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Ep. 336: Lonely Sewing Tutorial?
Bookbinding
Aside from finishing a novella (see Fiction, right below), I printed it out to make a physical copy. It’s B6, 125 pages, and includes the Japanese holiday for each month (except June and December which have no holidays) plus other words (also in Japanese).
I made a cover for the first page, sewed the text block together, and made a ten-minute tutorial (see Talkies, below).
Fiction
I finished writing The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street and put it online. It’s about 125 pages in B6 format.
Each chapter has two parts. Part One is with Nagi, the old, retired, divorced Japanese teacher thinking about life, and stops when he runs into Rin, his former student.
Part Two is Rin thinking about her life, and continues after she meets up with Nagi.
There are 12 chapters, one for each month of the year. For more about the book, see Books, below.
Talkies
A video tutorial for sewing before casing in. At YouTube TDGB 81: Sewing. About ten minutes.
Books
My novella, The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street, is available on Apple Books and other online sites. A fifteen-page chapter is free for your reading pleasure.
Rin Okabe, a 36-year-old single electrical engineer working for an architectural office, runs into her old (really, he's almost 80), divorced, Japanese high school teacher, Nagi Shimeki. They meet at random places that neither plan until finally they agree to meet. At first, they are cautious as to why they keep meeting, but gradually learn to enjoy each other’s company.
Other characters include the flirtatious Harumi, the mangaka Tadao, the bar owner Junko, the supervisor Horiguchi, and the unnamed bucho. There’s a touch of magical realism, but mostly life in Kawasaki is grounded in loneliness and separation.
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By Tedorigawa BookmakersBookbinding
Aside from finishing a novella (see Fiction, right below), I printed it out to make a physical copy. It’s B6, 125 pages, and includes the Japanese holiday for each month (except June and December which have no holidays) plus other words (also in Japanese).
I made a cover for the first page, sewed the text block together, and made a ten-minute tutorial (see Talkies, below).
Fiction
I finished writing The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street and put it online. It’s about 125 pages in B6 format.
Each chapter has two parts. Part One is with Nagi, the old, retired, divorced Japanese teacher thinking about life, and stops when he runs into Rin, his former student.
Part Two is Rin thinking about her life, and continues after she meets up with Nagi.
There are 12 chapters, one for each month of the year. For more about the book, see Books, below.
Talkies
A video tutorial for sewing before casing in. At YouTube TDGB 81: Sewing. About ten minutes.
Books
My novella, The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street, is available on Apple Books and other online sites. A fifteen-page chapter is free for your reading pleasure.
Rin Okabe, a 36-year-old single electrical engineer working for an architectural office, runs into her old (really, he's almost 80), divorced, Japanese high school teacher, Nagi Shimeki. They meet at random places that neither plan until finally they agree to meet. At first, they are cautious as to why they keep meeting, but gradually learn to enjoy each other’s company.
Other characters include the flirtatious Harumi, the mangaka Tadao, the bar owner Junko, the supervisor Horiguchi, and the unnamed bucho. There’s a touch of magical realism, but mostly life in Kawasaki is grounded in loneliness and separation.