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Burn and fizzle
Sunday was my two year blog anniversary. I remember that night after my first post. I couldn’t sleep; I kept thinking of better ways to phrase my sentences or fretting that I’d missed a typo. Even after spending 13 days writing and rewriting it. I changed the title 6 times before finally landing on “Mapping People” and discovering the name of my blog in it. The lack of sleep was unfortunate, but I fell in love with writing again. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d been so sparked by something, and that excitement brought me back to studying poetry in college, all those student workshops and poetry slams in smoky coffeehouses. I missed having that kind of forum. I stopped writing after college because it just wasn’t the same. I let the spark fizzle out.
That’s why I don’t think I’d still be posting on my blog if it weren’t for you guys. Knowing there are people out there listening, commenting, getting to know me through my words. Knowing people solely through my words makes all the difference for me. Anyway, thank you, fellow yeah writers for keeping me from wandering away from my screen again.
Speaking of not wandering away, please review the submission guidelines before you add your post to the challenge. If you’ve found some other yeah write writers you dig, why not ask them to be your writing partner? Everyone needs another set of eyes to point out the typos, content errors, and ungainly phraseologies in our posts.
Name, please?
The optional prompt above can serve as inspiration for your fiction or poetry. Use the question word for word in your story or poem, or just answer it. Ishmael. Mary Poppins. Sam Sam the Carpet Man. It all works. In case that’s not enough to get you going:
New inspiration for you
Prompt up!
Prompt up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt in your poem or story. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
Meg’s post Thick Glass was last week’s nonfiction winner. This week’s Prompt Up is: I sit on the long, curvy couch because there are no office chairs.
February poetry slam: Spenserian sonnets
When we think of sonnets, Shakespeare usually comes to mind. But The Bard isn’t the only one to play with the form. This month we’re revisiting sonnets, but with a twist. We’ll be writing our 14 lines Edmund Spenser-style.
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Yeah write #254 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
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