# The Unit (NiaD 11) **URL:** \ **Category:** Novel in a Day\ **Created:** [October 16, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477 "2021-10-16T23:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/41 "2021-10-18T19:08:29Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > Ok… so which chapter do people think was the hardest this time? Oh oh, I know the answer to this one! For each chapter author X who was assigned a chapter Y, X believes that Y was certainly the hardest chapter. Actually, even if I fumbled it or had a hard time mustering the right genre feel, I am sure I did not have the hardest chapter. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/42 "2021-10-18T20:27:23Z")
I like the one I got, and had fun taking it in a perhaps unexpected direction, speaking in a narrative way. I would say maybe chapter two looks the most difficult—if that’s the one I’m thinking of, which is essentially a huge confrontation between the new CO (is that the right abbreviation?) and the second. But I struggle more with dialogue heavy chapters in general. So that one would have intimidated me no matter what the content or subject matter was. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/43 "2021-10-18T20:56:05Z")
I had an easy chapter that was extremely difficult. I wanted to show the unglamorous and obnoxiously boring side of the real life these guys live. All I managed to do was write a mediocre bit of bad dialog that inspired “my sources” to reply with “that was a lot more exciting than I expected… only had to drink three cups of coffee to get through it, I normally need a go pill.” By the way, the use of “go pills” is a problem for these guys when they get back from deployments. It kills me to think that we turn them into addicts then accuse them of malfeasance when they can’t get the help they need to return to normal human life. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/44 "2021-10-19T03:49:57Z")
A proposed way to get more folks signed up for NiaD: break the combinatorial record 😆 ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/45 "2021-10-19T14:43:42Z")
Methinks singletons increase the likelihood of someone figuring out who is the naughty writer whose work includes particular quirks, such as space pirate dolphins… and if those quirks trigger certain readers to drink, there’s the correlation that may or may not imply causality… and may or may not be exponential in the corresponding mathematical model… ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/46 "2021-10-19T14:45:50Z")
Not having read military fiction myself, whichever chapter that became my hap would have been quite challenging for me… ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/47 "2021-10-19T23:06:50Z")
Are you suggesting space pirate dolphins are a quirk? ---
**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:** [October 20, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/48 "2021-10-20T03:21:52Z")
In my combinatorial opinion, space pirate dolphins are an obvious fandabadoozy, and hence more a fetish than a quirk. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/49 "2021-10-20T10:48:57Z")
> [@gr](#): > > space pirate dolphins are an obvious fandabadoozy, and hence more a fetish than a quirk. No no no no no They are a lifestyle. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/50 "2021-10-20T11:36:34Z")
My observation has been that it was at least one and no more than five of us talking about space pirate dolphins, so if any submission includes space pirate dolphins, we could make an educated guess that one of us was the writer… as to whether such an inclusion qualifies as a quirk, it doesn’t really matter. I wanted to use a term that says “if you find such-and-such in a piece of writing, it is highly likely that it is written by so-and-so…” I think my quirk is usually that I must include something French in my writing… ---
**Author:** ![pacifika](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/pacifika/32/47_2.png) [@pacifika](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pacifika)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477/51 "2021-10-22T19:28:25Z")
> [@pigfender](#): > > Oh dear, no. I’m never\* doing this again!!! 😉 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 > [@pigfender](#): > > the ePub and mobi I always think I’ll pull up the download page on my phone and grab the epub, but I never remember. So I just grab the pdf on my computer. > [@gr](#): > > The Bespoke Edition of ‘The Unit’ is now posted! You are amazing! [Previous page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/the-unit-niad-11/123477.md?page=2)