Piggy is always on my good books 
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Well, you are now!
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Turned mine in with 3 whole minutes to spare!!
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Done and sent! Excited to read the final product(s)!
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Yes, and now I am fen and want to eat jacket potatoes and drink mulled wine, and say things like ol’ gel, and ah buh, and get nagged for writing in British English wrong! LOL
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Hmm…I can’t decide which method I prefer. Knowing the story outline beforehand, and being able to read a finished version of it, made it easier to stop worrying about whether or not what I’m doing will be jarring to the overall plot. But then I worried about being too similar to the original author of my chapter.
Going in blind offers more freedom from the constraints of knowing what the outcome will be. It allows for a bit more creativity, at least for me. It’s also fun to have the suspense of waiting for the full story to be published to find out what happens.
So, my wishy, washy preference is to be able to do both! 
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Just got mine in! I was 2 minutes late, so hopefully that doesn’t hold up the project. 
I can’t wait to read the finished product!!
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With a modicum of sincerity (because that is as much as I ever strive to use … any more than that hurts) I suggest that approaching NoaD brief as more than short story idea is grounds for incarceration. The brief gives us just enough information to develop a compelling idea that engages (or enrages) the reader. The completed NiaD itself is the ultimate short story anthology; a collective series of unique interpretations of discrete data plot segments. Imagine the horror of say Iao, Grrrr, and Jaysen accidentally writing something that was cohesive… ON ACCIDENT. I fear that the idea is a god controlling the actions of us all would become frighteningly real.
No, I suggest that the true glory of the NiaD is the complete discontinuity of the completed work as it celebrates the uniqueness that each of us brings into the universe.
I may not know many of you personally, but through NiaD we know of each other more completely than without.
I only wish Vic-K had been able to execute the 2019 NiaD alongside me as planned. Then a part of him would forever be available to the world. Everyone should know what a wonderful man he was.
For the record that last bit hurt. I hate “full sincerity”.
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I’m in!
I definitely felt less pressed this time around. And I don’t know if it had anything to do with the “open NIAD” this time. I did take a gander at the old briefs. (Boy, there’s a sentence I never expected to utter.) But it might just be owing to the fact that I just came off of a writing deadline last week that was way thornier. I don’t know. Geez, I hope that calmer me doesn’t mean my bit is terrible. 
Seeing clear to the truth of it all will require brooding. And a martini.
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This you would call a god?! Zounds!
I said “a god”. Not “the God”. And entity that would inflect Jaysen-ness on you two would fall well outside the acceptable idea of the big G god.
NiaD Day complete! The day where I pound coffee from the moment I wake up, until the moment I switch to booze, with that thought that, good lord, everyone is going to be reading the mess I made.
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Cool way to go that girl
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They have a specialist eating disorder unit but not general psych. However the forward thinking Cambridge liaison psychiatric services sit at the intersection of mental and physical illnesses which seems to me much needed.
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Okay, we still have a few stragglers which is preventing me from getting the final tidying and compiling going.
Unfortunately, this includes one chapter that doesn’t have any submissions yet which means we might have a gap. Somewhat coincidentally, the last time that happened was… you guessed it, ten years ago in the original version of The Dark.
Last time we had no choice but to just throw a copy of the chapter briefing in there, but this time I’m leaning towards lifting the closest equivalent chapter from the previous book and using that.
Anyway – if you’re one of the stragglers please reach out as soon as possible and let me know where you are otherwise we’ll need to go to print without you.
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If there was a vote on it, I’d cast it for resurrecting a zombie from the past. Neither option would be great, but I think it would be better than a Briefing of Shame in the anniversary edition (although as you say, maybe that would be a nice throwback Easter Egg ).
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Ooooo… what about a walk of shame - like Cersei Lannister in GOT, but on TikTok.
Or we could just have a nice glass of wine and wait for them to deliver their PROMISED chapter.
I have to say that I have been in the same spot.
Missing a deadline is awful, and the later it gets the worse you feel… until you end up hiding under the bed and throwing your computer in the bin.
Hoping for a last minute reason to cheer.
There still seems to be six chapters not yet in.
I don’t know how piggy manages that.