Author Words
Well first I thank all of you who read After School Tuition Centre, I know I know everyone thank their readers. Well if you wrote a novel and no one read, vote for it, or add it into their collection will you still want to write?
If yes then you are a God, bye bye you can go now. If no then…thank everyone who has supported you all this time.
I also want to thank my friends who unknowingly became my lab rats, for quite some time I let them react to the first few ASTC.
Well I did not let them know I was writing a novel at the busiest year of our lives, instead I told them stories about the chapters and ask them is it funny?
Thank guys…
When I first started ASTC, I read a manga called Grand Blue. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to write ASTC, other than that there was also a song called Gag by Hoshino Gen.
Without Gag ASTC first few moments will never occur in my mind and the web novel might never be written.
Then there was Giddens, his During Class Don't series is why my writing style turned like this. Yes, he taught me this hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
But the biggest inspiration of them all is actually my friends that I go to tuition with.
Since I was young I was considered one of the rare Asians who don't need to go to tuition the moment you could start speaking (my sister not so lucky). It was until I was form 4, the same time where ASTC started that I went to tuition for the first time in my life and that tuition centre I went to became After School Tuition Centre. (From now on I will be referring to the tuition centre I went to as After School Tuition Centre.)
But that isn't the first time I went to After School Tuition Centre, when I was a kid I followed my sister to send her of for her first day at After School Tuition Centre. Little did I know years later I would come back there and write a novel about my days there.
Not everything is perfect, during my first year I hated it there. I did not attended the tuition centre on day one, instead I went there around august which is really really late. Everyone already know each other and I turned into the lonely kid, and dumb me decided to forget to bring my calculator to class. (You ever tried to do physics without a calculator? Don't). And then yours truly place his add maths classes after his physics classes.
By that point I already felt like shit and just wanted to get this over with, I just sat down and starred at the teacher. (Really nice guy by the way.) And then a friend of mine that I have known since primary school walked in, I do not know that he was attending tuition there. If I did not decided to place all my classes in one day because I was lazy, ASTC would not exist because he then told me that there are others attending tuition on another day, Monday and Friday was the only day that no one from my will be there. I unknowingly picked the short end of the stick. (I blame add maths for this, two classes per week and both of them are during Thursday and Friday.)
So I stayed for the rest of the year and things turned from bad to okay, but it was the second year I was there that changed everything.
Five guys from the same school, one table and one crazy teacher. So one day I thought to myself, since I don't feel like writing The Damn Hunter might as well write a new novel. (Totally forgot there was a girl, but our tuition centre did not allow girls and boys to sit together unless if it is a punishment. Plus she always sat behind us and I don't grow eyes on my back.)
You all know about the sudden hiatus of ASTC right? If you don't during July ASTC stopped updating and there were two reasons for that. The first is a burnout from me and the second is one of the guys left, he changed his class to another day so he could see a girl he likes. (The girl did not know about him…but I respected that and sometimes he showed up with us occasionally)
And that is how ASTC was born. No one knows about this novel, and their personalities and names are changed. A good portion of the events are true and was used as an idea for ASTC chapter.
I also used another version of ASTC pilot for my SPM essay, all I can say is the person who marked my paper is a true man of culture. (Including the person who marked my 1119 paper, I don't know why you give ASTC 2A, but I still think that the score is too high. XD)
I know some of you younger ones reading this might hate this, but if you read this during 2020 and you are 20 years old then you are the old guy here.
If you are still in school, treasure every moment with your friends. You will miss them, you might not now but you will soon after you graduate. I was lucky enough to go on a trip with my friends( Not the ones from the tuition centre)and have a fun time at CF that year.
Other than that, don't create impossible deadlines for yourself. I mentioned that ASTC went into hiatus and one of the reasons is burnout, during a two week school holiday I decided to finish ASTC. To finish writing a whole novel in two weeks seems easy, especially for ASTC because the number of words rarely exceeded 800, but in one week I wrote 40+ chapters and decided to stop writing and just study the holiday away.
I hated ASTC during that time, I truly hated this novel. Plus the bad collections, views and power stones vote did not really help much.
After that one week, I kept on calculating how much longer till I reach my deadline and let me tell you something.
The deadline is on September of 2019, it is almost the end of June 2020 (I finished the novel during June and finish publishing during July).
If it is a deadline made by your boss then follow it, you don't have much choice. But if it is your own deadline, then forget about it and never force yourself to chase time until you die.
For starters I will take a break, I just finished Two Stack: A DOTA2 Story and immediately started writing ASTC. I don't know how long my break will last, but I don't think it will be that long.
For ASTC, this isn't a true end. ASTC is a part of the series I called the real life series which includes Two Stack and love between musicians, but the end of ASTC will mark a hiatus for the real life series for some time. ASTC will get occasional extra chapters, some that are already planned and some for example A Normal First Day was created by for other purposes but was not used.
For those readers who like all my work (I know you don't exist, if you do message me.) The Damn Hunter will come back for a while. While we are talking, a chapter has been released and the details for the release rate is written in the author's note.
If you really like my comedy, I think you could guess what I'm going to do next. I will be writing my next comedy will I'm working on two other novels, so don't really have your hopes up.
I would be attending university during September so I don't know how much longer I could write. But I hope that I could keep on continue writing and tell the stories that I want to tell.
Thank you for reading After School Tuition Centre.
If you are interested in my other words just click on my profile. (Just don't click Path To The Top, God of Sabers or Love Between Musicians.)
Goodbye and enjoy the extra chapters of After School Tuition Centre.