[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What’s on your mind?
I like to play a little game sometimes when I’m reading through posts, especially from some of our more prolific or consistent writers: what are they thinking about that isn’t this post? What are they reading, or what’s going on in their life outside of their writing? Sometimes it’s easy: a more “bloggy” post will just tell me. But even those posts, there’s a reason that the author is writing about that particular thing instead of the myriad other things happening in their life right now. Why pick that one?
Fun fact: Musicals become more popular when vast swaths of a country are impoverished. Shoulder pads appear and skirts shorten in times of economic depression.
It’s clues like that. Uh. I didn’t really have a point here, except that you can probably tell by my rambling and the featured picture on this post that it’s winter and I’m pulled in a thousand directions at once. But I still made it onto two grids, and I’m already fiddling around with a tritina idea for next week. Join me? We can all write our posts on our phones while hiding from our relatives like “oh work called I just gotta get on this laptop for a minute BRB….”
While it’s still this week, though, and while the grids are still moderated, you probably want to know the vote results, right? Me too. So, just like every Friday, I’m going to give you the results on all three of our grids – nonfiction, fiction|poetry, and microfiction – right here! And I’ll do it again next week and the week after that!
But it’s not all about the popular vote, folks. We also have our editorial staff picks to hand out. Every week our editors comb through your submissions looking for their favorites. Picks are based on writing quality, how successful the author is in conveying information, and just plain style. If you got a staff pick this week, grab your badge from the sidebar and wear it with pride!
Once you’re done reading through the staff picks (and congratulating the winners in the comments), keep scrolling down to check out who won the popular vote on all three grids. If you earned the highest number of votes in any challenge, you are this week’s crowd favorite! If you came in first, second or third, you get “top three” honors. Grab your badge from our sidebar!
Looking for your badge? The fiction|poetry, nonfiction and microstories challenges all have the same winner, staff pick, and top three badges. It doesn’t clutter up our sidebar, and they’ll still look pretty on yours![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Yeah write #244 weekly writing challenge staff picks: nonfiction
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intervals by jenny
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In her essay “Intervals,” Jenny Poore takes a swimming technique as metaphor for those small moments in life that root us in our humanity. She deftly touches on such broad topics as vulnerability, aging, privacy, the Other, and generosity in a small space (literally and figuratively) without telling us about any of these things directly. Instead, she shows us through her response (“Sure thing!”) to a request from an older woman in the locker room. And as an interval within an interval, Jenny shares another moment that reinforces the metaphor: shaking a homeless man’s hand. She writes, “Sometimes our bodies remember we’re human even if our brains work overtime to forget.” Yes, this.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22653″ style=”vc_box_circle” title=”meg”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]
That’s it for our staff picks this week! Remember, we don’t always give out a pick on every grid; if we were impressed by several posts on one grid, we’ll give them all picks, and if nothing really stood out for us on another grid, we’ll hold off.
If you’re lost in the middle of the grid and wondering how you can get a little more feedback on your posts, check out our membership perks!
Everybody: before you go, please take some time to leave your favorites a little love in the comments.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Weekend moonshine grid opens today at 6 p.m. eastern time
Drag your winter blahs and that extra plate of cookies left over from your office party down to the moonshine grid for a sugar high this weekend! Natalie’s throwing open the doors at 6pm Eastern US time today and she says she has those peanut butter cookies with the Hershey’s Kisses smushed into them. Just leave the commercial posts at home; this isn’t a bake sale, y’all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Congratulations to the crowd favorites at yeah write #244
The thumbnails are now sorted in order of most votes to fewest. Ties in the overall number of votes are broken by number of editor votes.
Congratulations if you’re at or near the top! Writing well is hard work, and we’re honored you’ve chosen us this week to showcase your entry.
If you’re at or near the bottom, don’t be discouraged. You’re in the right community for learning and growing as a writer, and we are always available with resources for those who ask nicely.
To our readers and voters: thank you! See you next week.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
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