The 3 Day Novel - coming up... Labour Day weekend
Are you ready? A collection of posts
I’ve taken all the posts I wrote last year for this weekend-of-the-best-madness, and have brought together here.
I’ve also re-opened all for all subscribers, both paid and free, until after the contest is over.
Please post any questions or stories you might share, and enjoy the reads. This is coming up soon. If you read through the “rules,” you know that you can begin with something of an outline. So this gives you time to do that.
For those who do not want to do the contest, you might consider using the time to simply write, or setting aside your own 72 hour period to create a rough first draft. As one of you has noted here previously, the holiday weekend is not always the optimal time for this! But you can create your own goal, and use the info and ideas here…
Here is the site and registration link for 2022.
All right… here we go:
So, writers: do you start at Friday midnight or get up early on Saturday morning?
I seem to be having a different kind of challenge. It is how to move forward after a first draft is complete. I seem to have a lack of direction and skill plus a resistance to taking apart the one thing that is concretely there. Not knowing how to add, subtract, expand, reduce without the flow of the whole thing being destroyed. Is this something that others go through? Perhaps Alison, this might be a future topic for your newsletter unless I am the only one who has experienced this conundrum. Of course it is my first novel so I am sure it is partly the stepping into the unknown.
Love your articles and come September have vowed to spend more time doing the exercises.