The invitational grid is open for editors’ picks!
Thanks to our wonderful community working in overdrive, we hit 40+ on the challenge grid, opening up the invitational (which unlocks at 30 entries) and turning this into a prize week for both the jury prize winner and the crowd favorite. For you first-timers, affectionately labeled yeah write virgins, some explanation: the jury prize is selected by the team of yeah write editors from the invitational grid below. The invitational is for editor picks only, so if you happen to see a blue button that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. Scroll down the page for the challenge grid, and that’s where you’ll cast your votes for the five best on the challenge grid.
The yeah write editors will be adding their selections throughout the day, so check back intermittently. Writers love the smell of validation in the morning. And the rest of the time we’re awake.
This week’s prizes: books and badges
At this writing, we reached our goal of 40-49 submissions on the challenge grid. If we managed to reach 50 by the midnight Wednesday deadline, I’ll adjust the prize list by 11 a.m. US eastern Thursday. Until then, the crowd favorite will receive:
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- an awesome sidebar button, our usual winner’s prize
- yeah write guest editor Chad Simpson’s Tell Her I Said Hi
- Chad’s writing inspiration and recommendation Ron Carlson Tells a Story by Ron Carlson
- Chad’s writing inspiration and recommendation The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
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The jury prize winner will receive the above list of books plus yeah write editor Flood G’s recommendation Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write by Henriette Klauser. If we hit 50 by the deadline, two more books will be added to the loot and a random challenge grid participant will receive the crowd favorite prize list. And both will receive awesome sidebar buttons. Whew.
Read and vote on merit. This is for posterity.
Challenge grid voting
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets five votes
Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting. Click on the yellow stars 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. EDT
- If it’s after 10:00 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more voting icons on the thumbnail and voting will not work.
- Once you’ve voted for your five favorite posts, you’re done voting. The voting icons will disappear.
- Voting for your own post should be disabled. If it’s not, please don’t vote for your own post.
- 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’d like to see the current vote tallies after you’ve voted, refresh the page.
- 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.
Winners’ post published Friday by noon EDT
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.
Refreshing the page, watching the votes go up or down?
When the votes go down, that’s Erica M eliminating targeted or duplicate votes from enthusiastic BFFs and people accidentally voting for their own posts. The vote tallies show only from the same IP address you voted from the first time, so if you leave home and get to the gym and, oops, now can’t see who’s in the lead, please wait until you get back home. Your voting again to reveal the new tallies just makes much more work for Erica M, and this is not a whine, but a heartfelt request. Thanks.
Yeah write #120 voting is open…
