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In praise of weeding
We have a garden bed that extends out beyond the raised backyard deck. My plan was to use this bed as a screen to hide the mulch-covered area under the deck. As luck would have it, the bird feeders also extend beyond the deck, above the garden bed. Whenever it rains, I can count on hundreds of seedlings popping up through the ground each morning—corn, millet, sunflower.
I enjoy weeding out the seedlings. There’s something gratifying about pulling these two-inch long weeds, seeing them disappear from the bed. Seeing if I can pull each just right, attached to the seed that gave it life.
Editing is a lot like weeding. I find myself yanking out words that are superfluous, that invade the better, adjacent words, that clutter up a story. For me, editing is frequently about thinning out the extraneous phrases that detract from the essay. As you write this week, be sure you spend some time in the weeds, pulling out the words and phrases that don’t help your story. You’ll be surprised by how your words have room to breathe.
Yeah write super challenge!!!
The final round of our first nonfiction super challenge kicked off last Friday! Good luck to all our remaining contestants!
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Looking for the nonfiction know-how?
For the next two months, we’re taking some time off from our nonfiction know-how feature to focus on the super challenge. However, you can always check out our archives if you’re needing a little more inspiration this week. Happy writing!
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Is this your first time 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. If you’ve never taken the time to read them, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines. The rules are a little different for each of our challenges and we’d hate to have to send back great writing on a technicality.
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How to submit and fully participate in the challenge
Basic yeah write guidelines: 1000 word limit; your entry can be dated no earlier than this past Sunday; nonfiction personal essay, creative opinion piece or mostly true story based on actual events.
1. In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the nonfiction 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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