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August 30, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing life

Balance

August 30, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing life
Balance

Balance: it’s so much more than an inner ear thing.

August 30, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing life

Tagged: Writing life, Stephen King, Balance

August 16, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Three more novels

August 16, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
Three more novels

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

August 16, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Editing, Under Shōko's Bed, Under Shoko's Bed, Neyuki, National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo

August 2, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing process

Tears

August 2, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing process
Tears

It’s what leads up to the weeping, setting up the emotional situation, that is critical.

August 2, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Writing process

Tagged: Emotion, Under Shōko's Bed, Under Shoko's Bed, Orson Scott Card, Haruki Murakami

July 19, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Publishing

Finding comparable titles

July 19, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Publishing
Finding comparable titles

Under Shōko’s Bed is cross-cultural contemporary psychological literary fiction with mature characters set in Japan. Is that a category on Amazon?

July 19, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Publishing

Tagged: Under Shōko's Bed, Under Shoko's Bed, Publishing

July 5, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Research

Native knowledge

July 5, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Research
Native knowledge

I need to find a native Japanese writing colleague to make my novels more authentic.

July 5, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Research

Tagged: Authenticity

June 21, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Voice

June 21, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
Voice

I began voicing my third novel. With eleven first-person narrators, it’s a daunting task.

June 21, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Voice, Editing

June 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Owning it

June 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
Owning it

After careful consideration of the feedback’s suggested alternatives, I found many of my original words were exactly what I wanted to say.

June 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Editing, Tokyo Writers Workshop, TWW

May 24, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

One space or two?

May 24, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
One space or two?

I’m changing because I don’t want to be thought of as an old guy, despite my being, in fact, an old guy.

May 24, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Editing, Typesetting, Punctuation

May 17, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Approaching a major rewrite II

May 17, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
Approaching a major rewrite II

The key was to just start writing, and an idea for an engaging subplot presented itself. 

May 17, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Editing

May 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Approaching a major rewrite

May 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing
Approaching a major rewrite

I am rewriting my fourth novel, a major reworking that is unlike any editing I have done before. At first challenged, I am coming to love the process.

May 7, 2019
M. Harmon Wilkinson
Editing

Tagged: Editing, Under Shōko's Bed, Under Shoko's Bed, Neyuki, Tokyo Writers Workshop

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