I’m wondering where GR got that flaming white mug from, and why 2015 is in yellow?
Also, I’m in awe of Mary Queen of the Socks (sideways, though she is).
Grrrrrrr is all kinds of special. I’ve never managed to annoy a straight answer out of anyone.
Mary does tend to steal the show around our local environs.
I’m feeling a little undead at the moment. So, you guys actually sleep during these things??
gr
of the flaming cup!
Up and die? I’m not that talented.
7p get brief
7:10 disparage piggy’s lineage
7:30 drink heavily
8:30 break up brief in scribe
8:35 redouble drinking effort
9ish make outline of initial bad idea
10ish throw away original outline and make another
10;15ish give up and go to bed
5ish wake up and complain about hangover
6ish run a couple miles
7ish breakfast and swear about “what dumba$$ wrote this outline!!”
8ish better outline
8:15ish break out emergency rum
9ish get serious and swap out shot glass for highball
930ish DELETE IT ALL
931ish get 16oz tumbler
10ish mumble at boss lady something like “do these letters make words”
11ish “WHO STOLE MY RUM!?!?!!”
12ish locate emergency rum
1p wife shake me awake and wipes drool from keyboard
2ish 2nd degree burns on fingertips from speed typing
3p wife shakes head and says “they’ll eventually get smart and not let you do this thing anymore”
3:30 I compile to to rtf and say “piggy will never learn” and hit send.
So yep! A sleep AND a nap.
Let’s see if anyone disagrees with you.
Hi nomnomnom!
I want a flaming white mug! WANT!!!
It was lovely for this first-timer, though I got my words in late and probably a bit rough! Fell asleep last night and had to write most of it on the drive back in the back seat.
Now that’s proper posh: writing while your chauffeur drives you home!
You haven’t read my chapter yet…
Yep, it’s big fun! (not so sure about lovely)
Now, tell us everything, all at once. Don’t you get car sick if you write in the back? Isn’t it hard to drive and type?
Sorry, just got my lunatic cat off the keyboard. Pay no attention to the above.
Have you seen that flaming white mug? MINE!
Adore you! 
AND the graphic’s there, too. W00T!
For anyone itching to update their forum signatures – the mug award images for 2019 are live!
Love the cover!*
gr
- And flaming white mugs.
I was wondering about that mug too!
And yes, Mary is adorable.
Oh jeesh. I was chapter 9. That’ll be a jolt.
Yay!!! I’m excited!!!
Thank you, PF!!!
Well, that’s a long enough day for me. I usually stay up for a bit after the book goes live so that Pete and Nom can point out to me that I’ve accidentally put multiple chapter 8s in the same book or put a glaring typo on the cover of every single version. Since none of you are doing that, I’m going to assume it’s safe for me to slip off and try to remember what sleep is. I’m pretty sure it’ll come back to me fairly quickly.
Before I head off, though, I want to say a huge thank you to all of you for taking part in this - the biggest Novel in a Day ever! Every year you’ve knocked me sideways with the quality of what you produce and how you take the story in directions that wouldn’t occur to me in a lifetime of invite monkeys.
Special thanks, of course, are due to Keith and the LL team for hosting the event again, and letting us mess up their nice clean forum for a bit. Mostly, though, I have to thank them for Scrivener, which makes planning, running and compiling all this stuff not only possible, but actually pleasurable!
Thank you dearest Piggasaurus… another blinder of an event… 