Chapter 277: Summary and Future Plans

Summary and Future Plans

The overall writing of Volume Three did not achieve the goals summarized in Volume Two; the entire third volume feels chaotic, with many plot threads started but either left unresolved or resolved poorly, and previous threads were not well connected; in short, the problems remain very significant.

The final decision to have the protagonist absent was actually because the Basilisk was written as too overpowered at the end of Volume Two, and I felt the power level of the characters appearing at the end of Volume Three was somewhat lower than that of the Basilisk; if the protagonist had been present, it would naturally have been a one-sided sweep, which I felt would have been less interesting.

I feel my writing state has deteriorated recently, and I have not adjusted it back, so I have made a decision—to quickly conclude this book.

Making this decision was very difficult for me, because many friends follow this book daily; making such a decision is irresponsible, so I do not beg for everyone's forgiveness, I only ask everyone to read the reasons for my decision and the future plans.

1. The performance of this book is too poor.

I admit this is one of the main reasons; when Volume Three started, the book's average subscription was 330, and by the end of Volume Three a month later, the average subscription had only risen to 340; moreover, the book has been on the shelves for three months, the full attendance bonus has been exhausted, and since the average subscription did not reach 500, there will be no full attendance bonus afterwards. Losing this part of the income does not affect my life much, but it affects my mindset greatly, prompting me to make this decision.

2. I am a bit tired of writing this book.

This tiredness is only a small part physical; it is mainly mental exhaustion; I feel I cannot write interesting plots anymore.

I occasionally have good inspirations, but some good inspirations feel bad when I write them out; this is especially obvious in the third part; I want to write different plots, but my mind is empty; many chapters were written unsatisfactorily, but under the pressure of updates, they were published anyway.

Moreover, a story needs more than just inspiration; it needs sufficiently substantial plots to serve as flesh and blood.

Actually, to summarize, it is still that my accumulation is too little; although I have read online novels for over ten years, most I read and then forgot, nor did I analyze where others wrote well; in fact, my accumulation in this aspect is limited.

Moreover, online novels change very fast; true practitioners need to maintain at least two hours of online novel reading daily, but my regular work is quite busy; apart from typing time, I simply cannot spare time for reading. In the four or five months of writing this book, I lost interest in all online novels, and my reading volume is pitifully low.

This leads to me increasingly feeling a sense of mental blankness.

3. This book is becoming unwritable.

Actually, to say this book can still be written, there are still many things that can be written, such as Pokémon potions, Pokémon reincarnation, the fusion of Pokémon and Patronuses to become new magical creatures in this world, and so on, but having ideas alone is not enough.

I say this book is unwritable because I feel that as this book continues, theoretical chapters will become increasingly numerous.

The root cause is that this book is inherently deficient.

This is my first time writing an online novel; to reduce writing difficulty, I chose fan fiction, and writing fan fiction also generates more passion.

I thought about this book for a week before starting to write; at the beginning, there were only a few scenes, no outline at all, written purely on passion; at the start, I believed the book's biggest selling point was using programming concepts to explain Zhong De Mo Fa, so I used a very large portion of the text to write a programming version of the magic principle. But readers quickly woke me up; it turned out everyone was most interested in Random Transfiguration, a secondary content! So I urgently pivoted to Random Transfiguration.

Nothing was planned well; when I thought of a good idea, I discovered a plot hole left behind earlier, requiring me to write several chapters first to fill the previous hole.

Moreover, I gradually discovered that the magic principles I set up earlier are gradually becoming the biggest restriction on subsequent creation.

Actually, thinking carefully reveals that some plots I wrote were completely redundant; the most typical example is the magic scroll section; to adhere to previous settings, I had to rack my brains to write a bunch of theoretical things; chapters writing theory have very few subscriptions, everyone dislikes such chapters, but to ensure the logic has no major problems, I had to write such chapters, because having no major logical problems is the greatest persistence of a programmer like me.

So, continuing this book, to connect with previous logic, I must write more theoretical chapters; these chapters are tiring for me to write, you don't like to read them, and they will make this book look worse.

Because everyone wants to see a story, not theory.

Future Plans:

Actually, I know everyone likes the settings of this book, and I feel I did not write these settings completely well; I am still unwilling in my heart, so my new book will likely use these settings to write a new book again.

Of course, it will not completely copy this book's settings; I will keep only the core settings, remove those useless settings, and then add new settings.

I will also pour the unfinished inspirations and ideas of this book into the next book.

The new book will be a new story with a new protagonist; I will try my best to shape the protagonist of the new book better; the protagonist of this book really has no highlights.

Of course, the new book definitely will not be written quickly; my preliminary plan is to spend a month planning all aspects of the new book, not to start writing like this one with just a snap of the fingers.

During this month, I will read relevant books and online novels extensively, learning how other excellent books tell stories and how they shape characters; in short, this month will also be a process of seclusion and study.

I want my new book to be liked by more people; this is also what every author most hopes to see.

Of course, this is still just an idea; specifics must wait until I talk with my editor before being confirmed; this book might be written for a few more chapters to write a simple ending, but it is unlikely to be released during the May Day holiday.

In short, my purpose and goal are to write a better book and achieve better results.

Finally, thank you again for your long-term support, and I earnestly ask everyone to look forward to me and my new book after the seclusion ends!