We tell stories here
Creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, whatever you want to call it, goes beyond reporting an event or expressing an opinion. “Between the newspaper on your doorstep and the novel on your nightstand lies narrative nonfiction,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes.
Some of our yeah write writers favor a kind of reportage in their pieces, and that’s great. But what makes your post competitive is your ability to tell the facts like you would a story—using the tools of fiction, such as plot, description (setting, characters), style, voice, resolution. Humes is the kind of nonfiction writer who immerses himself in a topic, exploring it from every angle. You can do this too.
As you write your nonfiction piece this week, consider whether you are just reporting a series of facts, like a news journalist, or you are telling a story with the kind of compelling details that grabs the reader’s interest and doesn’t let go.
Yeah write super challenge #2
Did you hear the big news? The next super challenge for all you fictioneers out there is now open for early registration until September 30! Read up on all you need to know here. We are so excited to get this one started and hope you are too!
Nonfiction know-how:
brevity
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.
Did you happen to end up here because you suddenly saw yeah write in your stats? Sometimes members of our community spot excellent writing and they send those posts on over to us. We hope you don’t mind. Take a look around and get to know our community. We’re sure you’ll be happy here.
Have questions you can’t find the answer to by poking around the site? Email us or find us on Facebook and Twitter and we’ll happily help you out.
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.
Thank you for sharing with us your hard work! Good luck in the challenge…
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