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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
M.T. wrote: "Bloody hell! A chimney fire as well? I missed that, too busy entertaining rellies, found out about the illness though. Hope you are getting better Jim."So far so good ;-)
M.T. wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Happy new year Mary!Jim, how do you come up with your characters names? I like how unusual yet easy to pronounce they are. For the most part. ;)"
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As I said, I start of with a name and try and write it down.
Sometimes I use a family name (so in one book, Mother, daughter and Granddaughter all have names that are obviously related, because people do that.)
Sometimes a name comes that just fits someone
For example Culstrop Yanwell Of him the records say
"Well currently we lunch at the estate of one Culstrop Yanwell, self styled gentleman and grandee of Melor. His house, the centre of a small village of Yanwell on the road east of Melor, is quite grand, when I went in to meet him it was tastefully appointed. Because he had not been formally introduced to Elorn or Jonteel in polite society he refused to accept them as anything other than the leaders of a band of landless labourers. However this was said in a manner so convoluted that Jonteel may not have realised what was said and Elorn explained that they were not asking for hospitality but were willing to pay.
Thus and so Elorn has tendered a reasonable sum for an excellent meal we eat outside on trestles in the spring sunshine (a screen shelters us from the breeze.) yet on the estate records I believe we have been entered as a marauding band that was arrested and fined an identical sum as a punishment."
( Elorn and Jonteel are two young Urlan leading a party through the area. )
They sound better when said with a Canadian accent, you know.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "They sound better when said with a Canadian accent, you know."eh?
I can believe it :-)(He says; politely)
I also think that names ought to have a rhythm
For example Buran Janglepurse
(He lives in a small villa out near the edge of Port Naiin, where he supports a small, plump wife and three small, plump children, a life seemingly at dramatic odds with what he gets up to in the darks of the city where he distributes funds to the agents of Vilingsthorne.)
I could see Douglas Adams writing that name, Jim
Will wrote: "I could see Douglas Adams writing that name, Jim"But three days after the deadline ;-)
I'm still wondering if Patti guessed 'who dun it'
Is that 'dun' in the sense of running away without paying?
More in a 'who is responsible for the killings, attempted killings,and other unpleasant stuff' sort of way
I suppose that covers my suggestion, yes.
Yes, she knows who dunit!
I'm just curious to know at what point people work it out, that's all.
Oh. UmmmmmmmWell, I had an inkling but wasn't sure until the canvas moved.
ThanksIt's just that I know who it is all along, and whilst I can read and edit etc, I cannot really know when the reader spots things.
As far as I can make out, too early and you've blown it as a writer, but if the reader cannot work it out, I think you've cheated them.
That story is the first time I've tried to write what you might describe as 'a whodunit'
The other books tend to have investigations but there's often more pursuit and trying to find/catch/kill/exorcise the now known bad guy.
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed it and the other two stories. Thank you Jim.
Glad you liked it. If I get time I might try and do a couple more 40K length collections. Keep Benor busy :-)
I could swear it was three stories.
Ohhhhh the prequel's prequel!
Yes, it's on the cusp of being a story or being an intro to the 'The Insulted Party'
Jim wrote: "Glad you liked it. If I get time I might try and do a couple more 40K length collections. Keep Benor busy :-)"Make time!
I'm told that's the way to succeed, regular shorter stories rather than taking two and a half years to write a long one.
Not only that but it is easier to hit a popular 'price point' as well.
Just had some exciting news. OK I'm boring but I found it exciting. Justice 4.1 is going to the printers as we speak and the publication date is 1 March 2014http://www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-4-1-T...
Jim wrote: "Just had some exciting news. OK I'm boring but I found it exciting. Justice 4.1 is going to the printers as we speak and the publication date is 1 March 2014"It will be a day of rejoicing and feasting such as Tsarina has never known before!
I think that's worthy of excitement, Jim. Well done.
