Never tell you guys something ain’t gonna happen, eh?

Yep, the day after I say we’re never gonna get 75 blogs on the yeah write grid, we get 75 blogs on the yeah write grid. Truthfully, with everyone wrapping up spring break and other vacations, I was expecting around 40.  Y’all are so cute when up for a challenge.

As promised, since there are 75 blogs on the grid, you get seven votes each. If this is your first time voting, this is how it works here at yeah write. Heck, even if it’s not your first time voting, this is how it works:

Everybody gets seven votes

Depending on your browser, there will be a yellow star above or below each thumbnail. Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting, click on the yellow star to vote for the post after reading.

Voting closes Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT

After each yellow star click, the page will refresh, and you’ll have to make your way back down to the grid to click another yellow star after reading the post. 

If it’s after 9 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more yellow stars and voting will not work for you no matter how hard you try. You are still free to send me drunk tweets at 2 a.m. Friday complaining how yeah write voting never ever works for you and how you’ve never seen any yellow stars. I’ll get your tweet and sigh heavily.

Once you’ve voted for your seven favorite posts, you’re done voting and the yellow stars will disappear, drunk or not. You are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries including your own.

Only one vote per IP address per entry will be valid

Remember, this is a writing challenge, not a clicking contest. Avoid the temptation to vote for yourself or anyone else from different IP addresses. That’ll just create more work for me as I validate all the votes and delete the self-votes and the wipe out the votes from your neighbor’s wi-fi. You will hear me sighing heavily all the way up in Wichita and you’ll wonder where all your votes went.

Internet campaigning

Same goes for your Facebook friends, y’all. We’re doing our best to introduce yeah write as an encouraging, supportive community for writing bloggers and blogging writers, not as a click-fest. Ask your friends, family, Facebook fans and Twitter followers to read some of the other blogs on the grid while they’re here, and they may stay for a while and become one of us. We’re good peoples and I like showing you guys off every once in a while.

[stextbox id=”alert”]Hey, you guys, I’m #454 on the grid. Vote for me vote for me vote for meeeeeeee!!![/stextbox]

[stextbox id=”info”]Hey, you guys, come visit this cool writing challenge and vote for me for and a few others on the grid. If you love discovering new blogs, it’s a great place.[/stextbox]

Friday winners

• popular vote winner
• editor’s choice by Erica
• lurker’s favorite by Flood
• lurker’s favorite by Q
• lurker’s favorite by Whitney
• comment karma, which is not the most comments left by a yeah write blogger, but the wittiest, most thoughtful, most something-or-other comment—dunno, I’ll know it when I read it.

Have fun!

Have fun out there reading, commenting and voting. Please please turn off comment moderation, word verification and Blogger’s comment Captcha until voting ends tomorrow at 9 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT].

Thanks for being so awesome.

Yeah write #51 is open for voting.