For the past month, I've been averaging about 10,000 words a day, except for the three days I took off...

The "Northwest Sky Falls" arc has a lot of plot elements, especially concerning Qingqiu Star.

Whether it's Earth, Immortals and Gods, Ice Foxes, alien Heavenly Foxes, thought-virus Heavenly Demons, Great Beings, etc., I've designed a lot of settings. So, at the beginning of this arc, there's space travel, interstellar refugees, Heavenly Foxes and remnants of ancient mythology from the Immortal and God era, etc. I feel it's very substantial.

However, as I wrote, I realized that because there were too many points to write about, I couldn't delve into many elements if I wanted the pace to be tight. In particular, the portrayal of the Qingqiu Heavenly Fox and the emotional buildup weren't well written. It felt too rushed, dry, and empty.

For this kind of plot that showcases 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 very important. Now that I think about it, each fragment could actually be expanded into several small stories, which would relax the mood and allow for more guidance and foreshadowing.

Writing up to now, I've also realized that I can't blindly pursue 'achieving the goal'.

Those familiar with me know that I've written at least several thousand or even tens of thousands of words of settings for each instance and world, such as the characters' personalities, past backgrounds, and the specific settings of the world, the influence of the Great Beings behind them, and the reasons for the current situation of the world. Each one is written in very detailed and clear terms.

Then, combined with the detailed outlines for each arc, while the writing process is smooth, my thinking is also limited.

How to say it? It's like if the outline says there's this element, then I only write this element, and the derivative plots of the element aren't expanded. It's even very likely that I just write the content in a dry way, and it's not interesting enough.

Writing novels isn't like coding programs. The process of achieving the goal should be as interesting as possible. This is the lesson I've learned.

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

Of course, I don't mean that I need to take a break right now – there will be an update for the first chapter of the new arc today, but the updates may be slowed down a bit recently to reorganize the general structure of the book.

Please forgive me, considering I updated 12,000 words of free extra content yesterday.

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

In short, thank you for reading. The story of the next arc will be even more exciting – and please vote~

(Recently I saw a reader say that they've been raising 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!)