Novel-in-a-Day 2: The Revenge

Ahh, tis the fair Astrid.
Are you well, my love?

I fear you fret needlessly.

Come, take my hand, Ill be your ghost of NIAD2-to-come.

Here we stand outside the Stevens household. We won’t knock, there’s no point, because nobody can see or hear us. We’ll go in. Listen, Sweet-thing, hubby is in the kitchen. Let’s take a peek. Bless him! He’s in his frilly apron…or is it yours? He appears to be baking.

We’ll leave him and go in to the writer’s den. Ahh…there you are…see…reclining on the settee, in the fully horizontal position, save for your pretty head, which is propped up with a silken pillow, at well nigh 90* to your body, so as not to put undue strain on your lovely swan like neck, whilst at the same time, facilitating efficient observation of your two forefingers, prolifically pounding away at the keyboard of the MacBook Pro, resting on your tummy.

And look, too! Close by the settee, within easy reach, a coffee table, resplendent, with glass of red wine, packet of Benson and Hedges KIngsize Filter tipped, a couple of good sized spiffs, and large lead crystal ashtray. Also, stood on the floor by the table, again, within easy reach, we can see two bottles of Aldi’s Winking Owl Shiraz.

Astrid, my dear child, as you can see, you have nothing to fret over.
Take care, and Good Luck (not that you;ll need it).
Vicx x

Presumably one of the two was Montree_Whiles; who is the other? Can we know? I replied to the PM but have heard nothing since other than what’s appeared on this thread and we’re now only about 3.5 days away. I didn’t do it last year so am not aware of the time scale for information roll-out. I just wonder if I’m the other … my email was sent from China — I’m now in the UK, and will actually be about 10 miles from Truro — so I just wonder if the GFWoC suppressed my mail or PF’s mail system junked it as having come from one of those phishing/spamming/rogue servers over there.

Mark

I have now heard from everyone, so unless you purposely drop out at this point (PLEASE DON’T!) you are still in.

I’ll be emailling out all the info packs to the addresses you have provided on or just after midnight (UK time) on the day itself… so about 00:01AM Saturday 20th October 2012.

A late night of anticipation, then, Rog… I’ll stock up on espresso and matchsticks to keep my eyes open until the grand unveiling

Vic, much as I love your ghost-on-the-wall impressions of my home life, it is simply outrageous to suggest that I type with two forefingers!

Nahh! I was only joking about the two fingers oh yeah…and the lead crystal ashtray. You’ll probably have ash all over the Macbook’s keyboard.

Fair warning: I won’t be getting to the keyboard until about 15 or so hours into the event. I have a commitment at roughly midnight GMT (6pm Friday on my clock unless I’m getting the time difference all backward), and will have to get some sleep before I can start the words flowing. I figure you’ll start hearing from me at 9am my time, which would be 3pm your time.

For the sake of my sleep-muddled brain, which cannot do math until the sun’s been up a good many hours, can you tell us what major city is in your time zone? I plan to make use of my iphone’s world clock, which just uses the major city & country names, rather than “GMT -6 (Central time US)” or the like.

London is the best timezone to use if you are basing your clocks on the midnight to midnight strategy.

To add some confusion, I will personally be operating on Calgary time (MST) so will be from 5pm Friday to 5pm Saturday.

Should have made it even more complicated and hosted the event on a day which has multiple countries switching out of daylight savings time, but not all of them.

Meanwhile, try this. That should adjust itself depending on where you click from in the world, so the universal time is on the left and the local time window is on the right.

London won’t be on UTC / GMT on the day in question, so that link is slightly misleading. London will still be on BST until October 28th.

Oops, sorry, thought it was UTC rather than London specifically. Link has been fixed.

Thanks Ioa! Only 42 hours to go now!

So, anyone got any good ideas for a story that I can use?

Only kidding! Will be going through and assigning the chapters to everyone tomorrow!

Yippee! I somehow spaced on the time zone effect, and now I’m delighted to find that for me the ‘day’ starts at 7 p.m. Given that my preferred writing time is 9 pm to 2 am, this is splendid news.

Oh – last year there was a thread for people to post in throughout the day, same this year?

yup, you can post on this thread.

i don’t think so. it was fixed for me, i thought, when last i posted and corresponded with you also by email. however, i’ve not gotten a notification from this thread since. i will just have to keep this browser open now, i guess so i can follow. though i may switch to google chrome. there have been several posts since my last post on this thread and i haven’t rcvd any notifications. i’ve even subscribed to this thread.

Check your e-mail spam folder (and make sure your e-mail account in the forum settings is accurate), Montree. Notification will arrive via e-mail, it isn’t something that would be impacted by which browser you use.

Sorry, ignore this post: operator malfunction.

I haven’t gotten any notifications of new messages, but it could be I wasn’t actually subbed to it before.

it’s already accurate or i’d not have been getting them for the first 24 hrs or so. nothing in spam. no notifications in the email at all.

As a data point: I did receive notification of Montree’s post, so it’s working at least for me.

I’ve checked the error logs on the server and nothing was in relation with your account, so whatever is broken is escaping the error reporting code. I’d recommend unsubbing and then subbing again if you haven’t already tried that. Otherwise, just leave the window open.

One point worth mentioning, you don’t get an email everytime a new message is posted, you just get one the first time a post is made since you last visited. So if you miss the first email for some reason you wont get another twenty reminders on the next twenty posts.