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This weeks Rainbow Snippet is coming from a piece that I’m writing for a creative writing course. I’ve just finished the literary critique assignment (though I need to proof it again before I hand it in) and the next assignment is finally two-thousand words of our own writing. It is set in Okinawa and will... Continue Reading →
This week Episode Four of Tokyo Nights: Season One went live and to celebrate this weeks snippet will come from it. My week has been busy preparing for course assignments, both a critique of a piece of literary fiction that I hated and yet all my classmates raved about it, one even stated that they... Continue Reading →
This week snippet comes from the spinoff novel for The Yakuza and the English Teacher series, called Crossing the Line. I’ve started putting the unedited version up on Wattpad to keep myself motivated to finish it before it gets shoved to the bottom of the writing pile. Brian and Ken first met in book two... Continue Reading →
As a panster, having a story evolve in a direction that wasn’t expected is nothing new. It can make the whole writing process exciting as the characters reveal more of themselves on the page and push the story away from the intended narrative, or at least make the journey a lot more twisted – frustrated.... Continue Reading →
Tokyo Nights: Episode Three is now available and without all the drama the last episode endured. This week I’ve started my last semester of university studies. It’s only one paper – Creative Writing – but it looks to be very full on with the weekly course load on top of the assignments. I’ve had to... Continue Reading →
As I get ready to release Tokyo Nights: Episode Three (or at least hit the publish button and wait for it to be listed, first on Amazon and then everywhere else) it seemed appropriate share a snippet from it. It is definitely turning into an interesting story, and with the plan for this first season... Continue Reading →
Tokyo Nights: Episode Two is now available and Episode Three is almost ready for release, while two more are waiting to be edited. I’m taking a break from writing it for the next two days – writing anything – after injuring my thumb coaching gymnastics. It doesn’t hurt – not a good thing – but... Continue Reading →
After much frustration Episode Two is finally released... whew! I hope Episode Three won't prove to be as difficult to get up... well I can hope. Hisato continues to his struggle to stick to his assignment, but his growing attraction to Ogawa threatens to derail him. Ogawa isn't faring much better, finding he needs... Continue Reading →
I had hoped that Episode Two of Tokyo Nights would already be available, but… well, Amazon isn’t making it easy. Fingers crossed it goes live soon.... But anyway, one can't stop writing because of Amazon, so, here is a snippet from the first draft of Episode Five. ………………………………. Hisato groaned, overwhelmed by a sudden restlessness... Continue Reading →
