If you put it too soon, you might stick around for longer than that, and then the peak has come too soon.

如果你太早到达巅峰，你可能会有很长的下跌时期，这样的话巅峰来得太早了。

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It's okay to stick around for a while, but if the high point of the story occurs in chapter 2 and then there are another 67 chapters after that, you think, this was not a well-constructed novel.

有一段下跌并没有关系，但是如果故事高潮在第二章出现2,后面还有67章，你会觉得这部小说结构不好。

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