69. Chapter 69 – A Peek in the Hole of the Shelf Testimonials

Chapter 69 – A Peek at the Light in the Hole – A Message from the Shelf
省流：Tomorrow 10,000 words or more update, 12:00 noon on the shelves!
Then as usual – if you’re not in a hurry, let’s sit down for a piece and talk.

Stealing …… read a new book, just as the light peeping through the hole.

The reader approaches a house with lights on and paper-covered windows in the middle of a dark, snowy night.

Although one can generally tell the brightness of the different houses, one does not know what is going on inside, let alone what the owners are doing.

It is not until one peers through the holes in the wall that one can see the furnishings of the house; it is only when one carefully turns one’s head and looks at the layout of the rooms through the narrow holes, taking advantage of the dim light inside the room, that one can see what kind of house this is, and why the light is on inside the house.

When you get a good look and feel relieved, you will knock on the door and push it in. Share this rare light in the snowy night.

This light comes from my heart and is given to all those who want to share it with me.

It is not a blazing light, like the sun that illuminates everyone; nor is it like the shadowless lamp in the operating room that illuminates the darkness.

It is only a lamp, a candle, a light bulb, the weakest light I can give out. But it is enough to light up this little house.

I hope you can see me through this light.

Reporting on the results: now Makushi has over 10,000 followers.

This is without a doubt my highest-achieving book of all time.

Although my creative performance is not bad, before the pastor continued to write five shelves of the novel, the cumulative completion of the word count of more than nine million, there are three ten thousand subscription a fine …… but these three ten thousand subscription all did not have the first fine.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever been in a position to do that.

Achievements all rely on the subsequent stable plot, slowly grinding up. And this book is my history since the creation of the highest results.

It even has me a little terrified that I don’t know if I can stabilize this hard-earned achievement.

But at the same time, I’m proud.

Because I’ve always adhered to the principle of “I don’t know how the plot works, and I won’t write it even if it unfolds in an interesting way”. Sudden success that I don’t even know the reason for will only destroy my worldview. Therefore, I only write what I understand, what I understand, and what I can reproduce.

And in the last book, honing the craft did work!
While there are some authors who say they’re practicing after a flop, I’ve been telling people I’m going to write a book specifically for practicing even before the Tilted Tower opens …… Mainly because when I was writing about the players, I felt like I was deficient in a lot of areas, and that I wouldn’t be able to write in many areas.

But at that time, Player Super Justice was being serialized, and it was doing quite well. I didn’t dare to do anything fancy for fear of ruining the book. So even if I had a new idea, I didn’t dare to practice it.

I am convinced of one thing: if one does not practice, one will definitely not learn; just as if one does not experience, one will not understand.

So I recorded all those plots that I wanted to write but didn’t dare to, and couldn’t decide if they would work well or not, and practiced them as such in The Tipping Tower.

I also chose topics I wasn’t good at in order to eliminate distractions. I wanted to see how readers reacted to the different plots, characterizations, and writing styles, and then make corrections.

It’s like playing a game where you have to rub an inch or a bald head when you pinch faces!
And the reason for choosing sci-fi out of many subjects is the love of sci-fi.

–You can love it even if you’re not good at it!
I call it “eclectic idealism”.

I call it “eclectic idealism”. I have dreams, but at the same time, I’m still looking for improvement and profit.

It’s like in a game, trying to maintain strength while balancing coolness and aesthetics – not being a pure looker, not being a pure strength guy.

When I first started writing Mercury Blood, it was all instinct, no outline or planning. There were a lot of “if only I had done that” regrets. I wrote them all down, with the firm thought that “I’m going to come back one day and make a scene”.

I came back once when I was a player and wrote in a way that was as aesthetically pleasing as possible to the public.

And the players were ten times as good as Mercury Blood.

But the player wrote and wrote, and had new regrets. So this one was newly optimized, and the score was raised to four times the player’s again.

–People really do improve if they keep “learning effectively” and self-criticizing over and over again!

…… Of course, in contrast, the body is also getting worse.

Now my routine has shifted to going to bed at 10:30 am and waking up at 5:30 pm. Writing for eight hours a day has the feeling of being on the verge of ascension.

The length of this book in the outline is probably enough to write two years, more than three million words.

I hope people don’t Karma.

After this book is finished, I will have to rest less than half a year, more than a year. Have booked a friend in Hainan Wuzhishan villa, by the time the cat is going to go to Wuzhishan when the monkey under the body conditioning.

The one month or so of rest this time is simply not enough. Although the outline, setting and inspiration in October last year is almost determined, the rest of the month inside, half of the time in the body.

