Author's Closing Remarks
It's been a year since I started writing this book, and now it's finally finished. I've been writing it from when I was twenty-four to when I was twenty-five, and I have many feelings to share. Let me say a few words, which can be considered a self-reproach.
This is my first full-length novel. I never thought I could write more than 600,000 words before. Although I have written many books before and achieved good results, I usually stopped writing when I reached around 500,000 or 600,000 words.
After all, I'm young, playful, and have a serious procrastination problem. I simply can't stand writing every day. My basic routine is to earn a sum of money and then quit the internet for a few months. When I run out of money, I'll change my username and continue writing. Then, when I earn money, I'll run away again... You could say I'm an old eunuch.
This is the first time I've written something this long, and I've indeed discovered many shortcomings in my long-form writing. I've also learned a lot from this experience, and I appreciate your understanding.
It's the same old problem. This time I tried my best to stay motivated for a little longer than before, but I only managed to write about a million words. After that, I became too lazy to write and felt like I was going to a funeral every day. This situation was especially severe in the last two months.
As a result, the book's performance started to decline after 700,000 to 800,000 words. At the beginning, the book's performance was better than I expected, with an average of 29,000 to nearly 30,000 words. This performance was considered incredible for a Go novel.
Ever since I started updating once a day and taking a minimum of three days off each month, my grades started to drop. The more they dropped, the less I wanted to write, and the less I wanted to write, the more they dropped, creating a vicious cycle.
But I'm still persisting.
From the very beginning, I treated this book as a training exercise, a test of my laziness, thinking that no matter what, I would finish writing the book—I have never finished writing a book from beginning to end before.
I never imagined that writing a novel would be so difficult. Anxiety, irritability, confusion, depression... all sorts of negative emotions plagued me, and I was constantly fighting against these damn things.
I thought that other authors had gone through the same thing, and many of them had written much more than me. I couldn't be so sentimental, so I gritted my teeth and persevered.
Although things weren't entirely satisfactory, I managed to pull through and feel that I've transformed and grown.
Although the average daily subscription is currently stable at around 22,000, which is quite a good result, it has indeed gone downhill. I would like to apologize to the readers who have always supported me for letting you down.
Fortunately, they persevered until the very end.
Actually, the book could be continued—the plot for the Rising Eagles has already been laid, and there are also competitions like the Ing Cup, which are held every four years, that could be written about. The protagonist hasn't even played against An Hongshi, Zhu Huai'an, Zhang Dongchen, and the others yet...
As the article states, everyone is on the right track, not just Yu Shao and Su Yiming, but others are also striving to catch up. Go is a game for many people, and there's much more to write about in the future.
My original idea was to finish writing all the above plot points, then have Yu Shao and Su Yiming play a ten-game chess match, and end the book abruptly when Yu Shao made his first move. However, I also felt that ending the story here would be quite good.
At the beginning, the protagonist is a player with extraordinary talent, but he is confused because of the Go AI. However, he gradually changes along the way. By the end, he has completely surpassed his previous life, made up for his shortcomings, and regained his confidence and fighting spirit. He is no longer afraid of any challenge.
If I were to write about the future plot, I might leave it for a side story.
As for what to write in my next book, I haven't decided yet, and I haven't even figured out if I'll use this account to post it.
I'm a writer who can write about a wide variety of genres. I've written about urban life, history, games, fantasy, and more. Although none of my books have been completed from beginning to end like this one, they've all achieved some success.
Although I gained a lot of experience from writing this book, and I think I would do much better if I wrote another Go book, I'm completely lost in Go now. I also feel that Go novels are even more difficult to write than fantasy novels. I'm not sure if I should continue writing Go novels.
I'm so conflicted...
Alright, let's talk about that later. I think I'll start writing the book after the New Year, brothers. Let me rest and recharge for a while. I hope I can learn from the lessons of this book and write a better one next time.
And so, see you again in the martial world!
Respect!
(End of this chapter)
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