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.)