Voting on the yeah write grid is back this week!

Will you do me a favor? Don’t vote for your friends. Don’t vote for the most attractive avatar. Don’t vote for the person who left the most touching comment on your blog.

Unless, of course, those cool party people have constructed a pretty good yeah write story following the yeah write rules of the road. As you’re clicking through to this week’s 20-something posts, take notes that will help you evolve into a more critical reader and voter of the grid. Lemme give you a small push:

Reading as a reader

Vote for the entries that spoke most passionately on their chosen topics.  Did the writers keep your interest, especially on topics you knew nothing about before reading their stories?

Reading as a writer

Which posts had the basic elements of an introduction, central conflict—the event or concept that moved the story forward—and a properly transitioned conclusion? Vote for the ones that avoided cliches, flowery prose, clunky or superfluous adjectives or writing in the present tense.

Reading as a mechanic

Pull out your purple pen. Your yeah write editors have given you a head start by only allowing posts with 500 words or fewer onto the grid; don’t worry about post length. But do worry about clear language, correct spelling and correct grammar unless, of course, the writer is using well-crafted dialect or slang as a stylistic choice. Does anything interfere with the readability of the post such as an overzealous application of freakish typefaces? The writer’s content should be the focus of the space, free of distractions.

How yeah write voting works

You ready, critics? Feeling deputized? Ordained? Let’s do it.

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• Everybody gets three votes. Yes, yes, I know: when the grid has 50 entries, you get five. Today, the grid has fewer than 50, you get three.
• Click on the thumbnail to read the post, click the yellow star to vote for that post.
• The page is gonna refresh after each yellow star click, so you’ll have to work your way back down to the grid to do it again.
• Sometimes, it will seem as though the Inlinkz app isn’t registering your votes. Refresh the page manually, and you should see the yellow stars have disappeared. You may have to change browsers. Keep calm and carry on.
• After you’ve voted three times, all the yellow stars will disappear and the current vote tallies will show under each thumbnail.
• You are free to campaign for your favorite entries on Twitter, Facebook, your blog and any other social media, but please please encourage your visitors to read through a few submissions first. They may find something they like about us and stick around awhile. Plus, yeah write voting day is not Internet clicking contest day—no flashing your submission number to the camera or scrawling it on your boobs. We read, we consider, we vote on merit.

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Yeah write #67 voting is open…