# Revisit previous years events? **URL:** \ **Category:** Novel in a Day\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257 "2019-01-27T20:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [February 5, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/21 "2019-02-05T18:35:54Z")
> [@nom](#): > > Back on topic: I don’t know how I feel about rewriting the early books. Part of me is interested (anything that gets me writing fiction has a strong start) but at the same time it seems… “wrong” somehow. Maybe it feels more like an academic writing exercise than creating something new? > > I don’t know. > > Then again, Pigfender has proved he’s good at this, so maybe I should just trust him to pull it off. > > My definitive answer: Maybe I myself am having that nom-sort of feeling.\* And the sense of not creating something new (if that’s what that feeling is) is not (or not just) about one’s own chapter, but about the whole. gr - Is there something I can take for this? ---
**Author:** ![ConradG](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/conradg/32/111_2.png) [@ConradG](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/ConradG)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/22 "2019-02-05T20:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > the sense of not creating something new is… about the whole. This is what I was alluding to a while back. And it’s why I was wondering if we could think of a creative way forward. Instead of trying to recreate the same feeling by revisiting the old works, I wonder if there’s a way that we could do… I don’t know quite what… something new or something improved now that we know the endings of the books… making a tighter, more collaborative work somehow… _just brainstorming “aloud”_ ---
**Author:** ![pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/pigfender/32/41526_2.png) [@pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pigfender)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/23 "2019-02-12T07:28:25Z")
Some interesting views here. Thanks everyone who has chipped in; I understand and appreciate both points of view. I’ll leave this thread here for others to add their opinions and suggestions, although for the moment at least there doesn’t seem to be a significant enough body of “yay”s to warrant a re-run. One more question, if I may, to those who have reservations: Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work? ---
**Author:** ![nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/nom/32/20_2.png) [@nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/24 "2019-02-12T13:40:06Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > One more question, if I may, to those who have reservations: Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work? Yes. But primarily the latter. ---
**Author:** ![nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/nom/32/20_2.png) [@nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/25 "2019-02-12T13:43:23Z")
> [@gr](#): > > I myself am having that nom-sort of feeling.\* And the sense of not creating something new (if that’s what that feeling is) is not (or not just) about one’s own chapter, but about the whole. > > gr > > - Is there something I can take for this? Yes\* [size=85]\*You didn’t ask if it works[/size] ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/26 "2019-02-15T14:23:43Z")
Miralax purgative works wonders for all manner of blockages. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/27 "2019-02-17T19:13:58Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work? The thing that is NiaD is special and fun and more than a little ‘barking mad jolly hockey sticks.’ It’s whimsical and adorable, and I wouldn’t want it to change one iota. You can’t do more in the time. Yet I cringe at what I’ve written, and wish for… something . Not sure what. More time? A fuller brief (not enough time for it to make a real difference)? Divine intervention? An editor? A bigger box of Miralax? Running it again might make it better - certainly different - but how many times? Would we re-run the re-run? I feel a short story coming on. 😈 ---
**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:** [February 20, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/28 "2019-02-20T19:11:10Z")
> [@nom](#): > > Back on topic: I don’t know how I feel about rewriting the early books. Part of me is interested (anything that gets me writing fiction has a strong start) but at the same time it seems… “wrong” somehow. Maybe it feels more like an academic writing exercise than creating something new? > > I don’t know. > > Then again, Pigfender has proved he’s good at this, so maybe I should just trust him to pull it off. > > My definitive answer: Maybe I feel the same I would do it but it feels odd ---
**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:** [February 20, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/29 "2019-02-20T19:15:29Z")
> [@nom](#): > > > [@pigfender](#): > > > > One more question, if I may, to those who have reservations: Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work? > > Yes. > But primarily the latter. Yes the latter really also we all write not really knowing and that is what makes it so good. The books we have done are a work of art a coming together and pressure of one day and it is what it is, ---
