Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
It happens to everyone. The widespread internet problems this past weekend really put a crimp in our style. But did we crash and burn? No, because we had backups in place (and some quick-thinking team members ready to jump in). Raise your hand if you've ever...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Are you scared? In just over a week, a day will arrive that strikes fear in the hearts of so many. No, not Halloween. November 1! Whether it's NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo or some other configuration of shortened words to say you're...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #288: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I know it doesn't feel like it, but October's drawing to a close. The end of the month means a lot of things to me. Mostly it means Hallowe'en, my very favorite holiday in the entire universe of potential and actual holidays. Right...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #288 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 #288 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Showing up for the race As the super challenge participants warm up for their next marathon this weekend, I'm cooling down after a frenzied week of reading and commenting on the entries for the first round, a task I would never have thought I'd be doing if you'd asked...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2017 starts now One of the things I'm tasked with at my Day Job is to help with strategy development for 2017. The main goal is easy: do better, get ahead, succeed. It's those micro goals that are at issue, meaning we need to know...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #287: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes things don't go as we planned. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us are not full-time, living-wage-earning writers. Most of us have day jobs (or night jobs), families, friends, other...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #287 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 #287 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Deadlines Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, put forward that the only tool a person needs to write a novel is a deadline. I am a firm believer in this theory, as evidenced by the fact that I am currently under a great deal of pressure to get this...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Things are heating up Here in the northeastern US, we're starting to lose our grip on warm air and sunshine. Usually this gets me down as I truly hate the cold weather, but things are heating up so much here at yeah write that it's...
