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: Summaries
So you’re fine writing your story or personal essay, but when it comes to that summary for your title page or authorial pitch, you freeze up? This month’s Technique Toolbox is ready to come to the rescue! If you missed last year’s class, never fear: you can still learn about the two summary structures. And if you’re looking for a little more in-depth instruction, the class video is still archived and accessible for a small fee!
Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up:
The prompt, from YeahWrite #382 fiction|poetry winner Margaret Shafer from Unfolding from the Fog, is: What if mice could speak. Incorporate this prompt into your setting or as a plot device. Do not use it word for word.
Your second prompt is the character trait; finicky. Again, don’t use the word exactly as is. Instead, have one of your characters embody this trait. Convey a sense of the word, perhaps through how other characters react to them.
Poets: Write a poem that includes “what if mice could speak?“, or that incorporates “finicky“, or write a diminishing verse (or combine them).
August Poetry Slam: Diminishing Verse
Summer (or winter, depending on where you are) is shrinking away, and so is our August poetry form. This month we’re learning how to write a diminishing verse, a form of poetry where the last word of each line is a little shorter than the one before it. Join us!
August Microprose:
This month, we’re asking you to retell a popular fairy tale, with an important twist: Instead of the traditional telling from the main character’s perspective, your challenge is to retell the fairy tale from the point of view of one of the secondary characters, in exactly 42 words.
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.
