Category: Cadence Drake Novels

  • WABWM: Bad Help

    8:17 AM The weekend was a wash. I was flattened by the worst vertigo in a couple years, and horrible icepick migraines along with the regular kind. I accomplished moving myself from the bed to the couch. Nothing on HTWAS. Nothing on Corrigan’s Blood. Nothing on recording the song. Just. Nothing. Today, both migraines and…

  • WABWM: Momentum

    7:30 AM I’m not as better as I’d thought yesterday. :-/ But still good enough to work. And will be starting this morning with the lyrics for the HUNTING THE CORRIGAN’S BLOOD song, “Didn’t Expect That,” which I worked out, along with most of the melody, in the shower this morning. But after the lyrics,…

  • WABWM: Story Almost Escaped My Evil Plan

    7:37 AM Am feeling considerably better today. And I left Cady in such an interesting bit of trouble yesterday, and quit writing before she could do anything but discover the start of what’s going to turn out to be… …BAD. So this morning promises to be fun. STARTING COUNT: 58,777 GOAL: 1500+ SCENE: Heroes’ Welcome…

  • WABWM: Wed, Sept 26, 2012

    7:53 AM The way I’m feeling, not even the cat would have dragged me in. But whatever. Cady awaits, and today’s scene, while requiring a replot, is going to be fun to write. I know the core bit, and I can’t wait. STARTING COUNT: 58,115 GOAL: 1500+ STARTING SCENE: (was The Charity Of Demons. Replot…

  • Do I still recommend John Locke? No.

    Back at the end of June, 2011, I read a book that succeeded because of a lie, and I turned my entire life upside down as a result of that lie. The book was, of course, John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months. Like a lot of other writers, I let…

  • WABWM: Tues, Sept 25, 2012

    7:51 AM Don’t feel well today. Too bad. Deadlines wait for no one. Am at the point where I’m going to have to do a replacement plot card: Cool things happened yesterday that created actions that created consequences I’d not anticipated. I love the twistiness of what comes next. STARTING COUNT: 56,022 GOAL: 1500+ CURRENT…

  • Friday Snippet: Cady goes home again…

    Here’s the short set-up. Cady has picked up a crew of talented misfits to help her stop the pending genocide of humanity by a deadly group of outsiders—and she’s started her fight to save humankind on her homeworld of Cantata, and in her home city of Meileone. Cady is currently in the company of the…

  • WARPAINT Snippet: Cady goes home again

    Here’s the short set-up. Cady has picked up a crew of talented misfits to help her stop the genocide of humanity in progress by a deadly group of outsiders—and she’s started her fight to save humankind on her homeworld of Cantata, and in her home city of Meileone. Cady is currently in the company of…

  • Saturday Snippet, and My first week back to full-time fiction.

    I had a blast this week—and fairly late yesterday, I realized why. It is the first week in several years where all I did was write. I did not build site infrastructure, work on website design, put together HTML for lessons, prep courses for formatting, design book covers, design lessons, test plugins, install plugins, upload…

  • WABWM: Official First Day, and a Snippet

    I’m posting the official WABWM thread for the day. If you’re playing (or want to join—you can start any time you’re ready) the thread for the day is here. http://howtothinksideways.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=254&t=6304 Also if you’re playing, bookmark this page: Write A Book With Me Board Go to the board every day, and post your own run on…