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Imagining car wrecks

My favorite movie about writers and writing is Stranger Than Fiction. It’s about an IRS agent (played by Will Ferrell) who slowly realizes as strange things happen to him that he is the main character in a novel being written by an author (Emma Thompson) famous for killing her main characters. Many of the early scenes are of Emma Thompson standing or sitting near very dangerous places contemplating the different ways her character could perish while sucking on a cigarette. The look on her face always comes to mind when I’m writing, and I finally figured out why.

It’s that look on her face. She is obsessed with the fate of her character and her writing. She is taking care to research details, interview knowledgeable people, and read up on anything she’s not sure about. Ok. So most of us don’t have days to spend making our characters as believable as possible, but when Emma Thompson’s face pops up in my head she reminds me to check the major points of my story. I call it my minute obsession.

While you’re crossing your t‘s and dotting your i‘s, be sure to read 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.

yeah write’s super challenge

If you’re looking for a nonfiction essay challenge to really up your game, check out our super challenge (don’t worry: fiction is coming up soon!). It’s 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. And we’ve got prompts and prizes. Be sure to sign up now at the low rate of $20! Read more about it here.

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.

Melony discussed people’s misconceptions of the links between appearance and health in her vulnerable post, Beauty Standards. This week’s prompt up taken from her essay is: It all still itches something fierce.

Then there’s the poetry slam. I’m calling it the “haiku on steroids” because it’s pumped up with more syllables and it likes to flex its rhyming muscles. Read more about the asefru here.

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 #272 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

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