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I have a friend who never publishes a first draft. When she bakes cupcakes for work functions, she does a trial run of the recipe the week before. When she sews, she does a complete mock-up of the garment in muslin, adjusting as she goes, and then takes a final pattern from her muslin.
That bears about as much resemblance to the way I work as a blueberry does to a magpie.
Crap simile, sorry. But you know what I mean. Who has time to do everything twice or three times? I’m currently in the middle of sewing some nifty gear for Long Beach Comic Con (if you can’t make it to our booth, you’ll just have to wait for the pictures) that I maybe kinda sorta a little bit procrastinated on while I was working on other projects, camping, and hosting guests. Because this pattern is new to me and I haven’t made something exactly like this before, I’m actually taking the time to do a first draft. But I hate making things and then throwing them away, so instead of just muslin pattern bits, when I’m done I’ll have a fancy new fall jacket. Will it be as cool as the stuff for the con? No. I’m making it out of cheap fabric that I had lying around, that I got because I wanted it even if I didn’t know what to do with it (five points for using stash fabric instead of buying new). And the buttons will be mismatched and it won’t have fancy decoration. But it’ll be funky and fun in an entirely different way, and much more suitable for everyday wear.
You can do the same thing with writing. If you’re playing with the idea for a novel, why not write a short story or character sketch set in the same world, that you might be able to use again as part of a chapter? If your microstory this week really made you happy, why not treat it as the first draft of a longer story for the fiction|poetry grid? I love getting extra use out of first drafts.
Let’s vote on some final work now, though, okay? If you’re new in these parts, here’s how our schedule works: our three challenges open on separate days – Monday for nonfiction, Tuesday for fiction and poetry, and Wednesday for microfiction – but instead of separate days for voting, we’ve combined them all into one big voting post every Thursday.
All three challenges are open below for your voting pleasure. If you want to vote on a grid, please take the time to read all the entries on the grid before voting for the best three. To do that, you might have to take a step back and read the rules for each grid: for example, does that microstory really answer the ultimate question, or did it just make you laugh?
You get three votes on each separate grid. If you’d like to reveal the current vote tallies, just refresh the page after you’ve finished voting. Just a reminder: if you want to see the vote tallies, please use the device you voted from originally. Don’t double-vote just to see how your post is doing; it’s not fair to anyone and we’ll remove your votes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Where’s my post?
Under the yeah write grid structure, all submissions (unless they don’t meet the basic requirements for word count, badge, etc.) are visible on the InLinkz grid for the challenge they are submitted to. Then our editors read the posts, looking for the best of the best: good writing, good ideas, and good execution. In an unmoderated week, all posts that meet the minimum standards will move to the grid for voting. This is your heads-up that moderation is coming back September 20!
If you submitted your post but don’t see it on the voting grid, we may not have had a way to contact you to make corrections or fix your word count. Please make sure you always give us a valid email address when you submit, and check your email. If you just have a misplaced footnote, a broken link, or another minor error or two, we may still be able to move you to the voting grid if you can make corrections before the grids close.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Thanks to those of you who took the time to write and submit to our grids this week. Thanks also to those of you who may not have had the time or inspiration to write a new post but who dropped by to read and vote – we love you! And welcome to those who may just be showing up to our little corner of the web. As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us or hit us up on Facebook or Twitter.
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Writers: thank you for entering this week’s challenge! If you see your post below, you’ve made it into the voting round. Please make the rounds: read the other entries and leave a footprint for the writers. You love comments? So do they!
If you don’t see your thumbnail, please check your email for a love letter from our submissions editor. Your letter will contain valuable, detailed feedback you can use for your next submission. Thank you for sharing your hard work; please stick around as a reader and voter.
Readers and voters: thank you for dropping in on this week’s challenge! Remember that you need to read all the entries on a grid before voting for your favorite three. Click on the thumbnail to read, then click on the heart icon to vote. Can’t decide between two entries for your third vote? Technical merit (such as compelling narrative or persuasive writing) wins over emotional subtext. But you can (and should!) leave your fourth place finisher a very nice comment.
Remember: targeted voting or voting for your own entry is not allowed.
What does this mean?
First, please don’t tell your friends to come and vote for your piece without reading the others. We love to see new faces reading and voting, but they should only vote for your submission if, after reading everything, they think you’re one of the best three.
Second, don’t vote for yourself. If you vote for your own submission, we’ll remove your vote. If it happens too often, we may have to ask you to take a break from the grids. If you vote for your own submission accidentally, please send us a message letting us know what happened and who you would like to vote for instead. Mistakes happen to everyone!
We monitor the vote to make sure our writing challenge isn’t inadvertently turned into a clicking contest, and we will remove any targeted or self votes.
Good luck in the challenge, everybody! Voting closes on Thursday at 10 p.m. US eastern daylight time. [-4 GMT] The winners’ post, including our editorial staff picks, will be published by Friday at noon.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Voting closes on Thursday at 10 p.m. US eastern daylight time. [-4 GMT]
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