What is a Detection Club?

It is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking inimitable plots. Its membership is confined to those who have written genuine stories (published or otherwise). Hence my zeal to create one in Nairaland.

This Club amounts that the interested writers pledge themselves to play the game with the public and with their fellow writers.

A member writer must write as good English as he can.

Now, a word about the conditions under which NDC is created.

Each contributor to the story tackles the mystery or clues presented in the preceding chapters without having the slightest idea of what the previous authors have in mind about how the story will end.

Each contributor will post a chapter in the space of 3 days for the pleasure of the readers.

Each writer is bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for him by his predecessors. He must not dismiss them as caprice or accident, or present an explanation inconsistent with them...he must give a coherent and plausible-enough explanation.

Each writer may introduce a possible clue either for the mystery to be easily solved or to make it more complicated for the subsequent contributors. Naturally, as the clues become in process of time more numerous, the solutions grow more complicated and precise, while the general outlines of the plot gradually harden and fix themselves. Where one writer may have laid down a clue, thinking that it could point only in one obvious direction, the succeeding writers may manage to make it point in a direction exactly opposite. And it is here, perhaps, that the game gets more interesting and quite hard to crack.

Whether the game will succeed in amusing the innocent readers is mainly for the readers to judge.

Each contributor may create any new character but the character must be unique and have a definite bearing in the plot. If one character creates a stammerer, no subsequent writer must make the stammerer speak coherently without a convincing reason behind the sudden miracle.

The creator of the thread (Larry Sun) shall write the first chapter, from which other writers will create their own subsequent chapters.

Every 3 days, a chapter would be posted and this would give the next writer a full 3 days to prepare the next chapter. A writer, after having contributed a chapter, may not have to contribute any other until after about a month or thereabout, depending on the number of participants in the game.


We already have enough able bodied writers but if you wish to join kindly contact us on our whatsapp group @ 07066611666.


Each chapter must be critically checked and made sure it is error-free before getting posted. There, however, shouldn't be any juvenile plotting, jejune dialogue, banal characterization, puerile description, illogical exposition or erratic transition.

A minimum of 20 writers is required or as much as 25 or 30. This would give a writer enough respite after posting his own chapter. So, after the writers are assembled through whatapp network (that is, every participant would be linked through whatsapp/mobile number so as for the members to know who would be posting for the week, we interact and share ideas via whatsapp before the chapters are posted).

My job, however, would be to post the first chapter for the others to create their plots from. After all the members have posted their chapters, possibly the next chapter shall be posted by me and it continues from there. We may have as much as thirty or fifty chapters, depending on the number of participants.

A new thread would be created for the story itself, which would be titled Nairaland Writers' Collaboration 2014. Moreso, a stipulated number of words for each chapter (1500words or more) should be strictly acknowledged, and two writers may collaborate to write a single chapter, provided other participants are aware of that and an agreement is made.

The following are the current members:



Chapter One: Larry Sun (Monday 17, November, 2014)

Chapter Two: Frank317 (Wednesday 19, November, 2014)

Chapter Three: Repogirl (Friday 21, November, 2014)

Chapter Four: Kayemjay (Sunday 23, November, 2014)

Chapter Five: Therock555 (Tuesday 25, November, 2014)

Chapter Six: PrettySpicey (Thursday 27, November, 2014)

Chapter Seven: TemitopeDaniel (Saturday 29, November, 2014)

Chapter Eight: MaziOmenuko (Monday 1, December, 2014)

Chapter Nine: AudreyTimms (Wednesday 3, December, 2014)

Chapter Ten: OMA4U (Friday 5, December, 2014)

Chapter Eleven: Divepen (Sunday 7, December, 2014)

Chapter Twelve: Danwrites (Tuesday 9, December, 2014)

Chapter Thirteen: HumbledbYGrace (Thursday 11, December, 2014)

Chapter Fourteen: Princesa (Saturday 13, December, 2014)

Chapter Fifteen: Royver (Monday 15, December, 2014)



More writers are still needed to join. So, if you're worthy. Please drop your e-mail address and I shall contact you.

I know we've got an abundance of great writers in Nairaland.

Thank you,

God bless you



https://www.nairaland.com/2000557/nairaland-writers-collaboration-2014

All comments are to be posted here.

Please don't derail by posting comments on the main story thread, Thanks for your cooperation.

Signed:

Dyoungstar

My bad......
Hope I've not done much damage....

vonn:
My bad......
Hope I've not done much damage....

Vonn! Vonn!! Vonn!!!


How many times did I call you?

How do i join? By sending u ma e-mail or adding the whatsapp number?
Another thing, why not space the time the popular authors write?
Fix the not so popular authors between.

