Ahem.
Just a brief note to update you on how the work is progressing. So far, every book has been longer than the one before. The first book was about 75,000 words, and Mortal Coil was over 100,000. With Book 6, I'm planning on continuing that trend, but I don't know by how much.
I've been working away at the first section of the story, the first quarter of the book, dipping in an out of scenes and chapters... Even though, officially, I started this book on November 6th, a lot of things have been taking up my time, so I've really only been able to seriously write in the past week. And in the past week I've written almost 20,000 words. That's roughly a fifth of the book, and I've done it in six days.
I am on a ROLL.
Praise be to me!
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- Derek Landy
- Derek Landy writes the Skulduggery Pleasant series because getting a proper job is so overrated.
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Yes! I got 1st comment again! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! My mad skills are at work! (Now to actually read what was written...)
Yea, the next book will be long! The more Skulduggery we minions have to read, the better. :)
need a really long book :) the more SP the better :D
1,2, and 3rd! That just shows how amazing i am. Totally, and awesomely amazing in every way humanly possible. I am probably the greatest minion ever. (and i don't have a shortage of self-esteem either) heh-heh
Minion Night: Signing off.
5th!!!!!
Technically 8th now Thnx Alex night.....
6 days? WOW!! Can't wait to read it!!! Any title ideas you can share with your minions?
All Praise to the Great Derek Landy!!!!!
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You have made this minion happy!!!!
Keep up the awesome work, Sir!!!!!
Wow I've never commented this early. So anyway, good luck on the writing Mr. Landy! Your a real inspiration. Maybe i should start writing a book. I have a few good ideas. If I ever publish it, can I advertise in a comment? ................. I'll take that as a yes!
Oh BTW!!!! For anyone who cares, I just wrote a FanFiction on Skulduggery Pleasant on Fanfiction.net! it's called Brother of Mine by Raven Quill Dipped In Ink. Read it it's good! Skulduggery has an older brother and he's going to embarrass him big time int the next chapter!
12th comment!!
Well done ! EEEEEEK the book is getting closer and closer ! *happy dance*
Yes, praise be to you...
For MY story that I'm writing, I have decided to omit the first chapter and re-write the others. AND I've found a way to incorporate my other started stories as well...It'll be great. Trust me.
Congratualations on doing it in 6 "says." Of course, i'd be more impressed if it was in 6 "days."
Praise to the Landy!
20,000 words and six days? :D Awesome!
Hello Derek!
I have a suggestion for you! If from now on you're going to be writing in November time because of the September releases, I know of a competition during the month of November which I think you'll LOVE.
It's called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and the aim of it is to write 50,000 words in 30 days! A novel in 30 days :D
And if you win, you get a code to get your book published for free! :D A lovely book written by you in print!
Even though you can do that anyway cos you're like an author, I thought i'd tell you about it cuz it's fun to do :3
... WOW. 20k in 6 days? DID YOU EAT AND SLEEP AT ALL?!??! O.O Golden God must keep himself HEALTHY!!!
... :) make sure you don't die or anything...
:D Georgina
Sorry for making you post so much Derek, sir. It's just really cool that you come on every now and then. It's awesome to have that rare golden chance to chat with you.
I have also found that there are a lot of great people here too.
Many have great writning talent. One of them is Hellboy. I know that you said you would never read fanfic and you had great and understandable reasons.
But someday, and I hope soon, I hope you read Hellboy's fanfic.
I know others would hope for the same from you. I would not. I would rather you read Hellboy's and then maybe someone else's over mine.
I know you can not do this now as you are writing and I don't want anything to slow you down. But be warned....
:)
After that I will petition on Hellboy's behalf to encourage you to read his work.
Thank you Derek, sir!
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MARY!
Nice to see you again!!!!!!!!
XDDDDDD
How are you?
WOOOHOOOO! YOU ARE AWESOME DEREK! and now that i have pumped your ego, you will now go and KEEP WRITING!
brb
Pizza's coming!
My nose is cold.
*looks at everyone darkly*
It was not the pizza man!
Dang, I'm hungry!
*decorates Mary and Lizzy with Christmans tinsel*
OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!!!
Pretty!
awwww, here eat some cookies *hands Kallista a coolie*
I'm well enough...
Damn slow computer...
Thanks Lizzy!
nom nom nom nom
It sounds like things are going well with your story Mary.
:)
pizzas here!
It snowed on...Wednesday (finally) I think...and Dad was wearing a toque. He looks funny in it. 'Tis not his sytle...
lol Mary. My dad looks funny in his too!
...Not exactly...I have to figure out how to write without looking back at what I've written. Any suggestions Derek. If not I'll continue to criticise myself and never finish.
yeah. I think it was Dec.1 when it really began to snow!
...I can't even imagine what mother would look like wearing ANY sort of hat.
Oh dear, Mary! Wish I could be of some help.
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Lizzy!
