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Open a door
Last week, I wrote about paying attention, seeing the world afresh, and how that helps heighten your creativity. Today, I’m thinking about ways to inspire our writing more concretely but in keeping with this exercise in creativity.
Years ago, I led a workshop for teens at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio. One of the prompts I gave was especially effective. We wrote about doors. Our respective doors — the doors to our homes, past and present, or doors to the high school, doors to the places we love and those we fear. Each student opened up their worlds, describing heavy oak doors and doors with torn screens, doorbells that didn’t work, the relief felt in slipping the key through its hole, the sorrow in shutting a beloved door for the last time.
Maybe this week you could try picking a single object, looking at it up close, finding inspiration in the way it reflects your life and those you love. Before you get started, don’t forget to read Rowan’s nonfiction know-how for September — see below for details.
Labor Day micro challenge
Labor Day is today here in the U.S. so we’re mixing it up over on the fiction|poetry grid by offering a micro challenge, reminiscent of the old days of early 2016. If you’re looking for something new to try or missing our old challenge, make sure you check that out on Tuesday!
Yeah write super challenge #2
Also, make sure you check in on Friday for announcements regarding our next super challenge. This one will be for all you fictioneers out there so don’t miss out on any updates. Sign up for our mailer today! We promise not to spam you.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Nonfiction know-how:
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For this month’s nonfiction know-how we’re going to focus on two conflicting aphorisms. The first is “winners never quit; quitters never win” and the second is “quit while you’re ahead.” We’re not talking about quitting writing entirely, of course, but we’re talking about knowing when to stop, and how much is enough. This month, Rowan offers up some advice on how to know when enough is enough.
Want more info?
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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