Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #296 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
boxed in Lately my creativity has been boxed up like a black lab in an empty house full of leather furniture. I've only had the energy to write a quick sentence in a Christmas card or build a half scene in a writing exercise. I'm gonna blame my short attention span...
yeah write #296 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Do you ever get stuck? Of course you do. We all do. But I would guess that we all get stuck in different way s and in different places. For me, it's often the start of a new kind of project or a change in the the routine of my...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #295: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Probably the best thing about living in Portlandia is that you get snow days even when you're a grownup. That's right, folks, an inch of snow and the whole city shuts down. That's why I'm sitting in a comfy chair in my jammies...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #295 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 #295 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
hello? is this thing on? Sometimes I plan my fiction and poetry, and sometimes I just jump in with both eyes closed and both feet forward and hope for the best. That's what I'm doing this week, standing in for fiction editor Christine while she juggles raw eggs,...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why do today... What you can put off until tomorrow? Procrastination... when I hear the word, I automatically start singing it to the tune of "Anticipation" by Carly Simon. If you're not familiar, look it up. It's not actually that...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #294: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Timing is everything. Or at least it's a lot. I mean, no sooner did I wrap up talking about how to use editors' picks and roundups to build your own master class in this month's nonfiction knowhow post than we ended up with this...
This is the end, my only friend, the end
It's the little things that matter, as we wind down to the end of the year. Tiny lights on evergreen trees. Tiny candles in their rows. The tiny terminal 'e' that differentiates between a ballad and a ballade. That's right, we're more or less obsessed with endings...
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #294 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 #294 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
watch your tone How would you describe the rain in the picture? Well, it all depends on what that woman is doing, doesn't it? If she's meeting up with her married lover, Jean-Jacques, the raindrops slipping between her collar and her neck may be reminding her of their...