How was your day? Are you really sore?
yessssssss *falls over*
lol Mary.I don't like wearing hats. But my hair is so thick I don't really need to!
*throws big soft pillow before Lizzy*
Awwww....poor girl! :)
*cuddles up with pillow* I really should be doing some typing...
We were talking about it in foods and if the Canadian government banned foreign foods, Canadians would either die, try and leave, or become cannibals. The only thing we'd have to eat is, maple syrup, grass, trees, back bacon, and that's about it. We'd be royally screwed.
Me too!
brb
None of the above sound good! Let's hope the Canadian government dosen't banned foreign foods!
Maybe fish...We'll just have to steal from the sea side provinces...ooh...and see what we can find in the northern provinces...
*watches as a few smurfs come out and began stalking Lizzy*
Yeah....you could become pirates!!!!
I'm gonna go and watch a couple movies tonight.
:)
*decorates Mary and Lizzy with Christmas lights*
um...Mary....I was only kidding about becoming a pirate.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
hi guys.
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Richard Staines
LOL Mary!
Hi Deagle!!!!!
canada of bacon fame?
yo.
BRB.
Hi Deagle.
Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.
Helen Gordon McPherson
LOL Mary!!!!
Oh you poor Canadians!
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For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say "Canada". Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.
Sandra Gotlieb
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John Diefenbaker
From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960
canada has a bill of rights?
God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them!
Anonymous
Oh, I forgot to wish you good luck on writing Book 6, Derek. So, er..., good luck on writing book 6. Try and remember to eat and sleep during the next few months.
Minion Night: Signing off
LOL Mary!!!!
Of course. Why wouldn't we? We're not some backwater country. Or something.
hey kallista, you changed your name again.
Yeah. I got bored with the other one.
:)
Getting bored with my current pic. May change it soon.
wow, you change a lot.
i might change mine......meh.
...and I'm back!
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
John Diefenbaker
Wouldn't that be something...People would be stunned.
Yeah. I like to rotate between a few pics and some weird random title.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Stuart Keate
hi!
Wow! The whole world would be Canada! There probably would be peace then.
hi mary and kallista and whoever else might be on!
lol Mary!
Hi Rosella! Like your new pic! :)
like mine?
thx! i though u had some girl with a sun umbrella or something..
darn, its cut off....
whats cut off?
Yeah! I like your pic Deagle!
@Rosella Yeah...I just changed it. :)
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Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
Will Ferguson
thats great
? whats this about canadians ruling the world?
LOL Mary! Your killin me again!!!!!
>:/
HALO!!!
yes, deagle
LOL Rosella! Mary is from Canada.
She is just putting up various quotes.
Is that Master Chief Deagle...?
Hey Rosella!
no idea.
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
Anonymous
we are almost at a new page!
almost!
ONE!!! yay!
Just browsing through my Latin dictionary when I stumbled across the Latin word for 'darkness' - Tenebrae. Sound familiar?
I just though this was interesting.
foo.
For the record, no one really does that anymore...maybe old people, but...
LOL MAry!
that is cool,ElcidSabre!
hi everyone again! just read another part of kallistas story...
so....good...
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You Canadians have given us such hope to carry on. We admire your bravery. You are the neighbour of such a rich, powerful country, and yet you don't mind clashing with them. Well, that gives us more confidence.
Pedro Gutierrez
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LOL Rosella!!!!! I'll try and hold back so you can get 1st spot!
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yay! i got in b4 the first 1000 comments! seriously, we need 2 lower the live chat
Congrats Derek! can't wait for book six! also, wikipedia your name and it say:
Skulduggery Pleasant
Skulduggery Pleasant Playing with Fire
Skulduggery Pleasant the Faceless Ones
SSkulduggery Pleasant Dark Days
Skulduggery Pleasant Mortal Coil
Skulduggery Pleasant The Terrible Truth
Yeah right, The Terrible Truth? i think Golden God would tell if that was the title and the title would have more emotion.
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You are getting closer!
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hey guys, do you have anything better to do?
The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart
50 degrees Fahrenheit
New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.
Canadians plant gardens.
40 degrees Fahrenheit
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
Canadians sun bathe.
35 degrees Fahrenheit
Italian Cars won't start
Canadians drive with the windows down
32 degrees Fahrenheit
Distilled water freezes
Canadian water gets thicker.
0 degrees Fahrenheit
New York landlords finally turn on the heat.
Canadians have the last cookout of the season.
-40 degrees Fahrenheit
Hollywood disintegrates.
Canadians rent some videos.
-60 degrees Fahrenheit
Mt St. Helens freezes.
Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.
Nunavik
-100 degrees Fahrenheit
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Canadians pull down their ear flaps.
-173 degrees Fahrenheit
Ethyl alcohol freezes.
Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
-460 degrees Fahrenheit
All atomic motion stops.
Canadians start saying "cold eh?"
-500 degrees Fahrenheit
Hell freezes over.
The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
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Hi Rebella!
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LOL Mary!
c'momn!
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soz
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deagle
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