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Wrapping it Up

On April 23, 2019April 21, 2019 By Tristram LoweIn Journal, Novel, WritingLeave a comment

We're another episode closer to the finale of Game of Thrones and I'm following up last week's post about ending a story from a writer's perspective. Today, as I'm writing the final pages in my sequel to Headless, I am working to make it a great ending for my readers. There's nothing better than setting …

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Okay… Here’s an Update

On March 26, 2019April 15, 2019 By Tristram LoweIn books, Japan, Journal, News, Novel, Progress Update, WritingLeave a comment

What am I doing? In my journal here, I've started posting Japan-related things that tie-in to my novels, thinking that might interest my readers. But it was nearly crickets on my UFO catcher post last week! Maybe I took a wrong turn. So this week I'm just going to give a quick update on what's …

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Fish for Breakfast

On March 12, 2019March 11, 2019 By Tristram LoweIn Journal, NovelLeave a comment

Image by murakumo28 on Pixabay When I lived with a family in Yokohama back in 2009, we had fish for breakfast every day. While this is an odd concept for most Americans, and, I expect, most Westerners in general, it’s pretty normal in Japan. Being an island nation, fish is definitely a staple protein. The …

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The Snake Woman

On March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 By Tristram LoweIn article, Journal, NovelLeave a comment

Artwork by Matthew Meyer, yokai.com In light of my recent article at Science Fantasy Hub, I thought I would write a bit more about one of the Japanese monsters I use in my book Headless. In Headless, there are three specific monsters that are featured. One of them is from Japanese mythology and the other …

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Invisibility Potion

On February 1, 2018 By Tristram LoweIn Journal, RandomLeave a comment

Do you ever feel like someone slipped an invisibility potion into your morning cereal? I think it's happened to me this week. Texts have gone ignored, emails unanswered, phone calls unreturned. Maybe it's more like an unimportance potion, where anything coming from you just doesn't feel relevant. An irrelevancy potion. Every artist's deepest fear. The …

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Books I Read in 2017

On January 19, 2018January 19, 2018 By Tristram LoweIn books, JournalLeave a comment

[Photo by Savannah Walters on Unsplash] I love reading. It is such a part of who I am that it seems silly to even mention it. But apparently there are a lot of people out there who don't. That always surprises me, though at this point in life, it probably shouldn't. I read a fair amount in 2017, and …

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October Update

On October 22, 2017October 22, 2017 By Tristram LoweIn Blogging, Journal, News, Novel, Progress Update, Writing2 Comments

Photo by Andrea Boldizsar on Unsplash. I haven’t written much about the sequel to Headless here. In fact, I think the only thing I’ve mentioned is that I am writing one. I actually haven’t told ANYONE what it’s about yet. Not even my wife. Not even my brother. Both of whom I share just about everything with. I …

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Now

On October 6, 2017 By Tristram LoweIn Helpful, Journal, News, Progress Update1 Comment

Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash Just a quick update today. I have added a Now page to my site. This is a simple page where I can put what I'm working on and thinking about right now. It also has my current reading list. The idea is Derek Siver's and he has a site dedicated to it …

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How to Review a Book on Amazon

On September 19, 2017 By Tristram LoweIn Blogging, Helpful, JournalLeave a comment

OR How to Not Be a Moron Photo by Brad C. Wilcox It still baffles me how utterly clueless people are sometimes. I was just looking at a book on Amazon, and there was a one-star review that said, “I thought I was ordering a paperback.” That’s all it said. Because this person was too …

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What Was I Thinking?

On September 4, 2017September 15, 2017 By Tristram LoweIn Blogging, Helpful, JournalLeave a comment

or How to Put Your WordPress Blog into Your Squarespace Site. Photo by Andrew Furlan on Unsplash So…I know it may be hard to believe (not) but I sometimes do really stupid things that make life much harder than it should be. I started my Squarespace site because of the release of my first book, and I wanted …

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