Eventually I put aside my doctoral thesis for a month or so and drilled off the rest of the novel. "Tsai acknowledges that because of the immediacy of the medium his online work is to some degree influenced, in terms of form, content and progress, by the response of the readers-" even if a lot of that influence is unconscious. "
後來我乾脆先擱置自己的論文，快速地在一個多月內完成這部小說，」蔡智恆不諱言，由於網路上的創作十分直接，自己寫作的形式、內容、進度多多少少都受到網友的影響，「雖然很多影響也是不自覺的」。