Category: Writing
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Words vs. Time
I wrote 745 words today on book 3 of The Ghost and the Mask. It’s not a lot, but it’s more than my daily goal, which is only 500 these days. It used to be 1000, and I hope to get back up to that, but the time just isn’t in the day right now.…
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Google Maps Gold
I was doing some research on where a certain criminal character might live in Kofu, Japan, for book three of The Ghost and the Mask series. Although I have spent time there, I don’t live in Japan, so I randomly picked a neighborhood in Google maps and dropped the little yellow man into street view.…
Tristram Lowe
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The Wind on the Blade is here
My book of short stories about the victims of the killer in my debut novel, Headless, is finally here. Here’s the blurb: The katana flashes in the night, its blade reflecting the fluorescent glow of the train station lights. A head rolls onto the tracks. The tales within tell the stories of five of the…
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Proofing The Wind on the Blade
I got my proof copy of The Wind on the Blade the other day, and I’ve started reading through it. I found a few things I want to change… And I’m only half way through. Not to worry though. They are all little things, thankfully. Typos, comma placement, word choice, a few unnecessary sentences. Shouldn’t…
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Divergent Sea Bass
I’m surprised (and yet not) to see that September was the last time I wrote anything. Life is swimming past. We had a little snafu with formatting The Wind on the Blade recently, as I realized that there were two different versions, and the one that was imported into the book hadn’t been updated. I…
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Necks and Tails
I had a realization about the final story in The Wind on the Blade, and it was that the guts and the bones are there, but some of them were in the wrong place. And the intent was wrong, or maybe didn’t even exist. I had an intent, as the author, but my protagonist did…
Tristram Lowe
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Broken Plates
I have added another 3605 words to the final story in The Wind on the Blade. Is it finished? Maybe. I don’t know. I’m tired and I’m not up for reading it back right now. I’ll do it in the morning. Or sometime thereafter. There is so much on my plate right now. My plate…
Tristram Lowe
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3am, writing
I am writing at 3am, trying to get the final story in The Wind on the Blade finished. It was an incomplete story in its first incarnation. The solution that I have been crafting, with my editor’s input, is something that is much longer and more involved than what I had originally imagined. Therefore, I…
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“Finally,” he said, unconvincingly.
I have finally finished the rewrite of the story that has been tormenting me lately. Yes, the one about the mystery victim in Headless. It is the fourth of six stories in The Wind on the Blade, half of which are short stories and half of which are novelettes. I did not know I was…
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POV of the Dead
I feel good about today’s work on The Wind on the Blade. I only wrote a little over 500 words, but they were good words. The POV shift that my editor suggested is so spot on. I don’t know what I was thinking before. The problem is that I had shifted the POV away from…
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