Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Your writing practice You're exploring what writing means to you. You're calling yourself a writer. This is good. What's next? What's next is you write. You need to practice. You need to try new things, some of which will work and...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #274: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the first super challenge judge with my scores turned in, I'm entitled to be smug, right? Of course, being first isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it means you didn't take the time to look at your work again. Other times it's...
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
The popular vote is now open at the yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge! Vote by 10pm ET for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry. Good luck! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we won’t know what...
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Absorption Not gonna lie. I've been limiting the amount of news and newsfeeds I read lately. The constant stream of EVERYTHING that is going on in the world is overwhelming me. I still go to my favorite news web site and read the...
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Maybe someday? Last week we were talking about how we identify ourselves. I often hear people say they want to be a writer. (Fine. FINE. I still say it, too.) The implication is that we are not writers now. It's just a someday. It's...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #273: popular vote winners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's Friday. I hope you've reached the end of your work week, if you're as tired as I am. Not too tired to wish a belated Eid Mubarak to those in our community celebrating, though! It was a subdued Eid for some of us. Our hearts and...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction and fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Voting for our two challenges is now open Voting. is. now. open. Woot!! NOTE: This week, everyone gets two votes on fiction|poetry and three votes on nonfiction. Before you vote The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Shark week Right now I'm watching a Shark Week program, taking a break from the sun while everyone else is in the pool. For some reason, even though every Shark Week special is the same (or at least bears remarkable similarity),...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How do you identify? When it comes to your writing, how do you see yourself? Do you call it your hobby? If someone asks what you do, do you say your career first and then throw in that you "write sometimes?" Do you refer to yourself...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #272: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just had an idea for a nonfiction piece. Yay! But boo, it’s Friday, and the grids are done for the week. Should I wait until next week's grid opens to start writing? It is my usual practice to wait. Is that smart? Nooooo. I write...