NiaD 7: Lessons Learned

[gr]

Changing the subject slightly...
How do people feel about having expositional elements in their chapter briefs? I’ve tended to write off story ideas that have required any material level of exposition, but maybe I’m too sensitive?

I am not entirely clear on what you are considering here. How is what you are thinking about different from providing "background information"? Or are you refer to a sort of case where part of what the chapter author would be instructed to do is include some expositing of certain story facts?

Prithee enlighten,
gr

[Jaysen]

no no no no no... no lightening... I just got out from under my rock and I don't want to be scared back under there!!!!

[vic-k]

no no no no no... no lightening... I just got out from under my rock and I don't want to be scared back under there!!!!

Hey numpty! This is Niad country ... not Three word nonsense. Act like a grown up ... ok?

[pigfender]

Prithee enlighten,
gr

Nevermind, I’ll find another way/story.

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[gr]

Prithee enlighten,
gr

Nevermind, I’ll find another way/story.

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I can see that you are working hard trying to undermine whatever genre bets my wife and I placed -- without even knowing what they are!

[Jaysen]

no no no no no... no lightening... I just got out from under my rock and I don't want to be scared back under there!!!!

Hey numpty! This is Niad country ... not Three word nonsense. Act like a grown up ... ok?

Hey now! there's a lot more then tree words. But if you insist....

cork hickory ash elm oak maple ... syrup... bacon.... piggy ... what's the NiaD plan?

See what happened? we are back to a legit topic. Bad vic-k... bad!

[vic-k]

Hey now! there's a lot more then tree words. But if you insist....

cork hickory ash elm oak maple ... syrup... bacon.... piggy ... what's the NiaD plan?

See what happened? we are back to a legit topic. Bad vic-k... bad!

tch! tch! Numpty ... be very careful! Pigfender has inherited the ability to move threads about arbitrarily ... cross him again and he’ll dump you, not on Scriv’s bottom deck ... Latte ... but in Scriv’s bilges, or as Billy Shake-y’-spear’s Prince Hambergerlet proffers, “The undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns, ....” Feck knows what or who you’ll be swimming with in those fetid, putrid waters, while having to endure this, on loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw
Be very, very careful numpt.

[lunk]

The undiscovered country, from which Bourne returns, ....”

Is this Jason you’re talking about?

[vic-k]

The undiscovered country, from which Bourne returns, ....”

Is this Jason you’re talking about?

Very smartarsed ... very droll ... but beware, you've been warned

[lunk]

Well, I do have nine lives, right?

[vic-k]

Doesn't matter how many y've got ... you don't want to spend the rest of them swimming around the bilges cesspit. d' y'?

[lunk]

I resr my case...

[pigfender]

Well, I do have nine lives, right?

Are you a cat? Blimey, I always thought you were one of those big fluffy hamster things.

[pigfender]

[quote="gr”]

I can see that you are working hard trying to undermine whatever genre bets my wife and I placed -- without even knowing what they are![/quote]

If I wanted to do that, I’d hint at revisiting a previous genre.

But that would be both mean and against the rules. If I don’t insist on a new genre each time, I can’t call it quits when we’ve done them all*.

* there must be, like, only three genres left, right?!

[gr]

But that would be both mean and against the rules. If I don’t insist on a new genre each time, I can’t call it quits when we’ve done them all.

So sorry. I already have in the wings an extended theory of genre -- your own theory of genre but on steroids.* Code name: "genreRog+" or just 'gRog' for short. Ready to spring that on you at the first sign of danger.

gr

*You probably think I am kidding.