# NiaD X **URL:** \ **Category:** Novel in a Day\ **Created:** [September 14, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403 "2020-09-14T16:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![homeport](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/homeport/32/17766_2.png) [@homeport](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/homeport)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/221 "2020-10-10T17:28:55Z")
I found this one difficult spent lot of time trying to get head around some kind of outline knowledge to give me a fighting chance of making sense ☹ ---
**Author:** ![naquada](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@naquada](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/naquada)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/222 "2020-10-10T17:29:49Z")
Done and sent back… YAY!!! although maybe not YAY once it’s been read but hey!!! Edited down to 3019 words from about 4,000… I’m fairly happy with it… (ish!!!) ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/223 "2020-10-10T17:53:36Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > The honest answer is that I’m intimidated by the sheer amount of world building required to do fantasy well, That said, thank you for the amount of background preliminary research you’ve provided this year on various matters that might otherwise be difficult to scare up in time! ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/224 "2020-10-10T17:58:48Z")
> [@Evil Overlord](#): > > > [@pigfender](#): > > > > There can’t be that many genres left! 😃 > > I didn’t claim to know about very much… I’m pretty sure none of us knows very much about everything. But most of us know a lot about a little. We just need to get the son of baconator to broaden his base of knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Catrad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/catrad/32/33798_2.png) [@Catrad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Catrad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/225 "2020-10-10T18:02:57Z")
Newbie here. That was fun. Can’t wait to see how they all fit together! And if we managed to make contract law fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/gr/32/38680_2.png) [@gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/gr)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/226 "2020-10-10T18:04:02Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > > [@Evil Overlord](#): > > > > This year’s genre was … my spouse’s favorite. One of these days, I swear the story will be about something I know about (and will have no excuse for getting badly wrong). Some day. > > There can’t be that many genres left! 😃 …and I lost the genre bet again. That is, if my chapter (no dolphins or dolphin shaped spacecraft) is telling me anything about the genre. In fact, I had in my genre markup written this genre out every time, reasoning, no I know he won’t do that, b/c well, special knowledge. But … butt kicked again! ---
**Author:** ![mishmhem](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mishmhem/32/18058_2.png) [@mishmhem](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/mishmhem)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/227 "2020-10-10T18:12:02Z")
Entry sent. Now… I’m just excited to see the rest of the story! ---
**Author:** ![Kingstonmike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/kingstonmike/32/17142_2.png) [@Kingstonmike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Kingstonmike)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/228 "2020-10-10T18:12:35Z")
Done and sent… Looking forward to seeing what we’ve made together. ---
**Author:** ![Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/camy/32/36_2.png) [@Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Camy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/229 "2020-10-10T18:19:12Z")
Done, dusted, tweaked and submitted. ---
**Author:** ![gothcabbage](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@gothcabbage](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/gothcabbage)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/230 "2020-10-10T18:45:44Z")
Done and sent. Shorter than my last NIAD at around 1800 words this time. I decided against the subplot as it would just have interrupted the flow. I also lost enthusiasm for a huge blob of procedural detail which I spent some time researching - ultimately I realised it didn’t add much to how you felt about the characters (or at least, most of it wouldn’t have done and the bit that would would have ended up as a rather isolated scene…). I look forward to seeing how it ends up slotting into what everyone else has done… I now know much more about US City/county jail intake and booking procedures than I did before, and let’s see what all those searches do to the adverts I get presented with! ---
**Author:** ![nav66](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nav66](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/nav66)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/231 "2020-10-10T18:46:22Z")
Done! Once again, NiaD was a lot of fun! Can’t wait to read the novel(s) later today! ---
**Author:** ![Maelduin](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Maelduin](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Maelduin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/232 "2020-10-10T18:50:47Z")
More fun than a bucket of monkeys. I’m now cross-eyed with exhaustion, but happy! ---
**Author:** ![Daurmith](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/daurmith/32/33492_2.png) [@Daurmith](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Daurmith)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/233 "2020-10-10T18:57:17Z")
I’ll be a few minutes late, but only a few, I’m finishing up. Sorry about the delay. The frogs called, by the way. They say the dolphins stole their laser death ray. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Overlord](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/evil_overlord/32/18078_2.png) [@Evil\_Overlord](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Evil_Overlord)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/234 "2020-10-10T19:18:18Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > The honest answer is that I’m intimidated by the sheer amount of world building required to do fantasy well and not have it be, well, just another story where the characters just happen to be hobbits and it’s mentioned once and never discussed again… That’s not to say that I won’t get over that, and figure something out for a future year though. I volunteer to help with world building in a future year if that’s helpful. ---
**Author:** ![ElNocho](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/elnocho/32/20269_2.png) [@ElNocho](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/ElNocho)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/235 "2020-10-10T19:22:49Z")
Submitted - barely. Are you supposed to feel exhausted and sad at this point? What I wouldn’t give for 2 more hours! I over-researched, started rambling, and cut mine short with not enough refinement. (I’m talking about my chapter, not life - ha! But that’s a pretty solid metaphor.) I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. All the best - ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/236 "2020-10-10T19:33:12Z")
> [@Daurmith](#): > > The frogs called, by the way. They say the dolphins stole their laser death ray. The dolphins are making good use of of the death ray. Mostly for uninvited guests (lion fish, tiger shrimp and the like) and to make it faster to serve 12 course meals (if you ever get invited to a dolphin dinner, show up hungry). ---
**Author:** ![WangariMuchui](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@WangariMuchui](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/WangariMuchui)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/237 "2020-10-10T19:36:03Z")
Waoohhh. Done and sent. 😃😃 This was an experience !. I wish i had another 24 hours to write on. I had so many ideas and the time seemed so short. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shadowspawn](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Shadowspawn](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Shadowspawn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/238 "2020-10-10T19:46:13Z")
Sent Thanks for extra time! Newbie here, and started later than I thought. It seemed like not fun at first given the nature of the chapter (that’s why my first intent was to have some fun with a massacre or an outright orgie to spice things up). But then I decided to stay closer to Eearth. Let’s see, I’ve read up for my puny 1500 words chapter on space shuttles, comptroller’s investigations including a Covid-related fraud and some guys who gambled away state’s money on some lake developments, Irish and Italian mobs, Rudy Giuliani and some jellyfish ---
**Author:** ![Daurmith](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/daurmith/32/33492_2.png) [@Daurmith](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Daurmith)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/239 "2020-10-10T20:04:08Z")
> [@Jaysen](#): > > > [@Daurmith](#): > > > > The frogs called, by the way. They say the dolphins stole their laser death ray. > > The dolphins are making good use of of the death ray. Mostly for uninvited guests (lion fish, tiger shrimp and the like) and to make it faster to serve 12 course meals (if you ever get invited to a dolphin dinner, show up hungry). I hope they don’t have a book called “To Serve Man”. But if they do, I propose we go potluck! ---
**Author:** ![Kingstonmike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/kingstonmike/32/17142_2.png) [@Kingstonmike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Kingstonmike)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403/240 "2020-10-10T20:10:39Z")
> [@WangariMuchui](#): > > Waoohhh. Done and sent. 😃😃 This was an experience !. I wish i had another 24 hours to write on. I had so many ideas and the time seemed so short. 😉 Myself as well…I wanted to add another scene in a bar, where we get to see a different side of the ‘bad guys’ in the Comptroller’s office, but couldn’t due to time and story constraints. (I also had the idea too late to want to revise the chapter) [Previous page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403.md?page=11) [Next page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/niad-x/51403.md?page=13)