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This I published Episode Ten, the last installment of Tokyo Nights: Season One. Feels good to have finished the season and I’m pretty up with how it went, though for Season Two I will write it all in advance first. That way, there won’t be the huge pressure to write/edit/publish within a short space of... Continue Reading →
Writing Tokyo Nights: Season One was always going to be challenge. Pushing myself to write, edit, publish and promote a story via instalments every two weeks, especially when each instalment – episode – averaged about nine thousand words. Releasing a story by instalments in of itself wasn’t new to me, I’d written plenty of fanfiction... Continue Reading →
As fiction writers we are often asked questions about the level of realism in our writing, especially regarding the use of places in a contemporary setting. Normally it doesn’t worry me too much with smaller places in my story being completely fictional and larger named cities, the geography is dealt with in rather vague ways... Continue Reading →
This week has been an interesting. I had a one-on-one talk with my tutor over the piece of writing (two-thousand word sample of a larger MS) I have been working on for my university course and it didn’t quite go they way I expected. Never thought I would have to defend my story for... Continue Reading →
This weeks Rainbow Snippet comes from Episode Nine of Tokyo Nights, which is being released this week. Saita ripped open the sachets of sugar sitting next to his cup and tipped each one in. He absently stirred it and stared into space, his mind drifting back to that night almost a week ago now. The... Continue Reading →
Recently in some of the Facebook writing groups I’ve joined, we’ve been challenged to interview our characters. In two different groups I chose to interview the characters from the upcoming Tokyo Nights Novella featuring Jun Sagaki (who appears in Tokyo Nights: Season One) and the Manager of a Host Club in Kabukicho, Ikue Kirushima. Now... Continue Reading →
This week has been a busy week as I finished off the edits for Tokyo Nights: Episode Eight and worked on a university assignment. Thankfully the main part of the assignment had been done and I just needed to work on the three-hundred word introduction which had to be formatted like an essay and include:... Continue Reading →
When cultural clashes occur between characters it isn’t always over big political/moral beliefs but can occur over small things that for one character might seem insignificant. For Jamie and Gou one area where the difference in their cultural beliefs stands out is over tattoos. For Jamie they are art, personal connections with the past or... Continue Reading →
Missed last weeks Rainbow Snippets as I was busy with Gymnastics and attending the local writers festival on top of getting my own work done, like publishing Tokyo Nights Episode Seven. I have finished the last of the drafts for Season One, just need to work through them for edits and have already thought about how... Continue Reading →
