T.K is journalism speak for ‘to come.’*
Next time you’re stuck just insert this handy abbreviation and move on. In nonfiction it can stand in for facts and stats you can look up later, thus avoiding the ‘black hole’ of internet research. For fiction writers, TK relieves the burden of having to find the mot juste.
He had this TK tendency of laboring over a single word he would end up deleting later anyway.
As with the entire first draft , TK is just for you.
*‘K’ is for ‘come’ because ‘TK’ doesn’t appear anywhere in the English language (besides the Atkins Diet) so it won’t cause confusion and is easily searchable.