Before I knew it, we reached 100 chapters. Something to celebrate.
Honestly, in the month or two before starting this book, I wrote seven or eight openings, and not one got a contract. It was pretty discouraging.
My wife watched me write every day and kept nagging me about it.
Then this book rode the wave of Hundred-Lifetime Cultivation, got a contract straight away, and even made the new releases chart.
I told her that getting a contract meant getting paid, and only then did she stop nagging me.
She read my book every day and asked where it ranked.
It was pretty funny.
I originally started out writing Lineage fiction, and I caught a wave of popularity back then, too.
But later, I found that the more I wrote Lineage fiction, the less it worked.
Until The Immortal Clan of the Profound Mirror blew up.
I tried imitating it, too, but I really couldn't write anything like it. The worldbuilding and descriptions were just too damn good.
Lineage fiction has one big problem.
The protagonist can't be just one person.
When the protagonist advances, the clan members all advance at lightning speed too, and the setting runs into bugs.
The solution Profound Mirror offered was to kill characters off.
When someone needed to die, they died, without mercy. That's how it produced so many iconic scenes.
I didn't really get the hang of that, either.
So some readers said I swapped supporting characters out too quickly and couldn't establish their characterization.
Still, with hundred-lifetime fiction, it really is hard to establish supporting characters.
Books of this type are a little like the idle cultivation simulation games I used to play.
One lifetime per reincarnation, stacking aptitude over and over, getting better and better until ascension.
My book doesn't stack