Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #291 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #291 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 #291 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Forward, always forward Sometimes all you need to get your fiction writing moving is a good shove--or a deadline. Raise your hands: how many of you are participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)? I've done it twice (2006 and 2007), and while I doubt...
yeah write #291 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On Procrastination We are AAA members. For those of you unfamiliar, this is an organization that provides roadside assistance if your car breaks down or you run out of gas or you get a flat tire. Last time I remember paying my...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #290: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just flew in from Toronto and boy are my arms tired. That joke wasn't funny even the first time I heard it, but right now I'm giggling madly at the dog, which is a good sign that maybe I might conceivably have Halloweened just a...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #290 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...
Leggo my Echo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Echo myth might be one of my least favorite stories of Greek mythology, but it lends its name to one of my new favorite poetry forms. In the myth, the nymph Echo falls in love with the worthless manbaby Narcissus who basically is...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Hurry up and wait. I love the first day of November. It's the day the gates open and thousands of writers around the world storm onto the novel-writing racetrack for NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo after expending so much time prepping and outlining. It's the day hope lingers...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Distractions I've always hated when people would rag on young people and their obsession with their phones and/or Facebook. I can multitask! I am awesome! I am not easily distracted! Yeah, so it turns out I actually am pretty easily...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #289: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everybody else wrote something really thoughtful this week so I'm just gonna say IT SNOWED ON ME TODAY AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER. I know winter's not everyone's jam, but it's definitely mine and I'm ready for it. I embrace the...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #289 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...