Posts Tagged ‘3-dayer news’
“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.)
3-Day News: vol. 1, issue 3
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
3-Day Novel Newsletter
The latest issue of 3-Day News is online. We’ve got updates on events in Toronto, New Haven, New York and Vancouver, more success stories from past winners, tips on Twitter hashtags and links to writing contests that can warm you up before the big marathon. Read it online here.
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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.)
Tackle Brendan for a Dollar
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Tackle Brendan McLeod for a Dollar
In case you thought that doing (and winning) the 3-Day Novel Contest is the craziest thing Brendan McLeod has done, check out this video of Tackle Me For A Dollar. Brendan stood in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery inviting strangers to have a run at him to change people’s thinking about panhandlers. The whole thing was part of a performance art project by the Never Be Lonely artists collective. Brendan appears to be walking around today, so no writers were (seriously) hurt during the filming of this event. Find out more about the tacklings and the public’s reaction at Brendan’s website.
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