Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #230 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hoarding I've had my nose in old newspapers all weekend. No, you're not going to see me on the next season of Hoarders. I've been collecting the dirt on my ancestors. Did you know newspapers in the early 20th century listed the land...
yeah write #230 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Off we go! Seven of us are heading to Long Beach Comic Con September 12-13. Are you making the trip? Come find us at our booth and be sure to sit in on our panel, The Future of Digital Storytelling, Sunday at 4:00 PM. Just think,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #229: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's finally getting cold and dark where I live, and I couldn't be happier. While I know it'll be plenty warm in Long Beach next week, for now I'm enjoying the crispness of the air. I even had a spiced pumpkin latte...
yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here I have a friend who never publishes a first draft. When she bakes cupcakes for work functions, she does a trial run of the recipe the week before. When she sews, she...
Godzilla vs. Poetry
Imagine your life was a musical. I don't care if the image that comes to mind is Hollywood or Bollywood, you get what I mean. At appropriate moments all the characters stop talking, turn to each other, and start singing what they mean instead. This is the basic theory...
One Myth to Rule Them All
Do you ever feel like you're reading the same story again and again, with just a few elements changed? Chances are, you have been - and that's a good thing. Like that moment when you figure out that every song that's been popular in the past 30 years is just...
yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] The perfect storm Have you ever had a time in your life that was the perfect storm? When the flame under your work heated up just as your social commitments grew exponentially until suddenly you're up working...
yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is this thing on? Hello! Just making sure you can hear me. I've got a ton of things to tell you and I don't want you to miss a single thing. September is all about journeys. We'll be talking about the monomyth, or hero's journey,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I'd been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast. She's one of those people who...
yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here I'm the master of the Last Minute. I specialize in 7 minute sonnets, 24 hour thesis papers (j/k it was at least 32 and I was awake for all of them) and...