Leave a seat for a badge—it’s hoppin’ your way!
Badges are ready which means today is the earliest your yeah write #103 weekly writing challenge grid posts can be dated.
Yeah write makes for a fantastic complement to religious festivities
What a week! Passover, Supreme Court shenanigans, Easter… and the yeah write grids! Last week for yeah write #102, we made it to 31 entries and eight posts on the invitational grid with half the world on spring break, so this week should be even better. Get your post-holiday juices flowing for yeah write #103—prizes will be announced on Tuesday. If this is your first time here, feel free to click around to learn more about our community, then dive right in. We love virgins.
Challenge v. speakeasy, each limited to 500 words
Your yeah write editors have always known that 500 words are plenty to tell a great story – and you keep proving us right as rain. We especially appreciate those who were asked to cut and snip and edit down “just a bit more” to meet the word requirement. We’re sticking with the 500 word limit for the yeah write anniversary celebration, right up to yeah write #105. Keep giving us your yummiest morsels in delicious mouthfuls. Need inspiration? Read a few invitational winners, starting with the yeah write #102 jury prize winner Happy Drunk, then continue here and here.
The grids open Tuesday, so start working on your traditional blog anecdotes and personal essays for the challenge grid. Remember that it’s 500 words or less of true stories told fully, honestly, richly.
Submit your fiction and poetry over at the speakeasy—the first line is free! And the liquor will only cost you some creativity. There are prizes over there, too. Not feeling creative and flirty this week? Not a problem, but read everyone else’s stories. It will do you good. Don’t forget to vote! Want to link up NOW and don’t care for rules? Our weekend moonshine grid is still open—everyone is welcome—with or without underpants.
Before you start your winning submission
The more you read, the more you learn. Reading well-written stories or all types is the best way to improve your writing—and its results. Spare time and effort by not reading blogs that aren’t written by those who are well-read, and try the best you can to worship at the Less is More altar. And it bears repeating: We love great stories, we love emotion, we love to laugh, we love to be surprised. It hurts our feelings when a rush to publish leaves a trail of misspellings, comma splices, and too many ifs, ands, or buts. Before you submit an entry to yeah write, read your post once in your head and at least once aloud. Feeling brave? Read it aloud to someone else. Bring us your best stuff; don’t settle for good enough.
Spread the good word of yeah write
Don’t keep yeah write such a secret. We know you know some storytellers who would love the camaraderie, the community, the comments. We’ve noticed your page views going up and your comment love going up, and when you spread the word about yeah write, that can only increase. For extra incentive, the week we hit 50, if you’ve recruited a yeah write virgin to the challenge grid, you’ll be eligible for a random drawing for our 12-month, $10 a month supporting subscription donated by one of our yeah write editors. At that level, you would receive at your request:
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- a wet and sloppy kiss on the mouth from your yeah write editor of choice
- a text link in selected weekly sponsor highlight posts
- a custom editorial on one selected yeah write challenge grid entry (worth $40 USD)
- a quick and dirty evaluation of 12 planned submissions to the challenge grid, an average of one planned submission each month, before the weekly challenge grids open
- an evaluation of your blog itself on content and design with clear direction on what’s working and what can be improved (worth countless USD)
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Will this be the week we hit 50? Let’s go for it.
Read well, write well, rewrite often. No more than 500 words. Yeah write #103 weekly writing challenge grid opens Tuesday.
