I started the actual story, the words would flow like magic. I'd plant the foreshadowing right at the beginning, and everything would connect down the line, filling every plot hole.
Building up a backlog? No problem at all. A piece of cake.
What I later discovered my actual writing process was: never even thought about an outline. An idea suddenly popped into my head, and I thought, hey, this would make good foreshadowing. Great, let's write it that way! And as I kept writing, everything came together!
(What a surprise! Even the person behind it would be shocked! If something wouldn't connect, I forced it to. Shamelessness was the name of the game.)
As for a backlog, that was even more nonexistent. Every day, I posted with nothing in reserve, writing whatever I'd come across while surfing the internet that day. (Guilty.) (It seems some of you noticed this.)
Actually, my original target for this story was one million Chinese characters, but later, I realized