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 each week 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.

Each week, a chapter would be posted and this would give the next writer a full week 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.


This is an initial thread where I'm hereby soliciting the participation of interested writers.

Each writer would have to drop his e-mail address where I'd be able to reach him privately and tell him what chapter he'd be updating and the date he'd post the chapter.

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 five writers is required or as much as ten or fifteen. This would give a writer enough respite after posting his own chapter. So, after the writers are assembled through e-mail network (that is, every participant would be linked through mail so as for the members to know who would be posting for the week, they could even interact and share ideas via e-mail 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, then 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. Moreso, a stipulated number of words for each chapter (1500words or more) should be strictly acknowledge, 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:

1. Larry-Sun
(The Brand Of Cain)

2. Redmosquito
(African Nerd)

3. Mynd_44
(The Burning Cold)

4. HumbledbYGrace
(Home At Last)

5. Mazi_Omenuko
(Diary Of A Sex Addict)

6. Frank3.16
(The Tenth Generation)

7. Efemena_xy
(A Collection Of Short Stories By Efe)

8. Ishilove
("The Place Of Rest"-Wasimi Chronicles)

9. Oahray
(Patch Of Black)

10. Foxy_Rebirth
(The Travails Of A Male Secretary Reloaded)

11. Senbonzakura_kageyoshi
(The Day Jonah Became A Fish)

12. VanTee20

13. Sigmundfreud

14. Frosti


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.

Erm good job Larry, would you please ask the Guy who wrote 'the tenth generation' if he would love to join?

He knows his stuff

HumbledbYGrace: Erm good job Larry, would you please ask the Guy who wrote 'the tenth generation' if he would love to join?

He knows his stuff

Okay, I will.

Great stuff

Thanks @humbledbygrace, I am already humbled by ur recognition.

@larry, ofcourse I am very much interested, this is my email. xtfranks005@yahoo.com

frank3.16:
Thanks @humbledbygrace, I am already humbled by ur recognition.

@larry, ofcourse I am very much interested, this is my email. xtfranks005@yahoo.com

don't mention it Frank

frank3.16:
Thanks @humbledbygrace, I am already humbled by ur recognition.

@larry, ofcourse I am very much interested, this is my email. xtfranks005@yahoo.com

Your name has been added to the list. You shall be contacted. Thanks.
Bless you.

Larry-Sun:

Your name has been added to the list. You shall be contacted. Thanks.
Bless you.

Ok, pls if d message is sent on email, indicate it here, cos I don't check my mail quite often since I mostly browse on my mobile device and can't check my email there. So once I can see d info here I will then check my mail on my laptop. Thanks.

Readin a brand of cain, quite lovely.

Thanks, Efe.

frank3.16:


Ok, pls if d message is sent on email, indicate it here, cos I don't check my mail quite often since I mostly browse on my mobile device and can't check my email there. So once I can see d info here I will then check my mail on my laptop. Thanks.

Readin a brand of cain, quite lovely.

Okay, I'll do that.
And, thanks buddy. You aren't bad too

Nice having you here, Ishilove

this is too good to miss-out...i love the company i am in.
Will gladly participate.
Contact info will be mailed to you.
Thanks

sigmundfreud: this is too good to miss-out...i love the company i am in.
Will gladly participate.
Contact info will be mailed to you.
Thanks

Thanks for the mail. Your name has been fully added.
Bless you

Mazi, kindly PM me your e-mail address. Thanks.

Larry-Sun:
Thanks, Efe.

Larry-Sun:
Mazi, kindly PM me your e-mail address. Thanks.

i've done that, notify me if you didnt get it, so i will post it directly here.

Mazi_Omenuko:
i've done that, notify me if you didnt get it, so i will post it directly here.

I didn't get it.

Hmmm... Hope I'v got permission to comment here. Lovely idea Larry, can't wait to start reading

Okay guys, these are the names of the current writers (as listed above) and what chapter each person shall be writing, including the date they are expected to update.

Larry Sun: Chapter One (February 8, 2013)

Frank 3.16: Chapter Two (February 12, 2013)

Redmosquito: Chapter Three (February 16, 2013)

Efemena_xy: Chapter Four (February 20, 2013)

Mazi_Omenuko: Chapter Five (February 24, 2013)

HumbledbYGrace: Chapter Six (February 28, 2013)

Sigmundfreud: Chapter Seven (March 4, 2013)

Ishilove: Chapter Eight (March 8, 2013)

VanTee20: Chapter Nine (March 12, 2013)

Oahray: Chapter Ten (March 16, 2013)

Mynd_44: Chapter Eleven (March 20, 2013)

Any member is free to swap with another, provided the other member agrees to be swapped, and the other members are aware of that. Swapping is only allowed at least a week prior the originally expected post so that necessary changes can be made beforehand and the innocent audience are informed of the change(s).

Thanks all,

God be with us.

Oahray: Hmmm... Hope I'v got permission to comment here. Lovely idea Larry, can't wait to start reading

Yap, you've got permission to comment.
Thanks.

Larry-Sun:
Okay guys, these are the names of the current writers (as listed above) and what chapter each person shall be writing, including the date they are expected to update.

Larry Sun: Chapter One (February 8, 2013)


HumbledbYGrace: Chapter Six (March 15, 2013)


Any member is free to swap with another, provided the other member agrees to be swapped, and the other members are aware of that. Swapping is only allowed at least a week before the originally expected post so that necessary changes can be made beforehand and the innocent audience are informed of the change(s).

Thanks all,

God be with us.

see the gap between the first chapter and chapter six a month and 2weeks of freedom

Thanks larry

O sheeit! See gap mehn!!!

Let's go there

Eze Promoe: Hmmm. Still a toddler

na we be the toddler's club. Oya lets crawl to our seats

Larry-Sun:
Okay guys, these are the names of the current writers (as listed above) and what chapter each person shall be writing, including the date they are expected to update.

Larry Sun: Chapter One (February 8, 2013)



Efemena_xy: Chapter Four (March 1, 2013)

Nice 1 Larry!

Can't wait to start. Hope I do well for you lot & our readers

Oahray: na we be the toddler's club. Oya lets crawl to our seats

Wait a minute there is someone missing on that list

I see him!

Oahray you should be on that list oooo.

Sir Larry the moon man should be there or else I quit

HumbledbYGrace: Wait a minute there is someone missing on that list

I see him!

Oahray you should be on that list oooo.

Sir Larry the moon man should be there or else I quit

Tah! You wan try encourage me small. Thanks sha. Lemme sit and learn from the best pens on NL first.

Eze Promoe, you don find seat? Oya clean am wait me, make I buy popcorn.

Oahray: Tah! You wan try encourage me small. Thanks sha. Lemme sit and learn from the best pens on NL first.

Eze Promoe, you don find seat? Oya clean am wait me, make I buy popcorn.

My old Aboki get urself a notebook and pencils, don't leave a rubber we got to work

Edited

O boy make una come see champions league match of writers º°˚˚˚°º‎​ .

@cuddles, thanks

@brokoto, shey you wear your spectator goggles?

HumbledbYGrace: Wait a minute there is someone missing on that list

I see him!

Oahray you should be on that list oooo.

Sir Larry the moon man should be there or else I quit

Kwit ke? Don't kwit o. Oahray or any writer fit join na, if he wants.