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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
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C'mon! At this rate we'll never hit page three.And that's where the boobies are.
What does Peppermint P. know about your book that I don't, Tim???
D.D. wrote: "What does Peppermint P. know about your book that I don't, Tim???"This?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-foo...
For a minute there I thought I wanted to read Pattie's version of my book. Then I discovered it might be about birds. :(Would you believe the cinema was sold out??? I can't remember the last time there was more than about 50 people in there, and yet the new bond film is completely sold out!!!
Can't get the new kindle, can't go to the movies, I dunno what the world is coming to! Guess I'll have to write another 1000 words then.
Chapter 20. In which...
In which Tim learns to spell my name correctly, thereby avoiding a really hard pinch.
Oww. I blame the iPad's auto-bollox function.Gonna go and put the kettle on now.
A jumper would be more comfortable.
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "C'mon! At this rate we'll never hit page three.And that's where the boobies are."
I've got a joke Peppermint P.
Come on, DD, don't leave us in suspenders...
Oh Patti what am I going to get recommended to me by Amazon now?
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Share the joke Deedee!"Okay.
What kind of Bees make milk???
Boobies!!!
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Page three. ;)http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maitresse-Lea..."
I'm gonna get emails from amazon now, that'll stop me from working (that's WORKING) for weeks!
D.D. wrote: "Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Share the joke Deedee!"Okay.
What kind of Bees make milk???
Boobies!!!"
Bwah ha ha!
I'm sitting in Costas eating an admittedly late lunch, and the bleeding shop across the way has just started blaring out Slade. Yes *that* song! Well, that 's my linch ruined, might as well just kill me and be done with it. IT'S STILL FRUCKING OCTOBER, PEOPLE!!!!! jeez.Two more scenes of build-up, then it's on to the big showdown, and we'll see who live and who dies, and whether I've snookered the sequel...
Think I might create a character called Slade and just kill them over and over...
Oh Tim, what a bummer. I hate that tune - even at Christmas.Please don't snooker the sequel. Pretty please.
I thought of something on the way back (a trip into town is often bad news for the word count, but quite fruitful for ideas!) which I think will secure the sequel, but it's going to need another 5000 words or so to implement, so I think I just blew my end of the month deadline (I'm very short of evenings in this week too) - we'll see though...
Don't spoil it for a deadline - we'll wait!
It gives me a dilemma... finish the draft and start nano late, or do nano and come back to the draft when I've forgotten what I was going to write. Arrgh...
Bleddy nano's the problem then, not you. ;)
Write the extra 5k, Tim. I love a good sequel :)
Ok. Hunted first, WriMo second. :)
I think I have a title for book 2. It came to me in the middle of the night (hmm, going all Billy Joel now!)Hunting
:)
Good, Tim. Hunting.(Who's Will?)
Saturday night for Dodger is now completely sold out. Still tickets for the other performances, but they're going fast!
Before breakfast, I started work on my WriMo project ("Starstruck"). Created the Scrivener file and wrote the first sentence - just breaking ground, if you will. Then I thought for a laugh, I'd update my status on the NaNoWriMo site. So I told it: 13 words. Then I looked at the progress page. It told me that at my current rate, I'd be finished on May 13th 2023.So much for encouragement!
Oh and, that opening line?
Benjamin Drew had been six years old when he first saw a starliner.
Dead day today. Managed about 400 words on Hunted, but it was mostly crap. Didn't touch WriMo. Ended up watching the first two Twiglet movies back to back. Not anything like as bad as I had been led to expect, and at least now I understand where all this "Team Edward/Team Jacob" nonsense comes from!Hopefully I'll get a good night's sleep tonight and have the energy to concentrate tomorrow...
Hope so Tim. A little down time doesn't hurt. (Just don't do it too often!)
I enjoyed all those flicks, Tim. Of course I was there because I took Emily to see them, ahem. But yes, I enjoyed them too. I shall be taking her to see the latest sometime soon.Writing is a fickle master, mate.
Haven't read the books and not seen the films till now. Have to admit I quite enjoyed them, & the first book at least is going on my tbr - if I can find it at a decent discount (the dtb is significantly cheaper than kindle on Amazon!)
Twilight is the only film that I have watched recently that made me fall asleep whilst it was on. It wasn't bad, just really, really s l o w... Haven't seen any of the rest. (Previously, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford had the same effect, which was a shame as I'd been looking forward to it!)
Can't say I found it slow. Mind you I have developed a habit for analysing plot structure, especially since I started writing, both when watching films and reading books.I had actually wanted to go see Argo (the Ben Affleck movie), which has kicked up a bit of a rumpus along the "Hollywood rewriting the British out of history" lines (remember U571 with the Americans capturing the Enigma machine?) but it's not on at my local fleapit, & I'd have to travel quite a long way to find somewhere showing it. I really hate when cinemas show trailers for a film for weeks on end and then never bother to show the film! Mine does it quite a lot (grrr)
Well done for finding a plot in Twilight to analyse ;)http://www.cracked.com/funny-36-twili...
Argo does look good, if you take it as a fiction rather than historical representation. Plus it's got Alan Arkin, which can only be a Good Thing.
To be fair, that's referring to the book, which I haven't read. The film clearly has a plot and a fairly traditional 3-act structure ;)BTW, if the vampires only "problem" is they sparkle in sunlight, the average theatrical supplier can sell them No 3 cake by the bucketful, which should sort them out!
Quite a successful day's writing. Got all the buildup to the final showdown written (couple of things that surprised me in there, so pleased that my characters are still taking things into their own hands from time to time :)) So now all that's left to write is the big bun fight (yay!) Just hope that the right person/people win, cos the final scene's already been written! (and someone here has already read a bit of it)Final tally for the first draft should be about 90,000 words. (God that's scary!)
Well done Tim. I love the fact that characters can still surprise thier creators!
Yes, it was a real "where did that come from?" moment!
That's great Tim.I love those 'where the hell did that come from!' moments too.
Anyway, hurry up!
Woot woot!!!Well done Tim!!!
*Pompom Dance*
Showdown written, at least the 'A Camera' version. I need to write it again from the 'B Camera' perspective, since I have two very different POV characters meeting at the event.Be interested to know what other writers do when multiple POV characters come together, particularly in such a key scene. Do you play each POV through separately, or do you intercut from one to the other? If it makes a difference, the two characters do meet at one point but are apart for the vast majority of the scene, and their meeting & reaction to it is very much key to the scene (and the future of the "franchise", so it isn't an option to only have one POV here)
Dang, just had to get in post 100!!!!! :D* party poppers *
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