Races: Online 7th Month and Author Thoughts

My first book, 'Moon Rabbit: Threaded Fate' tells the story of a young woman who encounters a celestial being that fell from the skies (you guessed it, it's the Moon Rabbit lol) and one of the people she knows is Han Jing. He's a twenty-four year old young man who is still living with his parents and spends the majority of his time on his phone.

But why?

The 'why' part led to him spending the majority of his time with online strangers, strangers that are much more than what they seem. One of the first web novels, or manhua I've seen here in Webnovel is Cultivation Chat Group and it inspired me by a good portion. Especially when the WPC #114 - Smartphone came up.

I only actually won 7th place there, it was a rough competition haha.

If you've read the first portion, you can definitely see that I'm having fun with the concept. Honestly, it shouldn't have even taken the Virtual Reality portion but due to popular demand, or rather a comment by one of the Readers _Kaitlin_, I adjusted and catered to the Virtual Reality portion.

And I don't regret it, it may have sidetracked from my original purpose, but it's also enjoyable on its own. I first started publishing Races: Online on May 14th, 2020 and it's actually December 14th, 2020 and it's the 7th month anniversary of the book.

I realized that just now lol.

As of today, it's only 178 Chapters which is small in the Webnovels, I have no idea how people write a thousand chapters and you guys keep reading it—but here we are. Honestly the Minimum Guaranteed System is what encouraged me to write this too, because it's COVID and I'm a newly graduated Student who can't get a job (You: Is the Author projecting herself with the MC?!).

In the Philippines, $200 is actually a nice amount of money that can cover my internet bill, some food and such. Nothing extravagant, and it's a reason why I do two stories for me to get $400 lol. But yeah, I'm not exactly sure who adds 'Notice Me Reader-chan' into their libraries but there we have it.

The Author Note at the end of the chapters can't satisfy my own urge to write my thoughts lol. Hopefully I'll be able to look back on this and see how far I'll go, or at least reminisce on better times. And yeah, I'm actually procrastinating from writing my own chapters by writing this ahaha.

But yeah, Han Jing somehow happened to be an accidental MC that called for his own story so here we are, Races: Online. I've read a lot of webtoons too, more so than web novels, so you might see instances where you'd get a lot of references to other mediums. (It's not pirating -.- gah)

On the funny side though, ah, maybe I should write about actual racing cars, I got a couple readers confused by the title heh. We're even at Magical Academy Arc right now oof. You know, maybe I'll do this more often. Journaling is quite helpful for mental health.

Hopefully you'll see another post like this some time soon if I don't forget.