Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Simmering summer I was flabbergasted by the parade of Back to School pictures marching through my social media feeds last week. We're not even close to Labor Day, I thought. Why are kids headed back so early? Did their parents just...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #227: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's always a little weird to sit down and write the winners' post on a week when I've had a bunch of rejections. You know the ones: you submit a story or poem, wait for just long enough to think "well, if they were going...
yeah write #227 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 had my first forkful of kimchi when I was twenty-two. And I hated it. On the surface, kimchi is everything I should like. It's spicy, it's fermented, it's cabbage....
yeah write #227 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] First day of school! I hope you're thinking of a tiny clownfish chanting this phrase, because every year since I first time heard Nemo trumpet this refrain in unabashed glee, I try to channel the same enthusiasm for the...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #226: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]I know we've been talking about coffee all week, but let's take a break with another liquid, ok? One of my personal favorites: wine. Specifically, let's talk about the phrase in vino veritas. Truth, found in wine. But...
yeah write #226 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 It's Thursday, y'all. Or maybe it's Wednesday night for a few more hours where you are. The point is, we've all been trying to figure out why there's no coffee for...
yeah write #226 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Unfiltered I just came back from a sun-baked week on the beach. Every year a few of my college friends and I rent out cottages in a little clapboard "resort." During our stay, two tribes form: the kids' caravan from merry-go-round...
yeah write is coming to Long Beach Comic Con September 12-13
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Yeah write on the road: Long Beach Comic Con That's right, community. For the first time ever, yeah write is taking its show on the road! On September 12-13, we will be at Long Beach Comic Con promoting digital...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #225: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Help. Whether it's an imperative, a noun, or a verb, we all probably need to use this word more often. It's hard to ask for help, but there are so many things that need doing, and only one of each of us. It's okay to not...
yeah write #225 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 tired. That's the first thing that I thought when I sat down to write this post. I'm tired, and this feels like effort. I'm exhausted, frankly, by the things that...