Volume 1 Afterword

Hey reader, maybe you never heard about me or anything. Just call me Sora.

Quite the journey when I started writing this on April 17. The series was originally titled as “Overclocked Hearts”, and it was supposed to be a short smut but I quite took a liking to romance and high school stories long ago. I actually am writing another high school slice of life series, but I went on a hiatus to focus on this more elaborative and moving story. I am not planning to cut the prior series, but I definitely want to finish this first before I could rework the whole thing.

So what’s the point of writing all of this? Everything starts with words. Then sentences. Then poems. I had my first poem written on a grimy notebook back in eighth grade. I still kept it, now it was uploaded on notepads or Google Docs.

Poems are cool, but writing a novel? Damn right, we’re in. I have these creative moments where I just space out and think that this life is just another plot in a bigger story. I stanned some light novel writers, Kinugasa Shougo of course, Mikawa Ghost, or Shimesaba. Their writing styles are amazing.

Here at Honeyfeed, I take Kirb and Felipe Eliz as inspirations (screams in dogeza)

Mine? I don’t know. I don’t find my writing style flashy or anything. Just the classic. I remember writing my first series and my writing style felt weird. For me of course, I was content–yet it feels off in a sense. I started watching lessons from youtube (maybe 100+ hours) and reading light novels (a lot!) and practiced and honed mine.

In retrospect, I guess I have improved. I guess I’m doing well in the pacing and dialogue flow. I used grammar correction and AI to structure the plot, and that made the thing easier like 90% (the former novel burned me out so much and stuck me in a mental block). I also approached character creation differently (I listed them all first, unlike them randomly popping out of nowhere) this time, they are all interconnected in some ways.

This novel was inspired by Plastic Memories x Higehiro in a sense. You get it, don’t you? A girl, rescued from getting beat, and then the character brings her home. And these robots appear everywhere taking over humanity’s duties. It’s not like I have fetish for sexy robot women, lol.

Dialogue is the soul of light novels. They don’t focus on description of the surroundings, but with how people interact with each other. Maybe that’s the difference between old me and new me.

This volume laid the foundation of the world where Haru and Ayase are living. Next volume, I want to focus on deepening their bond and what it means to start from scratch.

See you next week for the second volume!

Sora.