Last month, I averaged about 10,000 words per day, except for a three-day vacation...

The "Northwest Sky Falls" arc has many plot elements, especially concerning Qingqiu Star.

Whether it's Earth, immortals and gods, Ice Foxes, alien Tianhu (celestial foxes), mind-virus Tianmo (celestial demons), Great Beings, etc., I've designed a lot of settings. So at the beginning of this arc, there's space travel, interstellar refugees, the legacy of Tianhu and ancient myths from the era of immortals and gods. I personally feel it's very fulfilling.

However, as I wrote, I realized that because there were too many points to write about, if I wanted the pace to be tight, many elements couldn't be explored in depth. In particular, the portrayal of the Qingqiu Tianhu and the brewing of emotions weren't well-written, feeling too rushed, dry, and empty.

For this kind of plot showcasing elements, I should expand and write more. For example, the living conditions of the Qingqiu shelter, and some small stories related to the Qingqiu people. I was mainly afraid of being called out for writing filler, so I roughly wrote a few fragments that I thought were important. Now that I think about it, each fragment could actually be expanded into several short stories, relaxing the mood while also providing more guidance and foreshadowing.

Writing until now, I've also realized that I can't just blindly pursue "achieving the goal."

Those familiar with me know that for each instance and world, I've written at least several thousand or even tens of thousands of words of settings, such as character personalities, past backgrounds, and the specific settings of the world, the influence of the Great Beings behind it, and the reasons for the current situation in the world. I write each one in great detail.

Then, coupled with the detailed outlines for each arc, the writing is smooth, but the thinking becomes limited.

How to say it? It's that if the outline says there is this element, then I only write about this element, and the derivative plots of the element are not expanded, and it is even very likely that the content is written out dryly, and it is not interesting enough.

Writing a novel is not coding a program; the process of achieving the goal should be as interesting as possible. That's the lesson I've learned.

And the most important thing is to take a vacation when you need to. Continuing to write when you have a headache will only result in garbage.

Of course, I don't mean I'm going to take a vacation now—the first update of the new arc will be updated today, but the updates may slow down a bit recently to reorganize the general structure of the book.

Please forgive me for the 12,000-word free extra I updated yesterday.

That's roughly the situation. Today's update will be a little later.

In short, thank you for reading, the next arc's story will be even more exciting—and please give me a vote~

(Recently, I saw a reader say that they've been supporting my book for half a year and there are only 400 chapters—but this book already has 2 million words! Converted to 2,000 words per chapter, that's 1,000 chapters!)