Hey, author here, and, as tradition demands, I must give my story a five-store rating. But more importantly, I want to let you, the reader, have a better understanding of why I am writing this novel.
The biggest reason I am writing this novel is that I love reading. I started off reading wuxia novels in middle school, and as I've matured, I started to appreciate other genres more. I've dabbled my feet in writing novels before. I created three different novels shortly after Webnovel introduced the original series concept. However, being young, not committed to anything, and addicted to video games, I gave up soon the inception of those novels. It was also around this time that I stopped reading novels due to burnout of the same repetitive tropes within novels. Fast forward a few years later, I got back into reading and felt the desire to write again, except, this time I was more mature and much more determined to give it my all.
I published "The Dungeoneering Armrace" on Scribblehub but stopped after writing twenty-two chapters. I stopped because, frankly, I had no idea what I was doing. I was writing to write, and as a result of making no plans whatsoever, the novel's story quickly spiraled out of control. But, out of it, I gained experience. I used this experience to start a new novel called the "Advent of Azrail" published on Scribblehub and Webnovel, but I stopped after writing forty-four chapters. The reason I gave up on this one was partial because of its lacking success but mainly because I was chasing after success with that novel. I purposely wrote short chapters to upload them daily and mimicked formulas that often experience success among readers. Long story short, I wasn't writing out of passion but greed. This feeling gnawed on my heart especially beginning from chapter thirty onwards. I felt disgusted by my writing, which lacked any semblance of passion or heart, so I discontinued the novel.
And now, I am here, with "Avatar of the Prophet of Serenity," published both on Webnovel and Scribblehub as well. Unlike my previous novels, I planned the story out pretty far before beginning to write. I did my utmost to dismay any pursuit of success and instead focused on doing the best writing I could achieve. Long chapters and spending multiple days to write a chapter, I intend to finish writing this story.
If you've read to this point, first of all, thank you for listing to my life story of sorts. Secondly, pardon my selfishness, but please give my story a chance. I am fully aware that it is very much not perfect or great and very much rough around the edges. But please, if you do proceed to read through the chapters, if you feel that anything is lacking or something could have been done better, do not hesitate to point it out to me. Worry not. I will not be offended but happy that someone has taken time out of their day to help me.
After reading the first entry to the esteemed Witcher series, "The Last Wish" by legendary author Andrzej Sapkowski, I realized just how beautiful writing could be, and the saying "the pen is mightier than the sword" has since been throbbing intensely in my head. I wish to one day write at the quality of Andrezej Sapkowski, and I understand that it will be a long and arduous path. But hey, we've all got to start somewhere, right?
