I’m having fun because Time zones allowed me to get my section done in the first 6 hours, and I get to feel very relaxed as I wake up to read about other’s mad scrambles on the other side of the planet.
Also nervous to find out if my section stacks up okay against the rest.
The section I got was more or less an in-between scene, so I didn’t have a lot to work with… Depending on length and pace of the novel, there is a fair chance my section would normally be glossed over in about 250 words, so I felt like I was being overly self-indulgent padding it out to 1500.
Ironically, I had the bit where we first meet Dr Warne, and I did it all from another perspective and almost glossed over the introductions. Who likes long character introductions anyway? Oh, and no office in my bit for those that were asking.
Hopefully my tongue in cheek ending amuses someone.
So far (with 13 minutes left on the clock ) I’ve received 126 emails today in relation to NIAD, with over 90% of those required a ‘timely’ response. That’s before any forum posts, Private Messages and such the like. It’s been really fascinating getting into the head of how different people write, plan and collaborate.
It’s been great fun, but it made writing my own 1,252 words challenging. Hopefully people will like them
People have 9 minutes left to put a post up on the forum saying they finished and then blaming the fact that it doesn’t arrive in my inbox until Tuesday on “web traffic, man I mean my neighbours I have no idea what they must be downloading on tha thing”
I agree it was fun, just realised I wrote mine as though it was the first time we meet Dr Warne. All these continuity errors are going to be hilarious…
Sorry! I’ve just sent it. It was compiled at 11.58pm on the dot (ignore the fact the the RTF file’s time stamp says 11.59pm!). I got a bit carried away and wrote 4,110 words - it should come as no surprise to anyone that I am a bit verbose, and in need of a good editor at the best of times.
Hey, thanks Pigfender for doing this! Although it has been rather stressful simply because it happened on a day where the wife was going out and I’d promised my son to build a complicated model robot with him, it has been fun writing to a deadline (almost met) and, well, actually just having to finish something. Because of this, I’m actually thinking that NaNo might be possible this year. So truly, thank you!
