At the risk of turning it into a Novel-in-a-Week… I’ve bartered household chores for some laptop time and updated the files again.
I’m not going to get chance to read it for a few days, but I’m looking forward to it!
[size=150]Already there, me old cock sparra… all ready there [/size][size=150];-))[/size]
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“Is it customary,” Carla wondered, “that some sort of user_name/credited_name mapping be provided at least on this thread? I’d really like to know who’s who, beyond the obvious associations…”
“Er… Nope,” Bobby replied. “It’s on a need to know basis. And you already know too much.”
“OK, wise-guy, I bet you won’t get a new suit from me for your upcoming birthday after all.”
“And speaking of which… What happened to FBI Agent Gallagher?”
“Oh, Bobby. I could tell’ya, but I’d have to kill’ya.”
He met with the untimely death that suited him, no doubt.
-gr
He’s been seen lurking on the lower deck [size=85]ANFTL[/size]
“I’m getting the weird idea,” Sal said, “that it’s getting too quiet in here. Did anybody else read the novel end to end? Or many others did and just don’t think there’s anything to say about it? I was murdered, god dammit! And nobody gives a s**t?”
[size=85]Is it that you people have real lives to worry about? (since I’m located closer to the planet core than the average life form, I’m feeling so lonely now… :-)[/size]
I read it. It’s the best of the three.
If anyone needs a higher resolution version of the cover image for any reason you can download one from here, BTW.
Great!
Sorry, it’s a secret. We have to have some mystery in life, even if it’s artificially constructed.
Yes, we did.
You are experiencing post-NiaD withdrawl symptoms. The best cure I am aware of is the conveniently scheduled NaNoWriMo. It’s almost as if it was planned that way.
That’s just masterly.
I got quite attached to him too 
I’m slow to add things to my reading pile, though I did get started. Keith’s chapter is so far the most memorable for me. I like the noir elements, and how dumb he made Bobby. 
In awe of what Pigfender et al achieved in a day (though a lot more than a day’s worth of work goes into the novel). Out of curiosity, how many downloads have the NIAD books achieved? Hope the numbers are high—a just return for all that work.
Congratulations to, and admiration for, everyone involved.
Well, now hat you removed matt’s laptop from the NiaD you can keep it for yourself and thus won’t need begging to Mrs pigfender for laptop time ever again 
What can I say… Bazinga!
I’d love to join this year’s NaNoWriMo, really. But the rules state that you cannot start with a base project you’ve been working on, you must start from scratch. My current WIP is already about 40% written (First Draft), and I have to deliver it by mid December, so starting a new project during November would definitely jeopardize my chances to complete both, I think.
I really liked that chapter too.
SPOILER AHEAD
[size=50]And if the whole bottle-in-the-head wheel-getting-loose is a subplot he created and was not on the original script, I think it’s really brilliant how he inserted it and resolved it so cleanly and conveniently.[/size]
I’m up to chapter 8.
Fun read so far.
I keep waiting for things to get picked up that simply won’t. Who are the rednecks Kb introduced? Feels like a larger purpose there. ETC. That’s just an artifact of the method used. Kind of fun but kind of “ARRGHHHRRR!!! close the loop!!!” at the same time.
the one “complaint” that i would have is linguistic-ish. As a native speaker/reader of AMERICAN english, certain phrases are very grating:
- “he was in hospital” would be said as “he was in THE hospital” by every American.
- “black highly polished shoes” would be “highly polished black shoes”.
there are a few more but they are all based on American v Kings english phrasing. I’ve been around the fora long enough to figure out the translation…
I would also point out that I’m an uneducate, mountain hick who barely speaks hick-english right so smarter minds may look at me and say “you’s dummer ‘en-a box o’ rocks ‘en you’s aint speakin’ fer us”.
As it was my grammar picked up I had a look about found this:
stenstroms.com/en/shirt-know … ress-code/
A grey or black hat in a matching colour is quite appropriate for larger official events. Black, highly polished shoes and black or grey socks are essential. If the morning coat is to be worn
So its not just me but sorry my grammar was so grating as a resident of the UK side of the pond
Moderator Note: Thread moved to NaNo Materials to avoid clogging the announcement feeds (a little late, yes).
I for one love the UK dialects, Manchester being my fave. Having read Agatha Christie from a very young age, I also have acquired just a few “linguistic” practices when I write. I’m forever taking the u out of things ending in or. I think the dialectual (sp?) differences in English in general are fascinating, and thus, wouldn’t change those elements in our “babies” from this and the past two years.
I have some ideas. I believe PF has joked every year about its being his last year with NIAD. How about a divvying up of the tasks? Like, one, have a person make the reminder contact a few months prior to previous folks to see if they’ll show and keep the list of participants updated and then the follow up correspondence. Have someone else send out the schnitzel with the info. Dropbox makes it so all PF has to do is up load it. He or his helper can create a folder for each participant and then give them access to their own folder. A third person can so something else. I don’t know how you might break things down PF, but if you delegate some of the tasks that would free up your time needed to create the master plan, then perhaps it won’t be so daunting a prospect each year. Once all is said and done someone can do the compiling/formating and after running it by you get it all posted. I’m I too far afield?
I’m on chapter 3 and hope to delve back into it tonight. I even posted a link at work for folks to download if they wanted, then worried that the content I’ve not read might violate someone’s sense of propriety or something. Oh, well. I like not knowing how the book will go. Hopefully that won’t change.
The term that stood out for me – and it was used consistently throughout the novel whenever we were at someone’s house (or safehouse as the case may be) – was ‘lounge’. Every house had a lounge – a room quite unheard of in these parts. I am pretty sure those chapters were written by people far and wide, so I am suspecting a common cause – floor plans in some people’s packets perhaps?
gr
No floor plans that I saw… maybe we all just have lounges?
As an Australian, perfectly unremarkable to me, to the point that I assumed it was entirely non-regional and absolutely common everywhere.
It’s not like it is a “sitting room”, which no one outside of pre-1900s Britain has ever had!