Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2016 is drawing to a close (don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya, as my Southern grandmother used to say) and most of us are thinking about time, and how it runs out. Time ran out for a lot of our heroes this year....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Opinions Neil Gaiman said: "When (beta readers) tell you something is wrong or doesn't work for them (in your writing), they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." Yikes. Right? To be clear,...
yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How Not to Goal I have a stack of papers under my desk and on top is a sticky note that says, simply, "Edit." This is quite possibly one of the least useful notes I've ever written myself. The stack is my manuscript, sitting tall at...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #297: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Depending on where you were on our spinning ball of rock, the shortest or longest night of your year just slipped past. No matter what your faith - if any - these seasonal markers, the systolic and diastolic pulse of the planet we...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #297 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Unfinished business There's nothing that bugs me more than an unfinished project. Unfinished pieces tend to loom over me like that guy at the party whose name I can't remember, the one who stands too close to ignore, but just outside the circle of conversation. It's...
yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oh, December So the thing I love about December is it's right before January which is a great month for resets. I have to be honest with you: November was terrible for a variety of reasons and December has been one of those "hang on...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #296: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I'm trying to figure out what to do with nine stale chocolate cupcakes. That's not a setup for a joke (nine stale cupcakes walk into a bar...). It's an actual dilemma. Do I throw them away? Try to turn them into a trifle? Make...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #296 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #296 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
