I wrote a NIAD...

[nom]

…so I'm a writer.

[robertdguthrie]

What a coincedence! I wrote a NIAD too! What are the chances?

[Siren]

Me, too! It must be catching!

[AmberV]

Huh, that's really weird, same here. It's not even a full moon.

[xiamenese]

I wrote a NIAD too ... but I feel more it's convinced me that I'm not a writer, really!

Mark

[nom]

I wrote a NIAD too ... but I feel more it's convinced me that I'm not a writer, really!

Mark

You can believe what you like, but people are still reading your words. You're a writer!

[xiamenese]

I wrote a NIAD too ... but I feel more it's convinced me that I'm not a writer, really!

Mark

You can believe what you like, but people are still reading your words. You're a writer!

Nom, thank you; the psychologist in you is coming to the fore. However, I still imagine that people are reading my bit only because they need to in order to get on and find out what happens in the end. If I had been given the whole plot and story arcs, etc. to write the whole thing, I don't think anyone would be reading past the first chapter ... hell, I don't think even I would read past the first chapter.

Mark

[nom]

I wrote a NIAD too ... but I feel more it's convinced me that I'm not a writer, really!

Mark

You can believe what you like, but people are still reading your words. You're a writer!

Nom, thank you; the psychologist in you is coming to the fore. However, I still imagine that people are reading my bit only because they need to in order to get on and find out what happens in the end. If I had been given the whole plot and story arcs, etc. to write the whole thing, I don't think anyone would be reading past the first chapter ... hell, I don't think even I would read past the first chapter.

Mark

It's alright, I suspect most of us (me included) think that people are only reading "our" chapter in order to find out what happens in the plot. But really, when you think of it, that applies to most works of fiction. It's rare that I'll stop and reread a section of a novel for the pure pleasure of the words. Poetry, on the other hand…

I could not have written the entire Lunar520 either, I couldn't even have plotted it let alone sustained readers' interest through 25 chapters. I'm not a novelist, and I know my writing chops aren't up to the task (maybe one day, perhaps, if I work at it), but it was fun just the same.

But Mark, one thing that you and I and a handful of others have done, that no-one can take from us, is we wrote a Novel-In-A-Day. Glad to have shared the journey with you.

And I still think you're a writer.

[pigfender]

1) Mark, Nomibold, I thoroughly enjoyed both your chapters, so shhhhhh.
2) No-one is reading any of the chapters *just* to find out what happens. If that was true, people would be reading just the chapter briefings instead.
3) The NIAD format adds quite a lot of new and unnecessary pressures to the writing process, but somehow it seems to remove some of the normal and familiar ones in a way that enables you to get on with it. You can't help but feel more self-conscious in this environment: unfamiliar genre, unusual time pressures, no control or even visibility of the wider plot. That's got no bearing at all on the quality of your output. It's just in your head (see point 1, above).