How To Join the Weekly Shortform Challenge

Summary

The Brain is a Noodle publication offers a guide on joining the Weekly Shortform Challenge, providing prompts for creativity and guidelines for submitting short, engaging pieces to their Medium page.

Abstract

"The Brain is a Noodle" is a creative writing publication on Medium that aims to inspire writers with daily poetry prompts, weekly shortform challenges, and monthly interview prompts. These weekly shortform prompts are distributed via a Sunday newsletter and are intended to be concise, with a limit of under 150 words, including a title, subtitle, and cover photo, tagged with "shortform." Writers are encouraged to write on any topic that is accessible and engaging to the average reader, steering clear of overly technical content. The publication welcomes submissions that serve as an appetizer to the writer's main body of work, inviting readers to explore more of what the writer has to offer.

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Shortform pieces should be succinct and captivating, providing a taste of the writer's work to entice readers.
Topics for shortform writing should be broadly appealing and understandable to a general audience.
Highly technical content is discouraged, with the recommendation to contribute such pieces to more specialized publications.
The use of a title, subtitle, and appropriately labelled cover photo is emphasized for effective presentation.
Tagging submissions with "shortform" is important for categorization and discoverability.

A how-to-guide with all of the information!

The Brain is a Noodle is a publication equipped with daily poetry prompts, weekly shortform prompts and monthly interview prompts to jog your creativity and break out of that writer’s block!

Weekly Shortform Prompts are released with every single newsletter on Sundays.

Shortform pieces are meant to be short, digestible pieces that people can read on the go. The word limit is <150 and there should be a title, subtitle and appropriately labelled cover photo. Be sure to tag these pieces with “shortform”.

Topics are unrestricted, meaning you can write about anything and everything, but be sure that it’s something understandable and relevant to the average reader. Save highly technical pieces for publications dedicated to that niche topic — that’s likely where readers will want to read them! Instead, leave us with a taste. Beckon us for more.

The shortform is an appetizer for readers to start being interested in the main course (you, and what you write about)!

Get started today and submit your Medium Shortform pieces to The Brain is a Noodle!

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