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Evangelio:
lets choose a meeting place guys, i vote Facebook.
D9ty7 thanx 4 ur input, much appreciated

Anytime bro

Cybershow:
Stuff46 should i choose a topic on my own and odas wil develop on it 2

NO. Its a collective agreement, you all meet somewhere discuss the topic you all could easily relate with. Not everyone can write romance, therefore, everyone must speak the same thing.

1. Time frame: I believethis fault lies with Divepen who failed to give a deadline date for story submission. Since two groups are involved and its a competition, I think the stories should be updated on the same days. i.e, if Thronekid updates for his group today, cybershow must also update for his group.
And another thing is, there was never a definite date for the collaborations to start. I think a group started posting already, what about the other group?
2. Poor planning is another thing: Divepen already played his part and I think the rest is left for the participants to do. I was lucky to be following a particular group and on the thread created for them, some of the members aren't contributing at all. I want to believe this checkmate club has a meeting platform outside Nairaland, so why are some members keeping mute?
- I saw chinweblinks asking about the theme of the story and from Thronekid's reply, there was no concrete answer to the her question. She asked for the theme, you told her she should follow your cue. What cue if I may ask? I don't mean to mention names, but to get things right, I have to criticise with names. If Chinweblinks as a writer decided to switch to an all romace chapter, what do you think will happen to the theme you formed? Is there even a whatsapp group for the 'group 2' members? Is Chinwe part of it? What has been put in place? What have you guys discussed
I know a lot of people may take offence for this, but believe me, it is the only way to make things get better.
3. CHAPTER 1: If you will permit me to rate the chapter one dropped by Thronekid, am afraid it won't score half of ten. I stand to be corrected, but the chapter one you dropped looked more like a jiggle, like when we are watching films and they say; "previously on so so so film." Believe me, the update you dropped lack what it takes to be called a chap. You asked Chinwe to look at a character closely, you don't have to tell her that, you duty is to write it. Give us detailed story, let it be lengthy, tell us about each and every character you mention in your post. When I started reading, I saw a certain Sheriff, then there was a principal whom I believed was talking to Sheriff on phone. How come there came to be a school or am I mixing things?
I am not doubting anybody's ability, but believe me, you've thrown the next writer into confusion. Are you expecting her to at the same time develop the characters and the plot? Hell no. It is your duty to build the character in chapter 1, the next writer comes in to develop the plot you started and the other writers builds on it.
Check previous collaborations on Nairaland and see how it is being done. See the management, the timing.
I was part of Nairaland writer's collaboration in 2014 and Divepen was too. I don't know if other writers met on whatsapp to share ideas before the start of the story, but even if they did, I was not part of the group. I joined them halfway, dropped the second to the last chapter and it matches with the one before it, the last writer dropped his based on what I dropped and the project was successful. I would have fumbled if the writers before me did bad jobs and the writer after me would have fumbled if I failed.
If you want this to be successful, halt things for now. Meet on whatsapp or anywhere else, discuss to the last, what you want to write. It could be love, marriage, family, crime or whatever. Then the first writer extensively tells us how the main character became a family man, a criminal, a married man or a lover man. Then the second writer will come in to give us details about the antagonist, after which he/she will give us what their rivalry looks like, that's plot building. It is now up to the susequent writers to import more characters and make the whole story a total success.
NOTE: You may not need to stop what you have started, but there is a lot of modification to be done.
The message I am trying to pass accross simply lies with, organisation of what the competitioon will look like, the working relationship of the writers and most importantly, the details of the story.

[quote author=Hameenat94 post=30973095][/quote]You!

To that person who will be collating the votes here. I d9ty7 already voted chinweblinks as the best newcomer of the month. Nw these are my best writer(s) of the month.
1. Fantasyisland
2. Thronekid
3. Candy
See you all in March

Chinweblinkz:
yeah.
Book the nearest flight to owerri,i will be waiting at the airport

What about me? I don't have the money to book a flight, can I come with a canoe?
Will you be waiting at the river bank?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, LONG LIFE AND PROSPERITIES. I PRAY JAH GRANT YOU EVERY OF YOUR HEART DESIRES. AMEN!!!

