Yeah write invitational grid

Well, you did it! You brought back the invitational grid and its jury prize by filling the challenge grid with at least 30 bloggers. Until 2 p.m. US eastern time today, the editors will be adding their selections to the invitational and ranking their favorites from third to first. The highest ranking entry will earn the jury prize and will be announced by Friday noon eastern in the yeah write #100 winners’ post. If you happen to see a little blue button beneath the invitational that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. You are looking instead for yellow stars beneath each entry on the challenge grid.

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Challenge grid voting

The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.

Everybody gets five votes

Depending on your browser, there will be a yellow star above or below each thumbnail. Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting, click on the yellow star to vote for the post after reading.

Read the posts before voting

We are responsible voters here at yeah write. Read, evaluate, vote on merit. We’re still writing the yeah write way, and we want the votes to reflect it.

Voting is open until Thursday, 11:59 p.m. EST

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• After each yellow star click, the page will refresh, and you’ll have to make your way back down to the grid to click another yellow star, and so it will go five times.
• If it’s after 11:59 p.m. EST [-5 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more yellow stars and voting will not work.
• Once you’ve voted for your five favorite posts, you’re done voting and the yellow stars will disappear.
• Sometimes the voting program can be glitchy. If you’re voting, but the stars don’t disappear, don’t worry: your votes are registering. 
• You can vote only once per IP address.
• Voting for your own post should be disabled.
• Once you’ve voted for the five best on the grid, you are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries.
• When you ask your people to vote for your entry, please let them know they have five votes, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of those five best on the grid.
• Yeah write is a writing challenge, not a clicking contest. Please don’t make Erica M validate each vote as legitimate, but if she has to, she will.
• Don’t make Erica M’s kids have cold cereal for dinner because she’s ignoring them while tracking people driving from hot spot to hot spot to vote nine different times. So uncool, no matter how much her kids like cold cereal.

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Winners’ post published Friday by noon EST

Once the voting ends, the challenge grid will sort itself from highest number of votes to the fewest. Ties are broken by number of page views. Until the winners’ post is published, none of the sorting will be official, but you can still get a good idea of where everyone ended up until the votes are validated.

Also announced in Friday’s post will be the recipients of the yeah write #100 celebration prizes: the custom blog badge and the Jennifer Egan novel donated by yeah write editor Stacie.

Yeah write #100 weekly writing challenge grid is open for voting…

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