[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Writers, start your engines.
Who’s ready to take a 48-hour enforced break from the news to work on a personal essay for the first round of the yeah write super challenge? That’s right: you are. I wish I was joining you.
This round is for personal essays: the mostly-true stories of your life. This round you’ll be writing within the framework of an assigned subject. Make sure that you center the subject, although the entire essay doesn’t have to be about the subject. For example, if the subject were horses, you could write about your first horse, about how much you wanted a horse, about a plastic toy horse, or about your summer camp experience in the Rockies. What you can’t do is write about a road trip your family took and casually mention that you drove past a horse in Nebraska along the way.
Now that that’s cleared up, let’s get to the topic assignments:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]GROUP ONE: Lessons Learned
GROUP TWO: Discomfort
GROUP THREE: Silence[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Wait, wait, there’s more!
Your essays are due Sunday at 10pm US Eastern Time. Remember to check the rules for formatting, including all those fiddly details like title page, font, and filename. I know it seems really useless at times, but all those rules have a purpose, from helping get your file where it needs to be to making sure you’re read anonymously and fairly.
We hope you have as much fun with the prompts as we had picking them out. Good luck, and good writing![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
