The Weekend Writing Showcase is open!
TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on!
Technique Toolbox: Writing About Writing
While nobody wants to read another essay about how hard it is to be a writer, everybody wants your valuable comments, concrit, and beta reading skills, which doesn’t start with a C, we’re sorry. But how do you read critically, and how do you describe what you see when you do read? Check out Part I of our vocabulary and skill-building critique series in this month’s Technique Toolbox!
Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up:
The first prompt is to incorporate into your story, a photo prompt, this image by Sam Manns at Unsplash.
The second prompt, from YeahWrite #366 fiction|poetry winner Laura Duerr/Ruby Bastille, is to use the following emotion: Anticipation. Remember with the emotion prompt that you shouldn’t use the word itself in your story. Instead, try to convey a sense of the emotion in other ways; show, don’t tell.
Poets: Use the photo prompt, write a poem conveying anticipation, or write a rime royal (or any combination of those three).
May Poetry Slam: Odes
Who (or what, or where) do you love? Tell us this month as we explore the ode, a lyrical poem that uplifts something you care deeply about. With three levels of difficulty to choose from, you’ll be churning out Sapphic stanzas before you know it!
May Microprose:
This month, we’re taking a page from the annual Bulwer-Lytton competition and asking you to write the opening of your very own opus, beginning with the phrase “it was a dark and stormy night.” Your total word count, including this phrase, should be exactly 44 words. That means adding 37 words of your own. You don’t have to tell a complete story, but you should give the reader enough story to imagine the novel that would come afterward. Read more 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.
Weekend Writing Showcase: Basic YeahWrite Guidelines
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In early 2014, Arden joined YeahWrite as a contributing editor and social media manager, and we haven’t been able to get rid of her since. Behind the scenes, Arden is currently working on the first novel of her Hybrid trilogy. She also recently published a fantasy anthology entitled The Seven Sceptres which can be purchased on Amazon. Arden lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two fur-babies. To read more of her stories, visit her website.
