Grab your badge
Badges are up and about which means today is the earliest your yeah write #106 weekly writing challenge grid posts can be dated.
Challenge v. speakeasy
The grids open Tuesday, and after the roller-coaster week we’ve had, we’re looking forward to your very best personal essays and traditional blog anecdotes. Submit your fiction and poetry over at the speakeasy, where your first line is written for you. And there’s an image prompt to boot! Even if you don’t submit, pop over to there for a fantastic collection of creative writing.
600-word limit
We truly believe our grids are at their best when individual entries are limited 500 words. Our writers are better, our readers are happier, our voters are more efficient and more likely to use all five of their votes. So from here on out, we are going forward with a 600-word limit—that’s 500 words plus grace. Use that grace for a brief intro or a small footnote, if you like.
As you start your winning submission
Will this week bring about posts about tragedies in Boston and West, Texas? Will someone share a more introspective anecdote about a medical mystery or turning 39? Choose a topic you’re afraid to share. Or not. Choose something you know. Choose a moment that has stayed with you. It can be from this morning, or it can be from eleven years ago. Just let it be true, and let it reflect you. Write what comes as long as it has a tightly written introduction, a clearly defined story line, and shows off a clear so what? by the end. As our regulars know, writing well about everyday life is the challenge of the challenge grid.
So get to it! Keep on reading great writers, cutting out the fluff, snipping off the loose threads, and make sure to triple-check for grammar and spelling (it makes a difference, especially if you want to move over to the invitational grid!). If it’s not happening for you, maybe it’s just not your week – but we have faith in you. Bring us your best stuff when you know it’s gonna be the best on the grid.
Weekend moonshine grid
For those of you who don’t fancy yourself storytellers, but who still love the community spirit found here at yeah write more than any other place you’ve been, we have the yeah write moonshine grid on the weekends, just for you. Starting at 6 p.m. eastern time on Fridays and closing by 12:01 a.m. on Mondays, the moonshine grid will be here for you to hang out, find some new-to-you-blogs and write without the anxiety of being judged, evaluated and voted on by the yeah write editors. Unlimited space, unlimited joy. Still no promotional or commercial posts.
It’s open for another 24 hours hours. Link it up!
Read well, write well, rewrite often
Yeah write #106 weekly writing challenge grid opens Tuesday. See you there!
