Sunshine Day.
As I was driving earlier, I noticed the sun was shining. This may not be a big deal where you are, but here in NJ, it’s huge. I feel like it’s been raining for months. It’s been chilly and dreary – not at all like spring. So today, cruising along with the windows down and radio on, hair flying in my face, I had a sudden burst of spring fever and inspiration. When I parked, I jotted down some notes to work on in my next writing session. The sun went back behind the clouds for now (or forever, our weather forecast isn’t looking too good these days!), but I’m still feeling it. It’s still a perfect day for dreaming.
Have you noticed the weather affects your mood and your desire to write or create? What works for you? How does your productivity change with the seasons? How’s the weather by you these days – cooperating?
Let me leave you with the best/worst earworm ever.
YeahWrite Super Challenge
The third and final round of Super Challenge #4 is officially underway! Good luck to all of our contestants as they anxiously await the results. If you’re ready to get in on the action, registration for Super Challenge #5 (nonfiction) is now open! Also, be sure to sign up for our email blast so you don’t miss out on any announcements for upcoming challenges.
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.
Nonfiction Know-How: Saving your darlings
Reading someone else’s journal (unless the entry is about you) is about as exciting as looking at photos of a vacation to a place you’ve never been and didn’t want to go. But our journals are an important record of our lives, and as nonfiction writers we need that record to tell our stories. If you’ve ever wondered what to do with your old journal entries, or wanted to turn them into the kind of stories a reader wants to know more about, Rowan’s got some tips for you right here.*
Is fiction more your thing?
The Fiction|Poetry Challenge grid opens on Tuesday. Grab a mic and join our monthly poetry slam or 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 announce a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post. It’s your job to use that prompt in your story or poem in some way. Feel free to use it as your first sentence, move it somewhere else, change it, or float it down to other territories.
Erin5cents introduced us to a loathsome coworker in her essay, False Advertising. This week’s prompt taken from her essay is: Had I sipped from a bottle marked “Drink Me?”
May ‘Poetry’ Slam: Constructive Criticism
Writing poetry is great, but reading it is better… right up until you’re asked to give feedback. This month instead of trying out a new form, Rowan gives us her hints and tips about what makes poetry poetry, how to read it, and how to offer feedback that’s more useful than “I thought it was pretty.”*
*Check out our writing help section on Thursday to find out what we’ll be diving into in June for our Nonfiction Know-How and Poetry Slam segments.
Winners’ Round-Up
In case you missed them, you can find last week’s YeahWrite 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 yeah write Weekend Writing Showcase 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.
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