Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED! Showing 1,351-1,400 of 1,656

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

As long as it's not 'Get Haunted by Tim Ornot for a quid.'

[Tim]

No, cos I can do spelling. (mostly)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

So can I, usally.

[M.T.]

My editor does the spelling. :-)

[Tim]

My editor steals all my semicolons. :(

[Jim]

I apply apostrophes and commas with a shotgun once I've finished writing.

[Tim]

Apostrophe's and comma's, shirley ;)

[Kath]

Don't call me Shirley.

[Tim]

Ba-dum ching!

[Kath]

Well, you set it up for me! ;)

[Tim]

But of course ;)

[Tim]

[Tim]

In an effort to (a) gain some enthusiasm and (b) get this dratted thing finished, I've decided to set a target of the end of July for completing FC3.

To that end, I'll be providing daily progress (yes, "progress" (grits teeth)) reports and stuff. There may be spoilers, probably minor. Word count as of this morning: 58,112.

There definitely won't now be a book 4, and I've adjusted the ending accordingly (I wrote the final scene yesterday).

[Kath]

Whoop! Come on, that man!

[Andrew]

Why is this the final one, Tim?

[Kath]

Because they all live happily ever after. Is it not obvious? ;)
And it's a trilogy so number three is... the final one.

[Tim]

For a while I though it might be a 4 part trilogy, but I never really had enough extra material for a full novel.

[Tim]

Todays update: 59000 words.

Now you might be thinking he hasn't written much - just a shade under 900 words, but that doesn't include the 8 new A4 pages of outline and chapter notes (which is probably several thousand words in its own right).

More later . . . :)

[Tim]

Progress report. Wednesday. Just shy of 2000 words today, bringing the total to 60,700, Yay! :) Finished the Socko scene in the mortuary, and wrote the second half of a PJ scene. Or possibly the second scene in a chapter, depending on how I split it later on. Actually, it's the only PJ scene I've written so far, and I'm halfway through the book! What has she been up to all this time...?

[Tim]

Hey, I've just noticed WANTED now has "Book Extras" That's way cool :)

[Jim]

If I knew what they were I'd be even more impressed than I already am :-)

[Kath]

Is that like 'extra books'?

[Tim]

It's little bits of info about the characters, the locations & places in the book etc. Amazon adds it to some books but not to others. No idea why. Bit like "X-Ray"

[M.T.]

Tim wrote: "For a while I though it might be a 4 part trilogy, but I never really had enough extra material for a full novel."F

A three part trilogy is quite headache enough. I think Extras appear where someone has added them to shelfari... But I'm not sure as I have them on shelfari and they've never appeared on Amazon.

If it's any consolation I stand on the brink of finishing a book and will have to wait until 4th September to work on it again. It's... Galling.

[Tim]

I added the details on Shelfari during a rare fit of enthusiasm about 2 years ago. But they didn't appear on my kindle until just now.

I notice that some new books are getting an "About this Book" entry on the main menu. Mine don't have that, but the last few I've bought do. (I wonder if new buyers of my books get the menu)

[Tim]

Me and Joe Abercrombie in Reading today :)


One day it'll be the other way round. Fnark, as MTM would say.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Look like you had him all to yourself! Or were there thousands on this side of the camera?
PS I wouldn't read Half A War before you read the first two in the series :)

[Jim]

Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Look like you had him all to yourself! "

Joe had the area cleared so it didn't spoil the picture of him standing next to a famous author

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

:D

[Tim]

Jim wrote: "Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Look like you had him all to yourself! "

Joe had the area cleared so it didn't spoil the picture of him standing next to a famous author"

This. ;)

And I'm definitely starting with the first in the series -- "Half a mo" (which he also singed)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Im not a fan of singing books.

[Tim]

They're okay, given the right tune.

[Kath]

Singed? Fahrenheit 451 epic fail? ;)

[Tim]

It's those smouldering eyes!

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Who's that guy with our Tim?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

G J (Gaff to my friends) wrote: "Who's that guy with our Tim?"

Oh just some ordinary Joe...

[Tim]

Joe Abercrombie and Titch.

(well, he's taller than me, vertically anyhow)

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Tim wrote: "Jim wrote: "Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Look like you had him all to yourself! "

Joe had the area cleared so it didn't spoil the picture of him standing next to a famous author"

This. ;)

A..."

Aww see, I love singing books!it's like Who Framed Roger Rabbit but creepier!

[Tim]

68 & a bit thousand words down. Should hit 70K tomorrow . . . :D

[Anna]

And again I say, go, go, go!

[Tim]

Yay, target achieved! 2300 words written today for a total of 70,510. :D

I'm off out to stretch my legs for a bit...

[Kath]

You'll be as tall as Joe Abercrombie. Well done!

[Tim]

Should have gone shopping earlier when the shops were open. Now I've got nothing for tea, ah well!

[Anna]

Pancakes - flour, sugar, milk, one egg. Plus lemon juice and brown sugar or anything else you have in the cupboard that takes your fancy. Simples.

Oh - and well done!

[Tim]

72,700 words and I'm cooking with gas! :D

Tomorrow I'm probably gonna kill someone off. Someone who's been in several of the books (although I don't think all of them).

[B J]

Can we vote on the method?

[M.T.]

It's phnark the way I spell it. Hello and well done... Serious progress going on here. Hope you enjoyed the pancakes... You could tip some grand mariner in and set it all on fire... That's quite good. :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Flaming pancakes! sounds yum.

[Tim]

B J wrote: "Can we vote on the method?"

Don't see why not. Closing time is of course when I write it. While I won't say who it is, it does have to at least look like suicide. Location is somewhere within the city of Oxford. There are bridges, rivers, underground rivers, tall buildings, tall trees, parks, streets, horse-drawn and steam powered vehicles.

Favoured methods: hanging, drowning, wrist cutting, hitting the ground fast, or if you come up with something better . . .

Winner gets to discover the body. (GL, even though you're an existing character, that doesn't preclude you from finding this body)

[Tim]

Just FYI, I'm about 1500 words away from discovering the body, so that gives you till probably the middle of tomorrow afternoon.