Category: Cady III: The Wishbone Conspiracy
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: I love it when a plan comes together
Because I have the last Early-Bird Launch for How to Write a Novel going live on Monday, April 1st, and because I had to do a bunch of work on that first thing in the morning so I could send out emails, I got a late start on fiction today. But the whole bullet-journal, check-things-off,…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2204 words… AND a scene snippet
Today I’m just posting a snippet because it surprised me. I have this big, scary, rich guy in the story who’s powerful and dangerous… and here’s where Cady meets him: [DISCLAIMER: This is copyrighted first draft. It may contain bugs, which WILL change in revision, and for which I do not need any notice of typos…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: Totally left-fielded myself today. WOW!
Oh. My. God. Today was the day you want to be a novelist for. Yesterday, I’d set Cady up with a banquet on an activity card, and a crazy thirty-plus hour schedule she was going to have to get through in which she would not have a single minute to herself, and in which she…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2068 words, and I passed the halfway point
This was a good writing day, in spite of the fact that I slept in, AND in spite of the fact that I had a hard time getting started this morning. Pushups and coffee only go so far. Problem was, I woke up at around four AM, and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: Flying words, and ONE word that summoned a new world
This morning was an awesome experience. First, I got 2117 words on The Wishbone Conspiracy. Fun words. I woke up a little late, got started a little later, but nevertheless popped open my Scrivener document, headed into the last words I’d written, scanned my plan for the chapter, and jumped in. The words started slowly—…
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Just discovered the actual genre for Cadence Drake… derp!
Biopunk. Biopunk? BIOPUNK! Real genre, I write it, I have been writing it since the late nineties… <le sigh> So how exactly did I miss this? How did I not realize this was a thing that those of us who love science and genetics and SF and fantasy were writing? That would be the Epic…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: Crossed the 30K mark!
Was not the smoothest start I ever had, considering I was at the desk and writing at 8:45 AM, and it’s now 11:30 and I just finished my words. I got a little distracted listening to Disturb’s latest album, Evolution, which has some damn compelling lyrics. It’s utterly loopable — I can just put the whole thing…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: Words with wings, and conspiracy!
Today went well. Seriously, and it was a nice change. Becky and I ran to a ten-minute timer, and in about two hours I got 2016 words — and I like them. And I thought it would be fun to capture this morning’s starting words and ending words as screen shots, and let you see…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: Dark
Today was much rougher than it should have been. I got in early, got started, and the words just inched out. But at the point where Cady and Badger ended up face to face (in a fashion that is the core conflict of this novel), everything all of a sudden flowed like melting butter. It…
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The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2027 words, and a Change in the 3-Novels Experiment
Got pretty decent words today on The Wishbone Conspiracy. 2027 new words, taking me to a total of 23,873 words in the novel. I mostly like what I got, though I had a bit of a hard start. And that’s what I want to talk about today. The “Write on three different novels each week” experiment…