Clap your hands, next up is the thank-you section –

First of all, thank you for the chapter pushes, and I’ll treat you to dinner when I see you again!

Secondly, thank you to my editor, Canaan! Canaan checked the setting and outline with me for a long time before this book was sent out, and it helped a lot!
And thanks to my invincible operations officer and artist, [There’s no food in the jar]!
Jar Jar Invincible – Look at the covers of this book, and the last book, Tower of Tipping, all drawn by Jar Jar! Even the characters of this book, and the design of the various peripherals of this book were all hand rubbed by her!
What kind of divine operation officer is this, do you have one? She opened a drawing in the book review section to give away free peripherals made by Dot Jar Jar! While authors can’t sell peripherals, they can give them away for free if they don’t want money!
–Postage is of course covered by me as well! You’ll check it out later!

Next, thank you to the readers for their rewards!
Thank you to the rich loli Tian Zelu for feeding the silver alliance!

I and then then from in the mercury blood after meeting, basically then then is every month to feed one to three allies. Next door to Catcaller, Zelda has already accumulated three silvers, while players Ultra Justice and Tilted Tower both have a gold alliance, and Tower has several additional silver alliances. ……

Really thank you very much Tian Zei beauty girl, feel like being adopted meow.

Thank you to Yin Tian Shen Yin, Riten X, Mood? Complicated, Shadow Neonitis, Cosmic Dove, Tchaikovsky Tarkovic, Song of the Breeze, Vera0205, Ancient Shingen, and Zobo Gakkai for feeding the allies!
Thank you to Cangjing Yumohai, Electricity 4 Level Zi, and Demon Capital Listening to the Sun for feeding the helm!

And thank you all for your rewards, votes and subscriptions!

Never had such a wonderful start (small fist stone clenched fist) …… That doesn’t seem very auspicious, so let’s forget about it.

I’ve been asked before, can you really stick to two hours of studying a day? Or how do you make sure you can keep studying every day?
The answer to that one is pretty simple too. And as soon as I say it, you’ll know immediately that it works – it just probably won’t work for everyone is all.

Simply put, it means that immediately after I start working (aka coding) each day, I put my work down in favor of a book.

My strong desire not to work, my obsession to escape from work, pushes me to read as much as I can to pass the time. And when I escape into a space free of work, I am free to learn as much as I can.

It’s like flipping through a textbook to look up an answer while I’m doing homework. But the strong desire not to do your homework pushes you to look at the textbook more, to flip through it carefully …… Things that you wouldn’t normally even bother with become very sweet with this urge to escape reality.

–When I went to school to do my homework, in order to avoid doing my homework, I could even hold the bottle of medicine on the table and read for a long time, not to mention extracurricular reading!
It’s been proven that people will do anything to feel the fish. And they can do anything.

There are tons of books, and tons of games that inspired this book – there are only two things a cat does at home when he’s not doing anything, and that’s either reading a book or playing a game.

I can’t count how many settings from games are sewn into my book, but it should be many, many more. My friend Cloudy Sky and I are different in nature; he writes books for the joy of it, and writing is one of the things he loves to do; but for me, writing is just a job I do very handily, and my ultimate goal is still to read books and play games …… while writing books is conversely a byproduct of the overflow of inspiration that comes after a lot of reading and gaming.

Anyway, if it looks familiar, it’s an homage! Thanks to all my favorite games that have inspired me, including Beyblade Fantasy, Final Fantasy, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Tantra Simulator, and many more!
And finally, I’ll share a list of books, which I’ve been asked about a few times before.

I was thinking of waiting for an opportune time to put it out in one sitting – but I got too busy over New Year’s and forgot to post it!
For those who don’t care about this, you can skip it. The rest of this post has nothing to do with the book, it’s a knowledge-sharing session!
The books given below are a four-year library of books I’ve read, re-read two or more times, and partially read but not finished the first time, from the start of Gamer Ultra Justice in 19 years to the present!
A look at these books will probably give you an idea of the author’s personal preferences.

I think it’s also a means of improving mutual understanding.

This is not just a place to share my favorite books with readers who enjoy them, but also to share available creative materials and sources with fellow authors. Unsurprisingly, all of these books should be available, but it’s not a push, after all, everyone specializes in different subjects, and I actually read a rather diverse range of books.

Of course, in order to avoid the suspicion of taking the opportunity to push the book, so usually read online novels are not added to it.

