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 on Coolval.
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 CDC 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.
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 @ 08166920449
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.
