Afterword
Happy New Year! It’s the author, Takehaya.
This time I have safely delivered volume 12, where the magicians become more active and the story’s structure starts to change once more.
This series has now been around for four years, and I am deeply moved by that. I planned to make this into a long story from the very beginning, but for fear of it being cancelled early on, I developed it in a way that it could easily wrap up after the third or sixth volume.
In the three volume version, volumes 2 and 3 would have continued very much so in the spirit of the first one. It would end without any foreshadowing and before any serious plotlines were developed.
In the six volume version, volume 2 would have been the same, and then there would have been a feature volume for each invader to cover all of their stories. And all foreshadowing before that would be unburied.
But because of all this uncertainty, I had to write the first volume in a way that would work with all three versions. Since the characters’ backgrounds and motivations differed between versions, trying to write their characters got a bit dicey at times.
Fortunately, thanks to the support of my readers, this series has been able to flourish. And thanks to that, the restrictions on the story were eased by the third volume, and then once again with the seventh. That made it easy for me to start gradually using foreshadowing. As a result, it’s actually now much easier for me to write than it was at the outset. Now I can just write about whatever I want while making use of what’s been foreshadowed. But all of this groundwork was necessary since I tried to write a long story without having much previous experience. So in short, it’s my own fault (ha!).
Whoops, looks like I’ve already run out of space for the afterword, so I’ll leave it at this. Though things might have gotten easier, I’m still striving to write something that lives up to everyone’s expectations, so I hope you can continue to support me.
Well then, let us meet in the afterword of volume 13.
January 2013
Takehaya
P.S. - Though it might be a little late, I’ve made a Twitter account.
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