M. Harmon Wilkinson 4/1/23 M. Harmon Wilkinson 4/1/23

Website: 5th anniversary

I’ve been distracted by my retirement and the preparations for moving to the US at the end of June, but my days are full of writing. I will have so much to show when publication time finally rolls around.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/21 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/21

National Novel Writing Month 2021 III

I finished NaNoWriMo today with my biggest thirty-day word count ever: 120,000 words.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/15/21 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/15/21

National Novel Writing Month 2021 II

Four wins in four years.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/21 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/21

National Novel Writing Month 2021

This year I am writing a sequel. It’s fun to already know the characters and the world they inhabit.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/20 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/20

National Novel Writing Month 2020 III

My NaNoWriMo novel is 91,700 words, quite a bit more than my 75,000-word goal. But there are still places that need filling out and the novel is terribly disjointed. Still, I think I have some solid content to work with.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/17/20 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/17/20

National Novel Writing Month 2020 II

I won National Novel Writing Month for the third year in a row.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/20 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/20

National Novel Writing Month 2020

Six of my novels have a male protagonist, and they are quite similar, all nice guys. I wanted to stretch and write a curmudgeon.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 9/14/20 M. Harmon Wilkinson 9/14/20

The idea: The Keeper

A foreigner living in Tokyo does not want his daughters to have to live with the pain of their father’s suicide. So he decides to get himself murdered. That’s not a simple thing to do in Tokyo.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 9/9/20 M. Harmon Wilkinson 9/9/20

The idea: Vision More Glorious

Vision More Glorious follows a young English teacher in Tokyo who takes part in a drug trial for a new antidepressant. To his amazement, it quickly alters the range of light he is able to see, giving him a wonderful, though almost useless, superpower.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 12/6/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 12/6/19

Plotting or pantsing?

I have mostly “pantsed” my novels so far, but would a trilogy require more plotting in advance?

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/30/19

National Novel Writing Month 2019 III

I won NaNoWriMo 2019, my second win in a row.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/15/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/15/19

National Novel Writing Month 2019 II

I passed the 50,000-word winning point of National Novel Writing Month on day 12.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 11/1/19

National Novel Writing Month 2019

I am feeling both excitement at writing something new (my first new novel since NaNoWriMo last year), and trepidation over whether I can make the story work.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 8/16/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 8/16/19

Three more novels

I’ve been editing three more novels. I hope to introduce them here within the next few months.

M. Harmon Wilkinson 1/14/19 M. Harmon Wilkinson 1/14/19

Writing software: AutoCrit

Don’t spend $30/month for AutoCrit. Spend $1 instead and try it out. It will make you all the more thankful that there are talented human beings who are actually willing to edit another person’s work.