Challenge winners round-up
We don’t know about you, but we think there’s been some pretty great writing around here lately. With three challenges plus the moonshine grid, we understand you might feel it’s hard to keep up! Did you miss the winners’ posts last week? Here’s a summary of all the #159 winners. Go give ’em a read – it’s worth it.
Challenge grid
- Crowd favorite: Karen from Fat Girl in Boxing Gloves for When I Grow Up
- Top row: Genna Claire from writeamuck
- Kevin the Kiwi: Shantelle from Little Flightless Bird for This Is the Truth
- Comment Bob: Alisa from Ice Scream Mama
Speakeasy
- Crowd favorites: Christi from EditMoi for Girls Like Grover Cleveland, followed by Derek from Derek Alan Wilkinson, Janna from JannaTWrites, and Michael from Hypothetically Speaking
- Editors’ pick: Gene from The Grace Apparatus for Fox and Moth: Charcoal on Hemp
Gargleblaster
- Crowd favorite: Genna Claire from writeamuck for No Time to Say Hello, Goodbye
- Top row: Erica from freefringes, Rowan from textwall, Cynthia from That Cyinking Feeling, Architar from A Journey Called Life, Kir from Kirsten A Picchini and Suzanne from Apoplectic Apostrophes
- Editors’ pick: Rachna (theinnerzone) from The Pigments of Life for Cipher
- Hitchhiker prize: Jo-Anne from Going for Coffee for Nuance
Congratulations to all! Don’t forget: the moonshine grid is still open. Have something to add? Old posts and new are welcome. Go add yours, and while you’re there, visit your fellow yeah writers.
The ultimate question
We’re turning to The Carpenters for this week’s ultimate question. This song has been stuck in my head since the gargleblaster started.
Why do birds suddenly appear?
We know you all know the next line in the song. Let’s see if you can make us think of something different.
Give us your answer in 42 words. You don’t need to include the question in your 42-word response, and make sure your answer stands alone. What do we mean? Write down the question. Write down your response. Now cover the question with your hand and read your answer out loud. Does it still make sense when you don’t know the question? That’s what we’re looking for. Be creative, and remember: no family allowed!
The grid opens at midnight on Monday and closes at midnight on Tuesday. Yes, that’s only 24 hours to post, so you’d better get writing now! We’ll announce winners on Wednesday. Don’t forget to badge your post – the current gargleblaster badge is below.
Family-free week #3
It sure doesn’t seem like the family-free restriction is cramping your style: you’re doing an excellent job, yeah writers. Consider this the hump week. Remember: we’re looking for posts that avoid using family relationships as a central theme. No husbands, wives, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, second cousins or long-lost missing twins. You see what we mean. Got a really great family-centered post? Submit it to the moonshine grid, where anything goes and the grid is always rules-free.
Challenge schedule
There’s a lot going on around here lately. To make it simple, we’ll lay out the multi-grid schedule here:
- Sunday midnight: the gargleblaster prompt is announced in the kickoff post, and the speakeasy prompt is announced over at the speakeasy.
- Monday midnight: the gargleblaster grid opens for submissions.
- Tuesday midnight: the gargleblaster grid closes, and voting begins. The challenge grid and the speakeasy grid open for submissions. 10:00 PM: gargleblaster voting closes.
- Wednesday by noon: the gargleblaster winners are announced.
- Thursday midnight: the challenge grid and speakeasy grids close, and voting begins.10:00 PM: voting for both grids closes.
- Friday by noon: the challenge grid and speakeasy winners are announced, and themoonshine grid opens.
- Saturday and Sunday:moonshine grid is still open, writing, editing and rewriting happening for upcoming week!
Get your badges!
To make it a little simpler for folks, we’re going to start putting the badges into the kick-off posts and grid posts. Here’s the badge for yeah write challenge #160 and this week’s gargleblaster. Copy the code under the appropriate badge and paste it into the html or text view of your blog editor. Having trouble? Contact christine@yeahwrite.me for tech support.
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<a href="https://yeahwrite.me/gargleblaster-160/"> <img src="https://yeahwrite.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gargle160.png"> </a>
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