Afterword

Hi everyone, Glenn here the writer! First, I want to thank everyone for checking out my second novel "4 hours to save the world". Your likes and comments mean a lot to me, they really do. When completing my last novel, people asked for one of these "afterwords" and explained a little bit about how the book came to be.

After completing my contest novel "Maid school", I took a little break and then searched for a new concept. There were a few practical factors that went into my decision. The novel had to be short (max 10k) and be different enough from my contest novel. The only thing I continued was the "exploration" part since I heard a lot of people liked that part of "Maid school" the best. I left out all the cutesy stuff this time and focussed on more adult characters with some more serious themes. The whole "four hours" thing also resulted from the limited word count, I figured with so little time passing, there were only some many things that could happen. 

The creation of this novel took longer than expected, especially at the end I struggled to find the time to get it all done. The epilogue became way longer than originally planned because I found it important to give some closure to the character conflicts introduced in the story. It still feels a bit rushed if you ask me, but making it any longer would have brought the book too much out of proportion. For the ending, I thought about doing some smarter things subverting the reader's expectations a little more, but in the end, I couldn't really justify it with the low word count. So it ended up being quite straightforward, but hopefully, it still felt satisfying.

In the coming months, I'll work on some new chapters for maid school, which will be the summer side stories for the other characters. (Ti / Mona / Serena) After they are done I'll shelve them until summer, since they make more sense then. And after that, I hope to compete in another Honeyfeed contest with you guys!

One final thank you, time to end this rambling. 

Glenn