The Mr. Nightcrawler Trilogy: Book I

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Thanks.

I had a 48 person CCW class last night. You have to be really ON when you're teaching, especially when you're trying to keep that many people's attention. So when I got home, I was just too wired to sleep.

Right now I'm kicking myself, damn daylight savings switcheroo.

Well, anyway, like I said, that was just a little interlude from Lorenzo's past. See, Lorenzo and Nightcrawler's fate was intertwined well before they ever met in Book II. And in Book III, the Evil and the Calm get to whoop some serious butt. :) You guys are going to love what we've got planned.
 
I'm so going to make a B movie. :)

Okay, I've asked this before during the Welcome Home thread, and it always fascinates me as a writer to see how the readers envision characters.

If you were going to cast the Nightcrawler saga as a movie, who would you pick to play who?
 
eeeeeee-Cchaaiiiiii! Correia, that was... amazing.

I want to make a movie short of The Battle of ... Wherever The **** That Was. :)

Even if it was just the chase scene, it'd be great.

Too bad all of my productions are low-budget enough to not even be able to afford the DSHK, let alone a Soviet "Bradley". I could probably come up with a Toyota pickup and a column of oil fire, though...

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I've always wanted to build a Somali style technical anyway. :) Not that I'm not halfway there with my car already...
 
I have access to every gun used in that scene, including the DhSK and the RPG. No BTR, but I do know a guy with one. :)

Man, I love my job...

Thanks, glad you liked it. I wasn't planning on doing anything in the prequel, but NC threatened to not pick me up a gyro for lunch a couple of weeks ago. With my precious Mad Greek held hostage, and no food at FBMG, I had no choice but to write something. :p
 
Addiction

Man......Can't you see it?!?! you are addicted to the Mad Greek!!!

It is like a bad heroin addiction, you just want a little taste and then before you know it, it is 2 AM and you are looking for an open drive-thru and a gyro fix....

eta: for the record, I don't know if they are open that late, I ain't gonna enable you, man.....unless I get a taste myself:D
 
You had all day off yesterday aside from a class and this is all you wrote?
The guy is dripping diamonds and has all his limbs. Why not write up about some of his escapades taking loot and life from some real bad people!

Hey hire me so I can play on Mondays!
 
Well, I still managed to work for eight hours as an accountant before going to teach CCW. Damn it, I'm a slacker! A real writer would have written ten best sellers, appeared on Larry King, and had time to party at the Playboy Mansion. :p

Ferret, dude, you're right. I want a gyro. Right. NOW. AAAARRRGGHH!

Damn PvtPyle for introducing those to me. The Mad Greek loves Nightcrawler though, since we always send him on Saturdays to pick up the food, and he shows up and orders like ten gyros at a time. They even give him free soda now.
 
Ed Norton should star in ur movie Correia. Norton is an amazing actor and I think would due it justice. Robert Patrick (The unit, Marine, terminator 2) would be good for decker. I would love to see either Vin Diesel, Colin Farrell, or Keifer Sutherland, or all three should star. You would prolly be broke by the cast alone though dammit. but theirs some many great actors that would be great for it just thought about de niro or pacino would be good deckers.
 
I'm going to have to visit FBMG and the this Mad Greek person next time I come out to visit my little brother. Thanks for the excitement. I was starting a new book tonight, but you ruined it. Andy Mcnab isn't as good as you guys.

--usp_fan
 
The Mad Greek is a great little Gyro place down the road from FBMG. It's owned by an old Greek gentleman that's probably the most polite man I've ever met.

I'd never had Greek food before, but now I too am addicted to their Gyros. Well, and their mozzerella sticks are pretty good, too. :cool:
 
Gentlemen,

I have shown this thread to a friend, the head of the Literature Department at Bard College in eastern NY. He is a serious Anti, and a total idiot when it comes to guns. (Brilliant in all other aspects of life, what is that all about?)
Anyway, he is very impressed, and is following intently. Bard is one of the most liberal institutions in the country, and if one of their department heads is really liking this, you men have earned the respect and admiration of the enemy.
Good on ya.
Steve
 
Well, cool.

(English was always my best subject; one of my Profs at NMU, to this day, uses a paper I wrote (about trying to decide which .308 rifle to buy) as an example of paper writing for her students.

At any rate, regardless of anyone's political stripe, I'm glad they were able to enjoy my scratchings. :)
 
I'm trying real hard to be patient.......

really I am....BUT I have noticed that our revered NC has posted SEVERAL times on numerous threads since he posted the last chapter of this magnificent epic. I hate to sound like the greedy self centered war-mongering, knuckle-dragger that my wife & thereapis believe me to be...but HOW ABOUT ANOTHER CHAPTER PLEASE!!!!!!! I CANT STAND THE WITHDRAWAL!!!!!
Thank you, thankyouverymuch...

(great work, btw..as usual)
 
I haven't finished writing the next chapter yet.

Why don't I write it right now? Fair question.

I got home about an hour and forty five minutes ago. I should've been in bed forty-five minutes ago, as I've got to get up in...seven hours to get ready for work.

Twelve hour shifts suck. Sorry guys, update this weekend. :(
 
Anybody have the links to the other NC stories? This is the first I've bothered to read (I hate reading fiction, usually) and now I'm hooked like a smack addict!

Or Corriea's... that was pretty awesome too!
 
Steve, that is cool to hear. Honestly I believe a good book should be written in a way that regardless of their background, a reader should be able to relate. If a big group of people can't relate to your writing, then you've failed as a writer. It isn't the readers fault if they don't get it. It is your job to make them "get it".

That is why I think a lot of books that are considered great literature, aren't. If it takes 1,000 pages of critical commentary to explain a 200 page book, then it probably doesn't deserve classical status. :p (but I'm still bitter, I barely passed high school english, didn't learn a damn thing, and squeeked through the bare neccesities in college).
 
I'm a slacker! A real writer would have written ten best sellers, appeared on Larry King, and had time to party at the Playboy Mansion.
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I disagree. I read all the time, and i'd have to say that what i've read from you and Nightcrawler is easily on par with some of the best thrillers i've read, if not surpassing some. I started to read "The Bourne Identity" but couldn't really get into it, however from the start of chapter one of this i was immediately intrigued and have since read all of the chapters. It not only has a lot of good technical information (such as what calibers and models of guns, which i like reading about) but at its very essence is just plain old good storytelling.As far as a movie goes, Lance Henricksen would be a perfect choice for Decker.
 
Mike, if you like this one, seriously, read that link above. By the time we got finished, it was actually novel length. And each new scene was cranked out in a matter of hours. But somehow it turned out to not suck. :D
 
Clive Cussler Writes one draft only.

He sits down with a pen and writes the whole thing. He sends it to the editor on a legal pad.
(His stuff sells like it's free, and lately, is total garbage.)
 
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