Hello, everyone. I'm Dao Rugu.
Typing the words "end-of-volume reflections" really brought up all sorts of feelings.
This book has finally finished its setup and is about to enter the main storyline.
Yes, in my outline, New Scandinavia counted as the beginner village, the Starting Plateau. Its main purpose was just to introduce the Sacrifice system and the world.
Well, I took a look, and we're at 300,000 Chinese characters.
Haha, who takes over 300,000 characters just to get out of the beginner village-
As everyone knows, the biggest headache with this kind of story about controlling someone is that the male lead behind the scenes and the female lead out front progress at different rates. Given enough time, it naturally falls apart.
But my setup wouldn't have that problem. My protagonist was in this world too, so I started writing full of confidence.
I finished the first plot arc. Winnie died, the female lead grew as a character. Good, now it was the male lead's turn.
How would the male lead grow and advance the plot? Easy. Once his confinement ended and he left the beginner village, I could write his growth.
Then I looked down at my progress. I still had to wait-until after one, two, three, four, five, six more plot arcs?
That was when I started to feel something was wrong.
The female lead ended up on the streets; the male lead was playing games. The female lead's friend died; the male lead was playing games. The female lead got mixed up in the East District's conspiracy; the male lead was playing games-
And if I couldn't write the male lead's growth, should the female lead grow or not? If she did, they'd fall out of sync. If she didn't, she'd just spin her wheels, with