Chapter 36

It's been fourteen days since the book was released.

The word count is close to 120,000, not too much, not too little.

The prologue is finished, and I should say a few words, otherwise it wouldn't feel right.

Mostly, I'll be looking at everyone's feedback and so on.

First, last year, I wrote a book called *The Scholar of the Great Wei*, which had an average of 33,000 subscribers, winning the Silver Keyboard Award and the Three-Star Honor, which can be considered a milestone in my personal writing career.

Of course, with the success of the work, there were many questions and doubts. Last year, I got a bit carried away and would argue and fight.

The first million words were written smoothly without much controversy, but after that, I became anxious, my mindset was affected, and I became very irritable, leading to the previous book being purely about confrontations and face-slapping. It was satisfying, but it was hollow.

In other words, I didn't accumulate anything for myself, which is not a good thing for a writer.

So, after finishing the book in January last year, I didn't rush to start writing a new one. Instead, I read books and took the time to think about many things.

Before April, over three months, I finished reading "Those Ming Dynasty Years," "The Great Ming Dynasty," and "The Great Song Dynasty," and also gained a lot of knowledge from various sources about historical facts, interesting stories, and characters.

In this way, I completed a small accumulation, ensuring that the new book wouldn't be full of errors like the previous one.

I started writing in April, finalized the draft in early April, and released the book on the 9th, with several ten thousand words in reserve.

However, the consequence of not writing for three consecutive months is that my mind was full of information, but when it came to writing, I found it hard to start, leading to slow updates. I apologize for this.

Regarding the choice of topic.

Actually, what I most wanted to write was a pure fantasy novel, but there are two reasons I didn't: one, my writing skills aren't up to it, so I shouldn't touch it; two, I want to make up for the shortcomings of the later part of *The Scholar of the Great Wei*.

So, the first 34 chapters are all used to construct the world, characters, and lay the groundwork for the plot.

The beginning of *The Great Wei* wasn't particularly satisfying, but it had a sense of urgency. However, the obvious flaw of *The Great Wei* was its hollowness.

Fortunately,

Although the prologue wasn't particularly satisfying, it didn't have any major issues. I wrote it smoothly, did what needed to be done, and wrote what needed to be written.

The next volume, *The Great Xia Storms*,

is my turning point. Starting from this volume, I will speed up the pace and focus on making it a satisfying read, gradually setting up and constructing the story.

My only requirement for this book is that, in the process of being satisfying, I will lay the groundwork and develop the world.

The satisfaction must be reasonable and logical.

The writing must be smooth and not dry.

That's all.

Thank you to all the readers for your support.

If you have anything you want to say to me, feel free to leave a comment. I can basically see all of them.

I will automatically ignore comments like "Even the donkey in the production team is more diligent than you."