A New Course

I guess it's because he's a new character, but I like the character Kaze no Katsumi, I created for the short story, Zombie Brawl.  Ever since I started thinking about the sequel, which was when I was still writing the first book, I wanted to add another "supernatural' character in there - I thought, who in Japanese hirtory, could I use - I was thinking about Abe no Seimei, who was an astrolger and Imperial Court counselor back in the pre-shogun Heian Period. 

Other aspects I'm thinking about adding to the story are perhaps a treasure that came over from China to North America when the Chinese conducted their around the world expedition in 1421, or even incorporating something about the Yamato " clan, which is the clan which "unified" Japan back in the B.C. days.

I wrote the first story with Kaze no Katsumi in first person, so I wonder if I should do this story in his voice, though the major combatants will still be Yagyu Jubei and the vampire, Kageura.

Zombie Brawl, or the Rants and Raves of a Mass Transit Commuter the Day the Zombies Attacked the Train

What do I do when I'm not thinking about vampires and samurai?  One is to think about zombies and ninjas.

This is what I have been writing in my absence writing about the vampire Kageura.

Please check out Zombie Brawl, or Rants and Raves of a Mass Transit Commuter the Day the Zombies Attacked the Train.

OT - Zombies

I just completed a draft of my zombie short story, so I will be concentrating on that for a few days.  Unfortunately, the Kageura story is the casualty since it is the story i am experiencing a block on. 

At this point, I might go back and piece together the events that took place inthis blog and organize them into text form for the second scene in the eventual novel.

This is a work in progress.

I will post here when the zombie short story is available for sale.  I am planning on it to be 0.99 on Amazon Kindle only since it is a short story of about 13 pages.

Writer's Block Continues

This is the worst about being a writer - working through blocks.  Fortunately, it is not an all-around block, just with this story.  I am currently productive with my book on my recovery with spinal cord injury, Toe Up to 10K.  But even with progress on that, I have not been as active on the blog with the same name.

If you are a writer, it is pretty nice to be working on multiple stories, but it also means that one story might be delayed and writer's block might take longer to break through since you have an alternate to work on.

Hopefully, this block will pass.  I am currently drafting a short story about zombies, and also reading a book about Japanese history, so hopefully writing in the same genre and reading historical non-fiction will spark ideas for the Kageura story.

Author's Entry: Still having writer's block

Even with the interview with Jubei, I am still having writer's block.  This is one of the reasons I started this blog for my sake.  I knew there would be times when i just wouldn't know how to proceed, but hoped that by writing it out, some ideas can come to me.

I could test out sample prose, interview my characters, try out plot progressions, and then when the final book is ready, I could go back to this blog and the entries can sort of serve as notes.