Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write #222 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] A voice There's nothing like reading a biography of a celebrated author to make one feel inferior. Right now I'm reading a biography on Jane Austen, and it's making me despair of ever becoming even one iota as skilled....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #221: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]"It's a fine essay, but you buried the lede," I told my mentee earlier this week. What does that mean, buried the lede? It means the heart of your story or essay is so far removed from the places a reader looks for...
yeah write #221 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 Do you ever worry that your browser history has you on so many secret watch lists that you can't go to the corner grocery without a Man in Black following you? Oh, I...
yeah write #221 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Empathic connections "Obviously I don't know how it feels to be a feral child, but I know how it feels to be an outsider, to want to be something you're not, to be uncomfortable in your own skin. You just have to use that...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #220: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Canada Day. The Fourth of July. Heck, even Bastille Day. There's just something vaguely revolutionary and patriotic about this month in the Western half of the world. For example, did you know that on July 3, 1863, the...
yeah write #220 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 But first, a brief announcement: WINTER IS COMING. That's right. My summer vacation is over, the Solstice has passed, and here in the Northern Hemisphere the days have...
yeah write #220 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Cinematic fic-spiration Those of you who are more high-brow may raise your eyebrows at me, but sometimes my writing is inspired by movies. Not like fan fiction--that's not my style--but mostly using elements like mood,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #219: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]What you do matters. Writing matters. It may seem like you're blogging to an audience of three (at least it feels that way for me); there is no shame in that because you are giving something of yourself to the world. You...
yeah write #219 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 that time again! Another week has flown by and it's time to vote here at yeah write #219! We had another great unmoderated week. We're staying this way all summer...
yeah write #219 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Where did that come from? Writing-wise I'm not a planner. I know writers that start their plotting with simple outlines, or with storyboards of key scenes, or even with full PowerPoint presentations. That's not me. Most of the time...