Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 26th Super Challenge
Jumpstart, kickstart, push start Sometimes writing feels like a smooth machine, well-oiled gears turning and pistons churning to spill words onto the page. Sometimes it... doesn't. And that's when it's time to haul out the jumper cables, stomp on the lever, or roll...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Line Editing and Copyediting
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
YeahWrite #599 Weekly Writing Challenge
Power of two I got together with my writing partner* this week. It's been a long time since we were able to just sit down and talk about our writing projects face to face. Lots of things have conspired to keep us from focusing on our latest book: there's the pandemic,...
YeahWrite #598 Weekly Writing Challenge
Writing About Writing It makes sense. We’re taught to “write what we know.” We’re told if we don’t develop a daily habit of writing then we’re insufficient. (Who made these rules, and may I give them a piece of my mind?) With that killer combination, OF COURSE...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #25
The Big Bang We often refer to microprose as the tiniest stories with the biggest bang. But you have to work for the bang. Micros don't have to pack less of a punch than a full-length short story or even a novella, but to get that emotional payload in, every word has...
YeahWrite #597 Weekly Writing Challenge
Peaks and troughs As is often the way in the world of writing, there's been a flurry of my work published all at once. While that's delightful and a huge ego boost, I'm also bracing for the fallow period to come, when it feels like absolutely nobody wants to ever...
YeahWrite #596 Weekly Writing Challenge
Birthday Blues Blues perhaps isn't the right word, but I do love a good alliteration. This week, I turned 37. I'm not one to fret over growing another year older, but I find with each passing year it's harder not to compare myself to others and the milestones I have...
YeahWrite #595 Weekly Writing Challenge
Oh, that's why I think we've all had that moment where we question ourselves. Where we ask why. Why am I even writing when nobody's reading this? Why am I driving 1500 miles when it's exhausting and expensive? Why am I still in school when it's just a bunch of...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Nonfiction
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
YeahWrite #594 Weekly Writing Challenge
How does it feel? This month's issue of Poets & Writers features Zambian writer Namwali Serpell on the cover with an intriguing pull quote. "I don't want to tell you what happened," she says. "I want to tell you how it felt." I've been thinking on this lately....
