Deadlines
Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, put forward that the only tool a person needs to write a novel is a deadline. I am a firm believer in this theory, as evidenced by the fact that I am currently under a great deal of pressure to get this post done in time. Hey look, I’m halfway done!
Joking aside, Chris was onto something. In our fiction super challenge, participants have only 48 hours to plan and execute a great story. Our regular weekly challenges give you a little more time than that, but it’s still finite: you’ve got a goal to strive for. Having a finite and constrained amount of time to produce a quality piece of writing can encourage a writer both to focus and to ignore some of the fears that stop us from putting pen to paper. (Just don’t forget to proofread!)
We can’t wait to read what you bring us this week. Remember to read the submission guidelines before you press post, especially if you are new around here. (Welcome!) Have a favorite yeah writer or two? 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. Stop by the coffeehouse and meet some of the people behind the words!
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Yeah write super challenge for fictioneers!
The first round of the fiction super challenge is over, and the judges are busily reading your entries. We’ve even got a few superstar guest judges joining the yeah write editors this time around! Keep an eye on our announcements page to stay up to date; we will post the round 1 results as soon as they are in, sometime during the week of October 16.
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.
Danielle decided to make a change in her essay Just Below the Surface. The prompt up taken from her writing is: I nod my head yes in agreement.
The poetry slam is back!
Do you miss our microstory challenge? Then this is the poetry slam for you. This month, we’re taking it a little easy on you with the nonet. No scanning! No rhyming!
If that’s not enough for you, this month’s nonfiction know-how will also be useful to fiction writers: we’re focusing on tension. There are two basic reasons that people continue reading a thing they’ve started. Find out what they are here.
Yeah write #287 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.
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