The invitational grid is open for editor picks
Thanks to all the new and returning writers this week for getting us to 30 or more entries on the challenge grid. That means the yeah write editors will select the best of the best from the challenge grid and add them to the invitational. While everyone is reading and voting on the challenge grid, the yeah write editors will be filling in the invitational. So if you happen to see a blue button that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. Please scroll on down the page to the array of avatars with the voting icons in the corner.
Editors will be filling in the invitational throughout the day, so check back frequently for their selections. The jury prize winner will be announced in Friday’s post along with the crowd favorite and top row five from the challenge grid.
Don’t forget it’s a prize week courtesy of guest editor Deb Quinn of MannaHatta Mamma
Because we hit 30 or more on the grid, we unlocked the generous book collection offered by this week’s guest editor, Deb Quinn of MannaHatta Mamma who has an essay featured in the humor anthology You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth available through Amazon. In addition to the anthology, the jury prize winner and the crowd favorite will receive copies of the classic writing books On Writing by Stephen King and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. Thanks, Deb, for always keeping the focus on the writing here at yeah write.
Prize week eligibility
Challenge grid must reach 30 or more entries on the grid; no prizes will be awarded at 29 entries or fewerDone!- Jury prize winner must be a current yeah write subscriber as of the end of this week’s voting period
- Crowd favorite winner must be a current yeah write subscriber as of the end of this week’s voting period
- Open to U. S., Canada and international residents willing to supply yeah write editors their postal addresses for shipping
In the event the jury prize winner or the crowd favorite doesn’t meet the eligibility requirements, the yeah write editors will select one a random winner as a replacement. Winners announced in Friday’s winners’ post.
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 who, in exasperation, may delete first and ask no questions later. One voting round per IP address, one voting round per person. Thanks.
Yeah write #127 voting is open…
