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Convince me
If you’ve been following along with or participating in the yeah write super challenge, you know that the remaining 16 competitors had to submit a persuasive essay last night for round two. A persuasive essay does just what it says: persuades. Sometimes it is jam-packed with facts and figures; other times, it is punctuated with anecdotes.
Either way, a persuasive essay is particularly useful these days—from writing about political candidates, to immigration or gun control issues, or some other hot topic. The persuasive essay gives you an opportunity to put meaning behind your writing, as opposed to simply ranting.
In my real life, I’m a grants writer. But really, my writing at work is about persuasion. The hardest challenge I have to overcome is to make the reader care about the project. I have to be creative, to show and not tell, to avoid passive sentences. When writing about the need for a digital storytelling initiative, for example, I also wrote about the caves of Lascaux as one of the earliest representatives of visual storytelling–the bison and horses dancing on the red-orange walls.
If you’re not interested in memoir-like writing, try writing a persuasive essay and incorporate all of the elements we use in creative nonfiction every day: setting, character, plot, dialogue, syntax, word choice, showing not telling.
Yeah write super challenge!!!
The second round of our first nonfiction super challenge kicked off on Friday! Good luck to all our remaining contestants!
Did you miss out on registration? The next super challenge coming this fall will be for all you fictioneers out there so don’t miss out on any announcements. Sign up for our mailer today! We promise not to spam you.
Who’s on fourth
This month we invite you to learn more about Sanch and her blogging home at Sanch Writes! The interview will publish Monday at 12pm ET, but in the meantime, head over to her page and catch up on all of her awesomeness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Looking for the nonfiction know-how?
For the next two months, we’re taking some time off from our nonfiction know-how feature to focus on the super challenge. However, you can always check out our archives if you’re needing a little more inspiration this week. Happy writing!
Want more info?
Is this your first time here? 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. If you’ve never taken the time to read them, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines. The rules are a little different for each of our challenges and we’d hate to have to send back great writing on a technicality.
Did you happen to end up here because you suddenly saw yeah write in your stats? Sometimes members of our community spot excellent writing and they send those posts on over to us. We hope you don’t mind. Take a look around and get to know our community. We’re sure you’ll be happy here.
Have questions you can’t find the answer to by poking around the site? Email us or find us on Facebook and Twitter and we’ll happily help you out.
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How to submit and fully participate in the challenge
Basic yeah write guidelines: 1000 word limit; your entry can be dated no earlier than this past Sunday; nonfiction personal essay, creative opinion piece or mostly true story based on actual events.
1. In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the nonfiction badge and paste it into the HTML view of your entry
2. Follow the Inlinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s challenge grid
3. Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message
4. Please make the rounds to read all the entries in this week’s challenge
5. 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.
Thank you for sharing with us your hard work! Good luck in the challenge…[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
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