Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #225 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] August blues So, August. This is the month when I'm so hot and sticky all the time that I really don't expect very much from myself, especially when it comes to writing. My style stretches and breathes, not putting on...
Be the dog your person thinks you are
Emily Dickinson said that "dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell." But sometimes as authors we find ourselves wanting to tell the stories of dogs. This month, to celebrate the "dog days" of summer, let's discuss how to create,...
The doggerel days of summer
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Ah, summer. The dog days thereof, in fact. The science fictioneer in me gets excited for the conjunction of the sun and Sirius, the Dog Star... but the rest of me is too damn hot and sweaty to care all that much. When...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #224: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Scarcity, even artifically created scarcity, drives price, as anyone who has ever played Magic: The Gathering can tell you. Fortunately, there are things that are both priceless and free, like tonight's blue moon or an...
yeah write #224 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here When I was a kid, I used to look forward to summer. More or less. I mean, I was definitely one of those kids that liked school, too, but there's...
yeah write #224 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] The beauty we love Sometimes, if I'm too tired to dive into whatever book I'm reading but not tired enough to fall asleep, I'll pick up my well-worn copy of The Essential Rumi and take in two or three poems. I don't read...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #223: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Oh. My. Gawd. I have news. I have exciting, super cool, I could burst with it news. There is so much good stuff coming up here at yeah write this fall. So much that they made me pinky swear not to tell, and then took my...
yeah write #223 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 Anybody else reading the BlogHer wrapups? I love how each year these posts seem to fall into three categories: the gushers, who have never been to a conference and are...
yeah write #223 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tamer of lions One of my college writing professors—either the man who styled his hair like Alice from Dilbert or the woman who always wore a bandanna low on her forehead á la Bruce Springsteen circa 1987— made some analogies about...
yeah write #222 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 Quick, make a wish! That's what my sister and I used to tell each other, when all the numbers on the digital clock matched. You pesky kids probably haven't ever seen...