Afterword
Finally, the eighth volume! Thank you so much for purchasing this book. The sixth volume of the manga was released at the same time, so check that out too if you’re interested!
Now, as far as what I’m doing lately, I’ve been thinking about how to manage my time. I’ve never been good at that, and I always worry about how much time to spend on which tasks each day. I write about eight pages an hour on average, but I can’t do that for hours on end. If I don’t take a break every two or three hours, I hit a roadblock. I could just do something useful with those breaks, but I’m often bad about that and end up doing nothing at all.
Do I have any readers who use their time well, or not? I’d like to get better at that. The reason I’m thinking about this is that I’ve always loved reading, and I used to read a whole book almost every day, but that’s changed since I became an author who has to write every day for a living. I don’t know if it’s because I subconsciously want to get away from text, but it’s hard for me to even read a book a week now.
Sometimes I feel like that doesn’t matter, but I’m not so sure. At a glance, it seems like you only need a pen and paper to write a book, or even just a computer nowadays. But I feel like it takes a surprising amount of energy. It takes all the values, memories, knowledge, and emotional experiences you’ve accumulated over the course of your life. None of these things have a physical form, so it’s easy to think that you can use them endlessly and they’ll never run out, but when you write a book, it strangely feels like you start running thin.
I feel like I have to get some more of these things from somewhere, or I’ll wear out like a car that’s driven hundreds of thousands of kilometers. The easiest place to get these things is novels, movies, manga, and other forms of stories written by other people. I desperately want time to experience those. If I can’t, I eventually won’t be able to write anymore. I haven’t found a good way to find the time for that yet, but I want to try and figure out how to resupply all that energy draining from me.
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