Posts Tagged ‘outcomes’
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.
“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.)
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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