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: Metaphors
Metaphors can take your plain, boring, book-report-style writing to the next level. But over-embellishing can be as bad as under-reporting, from a reader’s standpoint. How do you use metaphors properly? What are the rules? When do you stop? Find out in this month’s Technique Toolbox!
Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up:
For November we’re asking you to focus on showing, not telling, in your stories.This month we’re giving you a single one-word prompt and asking you to use the word and its meaning as the basis for a plot element. You cannot use the word itself in your story. For example, if the one-word prompt is “sonar”, then your story could describe how a superhero catches a villain in a dark cave by hiccoughing and interpreting the sound feedback to see the bad guy peeking out from behind a stalagmite (not sure what a stalagmite is? Click here to find out).
The one-word prompt, from YeahWrite #393 fiction|poetry winner Laura, is:
paradox
noun
par·a·dox
/PAIR-uh-doks/
3: any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.
Poets: Write a poem incorporating the meaning of the one-word prompt, or write a poem in this month’s poetry slam form, the Sestina.
November Poetry Slam: Sestina
It’s Rowan’s birthday month, and we’re celebrating with a poetry slam of one of her favorite forms: the sestina! This unrhymed seven-verse poem depends on rearranging the last words in each line according to a set of easy-to-follow rules. If the sestina sounds overwhelming, you can also join us with its little sister the tritina: a four-verse poem following the same structure with fewer lines. Join us!
November Microprose:
This month, we want you to cast a spell in 64 words. We’re looking for stories that are not about being magical, but about performing magic. It’s not enough to mention a witch in your story; show us her incantations. Fairies are magical creatures, yes, but if you want to include one, show her granting a wish. Flashy or subtle, we want to see the magic and the result.
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.
