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Drum roll, please!

It’s 10:00, my pencil is sharp, and I’m ready to kick off the first round of the yeah write super challenge!

We’ve been waiting for weeks and weeks to reveal this round’s exciting prompt pairings. We’ve taken a dash of emotion and a pinch of plot and stirred them together to come up with the following four setups:

Group 1: yearning / wear outrageous shoes

Group 2: envy / attend a funeral

Group 3: disapproval / swim in a pool

Group 4: trust / abandon a city

Writers have 48 hours to complete a story in at most 1,000 words using these prompts. Good luck, everyone![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]If you’re playing along at home, remember that if you find one of these prompts inspiring the resulting story isn’t eligible for our regular challenge grids. Sorry!

Writers may not use the emotion prompt word (or a conjugation or declension thereof) to describe the character’s emotion. That is, if the prompt is “anger” it is not permissible to write “I felt angry.” It is permissible to write “I felt rage” but we strongly encourage writers to show, rather than tell, the reader what emotion the character is feeling. As always, writers should try to avoid clichés like “a single tear rolled down my cheek.”

Any character may experience the emotion, not just the main character. However, the emotion must be clearly exhibited and identifiable so mayyyyybe don’t just throw a screaming baby into the background noise of the story because who even knows why that baby is crying, right?

The event does not need to be the plot of the story, but it must be important enough to the story that the plot could not happen without it. That is, if the assigned event is “a robbery” the story could be about burglars breaking into a house, a detective investigating the scene of a crime, or even Batman having a flashback to his parents getting mugged. If, however, the main character walks past a mugging in an alley on his way to a wedding and the mugging exists only to establish that the story is set in New York City, that is probably not going to be integral to the plot as there are a thousand other ways to set that up.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

New to yeah write?

In addition to the yeah write super challenge, yeah write gives you two competitive challenge grids every week: nonfiction and fiction|poetry. Everyone gets to the voting round on Thursday and weekly winners are announced on Friday.

Learn more about yeah write in our FAQ. Please make sure you are familiar with our submission guidelines before you enter.

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