Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #270 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Patience is a virtue I know it's been a minute since we told you exciting things were coming. And... it's going to be about one minute more. Seriously though, more like an actual minute. Later this week, we will be unveiling a new...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #269: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here in the Pacific Northwest, summer can't make up its freakin mind if it's coming or going. Two days ago it was an actual hundred degrees out; today it's cool and raining. Makes no difference to my commute, though. Folks either...
yeah write #269 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! Who hatched the best stories this week? It's time to vote for your three favorites! Before you vote though The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without your personal touch we...
yeah write #269 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sleepy The past week or so it's been a challenge keeping my eyes open. Maybe it's the kitty who wakes me up in the middle of the night, howling to be let in, or perhaps it's being in the third trimester of gestating a human--I don't...
yeah write #269 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jumping hurdles When I was in the early stages of writing my memoir, I got to a certain point and I couldn't move. It was my own life story and yet I couldn't figure out how to tell it. It wasn't a lack of words or inspiration. I...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #268: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug. Right? I've been the bug all week, it feels like, or at least I caught the bug. The flu bug, that is. I've been flat on my back barely able to do more than read the grids;...
yeah write #268 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? Say what? Before the voting begins though The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without your personal touch we won't know what we're doing right and what areas we can focus...
yeah write #268 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Tools As the name of my blog The Relative Cartographer suggests, one of my hobbies is researching my family tree. Before I start digging into my ancestor's history, I spend time looking into different state and local websites and newspapers archives that might hold...
One asefru, two isefra, three isefra, four
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="29470"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]The Amazigh (known historically as Berber) people have been around for a long time. Don't believe me? Check out this dude on my left from the tomb of Seti...
Play it again, Sam
I spend a whole lot of time talking about editing. Edit your work. OH MY GOD PLEASE @#$@ING EDIT YOUR WORK. But what does that even mean, once you've run spellcheck and decided that you don't want to write at the broken fifth-grade grammar level that is Microsoft's...