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After series of pleading and persuassion, Stephanie agreed to come into the house. Serena herself knew that Steph is not afraid of her father, the only thing she hated was the embarrassment that she could face with her entering the house, even though Serena knew Stephanie would still complete her mission for coming in the first place, embarrassed or not, the only thing she is afraid of was Stephanie's craziness. She knew Steph could reply her father angrily, she she knew Steph could walk out on her father. None of them seemed right and that would further put Stephanie in her father's bad book. After the boyfriends incident which happened when they were in Senior secondary school two, Mr Oluwole Thomas has always be wary of the threat Stephanie poses to his daughter's life and future.
"Good afternoon sir." She heard Stephanie greet her father.
"Yes? Good afternoon, how may I help you? And was the door opened when you walked in? Can't you knock?" Mr Thomas asked.
'Abi this man don high on chilled water ni? How am I expected to answer these stupid questions.' Stephanie thought.
But she was out to impress her friends father, which would make her answer all the question.
"My name is Stephanie and I am Serena's friend. She visited me this afternoon and forgot her laptop in my room when she was rushing to return home. And the door wasn't opened when I came in, but because Serena is my best friend, we don't knock when we visit each other, even though I didn't know you would be home today. Am sorry for entering without knocking." Stephanie replied.
"Its nothing. Take a sit while I call her for you."
Less than a minute later, father and daughter returned to the living room.
"Now, state you mission her Stephanie." Mr Thomas said.
"Serena, you forgot your laptop and purse the other time you came to my house." Stephanie said pointing to the bag which was no on the three seater couch beside Mr Thomas.
"Oh! Thank you very much." Serena said all smiled as she was winking at a relaxed Stephanie on what action to take.
"You said she visited you today, isn't it?"
Stephanie and Serena both nodded.
"What time did she arrive and when did she leave?"
"She came around 1pm and left about thirty minutes later when..." Stephanie was saying.
"What was my instruction when I left home this morning? What did I say you should do once you leave the tutorial centre?" Mr Thomas directed the question at his daughter.
"You said I should come home straight once I am through?" Serena replied trying to keep her calm, but she was doing a very bad job.
"So, what are you doing in her house?"
Serena wanted to caution Stephanie, but it was too late. Stephanie had already opened her mouth and had done what her father hated with passion. Talking when you are not being talked to.
"Sir, it wasn't like she visited me intentionally. I wasn't feeling fine this morning and all efforts she made to reach me proved abortive. She was scared, so she had to come over immediately to see how I was doing." Stephanie lied.
She quickly thrusted her phone at Mr Thomas where several messages from Serena were showing. Messages like; 'how are you feeling now?' 'should I come over to your place?'
Even though Stephanie pulled the stunt without thinking twice, she knew, a critical looker would know that what she showed was a screenshot of one of their past chats.
"You were sick this morning?" Mr Thomas asked.
"Yes sir, I just have to force myself down here when she was crying that you would beat her mercilessly if you found out that her laptop is not home and that she came to my place when you told her not to." Stephanie kept a straight face as she maintained the lies and its pattern.
"daddy, please we are sorry."
Five minutes later, Serena walked back into the house from outside where she had seen Stephanie off too to meet her father waiting for her.
"And what the hell do you think you are doing? Telling lies to me? Didn't I ask you if you went out today? Did you tell me you went out? Are you threading the same part your mother threaded until she was in trouble?" The questions were just too much for her to answer. The anger with which her father spoke could kill a hypertensive patient.
"Dad! I tried to, I tried to tell you the truth. Dad! I am always afraid to look you in the eye." She shouted back.
"Dad! You were not like this before. Ever since Mum started misbehaving, you are always venting your anger on us, we are your children. Dad!...." Her voice trailed off.
"I don't know what your reaction would be, even though I had a feeling it won't be good. I can't bring myself to tell you I went out when you told me not to. Dad, the fear I have for you is abnormal, its not good for a father-daughter relationship..." This time, she was crying real loud and Davies had to show up.