The books here are not divided into up and down, not pushing books, just the books I’ve read, only a short evaluation of the books I’ve read many times, and not counting the books I’ve read before but haven’t read in the last few years. Books that are too retarded for me to read I’ll pretend I didn’t read them, probably deleted from my brain cache. The rest I’ll add whenever I think of a book title, and I may have missed something.

If there are multiple versions or similar names, I’ll mark the author to make it easier to find:
1. read but didn’t finish:
Scott’s Wickham Magic;
Wizards, A History of Fear;
Lewis Leigh Boulouquet’s Raiders of the Cow;
Robert’s The Curious Incident;
Sue Tompkin’s Studies in Astrological Aspects, Astrological Magick: Basic Magical Rituals and Meditations;
Leo Strauss’s History of Political Philosophy;
The Third Wave;
The Prisoner IA;
Borges’ Book of Sand;
Tess of the D’Urbervilles;
The Murder of the Sun, Moon and Stars;
The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science;
A History of International Relations-Volume III.

2. finished reading:
The Morphology of Stories;
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande;
The Myth of the Origin of Fire;
The Philosophical Manuscripts of Economics of 1844;
An Exploration of Ancient Chinese Modes of Thinking and the Five Elements of Yin and Yang;
Toffler, The Transfer of Power;
A Guide to the Western Occult; and
The Secrets of Alchemy; and
The Avesta: The Sacred Book of Zoroastrianism;
The Pastoral Bible;
Understanding the Medium – On the Extension of Man;
Studies in Narrative Theory in the British and American Novel;
The Detective AI;
The Vanishing Thirteen Steps;
The First Nothing – The Haunted Thing;
The Twelve Hours of Changeling;
When the Occult Knocks;
The Homeric Odyssey;
The Moon and Sixpence;
The Music of Strangers;
The Hammer of Glass;
The Collected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe;
The Human Race and Its Symbols;
Yes, Minister;
Thomas Ralston, Celtic Myths and Legends.

Richard Morgan, The Copy;
Kazuhiro Uraga, The Tragedy of Delta;
Roger Zelazny, The Lord of Light;
Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus;
Blake Snyder, Saving the Cat;
Toward the Depths of History: a Study of Marx’s View of History;
Guo Qingguang, A Course in Communication (Second Edition);
Keigo Higashino, The Novel of the Black Laugh, The Novel of the Crooked Laugh, The Split, Who Killed Her, and The Tragic Doll;
Paz, The Bow and the Lyre;
The Weight of a Butterfly: selected poems by Nellie Sachs;
A Biography of Milton;
Friedrich Schiller, A Brief Book of Aesthetic Education;
The Alphabet Killer’s Club;
Pamuk, My Name is Red.

The < Rig Veda > A Close Reading;
A Treatise on the Bhagavad Gita;
Liu Zhongyu, The Culture of Chinese Spirits and Monsters;
Ye Shuxian, The Hero and the Sun-Archetypal Reconstruction of Epic Poetry in Ancient China;
Two Okajima, The Klein Pot;
The Detective – The Higurashi Traveler;
3. those that have been read more than once and repeatedly in the last three or four years:

Ryuhiko Shibusawa, The Black Magic Handbook; (great toolkit, clearly told)
McKee, Tales; (highly recommended, all fiction authors I think need to be read once)
Fraser, The Golden Bough; (recommended, needs to be read whenever writing mystery writing is relevant)
Blake Snyder, Save the Cat 2; (quite a bit better than 1)
The Color Purple and the Black; (great fantasy story)
Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore; (Cat kinda likes to read poetry, and this one was the basis for Tower of Tilting)

Rashomon, a collection of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; (this is a memory from my high school)
Times Literary Publishing’s collection of Hitchcock’s short stories and screenplays, Deep Suspicion, North by Northwest, The Double Killer, The Borrowers, and Midnight Stalker; (this is a memory from my middle school, and it’s still a constant read)

The Prophet, Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran; (+1 for reading the poem)

Fugue for the Dead: Selected Poems of Paul Celan; (read poetry +2)

The Monarch – The Book of Events of Elmero II; (my favorite light novel of all time sort of)
The Empty Realm; (2nd favorite!)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra; (the basis for the creation of Player Superjustice)

Faust; (also the basis for Player’s Superjustice)

The Godfather; (also sort of a childhood favorite, I was so young when I read this)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Mysteries; (childhood +1)

Agatha. The Complete Detective and Speculative Fiction of Christie. (Childhood +2)

……

And finally one more public number, Literary Theory and Criticism, which occasionally turns up good books.

Though it doesn’t feel like there should be many readers who would flip all the way to here. But as is customary, I’ll end with that ……

Hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow.

–May you all be happy always.

(End of chapter)