And if you dare to try any such coups and fail, you get delivered a coup de grâce. Those are La Règle du jeu, mon ami.
*flicks a cigarette and pulls a gun out on you, blowing smoke out calmly*
I'd celebrate it... if I believed society and governments could properly handle the fallout of human obsolescence. But I don't, and they won't. I can hope that's pessimism, of course. Let the good times roll and such.
The world would be better off without non-bio-degradable plastics. Plastics are a key invention, but let's retcon the forever particle aspect!
The world would be better with cheap, efficient cold fusion.
Or maybe
I'm always writing up to a desired major event, definitely. I've even pre-written some in super rough draft phase, to remember important intricacies. It's extra nasty when some big major points are still boiling in the pot after 100k words. I just repeat things like 'slow brew' in my head to...
Up to 16, today, just a friendly meeting with a powerful bio-tendril-sorceress who enjoys long walks in front of bound captives scaring the faithlessness out of them, a rustic hero or two maybe, and the odd bawdy joke or story. Nothing too serious.
I just do what I want. Otherwise, I wouldn't even be ignoring all advice about what to do for a web novel and just doing a book. It doesn't make me smart, but it does make me stubborn, which is not an argument.
But no, I think balance is definitely better for any writing and something to strive...