Welcome, virgins!

There were three newbies on the grid this week, and we hope each one of you felt as welcome and as thoroughly confused as any of our regulars.

Thanks for jumping in with both feet, everybody. See you next week!

Jury prize winner

“Not a mother figure” by Cyn at Cynking Feeling 

Mother-guilt and self-blame were two strong subtexts running through the grid this week, and the yeah write #109 jury prize winner wrapped up both in two separate dialogue-driven narratives, one between Cyn and her sister-in-law, the other between Cyn and her husband. Her central conflict—man v. self—demonstrates nicely the tangle of emotions we feel when life doesn’t go quite the way we planned and we get caught up in the workaround solution. 

Congrats, Cyn, on the win. And thank you for promoting our weekly challenge nearly every chance you get. Don’t forget your winner’s badge in the right sidebar.

Editors’ picks

Congrats to those who made the invitational grid! Each week the challenge grid hits 30 or more entries, the editors swoop in and grab their favorites. Yes, yes, this week we were at 25 entries, but rules are made to be broken once you know how the rules work. Or something like that. Please display the editor’s pick badge on your blog for everyone to see.

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Crowd favorite

“How Magic Works” at the eponymous Rarasaur

What a cool little snapshot of Rarasaur’s parents and neighborhood and childhood told in one story about a magical gardener named Jim. The setting, the characterizations, the narration, all simply and wonderfully revealed and, as the ending implied, we were told just enough, not a detail more, to love everything about it. Well done, Rarasaur. Please grab your winner’s badge in the right sidebar.

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Weekend moonshine grid opens today at 6 p.m. eastern time!

Yeah write is now open on the weekends—no editors, no voting, no writer’s block—just hanging out in the clearing among the trees and discarded moonshine jugs. Use this chance to show the yeah write community the other side  of your blog—your top 10 lists, your stream-of-consciousness posts, that hilarious text message exchange with your brother. No commercial or sponsored posts allowed, but this will be a good space for letting us all know when you have a cool blog event coming up.

The moonshine grid opens at 6 p.m. eastern time each Friday and will close by 12:01 a.m. each Monday. Grab the badge from the sidebar and go find the perfect post to share!

Win-win

The thumbnails are now sorted in the grid from most votes to the least. In the case of a tie, the thumbnails are additionally sorted by page views. Part of the top row five? Please grab a winners’ badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your own blog. Congrats!

Do not be discouraged if your blog has landed near the bottom of the grid; it is always a tight race. The fun lies in getting better exposure for your blog and in the spirit of competition as incentive to improve your writing and blogging skills. It’s a win-win for everybody involved.

Thanks again, everybody, for linking up, for reading, for accepting the weekly writing challenge. And for making yeah write the most welcoming spot on the Interwebs for writers who blog and bloggers who write.

Congratulate this week’s winners in comments. Yeah write #110 opens Tuesday…

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