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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "*bonk*"Thank you Patti, I feel ready to face the weekend now :)
Andrew wrote: "That's fantastic news, Tim, well done!I admire your perseverance, but more than that, I'm looking forward to Hunted... no rush of course, no pressure.
But do hurry up!"
Actually, I'm wondering whether to hold book 1 back until book 2 or even 3 is done - like you did with the 3rd Rule. Partly that'll give me a chance to tout it to agents (ever the optimist), but also I have the worry that with just one book I'll chuck it out there and it'll sink without trace...
Don't keep us in suspender Tim! The Third Rule is really a single book. (I think)
Sure, Hunted is more self contained, in that it has a definite beginning, middle & end, which I think is slightly lacking in 3rd Rule (it reads more like a 3 part tv drama than 3 stories, IYSWIM). I'm hoping that Hunting will be reasonably self contained too, but because it follows straight on from the first book, that Might be tricky (imagine ST3: the search for Spock without ST2:The wrath of Khan...)
You're right, Tim, the typical three act structure is missing from TTR part One, but that's because part one is the first act so to speak. I could have made life easier for myself by publishing it as just one book but where's the fun in that?Whatever you decide, to publish this book now or wait until you have more to 'put out there', I'm very much looking forward to it.
I think there's probably space for an omnibus edition - both Darren and Mel have omnibus editions of their series'. But of course I have no idea how well they do compared to the standalone versions.
Oh Shaun has a bundle of two books as well.
So I was supping a pint of something bittery last night in The King's Head and Bell, with some authory chums, and one word kept cropping up... PIRATES! There were other words that cropped up too, some of them were bank and heist, but that's a different story!Q: Why are pirates called pirates?
A: Because they aaaarrrghhh!
Please note: This is a cookie-free zone (NO! That does not mean the cookies are free, Patti) There's a costume I have to be able to fit into in January...
No cookies???Well, I'll not be visiting this thread again. :p
Patti's gone... we can get the booze out now!!!
Boozing without Patti? Thats enough to get you thrown out of the group!!
Ah, but she didn't leave, did she! (Those invisibility cloaks they've been touting in the press lately don't *really* work, you know, and even if they did, we'd still notice the bottles sliding along the table and "magically" emptying themselves... ;)
Talk to Phil Whiteland. He has a really good one!
No, he tells you he does, but really he's skiving! ;)
Patti (Plucky Persimmon) wrote: "You can't see me!"Can so. You're wearing green and bright yellow!
Good news: Today I've been plugging away in earnest on the second draft, and tackling that horror that is called "chapter 3"... :)
Whoop! Good news for Kingsmen fans (in other words, anyone who's read the anthology!)
Blog updated to reflect my new "3Ws" initiative (Wine, Women, Wassailing... Oh, wait, the *other 3 Ws. How disappointing! Ho hum).Oh, and where's DeeDee? You get a mentch... ;)
So. Blog posts. Whatever next? Actual writing? Heaven help us!
http://timarnot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0...
Tim wrote: "Blog updated to reflect my new "3Ws" initiative (Wine, Women, Wassailing... Oh, wait, the *other 3 Ws. How disappointing! Ho hum).Oh, and where's DeeDee? You get a mentch... ;)
So. Blog posts. W..."
I'm FAMOUS!!!
Woot Woot!!!
Our production of Dodger next week has made the papers... Yay!http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1016...
And Sir TP is coming to see it on Tuesday. Must remember to get the book signed!
Tim wrote: "Our production of Dodger next week has made the papers... Yay!http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1016...
And Sir TP is coming to see it on Tuesday. Must reme..."
Woot Woot!!!
Hey well done! Fancy having the man himself coming to see it. Yes, get that book ready!
I don't suppose you would consider lobbing a copy of 'Broken City' at his head in the vain hope that the outrage will be featured the 10 o'clock news and make me famous???
Been playing with word clouds this morning. Go to http://www.wordle.net/create and paste in a bunch of text, then amaze yourself with the results! This is what I got when I pasted in the first draft of Hunted:
More wibble here: http://timarnot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0...
Hey that's clever! I might have a go at that myself.Yours looks great, Tim. I can guess who the protagonist is, hehe.
I absolutely love that! Love the colour scheme you've used too.
It's really good for spotting those little words that might get over-used. I can see I might have a problem with back, like, just, looked...
Just look at Flick's back!
Ahaha, I just did TTR pt1. Lots of Eddie, and lots of swearing too. Oops.
That bleddy Eddie! Bless him though eh?
Ignite wrote: "Just look at Flick's back!"Ooh-er!
Just bought a stack of domain names. timarnot.com was taken (grr), but I got .co.uk and also tim-arnot in both .com and .co.uk 12 quid for the .com and 6 quid for the .co.uk, + vat, all for 2 years.They're just parked at the mo, but I shall need to think about designing the site (and some artwork...)
Hey, good thinking Tim. I read somewhere, maybe a year or more ago, that publishers won't look at authors who don't have a web presence. They take it to indicate seriousness of purpose and professionalism. I wonder who Timar Not is, who's nicked your first choice?
It's parked, just like the ones I bought, so either one of my namesakes (I've corresponded with some of them), or someone out to make a buck ransoming it...
Grief, dropped to page 3 in less than a week!!Anyhow, editing progress: Just 20K to go till I've finished the second draft. Then I'll be looking for beta readers, thinking about the cover etc... :)
Oh, that's good progress. Looking forward to that!
Okay, so what do we learn, kiddies?Number one: As soon as you start talking about progress, you skid to a halt!
I've hit a bumpy passage which is just not working. I've already had two goes at rewriting it, but frankly it's dull, dull, dull. It needs an injection of... something. More tension, more conflict. Maybe I should just let it fester in the back of my brain for a day or two in the hope that something will - figuratively or literally - leap out of the bushes.
Miss it out, skip over it, come back to it.That's my considered advice as a non-author. So that'll be no use then!
Pretty much what I was thinking. Also looking at intercutting other stuff - like a chase: back and forth between the chaser and chasee. That would rather break my "chapter" rule though. But then rules are made to be broken...
This is true. I think you need to know the rules thoroughly and know why they are rules. Then you have the freedom to break out on your own! I suspect (as I say, I know nothing of the mechanics of it) that editing later chapters might tip you off as to what you need to to with the problem one?
If it's dull, give one of the characters something to think about, something the others in the scene couldn't possibly know; make them distracted as they ponder on a problem.Or, bring in an outsider who has some news or an object; or an external threat or distraction (weather... bad men coming, that kind of thing).
Or, blend in other scenes that are happening at roughly the same time as this scene, using the *** method.
Or, if the scene cannot be saved, take the pertinent information you wanted to impart (for which the scene was created in the first place), and put it in other chapters or scenes, and just bin it.
Part of the problem is, there's only one character in the scene. It's pure action, or description of action, and very necessary to the story (so I can't easily bin it - imaging having a bank heist story and you bin the bank heist).I think intercutting is probably the way to go...
See, I knew someone would know. I was just filling in till the cavalry arrived!
Probably a good place then for some revealing interior monologue?
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I admire your perseverance, but more than that, I'm looking forward to Hunted... no rush of course, no pressure.
But do hurry up!