-tbc-

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Mrs Anita Thomas was seated before her dressing mirror applying makeup to her face. Right from the time she left the Olukunle's house in Bodija, she had since lodged into a hotel where would spend the next few months until her travelling papers were ready and she'll put her properties to sale, basically, her boutique then travel out of Nigeria to start a new life as a single woman. Her reason for applying make up to her face was not far fetched, her ringing phone and the way she answered the calls was enough to give a distant onlooker the hint that she had an appointment.
"Hello, I will join you downstairs shortly, you just grab a drink and gulp it down your throat." Anita said for the upteenth time as she dropped her phone.
It was evident that she had an appointment with a man or a man had an appointment with her, since the man was the one who came to meet her in her hotel. It could purely be on business terms, but who in his right senses would speak to a business partner in such a manner and to say, she called him with his name.
She grabbed her clutch and walked out of her room elegantly dressed in a pink gown that touched her ankles.
"Good afternoon." Anita greeted as she sat on a chair opposite Olu's chair.
"How are you sweetheart?" Olu asked.
"Am good and you? I can see you are good too." Anita replied.
This time, the waiter arrived and served them drinks.
"You still drink these?" Anita asked pointing to the bottle of beer and a canned energy drink.
Olu gave a short laugh. "I am addicted to energy drinks since my days as a student, but drinking blood runs in the family."
"You mean--?" She quickly stopped and looked at Olu who smiled.
"Yes, Thomas drinks bear too, but moderately. Like once in two to three weeks." Olu replied.
"I am less concerned anyways." Anita snapped and opened the bottle before her.
"Is he not the father of your children?" He asked.
"Oh! So you knew he is the father of my children and you still went on to stand against me in court despite what we have had in the past. Why can't you turn around the case and make me stay?" Anita asked.
Olu shifted forward a bit with his chair and held Anita's hand which stood on the table.
"Look at me Anita. I did what I think is the best for both of us. I know you desperately wanted out of Oluwole's life, and that gives me the golden chance I have been craving for for years. I just did what is best for us." Olu replied.
"Selfish lawyer. Then, why did you push it further to the point that the court forbade my kids to live with me unless their father say so?"
"If your children lives with you, our privacy would be affected. Look at you today, you are lodged into an hotel and no one can spot us or cause disturbance."
"All the same, you fvcked up. They are my kids, I deserve to see them as much as their father does."
"Don't worry. You just take the case to the appeal court and I'll get you a lawyer who would help you fight it." Olu replied.
Anita kept quiet.
"Smile." He said tickling and she was forced to burst into laughter.
"Shall we?" he stretched forth his hand and two minutes later, he drove out of the hotel with Anita seated on the passenger seat.

--to be continued--

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Telling lies is an act that only professionals in the act can do successfully. To tell a lie, one must have thought about the likely questions that the lie could warrant and the perfect answer that is devoid of stammering and stuttering. Lieing is very important because it saves liars from trouble, but at the same time puts them in a more bigger trouble. Research shows that intorverts and pretenders have a very high tendency of telling a lie even to the devil and they'll be believed. Not because the lie is perfect, but because they would be believed regardless of the situation. But it takes a million lies to cover for a single lie which is the main problem liars are finding hard to cope with.
Serena had lied to her father, even though she was no introvert, neither was she a pretender, but the word trust was within the family. Mr Oluwole Thomas knew his children more than anybody else, he knew what they could do and therefore, he doesn't fail to defend them if the need arises. His closes ally which still remains his first son, Davies was the most trusted. Ever since he finished his youth service, his father had added him to the executive board of the company nad the case of father and son has turned to a case of a snail and its shell. In the case of Nathaniel, the pride of the house, the cutest of the three children, even if he inherited most traits from his mother, one couldn't rule out the fact that, in terms of defiance, anger, he inherited them from his father, likewise his other siblings too. Another thing he inherited which the others didn't was using his handsomeness to his advantage. He was a womanizer and could get any lady to go out with him. All he needed was his charming smile, his sexy voice and a few other things to champion the course. His father was also a staunch womanizer when he was like his age and those were the things he inherited. Despite fighting his father almost everyday, Mr Thomas still knew the things his son could do and could not. In the case of Serena, she inherited a lot of things from her father and just like her brothers, stubborness was one of those things. As a kid, she would run around the house, fight her immediate elder brother, jump from chair to chair all in the name of playing, but when puberty set in, she lost some of those drive. Even though she still could get angry, but the emotional side of her had overshadowed the I-don't -care side of her.
Serena sat on her bed not knowing what to do to save herself from this situation. She was afraid to return to her father's room to probably tell another lie and coming out clean would give her father every reason to loose the trust he had for her. Certainly. She wasn't ready for that, she had to do something.
She had picked her phone and put a call through to Stephanie hoping she could be of help.
"I wish I could help, but I am presently in class. Mr Adeoye is the one taking us maths and you know how difficult it is to get out of his class." Stephanie replied her message.
"Girlfriend please, you just have to help me. I'll pay you any amount. Just get my laptop and bring it over." Serena pleaded knowing how much Stephanie loved money.
"But you and I know how much your dad hates me." Stephanie said.
"Its not as if he hates you. He is just... Anyways, if you know you can't enter the house, I will block you at the gate. Please, do this for me." Those were the messages they exchanged in their chat before Stephanie reluctantly agreed to help her friend.
Serena remained in her room, she knew for sure that her father would have forgotten about her and provided he is still in his room, nothing would stop her from meeting Steph at the gate and collecting her laptop, after which she'll wait until her father brings up the issue of the software.
Fiteen minutes later, her phone beeped and on checking the message, it was from Steph which reads; carry your small behind and come and meet me at the gate jor.
Immediately, Serena ran out of her room towards the living room, but stopped at the hallway when she heard the voice of a popular CNN newscaster speaking. No doubt, her father was in the living room, she checked her time and realised it was time for her father to listen to the one hour news on CNN.
Only two options were available, either she walks out of the house to collect the laptop and risk her father asking questions or she allows Steph to bring it into the house and risk her firend getting embarrassed. One advantage about Stephanie coming in was, aside the possibility of getting embarrassed, Steph is a profession liar and her talents would surely work in this situation.

