Welcome Back, Mr. Nightcrawler

Status
Not open for further replies.
That's ok cosine, I just tapped into it today. I had to see what the hell generated 71,000+ hits. Unfortunately, I don't have time to read it all right now.

:(
Click to expand...
Well 280, find time, sit down, and read the entire thread. I guarantee you it's time well spent.

You know, the story is really, really, good, but the extra interaction of the members here in between posts (Bluesbear's commentary, sm's music ideas) made it really enjoyable.
 
nightcrawler said:
This rambling isn't fit to publish, folks. It's not that I think it's bad; it's not that I think it isn't better than some novels I've read. It's just that I wouldn't allow anything I wrote on the fly to be published, muchless submit it to a bunch of nitpicky sci-fi geeks for them to pick apart.
Click to expand...

Heh. Have you read John Ringo's "Gost", and the sequels thereof? He originally posted a snippet in his conference. Seems he was having writer's block, because this really stupid storyline was refusing to let any other ideas out past it, until it was written. He posted the snippet, and we ganged up on him and got him to submit to Jim Baen. Jim twisted his arm hard enough to get the thing published. It was originally, in John's opinion, so bad that he called it his "Wanker" piece.
 
Nightcrawler and Corriea that was some amazing writing. It was better than Tom Clancey novels. You guy;s know your stuff.
 
thank you NC and Correia.

Your stories were so good, that the characters felt alive and real to me. So real that I think you created a universe (multiverse?) with the story ala R.A. Heinlein's idea.

I mean that as the highest compliment my little head could conceive. You've earned my respect, FWIW.
 
Thank you Nightcrawler and Correia for this great piece of storytelling...I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I'm looking forward to a prequel and I'm also looking forward to Monter Hunter International.

Job well done. You two should be proud of yourselves!
 
Another appreciative fan...
If I had reason to sit at a computer I would check here for the next intallment.

Thanks
 
Excellent, most excellent indeed. I loved every minute of it. I can't wait for the "directors cut" so it is all one big file. Lovely work from the both of you, thank you both NC and Correia.
 
Nightcrawler GREAT

Corriea GREAT

ummm one small pint Nightcrawler - ya kinda gave the ending away when you said the prison let you where shoes - the tough ones don't


GREAT GREAT GREAT

I'll defentley look for the books.
 
Thanks for the story, both of you are very talented to have come up with this on the fly, and as for yo Mr. Nightcrawler, I think your new career should not have to do with security.

As for you, Correia, I'm impressed, and will be buying your book.

Thanks. Oh, and please somebody put up the link of the whole thing in text.
 
Yeah, I liked St. Carl. I also liked how my people (gang of thieves) had a happy ending, and NC (good guy who is usually in the wrong place at the wrong time) goes to prison. :)

I know that there were some people who were working on a word or PDF file for public posting. (Brian?) If you don't mind those of you who are doing it, PM me and NC, and let's get an official one made. Get everything in the correct order, fix some spelling errors, and post it up for download.

Somebody brought up Baen's bar. Anybody post regularly over there? I would stick up the PDF file.

NC's just being a sensitive artist type. :p I'm all about throwing stuff out there for random people to poke at and make fun of. I belive that being critically examined is something that makes you a better writer.
 
To NightCrawler

I'll let you guys know if I ever sit down and write something "for real",
Click to expand...

Please do so. Your's and Correia's writing skills should not be wasted.

NukemJim
 
Gentlemen....you have created a new classic for action literature. Well done... :cool:

And I like the serial idea that The Guy mentioned (esp. as an old subscriber to the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine ) ...


If this ever does make it to the silver screen, I have a few suggestions for casting.....

Gordon.... Andrew Robinson (DS9's Garak, COBRA, DIRTY HARRY , etc.)

Jill... Kristen Kreuk ( SMALLVILLE )

Sarah's mom... Gates McFadden (ST:TNG's Dr. Crusher)

Sarah.... Eliza Dushku ( BUFFY: THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TV series, WRONG TURN )

Ling.... Sung Hi Lee

Loretta... Kirstie Alley

Everyone else did a good job on the others. These are just suggestions on a few.....

