Can you feel the love?

On Monday, Erica shared the story of yeah write through her gratitude for those that helped her to shape what it is today and we celebrated the supporting subscribers that keep the lights on around here. We give back, though. Found out how here.

Yesterday, it was an emotional walk down memory lane as we showcased the 60 best entries from lovelinks #1 to yeah write #100. That grid is worth your time. It contains the best examples of making us laugh, making us cry and making us think. It’s a grid chock full of “so what” that should inspire you as we move into our third year.

Yeah write invitational grid

Until 6 p.m. US EST today, yeah write editors will be reading the grid and  adding their selections to the invitational. When the editors are done adding what they feel are the best entries, they rank their favourites 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 #104 winners’ post.

If you happen to see a little blue button beneath the invitational that says “add your link,” that’s not for you, that’s for us. You are looking instead for yellow stars beneath each entry on the challenge grid.

Challenge grid voting

The challenge grid crowd favourite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote. Erica M. and I are having a party tonight as we monitor for suspicious voting at the challenge grid and the speakeasy. We’re vicious when it comes to voter fraud or suspicious clicking. Especially when such wonderful prizes hang in the balance. Vote on merit. Tell your friends. Vote on merit.

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

When inviting your friends and family to vote for you, remind them: we are responsible voters here at yeah write. Read, evaluate, vote for five on merit. In comments, write the word ‘gossamer,’ if you’ve read this far. We’re still writing the yeah write way, and we want the votes to reflect it. This can’t be repeated this enough.

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 [-4 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.

We surpassed the minimum of 30 entries to give away one dollar for every submission on the grid. Jury prize this week is a $39 gift card of choice, crowd fave wins $39 gift card of choice. We’re one entry shy of 40, so there’ll be no random winner of Jacq’s Playhouse custom doll.  Maybe next week? 

Meanwhile, yeah write #104 weekly writing challenge grid is open for voting…

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