NEWS
Thursday, May 13,
2004
Bombay will celebrate the imminent beginning of the Write-a-thalon with a press conference at the Cha Bar, Oxford Bookstore, followed by High Tea.
Wednesday, May 12,
2004
DEADLINE! - No new registrations will be accepted
after 9:00 PM on Thursday (India). Thursday midnight in Tokyo, Thursday
0430 PM (Dublin), Thursday 1130 AM ( New York) and so on. For your
own town/city, check the World Clock.
However, the writing begins at
Friday 0900 AM, YOUR time.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Jhamu Sugandh
Productions has partnered with us for your screenplays.
All screenplays will be formally critiqued and considered. Some of their
earlier films are- Lagaan (Oscar nominee in Best Foreign Film category),
blockbusters like Bombay, 1947 Earth (Best Film at the Verona International Film
Festival, 1997) , Rangeela. Soon to be released are Black Friday and Cha Cha Cha. Enjoy!
Award winning sci-fi writer
James D.
MacDonald
writes to us, "My record was 60,000 words in 60 hours. That was
Global
War
by (alias) Martin Delrio. My wrists didn't recover for months and I'm not
eager to repeat the experience."
Found this fabulous FAQ, fettering on a febpage where they frite a fovel
in a fonth. Flackers.
Monday, May 10,
2004
We
are on
Blogdex -which ranks the most contagious information
spreading through blogspace.
The Writer's Society Of India is now our close event partner.
"The event
echoes WSI's philosophy of promoting the writing spirit, for writers
worldwide. The forum will definitely see the emergence of a new writing
talent. It defies the image of the relaxed author tap-tapping a few
paragraphs a day, on his typewriter, and that is invigorating. I expect to
see some really high-power energy unleashed during the course of these
three days"
- Jagmohan Bhanver, President WSI
Another popular blog links to us. Thank you, Brian.
The much-awaited Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) have been posted. Read them and email for further queries.
Here is a pre-event
Press Release, in case you guys have some friends
in the media.
Sunday, May 09,
2004
Jason Kottke, star blogmeister and now this contest's
Benevolent Deity, links to GMW! kottke.org is considered the 25th most popular blog in the world, in case you
missed it. He also kickstarted the Memespread
Project.
You thought writing a novel or screenplay in
58 hours was speed? Comic artist Gabriel Greenberg intends to
draw an entire graphic novel, within the given time.
Phew!
Saturday, May 08,
2004
Rehaan Engineer confirms that the
Industrial Theatre Co. will consider your stage plays for
production.
Friday, May 07, 2004
Nippon attacks! Amy Chavez, the hottest columnist at
The Japan
Times,
will be writing her novel aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean while
sailing to Australia.
Thanks to Priti Paul, Oxford Bookstore will help us in organising the
Bombay venue! Details soon. Kapow!
Now, we're talking. Literary
heavyweight
Tom Bradley joins the GMW from Nagasaki,
Japan.
His style has been compared to legends like Thomas
Pynchon and Tom Robbins. A blurb for his book Curved Jewels says that, "You wanted to write a
controversial book, you have.... I doubt you'll ever get it reviewed in
Japan.." -- The Japan Times. Read more about him on the
writer's listing. He says that the GMW is
"an obvious
sign from God. I was sitting around thinking about this great idea for a
screenplay and wishing I had a reason to just jump in and do it, fast and
mean. Then your email message arrived."
Thursday, May 06,
2004
Captain's log, stardate garble garble. Time is the
new frontier.
Al Sotack, Max Babi, Sujata Kumar and Suzanne
Nixon are the latest entries. William Mazzarella, still mysterious about
whether he will or won't, writes in asking a pertinent question: "Does the
world need more words?"
News
Flash:
All completed manuscripts will be considered for publication by Plastic
Sugar Press. Top five will receive special critique. .
Wednesday, May 05,
2005
Today, we have more writers signing up.
Nicole Hughes of
Plastic Sugar Press has said this about the the
contest, while agreeing to critique and review five of the top
peer-reviewed novels:
"The main reason I was attracted to this project
is because it goes so much against what we are taught about how to
write. Ninety percent of the manuscripts I review suffer from a very
constrictive and self-conscious quality. I think a lot of writers edit way
too much in the beginning of the process, and don't trust their craft
enough to take real risks. This project is about complete and total
submersion in the work, merging our objective and subjective realities,
and creating a true intimacy between writer and
reader."
Tuesday , May 04, 2004
Paul Barnett alias John Grant,
Hugo-winning fantasy author and a well known name in publishing, wrote in
saying that he had participated in the event at Groucho Club. He writes,
"My short
novel Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi was eventually published as a
half of a double book, the other half being a short novel by Colin Wilson
(The Tomb Of The Old Ones)."
He also adds that 50,000
words is too much. There might be a truncation of the word length soon,
keep an eye on this space, people.
In other news, we have entered
a partnership with Crimson Feet Magazine, Pune (details awaited) and we have
new centre in Ahmedabad.
Monday, May 03, 2004
Contest Advisor John Morrish
informs us that, "A few years back the Groucho Club in London had a
similar contest to write a novel in a weekend. David Thomas, who edited
Punch and presided over its death after 150 years or so, wrote a story
about a man who woke up in a woman's body. Picked up immediately and
published by a major firm here, in
paperback.."
|
|
