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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: emma on August 20, 2008, 11:59:39 AM
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I am thinking of trying my hand at the incredibly terrifying 3-day novel contest (http://www.3daynovel.com/). Great idea or awful idea? Please advise.
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Good idea, as long as you write something that celebrates the triumphs of the labour movement.
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you could learn how to spell "labor"
what's the 3 day thing?
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it's a great idea. when you're done, post it.
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Bringing this back up real quick: I actually ended up doing this! I wrote a little less than 80 pages (by far the longest thing I've ever written for anything ever) in three days. It was really frustrating and spine-crushing but also incredibly satisfying. If any of you has a story you keep not being able to find the time to work on, I really recommend this - it's a great kick in the ass, and if you finish, you finish with a manuscript, no matter how rough.
Good times, as the kids say.
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Congratulations. I hope you were inspired by the accomplishments of Mawky Ramone ("These stories write themselves..."). I'm thinking I need this kind of workshop for any number of projects I have in the hopper.
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a) Labor Day, not Labour Day
b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?
What?
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a) Labor Day, not Labour Day
b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?
What?
It was about to be labour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(spelling)#English_spelling_comparison_chart) day when I posted this thread and now it is way later, but I brought it back from the dead so I could brag about my accomplishments.
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a) Labor Day, not Labour Day
b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?
What?
It was about to be labour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(spelling)#English_spelling_comparison_chart) day when I posted this thread and now it is way later, but I brought it back from the dead so I could brag about my accomplishments.
I was travelling to see my ageing relatives, watching the aeroplane run its tyres along the kerb, when I noticed that the aluminium on the centre of the wing was a strange grey colour. In my defence, I was tired from labouring all night in a complicated manouvre to get my bank to fulfil its promise to make good on my cancelled cheque. But I never got one metre past the first storey before I was forced into the acknowledgement that they had already made their judgement.
Taking this sort of licence was standard practise in my organisation, though I recognise that analysing this behaviour doesn't add any glamour to it. I was quite sceptical that this programme would have any effect in that theatre.
"Shut up, buffcoat," I said, "and eat your yoghourt."
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That's an incredible start to an 80 page manuscript - keep going!!
Emma congratulations, that's very impressive and inspiring.