I really liked the western one. 
Agreed. It is also one of the most cohesive in reading.*
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- Also includes the funniest chapter by far, namely (plot spoiler alert) the genre-busting chapter with the flying saucer.
Iāve never written any sort of Western-type stuff and would welcome the opportunity; though I suspect Iād go off-piste. Just the opportunity to use spittoon in context is a pull.
Likewise for the opportunity to use āspittoonā out of context.
As the OP (who also somehow never got a notification that there had been replies. 
)ā¦
I intended this as a joke, but appreciate @Pigfender taking me seriously.
I made the joke because I am sorely jealous of all those people with more pencil cups than I have. Iāve participated every chance I could since I found out about NiaD, but I really wish Iād found out sooner, because I think itās a) lots and lots of fun, b) a good writing exercise, and c) a good read - particularly to find out what others wrote on āmyā chapters. I enjoy NiaD so much that I promote it where possible, and itās been part-inspiration for an anthology or two.
That said, a lot of the fun is the uncertainty and the time pressure - exacerbated for me this year by the fact that Iām busy all day tomorrow and will have to write my chapter in just a few hours. Much as Iād like to get those extra pencil cups, I donāt think it would be the same to go back and revisit an older prompt. Iād be disciplined enough not to go back and read othersā approaches first, but the exercise wouldnāt have the same feel of spontaneity and originality to it. I think Iād feel - through no oneās fault - like a second-class participant for not being part of the original group.
In short, Iād love to get those extra cups, but only with a real time machine and participating in real time.
On Rogās questions:
- Is your unease about whether youād 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?
Itās knowing that it was a tale already told. As anyone whoās ever irretrievably lost a first draft knows, itās never as good the second time around.
- What do people think about revisiting genres?
Absolutely fine with that. In fact, Iāve been sorry that some of my favorite genres happened before I started playing. Besides, youāre going to run out at some point. I see no harm at all in revisiting genres, provided the plots donāt overlap.
On my current analysis of the concept of genre, it is a 16 dimensional space with a volume of [6 x 6 x (4x4x4x4x4x4x5x4x4x3) x 8 x 7 x 4 x 4].
Which gives Pigfender approximately 31,708,938,240 unique genres to look forward to.
And you know when you and I hit our 30,000,000,000th pencil cup weāre going to celebrate and we wonāt be thinking about the cuppa that got away.
Wait. Unless it was a sequel or part of a trilogy!