Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #301 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] You Are What You Read What I'm about to say may sound like the opposite, so let me make this royal proclamation right upfront: I do not dislike bloggers. I started writing for public consumption as a blogger, and I get paid to be a...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #300: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nonfictioneers! That's not a word, but whatever. If you've been playing along this month, check out the roundup to see the next piece of our January class. Honestly you should do that anyway. I don't know how many times and in how...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #300 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Wish there was a competition with no popular vote but all the editorial feedback you can eat? Check out...
yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
She pissed on my lap I was sitting on my friend's couch in the middle of a crowded birthday party when the cat jumped up on my lap. The woman next to me stopped her conversation to smile at me and say, "You must be a cat person." Iris the cat purred loudly and nestled...
yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing is Life I was thinking about how I have my specific writing goals for 2017 but that I also have my life goals. One of these - one I make annually - is to simplify things. All the things. I don't know if I'm the typical...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tag! You're it. Working in a team really isn't my thing; it's mostly like herding kittens. But working in pairs? Yeah, baby. See, when there's two of you, you're never really out of ideas and there's always someone to pick up if you...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Wish there was a competition with no popular vote but all the editorial feedback you can eat? Check out...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Good things come to those who wait I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am for 2017, starting with our January writing challenges. I'll admit it; I did a little happy dance when we finally settled on this month's poetry slam: couplets. As Rowan put it,...
Less is more
It's not the size that matters... It's whether you start your post with a semi-appropriate joke. Actually, what I did just there is what you'll be doing this month: wrote a couplet. Although we usually think of couplets as building blocks for longer poems, they can be...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gratitude If you had told me back in 2012, back when I was thinking about submitting something to yeah write, that someday I'd be the editor in chief here, I'd have never believed you. And if you'd told me that the people I'd meet...