**Author:** ![pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/pigfender/32/41526_2.png) [@pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pigfender)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/30 "2019-02-28T17:04:17Z")
A different but somewhat related question, then… What do people think about revisiting genres? ---
**Author:** ![Fluff](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Fluff](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Fluff)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/31 "2019-02-28T18:37:22Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > A different but somewhat related question, then… > > What do people think about revisiting genres? To much of a good thing, young piggy? Take care, Fluff xxxxx ---
**Author:** ![pete340](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dc4da7/32.png) [@pete340](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pete340)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/32 "2019-02-28T19:00:11Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > A different but somewhat related question, then… > > What do people think about revisiting genres? That’s fine. Except for Westerns. ---
**Author:** ![auxbuss](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/auxbuss/32/115_2.png) [@auxbuss](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/auxbuss)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/33 "2019-02-28T19:38:10Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > A different but somewhat related question, then… > > What do people think about revisiting genres? Good for me. I’m happy writing anything, tbh. ---
**Author:** ![auxbuss](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/auxbuss/32/115_2.png) [@auxbuss](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/auxbuss)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/34 "2019-02-28T19:41:44Z")
> [@pete340](#): > > > [@pigfender](#): > > > > A different but somewhat related question, then… > > > > What do people think about revisiting genres? > > That’s fine. Except for Westerns. Go Westworld on it. A bit sci-fi or fantasy. There’s a thought: a Western with dragons. A sci-fi Western is just The Matrix. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/35 "2019-02-28T20:56:21Z")
More westerns with aliens and dolphins attacking pirate ships. Don’t care what you pick… you’re the boss. Just make sure there’s enough fornication for Mr K. ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/36 "2019-02-28T21:19:21Z")
> [@Jaysen](#): > > More westerns with aliens and dolphins attacking pirate ships. > > Don’t care what you pick… you’re the boss. Just make sure there’s enough fornication for Mr K. Wot y’on about, formulation! ? 😮 How much formulation d’ y’ need to write just one chapter? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/37 "2019-03-01T12:28:33Z")
Keeping genres unique is fun and all, but clearly extra in the grand scheme of things – a bravura performance on your part over and above the awesomeness that is NIAD. I think everyone will think that is entirely your call. And, to state the obvious, there is plenty more to explore in every genre – except Westerns (haha, just kidding – I loved that one). gr ---
**Author:** ![nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/nom/32/20_2.png) [@nom](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/38 "2019-03-04T12:26:35Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > A different but somewhat related question, then… > > What do people think about revisiting genres? That’s fi… wait… they’ve had genres?!? 😮 ---
**Author:** ![pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/pigfender/32/41526_2.png) [@pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pigfender)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/39 "2019-03-04T13:03:53Z")
> [@nom](#): > > That’s fi… wait… they’ve had genres?!? 😮 1 - R2.6 S1.1 E(by author) 2 - R2.3.4 S1.2 E(by author) 3 - R1.2.1962/2013 S2.1 E(by author) 4 - R1.1.2014 S2.3 E(by author) 5 - R1.2.1867/2015 S2.1 E(by author) 6 - R2.5.3 S3.4 E(by author) 7 - R1.1.2017 S1.2 E(by author) 8 - R2.5.4 S4.1 E(by author) i[/i] ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257/40 "2019-03-04T14:06:17Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > > [@nom](#): > > > > That’s fi… wait… they’ve had genres?!? 😮 > > 1 - R2.6 S1.1 E(by author) > 2 - R2.3.4 S1.2 E(by author) > 3 - R1.2.1962/2013 S2.1 E(by author) > 4 - R1.1.2014 S2.3 E(by author) > 5 - R1.2.1867/2015 S2.1 E(by author) > 6 - R2.5.3 S3.4 E(by author) > 7 - R1.1.2017 S1.2 E(by author) > 8 - R2.5.4 S4.1 E(by author) > i[/i] Oh cool. Now I can check to see if my pf-genre calls for each NIAD were on the mark. (Can I get another dining-out bet with my wife out of this? Maybe, maybe.) [Previous page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/revisit-previous-years-events/44257.md?page=3)