Many thanks one and all! Jaysen, thegirlclaudia, gr, camy thanks for spicing up the forum nothing like a good giggle when under stress. A graceful bow to Pigfender for herding all us cats to the promised land. I can’t wait for October.
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I know what you mean. I’ve been working overtime for so long that I haven’t been able to concentrate and write fiction. This has helped me get my groove back, so to speak. So thankful to @pigdefender!
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My turn to chime in and offer a sincere thank you to everyone, and especially to @pigfender, for yet another fantastically fun event! I’m having a blast reading my way through the finished versions. The creativity and talent here is awesome, and I can’t wait for the next round!
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Brilliant!
Pig Defender has to be the latest addition to the MCU, replacing Iron Man.
I need to see costume artwork, soonest…
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Thanks @Ronjol, I was so worried about my depression + loss of my loverly (“my fair lady / pigmalion”) muse + packed schedule hampering my ability to finish this sudden surprise writing adventure. But yeah, thanks for appreciating me!
I think I have it…!
(The pig is the defender @pigfender)
Babe (the movie)
@pigfender I mixed up two of the boys slain by The Dark, too!
Dolphin-shaped drawers, did you mean? Because that would have an awesome backstory and the burning of them could warrant a marine metaphor. Like “the flames engulfed the noses as the billows of the deep”…
I’m trying, but all I’m getting here is dolphin-shaped bloomers. Maybe my imagination is busted.
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It can’t be said too often : Thank you, pigfender, for putting such a crazy thing together and letting us all take part!
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Now I’m seeing a chorus line of bloomer wearing dolphins, dancing the can-can.
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Again huge thank you Pigfender really appreciate time and effort you put into this day and proud to have been involved since the start love every minute. We hot footed it back from Scotland to Dorset Thursday evening to make sure I had internet to do this day
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Oddly, as the most ardent supporting interstellar dolphin pirates, I’ve never managed to get them into my chapters. It’s not that I’m a fraud as much as I’m a yellow bellied chicken. I just can’t summon my inner Vic and make it happen. Not yet anyway.
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Apparently dolphins symboilse positive connections, and having them in your subconscious means you’re excited about a new project / opportunity to work with others. So, I’ll take this spontaneous collective obsession with them as a good sign.
Pirates on the other hand are known to symbolise the fact that you’ve spent too much time hanging out with parrots or drinking rum. My money’s on the rum.
[disclaimer - no actual science or research was undertaken in the preparation of this post]
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The parrots are drinking the rum too!
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At least you have an inner Vic. I envy you. My NiaD GJMuse died… 
Far be it for me to stick an oar into the planning of the next NiaD, but we haven’t had a space opera type thingy, yet. And, as you know, ‘Interstellar Dolphin Pirates’ are definitely maybe out there… between the stars… lurking, and looking for rum swilling parrots.
Ah, you have to love the day after a NiaD, when insanity rules and the cat’s gone off in a huff. 
I have absolutely no idea at all what genre the next NiaD will be, but Interstellar Dolphin Pirates strikes me as more of a Graphic Novel idea than regular novel.
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Maybe you should seek shelter from the ideas. This assumes you aren’t enjoying the beatings.
Hey @thegirlclaudia - yeah Vic was a much loved forum regular who sadly passed away last year. For many of us, he was the forum. Despite only knowing him virtually through the interweb, he was as good a friend as I have had in life and I suspect others could say the same.
We also lost Montrée a few years back, who is the other person mentioned in the book dedications. Without her passion and enthusiasm for NiaD I would most likely have quit a long time ago. Sadly, I learnt more about what a wonderful person she was after she died than before, which is most definitely my loss.
I’m really sorry to hear about your late boyfriend, GJM. It sounds like his loss is and will continue to be keenly felt. You’ve got my email address if you want to talk.
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I’m enjoying that post-NiaD period where there’s no idea I’m supposed to be working on. No guilt about the research unexplored, plots unplanned and drafts unwritten. It feels like freedom, and it’s how I imagine non-writers feel all the time. It’s bliss and I am hugely envious of them.
Next week, the gnawing will start again. It always does, dammit.
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