Please make the sequel soon, guys. Tom Clancy, Mack Bolan, & Richard Marcinko have nothing on you guys.... :D
 
Kudos to Correia for providing a 'point-counterpoint' for this saga (story is entirely too short, and yarn just does not fit). I lift my glass of spiritous beverage to you, Sir, for a job well done, and muchly enjoyed by so many of the readers here. Good on 'ya, Mate.
 
Nightcrawler, Correia,

Well done, and THANK YOU! All I can really say is ...

attachment.php


... ENCORE!
 
You guys are killing me.

Few things.

First, thank you again for your support and for the kind words.

However, I must request that you all hold off on compiling this, as I'll do it myself. There are significant changes I need to make before this is fit for download, and I have to go back and re-edit my original story so the two mesh better.

When I'm finished with this, I'll let you guys know, and I'll happily email a copy to anyone who wants one. I really do need to get it cleaned up and edited first, though, so please hang tight.

I have absolutely no desire to convert it to .PDF format. I hate Adobe Acrobat with a passion. :barf: Somebody else can do that if they really want to.

The reason I've no interest in uploading this to this "slush pile" or any other literary critic forum is simple. What are they going to tell me? There are plot holes and spelling errors? That there are serious continuity issues? That the whole thing is based on an absurd premise, or that my dialogue sounds forced, or that I borrow very liberally from movies and such that I'm fond of? Oh, and let's not even get into the cliches! (Mind you many of these were deliberate.)

I know all this. It's what happens when you just make it up as you go along and don't proofread. In any case, unless you read the first story, the entire "Chinatown" subplot isn't going to make a whole lot of sense (nor, for that matter, is why the protaganist is forced to go overseas in the first place).

You guys gotta understand. I just wrote this for fun. I have no intention of trying to publish it, for a lot of the reasons I stated above. It's far too short to make much of a novel (though, I suppose, it'd be a decent movie; problem is, it's a sequel to something else, and unless you see the something else, a lot of it won't make sense).

Besides. I really, really, really don't want somebody to think I'm doing a Dick Marcinko and am putting this stuff out there like it's supposed to be true. I think I'd die of embarrassment if anyone thought me capable of that level of self-aggrandizing.

You guys wanna help a real writer get somewhere, buy Correia's book. I'm just a weekend amateur. Heck, writing this was the end of a two-year dry spell where I couldn't come up with anything at all! :uhoh:
 
Nightcrawler, when you're done fixing both stories for spelling errors and continuity and whatnot, will both be available to request via email?

By the way, I hadn't been checking on this in a while because I hadn't gotten an email update, so I was very surprised to be able to check on it and see it was done. Bravo fella's, bravo! My Molon Labe hat's off to you!
 
Nightcrawler, when you're done fixing both stories for spelling errors and continuity and whatnot, will both be available to request via email?
Click to expand...

Oh absolutely. Just PM me with the email address you'd like it sent to with "story" in the subject line and I'll fire it off to you when it's done. :D

And Correia's right. I am a sensitive artist when it comes to my writing, and I'm my own worst critic.

Hey, where's the "beret wearing art snob" emoticon? :D
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

N
  • Locked
The Mr. Nightcrawler Trilogy: Book I
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Replies
379
Views
52K
Mandolin
M
F
  • Locked
nightcrawlers storie
Replies
3
Views
888
fslflint
F
C
  • Locked
DEAD SIX eARC out now. (the book that was Welcome Back, Mr. Nightcrawler)
Replies
4
Views
586
Correia
C
C
  • Locked
A THR thread is going to be published as a novel. Mr. Nightcrawler is now Dead Six
2
Replies
44
Views
3K
esheato
E
C
  • Locked
Dead Six, THR's Mr. Nightcrawler book, ORDER NOW
2 3
Replies
59
Views
3K
parsimonious_instead
P
Back
Top