Category: Cady III: The Wishbone Conspiracy

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: Yesterday and today

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: Yesterday and today

    Yesterday, a couple things went wrong. First, the writing dragged because I didn’t know where the novel was going. I made it up to 21,843 words — so it wasn’t a complete wreck. But it was not that flowing, flying race against the timer that is so fun. Second, I chose to get sidetracked figuring…

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2000 words and intrigue

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: 2000 words and intrigue

    As of right now, I’m 21,525 words into The Wishbone Conspiracy,  and making good progress. Not having a great day otherwise, but my daughter and I got to write together for a couple hours and hit our word counts. And the story tied itself in more tightly with the little secret story I’m hinting at in…

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: I discover Tangerine’s real name

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: I discover Tangerine’s real name

    Tangerine got himself in some hot water with Cady today — he’s a clever chap who did some deep digging, and found out a bit of her past he would have been better off not knowing. But during what turned into an awkward encounter between the two of them, I learned both his original real…

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: Tangerine Returns

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: Tangerine Returns

    Today, a blast from the past who yesterday showed up for this party uninvited today became a major part of the story. Tangerine was a one-scene character in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood. He was in that story to change Cady’s appearance when she was in trouble but did not yet know exactly how much trouble she…

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: Tangerine?

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: Tangerine?

    I got 2014 words today on The Wishbone Conspiracy, and sent Cady home — back to Cantata, back to Oldcity… And someone showed up whom I was not expecting to see for several more books. Tangerine, the bodyartist from Tangerine’s Dream back in Book One. I knew when I met Tangerine that he was a lot more…

  • Wishbone Conspiracy: 2176 words and some GREAT twists

    Wishbone Conspiracy: 2176 words and some GREAT twists

    Fun, fun writing day today. I ran for about two hours, and got 2176 words, a really cool twist I didn’t expect, a second twist that I did, and put Cady, Tarko, and Storm Rat in the eye of not one but TWO coming storms. Herog is off doing other stuff in this novel, so…

  • Wishbone Conspiracy: Excellent writing day

    Wishbone Conspiracy: Excellent writing day

    I got started late this morning. Every once in a while I have a night where I can’t sleep. I went to bed around midnight, woke up at two-thirty, and couldn’t get back to sleep until seven AM. So I wasn’t back up and at work until ten AM. And I feel a bit fried.…

  • Retool of The Wishbone Conspiracy Playlist

    Retool of The Wishbone Conspiracy Playlist

    The themes of The Wishbone Conspiracy are getting clearer for me, and I did a pretty major rip-apart of the playlist I’m using to stay focused on the novel during my two days a week, and to get myself into that place every time I write.  I might have too many songs in the list. For…

  • The Wishbone Conspiracy: My odd discovery about writing Cady

    The Wishbone Conspiracy: My odd discovery about writing Cady

    I got 2056 words today on The Wishbone Conspiracy. Finished Chapter 2, and now am 586 words into Chapter 3. I did this in about an hour and a half writing time — eight ten-minute timers and part of a ninth. The story flowed, the characters did interesting things. And I discovered that my mystery character…

  • First new fiction deadline: Update on The Wishbone Conspiracy

    First new fiction deadline: Update on The Wishbone Conspiracy

    Wrote for right at two hours today. Got on a roll, did not want to quit. Got 2269 words on The Wishbone Conspiracy. Cady has a new job and a new client, and in what has to be a very bad sign, both Storm Rat and Tarko have volunteered to go along with her on…