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3-Day News: January 13, 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
3-Day Novel Newsletter
We don’t have an announcement for you yet, so we’ve put together a few newsy bits to keep you occupied in the meantime. Click here to read the latest newsletter, and bear with us until we can present a list of winners from the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest! We hope to have an announcement for you some time in the last week of January.
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Now It Can Be Told
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
BookTelevision's 3-Day Novel
After two years, we can finally congratulate Gayleen Froese, winner of the second season of the televised 3-Day Novel Contest. The season was filmed during the 2007 International 3-Day Novel Contest and, after a long process involving media mergers and licensing and other things beyond our ken, the last of 7 episodes aired on BookTelevision last night. The 12 contestants slept, ate and wrote their novels in public in a Chapters bookstore in Edmonton. Gayleen won with The Dominion, a wonderful fantasy novel that also made the 2007 3DN shortlist.
We participated in the filming and loved the experience. The producers, crew, contestants and fellow judges were great fun, and it was fascinating to be present and witness contestants writing their novels, which is something we don’t often get to see as we furiously coordinate the event from down in our secret underground bunker.
A big thanks to Gayleen and her partners in suffering: runners-up Paul Matwychuk and Matthew J. Trafford, and their excellent co-contestants Nancy Belgue, James Burns, Marty Chan, Joe Goodwill, Jennifer Isaac, Gordon Kirkland, Rebecca Shuttleworth, Lorna Sloukji and Tracy Thompson. Thanks also to the crew, to Rachel Harry, the show’s charming host, to our fellow judges Minister Faust and Todd Babiak, and to Tate Young and Rachel Sentes, who helped bring the show to fruition.
We’re not sure if BookTelevision plans to re-air either season of the show, so if you want to see it, contact them and maybe they will! You can get a taste by watching a trailer for the first season on YouTube.
Update: Another TWO countries for our contest stats
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009[This post has been updated.] We’ve heard from a second entrant who was left out of this week’s newsletter. We’re shocked to realize we left out Australia in our list of countries, along with Colombia. (A previous entrant reminded us that while his mailing address is in Canada, he wrote and submitted his novel from his birth country of Colombia.) So that’s TWO more countries to add to this year’s tally of entrants, bringing the total number of countries participating in the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest to a record 20. Twenty participating countries! (Insert Sesame Street Count-style laughter here.)
3-Day News, November 17, 2009
Tuesday, November 17th, 20093-Day Novel Newsletter
It’s time for another 3-Day update! We’ve got news about some upcoming events in Brooklyn and Milford, some statistics from the 32nd Annual contest, and a few writing events from other organizations that will keep you occupied until September 2010. Read it online here!
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Go Go Wrimos
Monday, November 16th, 2009
National Novel Writing Month
We’d like to send out some encouragement to participants in this year’s National Novel Writing Month, who have passed the halfway mark in their race to write a novel in 30 days. Sure it might seem a little laid-back to take a whole month to write a novel, but who are we to question another’s creative method? Congratulations to those who are 25,000 words in to their 50,000 word goal. To those who may be a little behind, don’t worry! Experienced 3-Dayers will tell you that you can always find a second wind in the final hours.
To those 3-Dayers who may not be familiar with the 11-year-old NaNoWriMo, you should definitely check out their website. There’s lots of great tips and tools there for staying on track while producing hasty fiction, particularly the pep talks by fans such as Lynda Barry, Gail Carson Levine and Jasper Fforde.
3-Day News, Sept. 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 2nd, 20093-Day Novel Newsletter
We’ve posted another issue of 3-Day News. This issue gives fair warning that this is the last week to register, gives an update about changes to our upcoming events in New Haven and New York, and profiles a couple of our more extreme entrants. Read it online here!.
If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter (we send it out every six weeks or so), enter your email in the sign-up form to the right, or send us a note at info@3daynovel.com. If you already subscribe and didn’t receive it, check your spam box and add 3_Day_Novel_Contest@mail.vresp.com to your “not spam” list.
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