This book, from the upload of the first chapter on November 1, 2022, to the early morning of August 17, 2024, has spanned three years, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
The total duration was close to twenty-two months, and the total number of words completed was nearly 2.7 million words.
Indeed, compared with many novels that are several million words long, this word count is definitely not too much, or even a little.
But for me, who had just entered the online literature industry, to be honest, this was a "super big project" that I couldn't even imagine.
I never thought at the time that I would be able to write for so long.
It can be said that this is the first full-length novel in my life that has been officially completed from beginning to end.
Well, 2.7 million words is considered a long story anywhere, I think.
I have very mixed feelings about this.
There is the most complete sense of satisfaction in expressing all your fantasies and imaginations.
I believe that many people should be like me.
Ever since childhood, I don’t know how old I am, I have had a fantasy world in my mind that may be rough but relatively self-consistent.
Although in reality, no matter whether there are supernatural people or things, we can never meet them. From the beginning to the end, we are just ordinary people who can neither fly nor smash a brick.
Although this world tells us condescendingly: "Abandon all imaginations, there are no miracles in this world, no spiritual energy, no monks, no superpowers... Anyway, there is nothing, only cold physical rules and weak flesh and blood, so
You should go to school, you should go to work, you should go to struggle, you should go to start a family, you should go to make money, you should go...blablablabla"
But in our own fantasy world, we can break away from the shackles of flesh and blood bodies and the constraints of physical laws, so that we can travel through the ages, travel across the galaxy, and be heroes, villains, and bystanders.
The most important thing is that we can resist the oppression of this ordinary world against us.
Yes, you are the biggest in the real world, we are just little mortals, but we are the biggest in our own fantasy world. Who dares to be sure that our fantasy world will never exist outside the earth and outside the universe?
There is no absolute!
Okay, that's a bit of a hit.
But this is how I look young. As a 35-year-old, I can still be so middle-class. That’s a sign of youth!
Uh... Also, I feel a little ashamed to say that I was actually quite touched by my persistence throughout the entire serialization process of this novel, but what I felt more of was emotion, the kind of emotion that I couldn't tell whether I was happy or sad.
Because in the meantime, I have experienced many, many things.
There was the growth of my daughter, the change of work, and... my father's serious illness, and finally my father's death.
Especially the last thing, it hit me very hard at that time.
Looking back at that time, I was taking care of my father around the clock in the ward while taking time to update 4,000 words a day. I slept for a total of three or four hours a day. This situation lasted for a full month.
At that time, I really thought I couldn't continue writing this book because I was too physically and mentally exhausted.
Especially...my father left in the end.
As an only child, I won’t go into details about the hardships I faced while updating and taking care of my father’s funeral. It is very tiring, but it is also what I must do as a son of man.
In short, despite my paranoid and extreme personality, I gritted my teeth and got through it.
Although the performance data was getting worse and worse, with the anger that I held in my chest called "not admitting defeat", I finally continued writing smoothly until I finished it today.
To be honest, towards the end, I already felt clearly exhausted mentally and physically.
Therefore, compared with the rich descriptions of various scenes in the previous part, the latter part is obviously dry and empty, which is also a sign of exhaustion of both brain and heart.
The writing at the back of this book is indeed very tiring and tiring, and I guess it’s also tiring to read, so I would like to bow to you all here, thank you for your hard work.
I would also like to thank everyone, thank you for reading my story... No, this is not just my story or my novel, but also many ideas and creative ideas provided by book friends, either accidentally or without thinking. These ideas and creativity
Everyone participated in the joint construction of the world view of this novel, so this is also a book for all the book friends who come to read this novel, and a book for all of us!
And then... although there are still many, many more thoughts I want to talk about, it would be too long-winded to continue, so let’s bring it to an end.
Of course, Big Snake's writing career will not stop. On the contrary, "Properties" is just the beginning, and I will continue writing because the blood in my heart is still burning.
So the next book, according to the plan, should be a fantasy theme, or in other words, a mixture of fantasy and science fiction elements, and it will be released in about a month.
The reason why it takes more than a month is because Big Meng Snake needs to design the outline and setting of the new book and save some drafts. At the same time, he needs to adjust his work and rest and take a good rest. Writing "Properties" really made me exhausted. Now I am almost
I have to take two pills of melatonin every day to fall asleep. This is not going to work anymore and I need to make some adjustments.
Okay, that's all I have to say, goodbye, everyone.
