Even our accidental stories have a so what

“Thank you, Mrs. Pescenye. English was my best subject, and since I’ve told you I did not write this on the bus, I don’t know why you won’t let me skip this shiz like I usually do. It took me half a day to read this whole thing.”

The collection of Easter eggs placed at the end of Tuesday’s post makes a pretty good story, and we wish we knew what the writer’s beef was with his or her English teacher. Maybe we’ll find out the next time your favorite yeah write editors feel the need to drop a few surprises into the weeds.

How does the story end?

It ends with a vote for the five best on the grid. We respect and admire so much our writers who waded through those 1600 words with determination and understanding, then put themselves out there for the world to read. Bravo, guys. 

The invitational grid is open for editor submissions

Don’t you feel like you deserve it? With no sense of direction (not even knowing her left from her right), Erica M got lost within her massive 2-mi. from end to end place of employment yesterday and, after walking one mile from her car to her cubicle—most of it in circles—totally treated herself to a $5 coffee (white chocolate mocha with whip extra hot) before even receiving a paycheck. She feels your pain. 

Even though we didn’t reach 30 on the challenge grid, by God, we got close enough. Until 6 p.m. US eastern time today, the editors will be choosing their favorite entries from the challenge and adding them to the invitational. For you newbies, this is where the top weekly writing award, the jury prize, is selected. So if you happen to see  that little blue button that says “add your link” that’s not for you. Scroll down to the yellow stars beneath the thumbnails on the challenge grid, and start your voting there.

Jury prize will be announced Friday by noon U.S. eastern in the yeah write #109 winners’ post. Congrats to all the editor picks!

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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, 10:00 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 10:00 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. 
• 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.
• If 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. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
• Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one round of five votes per IP address. When campaigning for votes for your favorites, please ask outside voters to read this section before voting. It will lessen their confusion and curb their clicking enthusiasm.
• 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.

Yeah write #109 voting is open…

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