Category: Cadence Drake Novels
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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…
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Cady Drake meets the world – Sneak peek…
Becky did a gorgeous job. The book with the new cover is already showing up in a couple places, but I’ll do a check and links tomorrow, along with the cover reveal. This is just because it took me all day to get the book done and published.
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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…
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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…
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Got my words on Wishbone Conspiracy
Got a good chunk of the novel note-carded with my current best ideas on how it will go, and wrote a big chunk of words of background and outlining, plus 1151 words of the actual story. And I like what I got. This being Saturday, I’m not supposed to be writing fiction. Saturday and Sunday…
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Another Cadence Drake start pops up — 12,862 words
I woke up at around five-ish this morning knowing the next chapter of The Wishbone Conspiracy, my next Cady Drake novel. And thought about it for a while, and decided that I would write it once I got up and got showered. And am sitting down to do that. But on my way to getting there,…
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Becoming Piers Anthony: The Not-Impossible Dream of 3 Books A Year
A couple of things have changed in my life recently, one of which has been the writing of Dead Man’s Party, my demo novel for the writing class I’m currently building, How to Write a Novel. I’ve been dedicating one concentrated hour or so a week to the writing of the first draft (and a…
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Lost Words Found: I’m having a strange and disturbing morning…
I think in general we as human beings like to think we’re on top of things. That we have a pretty good bead on not just where we are, but where we’ve been, and where we’re going. I’m working on Lesson 16 of How to Write a Novel this morning, which is about voice and…
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Grinding: Diablo 3, Knitting, Writing… LIFE
Problem: Not Enough Noro means I have to use a fill-in yarn SOLVED: On November 3rd, I finished my Stained Glass Sweater, a project I’d been working on in small pieces since August 18th. Problem: About two weeks ago (late in the actual season), I discovered that the Diablo 3 season had something I wanted. A Disembodied Hand pet. SOLVED:…
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AIARWIP Episodes 4, 4.5, and 5: Brainstorming (with worksheets) & more
Because of a certain amount of chaos in my daily life right now, I forgot to mention LAST week’s TWO Alone In A Room With Invisible People podcasts. In the Brainstorming Workshop, Part 1, Becca and I develop idea pieces from scratch (using the free, no-opt-in downloadable worksheets linked from the podcast page). In the…