Afterword
by DiswaFirst, let’s talk about the ending.
The vast majority of readers said it was a rushed ending, so it probably was a rushed ending.
I honestly didn’t feel it was, as I thought I had tied up all the necessary loose ends. Perhaps this is a difference between the reader and the author (that is, the author’s own wishful thinking), or perhaps it’s because my state of mind has been rather poor recently (readers who have been following along should be able to tell).
Another reason is that I always thought not many people were reading this book, and the data was constantly declining, which is why I wrote it this way. I am an author who draws motivation from everyone’s support.
But it seems… more people were reading than I imagined. I want to say sorry to everyone; it was a problem with my mentality.
Having talked about the ending, let’s talk about the book as a whole, If I Were Entangled by a Miko.
The reason for writing this book was that after writing two consecutive slice-of-life novels, My Girlfriend is a Voice Actress and I Loaded a Romance Game (now titled: My Girlfriend is a Malicious Young Lady; I’ve already decided that if If I Were Entangled by a Miko gets reported, I’ll rename it My Girlfriend is a Miko), I wanted to write some combat scenes for a change of pace.
I’m an impulsive writer.
Readers who know me should be aware that with Voice Actress, I was lying in bed thinking, “No one is writing this, I can write it myself,” and then I put on my shoes and got out of bed (it was summer, so getting out of bed was easy), turned on my computer, and posted the first chapter.
As for I Loaded a Romance Game, there’s actually a little secret I’d like to share with everyone here.
Within a week of “finishing” Voice Actress, I wrote the beginnings of three books. The first two didn’t get contracts, and getting a contract takes a process, about two to three days. In a week, after two books, there wasn’t much time left for Romance Game.
Under such circumstances, Romance Game was also thought of and written on the same day.
Romance Game wasn’t initially favored by the editors either. Later, when it entered the large database and all editors could sign it, it was Editor Xingye who offered the contract. Thanks again to Editor Xingye for giving me the contract.
I mention Voice Actress and Romance Game to talk about my writing habits, which is why Miko had almost no outline. Editor Ruoye had to watch over me and make me write the first five chapters, otherwise I would have just started with one chapter again.
Slice-of-life can be written with just a beginning in mind, but combat clearly cannot (in my experience, this doesn’t apply to everyone).
As you all have seen, Miko has no real combat or level system to speak of. But as the saying goes, as long as you can summarize, nothing is meaningless. I learned a lot (this line is pretty good, I’ll have the female protagonist use it to lecture the male protagonist in the next book).
Finally, I want to thank all the readers who have liked Miko all this time.
Thank you to every reader who subscribed, rewarded, voted with monthly and recommendation tickets, and liked the characters.
(The “Thank you for your subscriptions, rewards, monthly tickets, and recommendation tickets” in the [Author’s Notes] of each chapter was never copied and pasted. Even when my fingers were aching after writing, I didn’t dare to be lazy, otherwise I would feel uneasy. On the other hand, for some of the Alliance Leaders, because their names are so strange… I should say “very unique,” I had to copy them. Thanks again, everyone.)
Also, I must thank the operations officers [Matsumae Asaka], [Black], [Pika], [Ziyi], [Pipi], [Dongguo], [Seino_Rin], [Little Salted Fish], [Northern], and others.
For the operations officers, I feel the most pressure. They helped me manage the review section with nothing in return. What if I wrote a book they didn’t like? This thought comes to me on average once a month, and it’s agonizing.
For this reason, for both Voice Actress and Romance Game, I initially refused to create groups or have readers as operations officers.
I also have to thank Editor Ruoye.
He thought a lot for me before I started the book and came up with many interesting ideas, but I’m very sorry to him. I knew about them, I understood them, but I didn’t write a single one of them out.
Writing combat while also writing good slice-of-life is really a bit of a stretch, and I couldn’t consider things in detail.
Also, for helping to unban chapters, Editor Ruoye’s enthusiasm once made me feel too embarrassed to trouble him again (but if I didn’t trouble him, it seemed I couldn’t rely on anyone else. I can’t rely on the review system, can I?).
Alright, regardless, I wish everyone a happy event every day.
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