I’d like to run that thought by JRR Tolkien or George RR Martin just to see what either has to say about the length of time to write a novel being only 3 days. Hmmmmm. I’ll have to hold a Séance for the one, however. Wonder if he’ll show?
I told you I don’t do history. I never lived in a time without computers.
Pig - when you get the chance, can you delete my 1960s laptop (and any iPods I threw in for good measure), and instead steal a what… a tea cosy?
At least with the nice suit you certainly made history!
BTW, I’ve just finished reading the novel. It was a real pleasure to enjoy it all, and see how things actually did manage to fit.
I didn’t get Gallagher on my chapter, so I resorted to a reference “in absence”. I see now that I was not alone. But of all the nice suit references, I’d like to say that I enjoyed the Alfred joke the most (by Victoria). Just both brilliant and funny.
I’m also glad to have found out that, fortunately, none of the gambles I took (when adding stuff of my own to the script) ended screwing up the story 
What a funny, enjoyable and fruitful experience this has been. In fact, a good subject for a future novel indeed.
Best regards and thanks a lot to you all.
A bit of fecking swearing can paper over the fecking cracks in even the structurally most fecking fecked-up fecking shite, don’t you find?
Well I fecking do.
FECKING EDIT: Feck. That’s shite. I meant “stylistically,” not “structurally”. Structurally it was immaculate, on account of fecking Pigfecker’s labours. Diligent fecking arrse.
Victoria takes a bow.
Thanks. 
A laptop? Seriously? How the hell did I miss that?
Oh well. I’ve updated the files (the links are the same). And as much as I’m amused by the idea of tea cosy thieves terrorising Las Vegas, I went with “radio” in the end. 
At the risk of annoying further, and with due apologies, those who have been irritated by the traffic on this thread …
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Can someone please advise me how to upload NiaD3 onto a Kobo (presumably .epub) and a Kindle Paperwhite (.mobi?). The latter will have to be through my wife’s computer as the Kindle is hers; the former is mine, but on the Kobo desktop I can’t find any way to access the file system on my MBA, only the Kobo store.
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As a suggestion to the powers that be, would not the appropriate place to move the NaiD stuff to be the Scrivenings forum?**
Thanks
Mr X
** No doubt Vic-K will now come in with a counter suggestion of ANFTL, a.k.a “the bilge”!
I’m going to keep my version with “laptop” and the extra two words at the end of Chapter 23. Someday it will be very valuable, like a postage stamp with a misprint.
But seriously: I laughed out loud at “laptop”. If I’d been in charge I’d have left it in, just like all the other (more subtle) artifacts of the short time. I’m not criticizing removing it; there are different views of what constitutes literature.
Hi, pigfender, [size=85] [or should I say PigMender? :-)][/size]
Not that what I’m going to ask is really needed, but somehow the blank lines that Compile generated between my chapter’s “scenes” in Scrivener got printed and included in the final version as well. I was expecting that any blank lines not including the ### tag were going to be removed by you (my bad, sorry about that).
So if you do another edit someday and find it relevant, please remove those blank lines since they might appear as if they are actually on purpose and they are not, and being purist they sort of distort the pace. There’s also a typo that I did not notice since it reads how thing really work and it should say how things really work. Thanks!
But, most importantly, how did you like the final whole result? Did you have a chance to read it in full relaxed mood yet?
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.
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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.