{"id":7495,"date":"2010-05-15T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2010-05-15T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T12:43:05","slug":"official-2010-write-your-a-off-day-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/official-2010-write-your-a-off-day-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Official<\/em> 2010 Write Your A** Off Day (Pt 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"NYWC Write-a-Thon logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/nywc_writeathonlogo.gif?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I mentioned a &#8220;contest&#8221; of sorts in my post the other day about the New York Writers Coalition&#8217;s June 12 event: write 3,000 words on that one day, they said, and you could enter a drawing. Winner of the drawing would receive a free consultation with author <a title=\"About Jennifer Belle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferbelle.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Belle<\/a>. But I added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;other than this email [from a NYWC publicist], I haven\u2019t seen any official confirmation of this 3K-word challenge &#8212; like details about how the drawing will work &#8212; particularly for out-of-town writers. I\u2019ll see if I can learn more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got some of those details (thanks, Adaeze!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, sign up for the online &#8220;write-a-thon&#8221; <a title=\"NYWC's Ning site\" href=\"http:\/\/nywriterscoalition.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You have to register, but it&#8217;s free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px;\"><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> New registrations do not take effect automatically, but are human-moderated. This means you should expect a time lag before being able to do much of anything at the site. Do <\/em>not<em> wait until June 12 to register!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 12th, they&#8217;ll use the honor system. (My correspondent says, &#8220;We&#8217;re relying on them to be honest with themselves&#8221; &#8212; and I&#8217;ll wag my own index finger in your direction on this point. I mean, come on: it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re requiring 3,000 <em>tightly written<\/em> words, right?)<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;ve met the basic word-count requirement, you&#8217;ll post a comment on a write-a-thon thread they&#8217;ll open at the site.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of the day, they&#8217;ll close the comment thread and draw a winner, announcing it at the site.<\/li>\n<li>And then, finally, they&#8217;ll provide details to the winner about the logistics of claiming his\/her consultation with Jennifer Belle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I learn anything else about the rules, or The Day itself, or Jennifer Belle, or&#8230; oh, hell: if I learn <em>anything<\/em> else about <em>anything<\/em> vaguely relevant, I&#8217;ll post the information here at <em>RAMH<\/em>. In the meantime, if you feel ready to take the challenge, hie thee to the <a title=\"NYWC's Ning site\" href=\"http:\/\/nywriterscoalition.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYWC discussion board<\/a> and sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a &#8220;contest&#8221; of sorts in my post the other day about the New York Writers Coalition&#8217;s June 12 event: write 3,000 words on that one day, they said, and you could enter a drawing. Winner of the drawing would receive a free consultation with author Jennifer Belle. But I added: &#8230;other than this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,94,37,5,372],"tags":[1215,1417,1784,1790],"class_list":{"0":"post-7495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-03_runningaftermyhat","7":"category-02_in-the-news","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"category-06_writing","10":"category-style-and-craft","11":"tag-write-your-a-off","12":"tag-writing-contests","13":"tag-writing-challenges","14":"tag-jennifer-belle","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}