When is a weekend not a weekend?
When you spend it at a conference. In my case, the Willamette Writers annual conference – my first ever, and a truly affirming experience.
It’s easy to forget that there are people behind the words. Behind every short story, every essay, every poem or novel or screenplay, there are people hiding behind their computer screen, banging out words. Conferences aren’t for everybody, but for me it was a chance to connect face-to-face with the people who make the stories. The Navy Captain’s wife who is writing about the Roman empire for middle school boys. The teenage girl who is writing about mental illness, hers and her sister’s. The grandfather who is writing the spy thriller he always wanted to read. It’s a reminder that there are stories everywhere, should one be brave enough to reach out and wrestle the words onto the page.
If you’re of a mind to wrestle this week, be sure to read the submission guidelines before you press post. Have a favorite yeah writer or two? Why not ask them to be your writing partner? Everyone needs another set of eyes to point out the typos, content errors, and ungainly phraseologies in our posts. Stop by the coffeehouse and meet some of the people behind the words!
Prompt up!
Prompt up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to use it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
In her post Mornings and Mom, Amy steers us through a volatile living situation. This week’s prompt up taken from her unsettling post is: You might wake her.
Wait! Where’s the poetry slam?
We’re taking some time off from our nonfiction know-how and poetry slams to focus on the super challenge this summer. However, you can always check out our archives if you’re needing a little more inspiration this week. Happy writing!
Check out Sunday’s post which kicked off the week here at yeah write. Our email subscribers can also join us in the yeah write coffeehouse at its home on Facebook.
Yeah write super challenge!
Stay tuned to learn the results of the first nonfiction super challenge in the next couple of days. Make sure to pop over to the super challenge page to read some of the previous entries.
Feeling left out? Don’t worry, the next super challenge coming this fall will be for all you fictioneers out there. Sign up for our mailer today to get the announcements! We promise not to spam you.
Yeah write #279 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
Basic yeah write guidelines: 750 word limit; your entry can be dated no earlier than this past Sunday; fiction or poetry only.
How to submit and fully participate in the challenge:
- In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the challenge grid badge and paste it into the HTML view of your entry
- Follow the InLinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s challenge grid
- Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message
- Please make the rounds to read all the entries in this week’s challenge
- Consider turning off moderated comments and CAPTCHA on your own blog
Submissions for this week’s challenges will close on Wednesday at 10pm ET. Voting will then open immediately thereafter and close on Thursday at 10pm ET. The winners, as always, will be celebrated on Friday.
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