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How do you identify?
When it comes to your writing, how do you see yourself? Do you call it your hobby? If someone asks what you do, do you say your career first and then throw in that you “write sometimes?” Do you refer to yourself as an amateur or aspiring writer?
It’s hard for me to identify as a writer without qualifying it in some way because I don’t earn a living from my writing and I’m not widely published. I don’t have a book. I don’t write for websites you’ve heard of (besides this one, of course!). In fact, I spend most of my time as a marketing coordinator for an insurance agency. That’s my day job. My pay-the-bills job. Before this, I worked on the insurance end of insurance agencies. I don’t see myself as an insurance professional anymore and I don’t identify as a marketer since my passion isn’t marketing. So what then?
For this week, I want you to think about what your writing means to you. Hobby or passion? Side thing or main thing? Are you waiting until the time is right to call yourself a writer? Do you know when that time is? Give it some thought. We’ll come back to this idea next week. If you can’t wait, start a conversation in the coffeehouse.
Yeah write super challenge!!!
It seems like just yesterday we announced our newest challenge here at yeah write, and it’s finally here! Don’t worry though. You still have a few days left to register for our first nonfiction super challenge, a six week, three-round writing competition with cash prizes! You can read all about it here. Registration ends at 11:59pm ET on July 6 and the contest kicks off July 8. Sign up today![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
The basics
Yeah write gives you two competitive challenge grids — nonfiction and fiction|poetry — both of which are unmoderated. Everyone gets to the voting round on Thursday. (Remember, your post must be dated appropriately, not be offensive to our audience, and cannot be over word count.) Got a question? E-mail us, tweet us, ping us on Facebook, or visit our online community, the yeah write coffeehouse. You can learn more about yeah write in our FAQ. Please make sure you are familiar with our submission guidelines before you enter. We don’t have a lot of rules, but we do enforce them across the board. We’d hate to see anyone get disqualified by a technicality.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Bring us your personal essays and creative nonfiction!
The nonfiction challenge grid opens on Monday at midnight EST. This is the best place on the ‘net to showcase your best writing. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, and above all: make us care.
Is fiction more your thing?
The fiction|poetry grid opens on Tuesday. Grab a mic and check out our weekly prompt up!
Prompt up!
Prompt up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt as the first sentence in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
In Back Of the Line, Lisa shared a story about racism in the classroom. The prompt up based on her post is: The girls froze. He kept rolling.
Wait! Where’s the nonfiction know-how and poetry slam?
For the next two months, we’re taking some time off from our nonfiction know-how and poetry slams to focus on the super challenge. However, you can always check out our archives if you’re needing a little more inspiration this week. Happy writing![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Winners’ round-up
In case you missed them, you can find last week’s yeah write staff picks and crowd favorites all laid out for you on Friday’s winners’ post. Leave the winners some love in the comments. They will love you right back, we guarantee it.
Weekend writing showcase
The weekend’s not over: the moonshine grid is still open. Have something to add? Old posts and new are welcome. No moderation, no voting. It’s a laid-back relaxed kind of place. Just leave your commercial or sponsored posts at home. Drop by, share your work, and while you’re there, visit your fellow yeah writers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