Oh I tell you, the fatted calf is already looking nervous.The party is so big we're already fetching in bacon for the breakfast butties
You have plenty of calves to choose from, don't you? Do they constantly diet, just in case?
And the gastropods are leaving the area as fast as they can...
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "And the gastropods are leaving the area as fast as they can..."Who knows, by March they might have reached the end of the street.
Cheers
MTM
mmm I had a lovely fry up this morning! -plenty of bacon! ;D
This is probably not the place to say it but I spent a fair amount of time, today, plucking and eviscerating a pheasant; before chopping her up, respectfully I hope, flaming her in calvados and making her into a stew.Definitely beats gastropod. ;-)
Very much looking forward to reading the Tsarina Sector Jim... hang on am I on the right thread? Oh yes so I am.
I also wrote the brief for the cover and sent it to the designer.
Cheers
MTM
David wrote: "You have plenty of calves to choose from, don't you? Do they constantly diet, just in case?"The whole 'fatted calf' idea seems to have passed with the advent of refrigeration and the ability to sell a BIG carcass into a community that doesn't have to sit round in a group and devour it in one sitting :-)
M.T. wrote: "Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "And the gastropods are leaving the area as fast as they can..."Who knows, by March they might have reached the end of the street.
Cheers
MTM"
On Tsarina some people run Gastropod races. People like it, it's a bit like a test match, you can follow the event over the course of five days whilst getting on with your normal life; and sometimes it even gets exciting
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Did I hear 'bacon'?"Across a mere 30,000 light years
M.T. wrote: "This is probably not the place to say it but I spent a fair amount of time, today, plucking and eviscerating a pheasant; before chopping her up, respectfully I hope, flaming her in calvados and mak..."This is an excellent place to say it.
If you'd taken photos I'd have stolen them for Tsarina :-)
Jim wrote: "M.T. wrote:"This is probably not the place to say it but I spent a fair amount of time, today, plucking and eviscerating a pheasant; before chopping her up, respectfully I hope, flaming her in calvados and mak..."This is an excellent place to say it.
If you'd taken photos I'd have stolen them for Tsarina :-) "
V sorry I didn't Jim. Next time I will. I'm hoping to get to Learning a Hard Trade before term starts, just catching up on Will's first. It takes me a while to get into the swing of things with the Banned so I find I enjoy them most When I read two or three at once. I think I'm about five behind to be honest. I've just finished the Vampire Mechanic and am trundling through Bass Instinct at speed. Love the way his writing is changing and developing as the series goes on.
Sorry I should have put that on his thread. I really love the idea of gastropod racing. That has tickled me.
You've been tickled by a racing gastropod? Are you sure this shouldn't be posted to Vanessa Mae's Naughty Room?On a serious note, I sat down and just read all of Wills Banned series one after the other, and I enjoyed it immensely, it builds on itself and as you say the writing is developing as he goes along.
On the down side I came away with a craving for pizza. :-)
Dammit Jim, you were supposed to have a desperate need for beer!But thank you both for the kind words. I can only hope you like book 6 when it comes out. And then there's my new romantic phase...
It's such fun typing dammit Jim, isn't it?Hehehe
Not just talking, listening :-)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1Mx...
Just quietly editing the stuff I wrote earlier today :-)
Jim, that's what DVD's were invented for: to play decent films like that
I've seen the film a couple of times, but I tend to listen to music, I almost never watch it. If I'm sitting watching the film I'm not getting on with something useful.
You need to be more careful with posts like that. The girls will start to think we blokes cannot multi task
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Jim, how do you come up with your characters names? I like how unusual yet easy to pronounce they are. For the most part. ;)"
Not sure, I say the name and then write it down. It's interesting hearing other people say them because of course the names are properly said in a North Lancashire accent :-)
Sometimes I will start with a 'real' name and twist it slightly. With the Urlan there's obviously a tradition of naming that I try and stick with, but not being Urlan I'm not up on the details, and anyway they tend to be flexible with their traditions.