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918. Author's Closing Remarks

The story of the sovereign of gods and spirits has finally come to an end.

After finishing the last chapter, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. It was a smooth landing, thankfully.

And here, first of all, I want to apologize to everyone—

The update frequency for the later parts of this book is really too abstract.

At the beginning, there were indeed some things going on, because I changed positions in my real-life job, and it took a lot of effort to hand over my work.

However, this isn't really a valid reason, since after changing jobs and getting used to the new role, it didn't really affect my life.

However, once that initial drive to keep things going was relaxed, it became impossible to regain it...

I really couldn't write anything after that.

Basically, it took seven days to come up with six words.

In fact, the root cause of the delayed updates is that the book "Strange Tales of Games" itself does not have an outline.

Or when I started writing the book, I didn't even understand what an outline should look like or what role it should play.

In fact, there are quite a few places in the book where you can see signs of this "lack of outline".

In short, I only roughly conceived an beginning, and then I thought about the ending where Kamiya would ascend to the throne of God, what the nature of the throne of God would be, and I thought about upgrading and changing maps in the world of the living, and fighting the Oma Twilight Organization in the real world... and then, that's how I started writing.

As it turns out, I'm still too inexperienced.

This book is over 340 million words long, and with my abilities, it would have been impossible to complete it smoothly without an outline. It's only thanks to the fact that the book has always had a clear ending that the story didn't fall apart.

In short, I am truly sorry to everyone.

Sorry.

But thankfully, as a way of "atoneing" for those of you who have read this far, I managed to finish writing the story, albeit with some stumbles and difficulties.

Even as I approached the end, my enthusiasm and focus on writing returned.

Therefore, I personally think the ending of the main text, the epilogue, and the epilogue are all quite well written.

I know that the book "Tales of the Strange Game" has many flaws.

Looking back now, my personal assessment of it is that it has many obvious flaws, but overall it is probably, or at least not a bad story.

But in any case, this book is quite important to me.

Having finished writing over three million words, I can no longer judge myself by the standards of a "newcomer." I should hold myself to the standards of a more mature writer and creator.

In fact, writing this book has indeed improved my writing skills in various aspects.

Furthermore, I've finally developed the mindset a web novelist should have. Well, I didn't have this mindset when I was writing this book.

That's right, back then I didn't consciously think about it. I hadn't developed an instinct to ask myself what people wanted to see when they read the story I wrote, what kind of story development they wanted to see, and how to meet their expectations (not that the story's direction should be completely predictable, but rather a clever and reasonable twist that doesn't feel forced, which itself meets the readers' expectations).

Through writing this kind of book, I've developed this instinct to some extent.

This is good.

As a commercial product, online literature involves real money spent by readers. Creators need to carefully consider what kind of development will offend most people and what kind of development will meet their expectations.

In short, the premise is to ensure that the story is exciting or interesting enough before delving into and pursuing other things.

That should qualify it as a good book.

Furthermore, through writing this book, I have finally come to understand the strengths and weaknesses of my writing.

First, I'm not good at writing about leveling up by defeating monsters.

I lack the ability to construct combat systems, and the battles I write are barely passable, but they are far from outstanding.

The only vivid and memorable emotional battle scene I can think of in the entire book right now is—

Mary greeted the students at the Flower Bell School with, "Hello, I am Miss Mary. I am in front of you."

And Kamiya's response to the fairy with rouge: "I just think you really deserve to die."

Second, I am not good at developing long-term narratives.

Of course, there must be a missing outline here, but the detailed outline doesn't have this fundamental problem. Without both an outline and a detailed outline, it's impossible to control the pacing of a long-running story.

Fortunately, I still have my strengths.

First of all, although I'm not good at writing action scenes, I can write slice-of-life stories.

The vivid scenes I can create are fireworks and Ferris wheels during a date, sukiyaki at the Kamiya family's house on a snowy night, Satoru sneaking a drink, Aya and Kakujo chasing each other in the corridor, and the pure white Zashiki running towards Kamiya with a bowl of matcha...

Secondly, although I haven't yet discovered my talent for long-term planning, I will write episodic dramas.

I can write about the bountiful harvest and fishing on Oguri Island, about a novelist being judged by the monster he created, about the moving mannequins in the infirmary being the students' guardian angels, and about "Actually, I never thought of becoming the ruler of all ghosts and gods"...

Finally, my ability to create characters has basically taken shape through these three million words of writing.

When Mimiko was wailing "Did you see that?" by the Kuzuryu River,

When Mizuko Bando said, "I want to eat oden,"

Kensuke complained about the rising price of grilled sausages and lamented that autumn is the season when sea bass are at their fattest.

Ashiya Dōman confessed his love under the Hida starry sky, and as the starry river fell into Suzuhiko-hime's crimson eyes...

From the moment when Little Deer and Little Sunflower touched forehead to neck on a summer night, to the moment when the setting sun shone equally on their drawings and handwritten outlines on a spring afternoon...

From Kamiya saying "Damn, this is tough" on the Sanzu River, to when he caught a bass in Yokohama and said, "I'm going to become the ruler of all demons and gods"...

These characters should all be believable.

I've actually been preparing for a new book recently. Considering my personal strengths and weaknesses in writing, the main theme I've decided on for my next book is farming and management.

Then, I will temporarily stop writing about monsters. In the future, I may consider writing about Chinese or Western monsters, but I will not write about them in my next book.

Speaking of which, the theme of monsters can also be linked to farming novels.

My next book will be an urban management novel, with some light fantasy elements. I personally prefer fantasy stories.

Main storyline + episodic segments + daily life episodes.

It's somewhat similar to "Natsume's Book of Friends." However, the main storyline focuses on management and takes up the majority of the content, aiming for fun and the satisfying feeling of nurturing new characters. My strength lies in slice-of-life stories, which complement management gameplay. I then use episodic episodes as climaxes that deepen the theme or evoke emotions, connecting them to the main storyline. The rewards from each episodic story are then fed back into the main management storyline.

This is roughly the structure, and this arrangement should be more suitable for me to perform well, allowing me to play to my strengths and avoid my weaknesses.

I've already conceived three episodes and polished two of them. I think at least six high-quality episodes should be prepared before the book is officially published.

In addition, I will definitely prepare a good outline for the business storyline this time, and use the outline to keep the word count of the next book around 200 million.

To further motivate myself to prepare for the new book, I set the release date for a month later.

3 month 1 day.

Finally, thank you all for being so tolerant of the story of "Kwaidan Game" and reading this far.

I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance.

See you all in the next story next year. (End of Chapter)