I think the main story thread should be locked. We are on Nairaland, not everyone will heed instructions. They'll one way or the other squeeze their comments in.
Contact a mod and get the thread locked. It will be opened once the next writer is ready to post and once he finishes, the thread locked.
Just my two cents.
Btw LarrySun, that was a nice and well detailed chapter there. A good way to start a blockburster such as this.
Cc: Dyoungstar

D9ty7:
I think the main story thread should be locked. We are on Nairaland, not everyone will heed instructions. They'll one way or the other squeeze their comments in.
Contact a mod and get the thread locked. It will be opened once the next writer is ready to post and once he finishes, the thread locked.
Just my two cents.
Btw LarrySun, that was a nice and well detailed chapter there. A good way to start a blockburster such as this.
Cc: Dyoungstar

Exactly

D9ty7:
I think the main story thread should be locked. We are on Nairaland, not everyone will heed instructions. They'll one way or the other squeeze their comments in.
Contact a mod and get the thread locked. It will be opened once the next writer is ready to post and once he finishes, the thread locked.
Just my two cents.
Btw LarrySun, that was a nice and well detailed chapter there. A good way to start a blockburster such as this.
Cc: Dyoungstar

I think I like this suggestion. I also made the mistake. Op,you can post up the link to this thread there stating that comments should be done in it. Most readers may see that thread before this one and go ahead airing their views there. #justsaying

Nimen:
How do i join? By sending u ma e-mail or adding the whatsapp number?
Another thing, why not space the time the popular authors write?
Fix the not so popular authors between.

I consider all writers equal.

D9ty7:
I think the main story thread should be locked. We are on Nairaland, not everyone will heed instructions. They'll one way or the other squeeze their comments in.
Contact a mod and get the thread locked. It will be opened once the next writer is ready to post and once he finishes, the thread locked.
Just my two cents.
Btw LarrySun, that was a nice and well detailed chapter there. A good way to start a blockburster such as this.
Cc: Dyoungstar

My fear is that if the mods lock the thread, it may not be unlocked when the writer is ready to post. But I like your suggestion. Obinnau, kindly lock the thread below:

https://www.nairaland.com/2000557/nairaland-writers-collaboration-2014

All you need to do is let the mod know the time-table. So once the writer is ready to post, he'll contact the mods, mention them here. The thread will be unlocked.

LarrySun:
My fear is that if the mods lock the thread, it may not be unlocked when the writer is ready to post. But I like your suggestion. Obinnau, kindly lock the thread below:

https://www.nairaland.com/2000557/nairaland-writers-collaboration-2014

LarrySun:
I consider all writers equal.

yea baba

I pretty sure this is goona be fun.
Can't wait to join the rest of the crew!!

I''m pretty sure this is goona be fun.
Can't wait to join the rest of the crew!!

D9ty7:
I think the main story thread should be locked. We are on Nairaland, not everyone will heed instructions. They'll one way or the other squeeze their comments in.
Contact a mod and get the thread locked. It will be opened once the next writer is ready to post and once he finishes, the thread locked.
Just my two cents.
Btw LarrySun, that was a nice and well detailed chapter there. A good way to start a blockburster such as this.
Cc: Dyoungstar

seconded

just finished reading last year's collaboration but noticed it was not concluded even though u all had a great story going. whats d assurance dat dis 1 ll b completed, cos I was so disappointed by d abandoned story. well I guess time ll tell.

I am almost through with my update for the collaboration story(that's chapter 2) Hope its not locked. I will be updating on or before 9pm tomorrow when I come back from work. Cheers guys

MumZ:
just finished reading last year's collaboration but noticed it was not concluded even though u all had a great story going. whats d assurance dat dis 1 ll b completed, cos I was so disappointed by d abandoned story. well I guess time ll tell.

I'll write the concluding chapter of that first collaboration.

LarrySun:
I'll write the concluding chapter of that first collaboration.

OK o, dat ll b really great. still following.

how do i contact Obiannu so that i can update now?

click on the report link, preferably the link of the collaboration, and state what you want...

Divepen:
click on the report link, preferably the link of the collaboration, and state what you want...

You got mail sir.
Ayamlaykorn

...weldone frank317. Your chapter left me speechless.

I love lengthy works like urs Frank....... Well mapped out..........


Good job!!!!!!!!

Great job, ogas Frank and Larry, I'll try not to mess up too much

Ahh! Senior Bros n aunties in d houz, Plz hw do I get to read d Part of Oga Frank3:16? Read dat of Chief Larrysun(my dictionary wz wit me via out).......just d link is all I ask 4 Oga Dygeasy

Welldone, larry and frank.
U guys are Alwys great

wow!!!.....im so following this to the end.....i wanna see how our romance writers will fare especially my big sis Prettyspicey

Seriously Frank nailed it. He just created the plot

JeffreyJamez:
wow!!!.....im so following this to the end.....i wanna see how our romance writers will fare especially my big sis Prettyspicey

I knew you'll be trouble I'm gonna take a flight out of the Planet on the 26th

PrettySpicey:


I knew you'll be trouble I'm gonna take a flight out of the Planet on the 26th

after dropping ur chapter I guess

Gudpm ma'am longest tym