The Weekend Writing Showcase is open!
TGIF, YeahWriters! Did your life get in the way this week and not allow you to get on a grid? Did you get on but not use the prompts? Have another idea stowed away in that brain of yours? Then it’s time to share it right here! Make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to YeahWrite this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on this week!
Microprose Prompt:
Write a story in 33 words incorporating the word leviathan, specifically the third definition as defined by Merriam-Webster:
- a often capitalized: a sea monster defeated by Yahweh in various scriptural accounts
b a large sea animal (this leviathan of animals is the great Blue Whale — Weston LaBarre) - capitalized: the political state; especially: a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy
- something large or formidable (that leviathan of international corporations)
Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up:
This week’s prompt up comes from Nate’s essay “Walls” (welcome back from vacation, you jerk): “I felt the heat on my face.”
September Poetry Slam: Sijo
What poem blends the best elements of haiku, sonnet, and ballad? The Korean form called sijo! Busy with back-to-school? Don’t worry. It’s also short! Learn to write a 3-6 line, 40-50 syllable poem – with a twist – in this month’s slam.
September Nonfiction Know-How: Tutorials
How often have you heard “the best way to learn a thing is to teach it?” This month’s Nonfiction Know-How focuses on a specific type of essay – tutorials – and how to show the lessons beneath the lessons to your audience. Get yourNonfiction Know-How right here.
You know the drill, YeahWriters. Bring us your best writing this weekend!
You got rules, right?
What?! It’s the weekend. There are no rules during the weekend. You can share a post that’s as many words as you like, a piece of fiction, a poem of your choosing, or a persuasive essay. Whatever you want, you can share. Well, except commercial or sponsored posts. That’s the one rule that never changes.
While you’re hanging out with us, please remember to visit other posts on the grid, comment, and take part in the community here! That’s what makes YeahWrite the place to be.
How to submit and fully participate in the Weekend Writing Showcase:
Basic YeahWrite guidelines: no word limit; no date restriction; no commercial/advertising posts (product reviews, sponsored posts, etc.); three post maximum per writer.
1. In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the Weekend Showcase badge and paste it into the HTML view of your entry;
2. Follow the Inlinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s grid;
3. Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message;
4. Please make the rounds to read all the entries; and
5. Consider turning off moderated comments and CAPTCHA on your own blog.
Have fun!
Loading InLinkz ...About the author:
Arden joined YeahWrite in early 2014 to operate as its Social Media Manager. She also heads up YeahWrite’s Who’s on Fourth feature, as well as the Weekend Writing Showcase. Working day-to-day as a paralegal, she spends most of her free time writing short stories and the occasional nonfiction essay at her website. She is currently working on the first novel of her Hybrid trilogy as well as a fantasy anthology with three other writers.