--to be continued--

Girltee1:
So who's going to start the story?

Its nw up to you guys in each group to meet somewhere where you can share ideas like a bbm group or whatsapp group and discuss what you really want to write.

This is not called derailing. Its not as if we are talking outside the topic, or are we? I stand to be corrected tho.
The thing is, a universal thread should be created to let people share ideas on what the collaborations will look like. Divepen may edit the topic of this thread to serve that purpose. Then when everything is set, the time frame and set up and other important things, he can now go over to create the threads for the collaborations. Which means, this thread will be the universal thread for Group 2 and the other one for Group 1.
I also think Divepen should speak to a mod. I think HBG knew about 'writer's checkmate' already. Fill her in on what's on ground. Create the story thread, she'll lock it until you guys are ready to start.
And moreso, a seperate comment thread should be created, maybe these two thread can serve the purpose, because I can't be reading a story and at the same time be reading someone being a bomb.

prettydiva89:
of course that's often use in Yoruba land. Its to show am Yoruba. Ema binu keh

Mi o binu rara 'keh'

You have to improve the way you update. Even if it is once per day, at least people will see something to read and will be in anticipation for the following day.
*A secret: To win awards and prizes on Nairaland, even if you have the best story people won't vote for you. The only thing that could pull more votes to your side is simply how regular your updates are.
Its a simple logic, if you have a story that could be rated a little above average, but you update like three times per day and there is another writer with a story that is almost perfect, as in 100percent but he updates once in a blue moon.
The follwing things are to your advantage;
1. Your story won't leave the first page of the literature section. Hence, people will see it more often, new readers I mean.
2. It increases your views
3. It increases your chance of making the frontpage
4. Regular updates keep readers happy and they in turn do anything to pay you back. They will vote for you enmass and even campaign for you.
I know you have a life outside Nairaland, but hey! Here on Nairaland, they tell you, don't start what you can't finish.
One update per day is the least you can do. Just try to improve, okay?

prettydiva89:
who are you keh,the destiny of this story is in your hand

The destiny of posting the story is in my hand, but the destiny of the story going places is in you guy's hands. If I post, will I read it myself? No.
It seems like you like the word 'keh'

kizzykeziah:
Divepen, are you picking the topic for us? Or we choose what to write about ourselves?

Speaking from experience, I think whoever writes the first chapter dictates what the story is all about.
The first writer gives an extensive lecture on the story, the main character and a few other important things. It is now the duty of you and others to pick it up from where he stopped and write chapter 2 and other chapters following the trend. Suffice to say, you can't write your chapter until you have seen and read the preceeding chapter.
This project may be different tho.
Just my 2cents, Divepen, over to you.

prettydiva89:
Tonight ni oo tomorrow keh

Who am I to say 'NO?'

thronekid:
[b]Hi noble and esteemed Writers, You have a choice of being included in the highly rated 2015 Annual Nairaland Writers collaboration, Your choice to make it big.
This Collaboration, birthed by the Creative and Honourable Duo of Dyoungstar and Larrysun in 2013, is a rich tradition that grants various diversifed Writers a privilege of coming together to plot and cook up a Story and has oft in the recent past, feature great and respectable Writers ranging from D9ty7 to Mazi0menuko, two Writers with utterly antonymous Idealogy, great Writers that You apt might wish to lick their Butts attimes with the way they dazzle even the numbest of the numbs, whenever they opt to speak with the silent aged warrior that thunders most; the Pen. Well, here's Your chance and all You need is Your consent. Sort things within You first.
Also, You'll need to set Your priorities right, know what You want most and make the Killing Move.
And know this, without You, the Collaboration can always hold, always be held, I enjoin.
Interested? Click on https://www.nairaland.com/2149429/2015-pre-collaboration-yearly-writers-collaboration and register Your interest. Hurry, procastinatio helps no One!
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Oga, must you put my name on that Diamond plated list?
You could have written Larry insead of D9ty7 na or even our president on this thread, Divepen.
D9ty7 is still looking up to the like of Mazi, Larry, Divepen and others. No make my head swell o or I will ban you.

You guys should please take the chill pill. I'll finish this story and it will be a bang.
Its just that, a few things are being removed from future episodes and chapters for some reasons. Just keep your fingers crossed.
I will try and drop something tonight or tomorrow just to show that I have you guys at heart.

I am following this, as in following it big time. Abeg, which group Thronekid dey?