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Sleepy

The past week or so it’s been a challenge keeping my eyes open. Maybe it’s the kitty who wakes me up in the middle of the night, howling to be let in, or perhaps it’s being in the third trimester of gestating a human–I don’t know. What I do know is that right around mid-afternoon, my brain and body are both crying out for a nap. Unfortunately, there’s work to be done, and a pleasant after-lunch nap is just not in the cards for me on most days. Therefore, it’s to the coffee pot I go: once more unto the breach, dear friends…

When you’re drained of all energy and the words just won’t come, where do you go? To the coffee pot, or somewhere more substantial? I could use some ideas as I sit here, fighting my drooping eyelids.

Before submitting that work of brilliant inspiration, make sure to review the submission guidelines before you press Post. 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.

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 and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to use it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.

Jan told us about regret and family bonds in her post Beautiful Boy. This week’s prompt taken from her essay is: For a long time no one went to see them.

June poetry slam: the asefru

I’m calling this month’s poetry slam “the haiku on steroids” because it’s pumped up with more syllables and it likes to flex its rhyming muscles. Read more about this lyrical poetry form: the asefru.

Check out Sunday’s post which kicked off the week here at yeah write. Our email subscribers can also join us in the yeah write coffeehouse at its home on Facebook.

Yeah write #269 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!

Basic yeah write guidelines: 750 word limit; your entry can be dated no earlier than this past Sunday; fiction or poetry only.

How to submit and fully participate in the challenge:

1. In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the challenge grid badge and paste it into the HTML view of your entry
2. Follow the InLinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s challenge grid
3. Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message
4. Please make the rounds to read all the entries in this week’s challenge
5. Consider turning off moderated comments and CAPTCHA on your own blog

Submissions for this week’s challenges will close on Wednesday at 10pm ET. Voting will then open immediately thereafter and close on Thursday at 10pm ET. The winners, as always, will be celebrated on Friday.

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