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3-Day Novel: The Series, season two
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
BookTelevision
The long-awaited second season of 3-Day Novel Contest: The Series will finally air tonight (8:30 pm ET, Tuesday, Nov. 3) on BookTelevision. During the 2007 International 3-Day Novel Contest, 12 entrants were holed up in a Chapters bookstore in Edmonton and filmed live while they sweated their way through their novels, along with several other tortures dreamed up by the producers.
The footage has been made into a 7-episode series, and if it’s anything like the first season, you won’t believe how compelling it can be to watch people write. Seriously. Tonight’s episode will also repeat Wednesday, Nov. 4, and the other 6 will follow the same weekly schedule. Check it out at BookTelevision.com.
ForeWord magazine on The Videographer
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski
ForeWord This Week (OK, not quite this week, but we’ve been very busy at 3-Day HQ) interviews Jason Rapczynski on his preparation and process in producing The Videographer, the 2008 winning entry.
“In the weeks leading up to the contest I had been watching a lot of YouTube videos—car wrecks and street fights and amateur stunts gone horribly wrong. So I sat down with an idea about a character who maybe films this stuff for a living… [And] what if this character, who’s involved in all these shady dealings, was to find out that he was a father? Those two ideas were pretty much the matrix for the plot.” (Read the full interview.)
“Because You Have To”
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The Stranger newspaper
Paul Constant at The Stranger interviews a few 3-Day novelists on their experiences doing the contest and on what to do next, and puts forward the more-complicated-than-it-sounds idea that aspiring writers need to sit down and write.
“Contests like the 3-Day Novel Contest and the much less competitive National Novel Writing Month in November do a genuine, generous service for aspiring authors by providing compelling (if entirely artificial) deadlines and introducing them to the concept that words and ideas are easy to come by (and equally easy to abandon) in the quest for a novel.” (Read the full story.)
Toronto launch video
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009The good people at Gredunza Press attended our launch party in Toronto to meet with us and produce one of their video podcasts. Gredunza interviews folks in the writing and publishing community to create web programming about books. They spoke with 3-Day administrators and with Jason Rapczynski, our 2008 winner, and caught some of the performances by our host, Tate Young, and our first reader, Matthew J. Trafford.
“Definitely out of the ordinary”
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
“The 2008 winner The Videographer by New Haven resident Jason Rapczynski, 31, is definitely out of the ordinary. By page 10, the reader meets a guy with three fingers on one hand, meets a crooked cop, and learns that the narrator’s current trade is affixing cameras in rest-stop bathrooms on I-95 in the hope of catching people engaged in sex acts. And yes, the narrator’s boss posts the videos on the Internet … It works. The Videographer is the page-turner that won out over 427 other completed stories.”
David Riedel of the New Haven Advocate, an arts weekly, talks about the 3-Day experience and interviews 2008 winner Jason Rapczynski about his prize-taking novel. Read the whole article here.
Anxiety and the Unexpected
Monday, June 8th, 2009Marion Stein, a 2008 entrant, told the story of her 3-Day experience at the Narativ Storytelling Workshop in New York. She narrates a classic 3-Day experience…the agonies, ecstasies and surprising turns of events. It’s proof that you can never anticipate what kinds of things will come out of the contest. (And most past entrants will relate to the anxiety of waiting for the results - an unfortunate but usually unavoidable side-effect of the experience.)
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