Category: Cady II: WARPAINT

  • 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…

  • Where I am right now: Mini “Path To Freedom” Report

    One lesson for How To Think Sideways is still undergoing formatting, but the rest are formatted, proofed, and back to Booknook.biz for final Kindle (mobi) conversion. I’m up to Lesson 5 on the initial formatting for How To Revise Your Novel, and am simultaneously building the Legacy/download pages for the lessons. After that, I need…

  • SNIPPET: Warpaint (or How Cadence Drake woke me at 3 AM)

    So there I was, sleeping, and into my mind crept the image of a glowing map, across which stains of blood slowly crept. As dreams go, it wasn’t much, except that it woke me out of a sound sleep at 3AM, and told me something I’d desperately needed to know about Cady, the world of…

  • Published the WARPAINT Soundtrack

    It took a while to find the right music for WARPAINT. First, this is the music I have playing in the background while I write, so it has to fit the universe, the characters, and the “feel” of a lived-in place full of real humans, real needs, and the themes of the story. And it…

  • Migraines and Vertigo Redux

    I started having headaches about halfway through last week. On Friday, they turned into migraines and icepick migraines. On Saturday, the vertigo returned, and the headaches stayed. I got a few hundred words written on Saturday and again on Sunday on WARPAINT, but did not do anything online. I’m working on LESSON 23 of the…

  • Cadence Drake and the Darkness

    I’d originally set Cadence Drake: Warpaint (my current work in progress) three years after the events in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood. I did this because I wanted to get back to Cady’s story after she’d beaten the darkness from the first book, after she had found her way back to being a whole human being…

  • A pic from my office: My path-to-freedom workboard

    If you’ve taken any of my courses (or read some of my more detail-oriented posts, you’ll recognize me as big on goal-setting, getting a plan in place, and making sure it’s where you can see it. So the day before yesterday, I erased all the short-term stuff off my office workboard, and put up my…

  • Fifty-One: At The Start Of My Second Half-Century, I’m Rethinking Everything

    Inertia’s a bitch. It can mean doing nothing until something kicks you out of your complacency and starts you rolling. But inertia can also summon up Newton’s First Law, part of which is: “An object in motion remains in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced…

  • 2275 words of new Cadence Drake

    I got up this morning and for the first time in a long time started writing a new novel that dragged me out of bed. Chapter one of that novel, “Can’t Kill A Dead Guy,” is now finished in first draft. It was like coming home. Cady’s voice was there. Not the bitter, dark voice…

  • Ready to start writing Cady 2

    I outline my novels on index cards. I go over the process a little in one of my site workshops, and a LOT in How to Think Sideways, but my process is about as seat-of-the-pants as it’s possible to get while still having an idea where you want to end up. And as of this…