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White wall
I spent the weekend packing up boxes of books and watching my husband, with the help of a neighbor, move my piano out of the house into the garage for at least the next ten months. The spot the piano once occupied looks naked and sad, all white wall. “Look at all this room!” my husband exclaimed when he came back into the house, and tears ruptured my eyes. I’d been trying to hold it together all day.
As joyous as having a baby is, there are little sadnesses creeping up around the corners everywhere, signals that I may be changing myself in ways I don’t necessarily like. Making space for a new person in such a contracted space means wiping away pieces of myself. Books, piano, and art supplies are all relocating in favor of playpen, changing table, and high chair. Another unanswered question: what will happen to my writing?
What, indeed?
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yeah write’s super challenge
If you missed our big announcement, you can read all about it here. If you’re looking for a nonfiction essay challenge to really up your game, this is it (don’t worry: fiction is coming up soon!). We’ve got prompts and prizes. Really, what more could you ask for?
This is a three-round competition, and the first round starts July 8-10. When it kicks off, you’ll get prompts to incorporate into your nonfiction essay. Each round advances the best writing. Be sure to sign up now at the low rate of $20!
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.
This week’s sentence comes from Rowan’s winning post, The Good Guy With the Gun. The prompt up is: It wasn’t fun.
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 #271 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:
- 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
- Follow the InLinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s challenge grid
- Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message
- Please make the rounds to read all the entries in this week’s challenge
- 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
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