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 (Part II)
Ready to start reading critically, and learning how to describe what you see when you do read? Check out Part II of our vocabulary and skill-building critique series in this month’s Technique Toolbox! We’re focusing on structural and grammatical issues this month, and teaching you gentle ways to break the news to your friend that their writing needs a little polish, and where.
Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up:
The first prompt to incorporate into your story is the following object: keys.
The second prompt, from YeahWrite #374 fiction|poetry winner MM Schreier, is to use the following sentence as either the first or the final sentence of your story: “His actions all felt rather meaningless now.”
Poets: Use the object prompt, write a poem using the required sentence, or write an ae freislighe (or any combination of those three).
June Poetry Slam: Ae Freislighe
Who needs meter when you’ve got rhyme? In this month’s poetry slam, we’re working with syllabic quatrains to build an ae freislighe (say “aye freshly”), an Irish poetry form with a straightforward rhyme scheme and a twist at the end. Join us!
June Microprose:
The Scripps National Spelling Bee was on in the U.S.A. last Thursday. So, for this month’s prompt I’m asking you to come up with your best Microprose piece using the the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (click the link to go to the tweet) definition of the word sapience (click the link to go to the Merriam-Webster definition and pronunciation guide) in 49 words. 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.
