Is this your first time here? Welcome!

We’ve had at least 20 new subscribers to the weekly email blast in the past week and twice as many new Facebook people. We’re excited about introducing our community to those outside of our typical blogging circle, and if you have any questions at all about how to jump into the madness of yeah write, do not hesitate to contact us:

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• Twitter: @yhwriteme
• managing editor: erica@yeahwrite.me
• submissions editor: flood@yeahwrite.me

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Are you yeah write old school? Welcome back!

Our inaugural family-free month last week for yeah write #73 went pretty well.  As did our inaugural ban on the popular vote. 

There was only a little confusion and minor gnashing of teeth, so we’re gonna keep moving forward with both the writing exercise and the editors choosing each writing award, including crowd favorite. A crowd of five is still a crowd if there’s O’Doul’s and a full bag of chips to go around.

Badges are in the sidebar. Grab the code of the one you want, either for the challenge grid or the speakeasy. Grab both if you’re hanging out on both the challenge grid and at Flood’s place.

The return of comment karma

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We noticed with the ban on the popular vote, some of you figured we were also banning visiting all the other blogs on the grid and leaving comments on the ones you like. Um, nope! Supporting the other writers who made it onto the challenge grid sweating the same bullets as you did will always be the courteous thing to do.

When yeah write was still called lovelinks, comment karma was created  to encourage bloggers on the grid to leave relevant comments on the entries they liked as opposed to writing  “good job” or whatever. We’re bringing it back this week as a weekly award for those who manage to leave salient comments on each and every post. What did you like about the post? How would you have reacted differently to the situation? What’s the over/under number on that post’s final position on the grid? Let’s be there for each other even when our individual votes don’t depend on it.

Not on the grid, but you’re still an avid reader of the published submissions? You’re certainly eligible for comment karma. Come out of the lurking closet, identify yourself as a yeah write reader in comments and have at it. You get a badge and you get a badge and you get a badge. Let us hear what you think.

When the grid gets back to 50 published entries, we’re offering one writer a $100 Amazon gift card

Once we get back to a full grid of 50 published submissions, we will kick off a four-week challenge for the blogger with the most accumulated points to earn a $100 Amazon gift card which I would recommend go toward the purchase of these 10 books suggested in this Brain Pickings article How to Read Like a Writer. We’ll get there with or without you. May as well be with you ‘cuz you’re witty and can tell a pretty good story.

Let the writers step up to each set of challenges and let the bloggers complain about the “non-stop changes”

You know it’s true: emerging writers thrive under submission and topic challenges while personal bloggers boast of “writing for themselves” without bending to any provided structure. There’s something very cool about each work habit that opens up many opportunities, but keep in mind if you tend to wear both hats here at yeah write, the writer hat is a better fit. 

Yeah write #74 opens Tuesday.

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• Do not mention anywhere in your post, either as intro or footnote, that you are writing to a prompt.
• We want the story the furthest away in your imagination from the original prompt. Let your imagination loose.
• Keep your writing style! Do you tell stories with humor? Prose? Verse? Photos? Illustrations? Keep doing that. 

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