What to do with my labour day weekend

[emma]

I am thinking of trying my hand at the incredibly terrifying 3-day novel contest. Great idea or awful idea? Please advise.

[Bryan]

Good idea, as long as you write something that celebrates the triumphs of the labour movement.

[Andy]

you could learn how to spell "labor"

what's the 3 day thing?

[iAmBaronVonTito]

it's a great idea.  when you're done, post it.

[emma]

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.

[Fido]

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.

[buffcoat]

a) Labor Day, not Labour Day

b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?

What?

[emma]

a) Labor Day, not Labour Day

b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?

What?

It was about to be labour 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.

[buffcoat]

a) Labor Day, not Labour Day

b) Labor Day was totally two weeks ago, right?

What?

It was about to be labour 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."

[Emily]

That's an incredible start to an 80 page manuscript - keep going!!

Emma congratulations, that's very impressive and inspiring.