NiaD X

homeport · October 22, 2020, 5:12pm

pigfender:

JacquelineM:

Unless you’ve actually participated in NiaD it’s impossible to imagine the level of stress and confusion when the email arrives after midnight.

Yup, it’s a tough day!! Hopefully the kind of challenge we find fun, though!
But yeah, I hear you. The before/after NiaD photos of my wrinkles and hair line aren’t pretty. Although that could also be because it’s been ten years.

I think this year’s story was the toughest on participants yet! The next one’ll be easier. Maybe. Who knows?!

homeport:

Thank you so much and for all the hard work you have put in to make these events especially this year so much fun.
I will put in my thoughts on next year now just get ahead of all the suggestions you will have but what about a good pirate tale:)

You’re welcome! Hmmm pirates! Robot space pirates! Robot space pirates with faulty programming that makes them…

No, it’s too early! I must resist!

Lol something to mull over space pirates YESSS

gr · October 24, 2020, 4:06am

Hey, with a robot space pirate protagonist I won’t have to fret about my character’s motivation.

Camy · October 26, 2020, 7:33pm

Why everyone seems to think AI’s are going to be bland and benevolent escapes me. They’ll be as equally fubar as we are - only with less restraint and more processing power… especially space pirate robots!

homeport · October 28, 2020, 8:47pm

I can see that we have hit a possible subject for the next book:)

nom · December 13, 2020, 8:20pm

Yes

Maelduin · December 15, 2020, 5:07pm

JacquelineM:

pigfender:

Camy:

Insanity! Crazy wonderful insanity!
That said, I can’t quite see how it would work - besides giving Pigfender the heebie-jeebies.

Giving me the heebie-jeebies is good enough reason for people to want to do something, I’ve found.

I did abandon an idea for a NiaD a year or so go because I thought it would work better as a graphic novel than a normal novel, but I can’t use that now because I already posted the working title (which gives a fair bit about the idea away) in this very thread.

I like the idea, though. I suspect Graphic Novel in a Week might be more achieveable, but I have a day job so I can’t see that happening anytime soon!

The idea I could see us doing soon is Cookbook in a Day…

How about a story set in a restaurant, with each chapter being about a character and their favourite recipe?

Re a Graphic Novel, a children’s picture book might be doable instead.

I like the idea of a Cookbook in a Day (or Cookery Book in a Day, as my mother would have said). Kind of like Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.

Graphic Novel in a Week sounds doable - pair up each writer with a drawer and have the writer to the scenario in a day and the drawer draw it up in a week, then put the chapters together. Pure mad!

Camy · March 11, 2021, 12:21pm

Dibs on Banana Bread!

gr · March 11, 2021, 2:08pm

Dibs on Fender-Roasted Pig (commonly known as Pigs-in-a-Blanket-fender).

pigfender · March 11, 2021, 5:17pm

gasp

gr · March 12, 2021, 2:19am

Well you may, for it is a breath-taking recipe. Literally.

Camy · March 16, 2021, 12:48pm

Steady on. You can’t slaughter our beloved leader for a mere recipe. It’s just not cricket.

homeport · March 18, 2021, 10:41am

lol I heard that gasp

gr · March 19, 2021, 2:08am

Mere recipe? Mere recipe?!!

I should think some of the ingredients might take offence to that.

Camy · March 30, 2021, 11:58pm

Having spoken to several of your key ingredients, they feel it would be best for you to concentrate on your marvellous vegetarian recipes.

gr · March 31, 2021, 3:11am

In that case I’m putting dibs on the recipe for Stone Soup.

Camy · April 5, 2021, 2:55pm

I’ve got a few old carrots to chip in.