Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #538 Weekly Writing Challenge
Writing Together, Alone Writer friends had invited me to work together in the past, but I never took them up on it. I always thought "My problem with writing is focus. Why would I meet a person for a writing date and add yet another distraction to the mix?" Well, as...
Navigating Prompts: Setting Descriptions
Location, location, location If you read a lot of—or any—fan fiction, you'll know that one of the most common tropes is "the coffeehouse AU." That is, take all the characters from the movie or book and... put them in a coffeehouse. Who's the bartender? Who's the one...
YeahWrite #537 Weekly Writing Challenge
I found my thrills This week I picked up a few copies of an anthology that I have work in. Another anthology, I should say. This isn't my first, but the thrill of seeing my name in print, especially in a physical copy that I can hold in my hands and turn the pages on,...
YeahWrite #536 Weekly Writing Challenge
(Co)Work Hard, Play Hard For years, writing almost every day was one of the easiest things for me to do, but before long, life and other things began to get in the way and writing began to mold into yet another chore needing to be completed. Projects gathered dust,...
YeahWrite #535 Weekly Writing Challenge
I never metaphor I didn't like Probably my favorite writing metaphor is working in the garden. Possibly because it's one of the few times since FEBRUARY OF LAST FREAKIN YEAR that I get to spend quiet time alone with my thoughts and my music. But also possibly because...
YeahWrite #534 Weekly Writing Challenge
Unmoored This is the first summer in a long, long time—like, since I was a student—where I don't have every minute scheduled. It used to be day camps and childcare for the kids, and the regular 9-5 for me. Even after I left my office job to pursue writing, I had...
Navigating Prompts: Characters – Images
Is it possible If you put that search string into Google, you'll get a lot of autocomplete options. One of the most fascinating ones is "Is it possible to write a story without characters?" The answers are sure, certain: No. Yes. One of our favorite answers is "yes,...
Summer Coworking!
A little help from your friends Join YeahWrite editors for virtual coworking hours throughout the summer! We'll open up a Zoom, make some introductions, talk about what we want to accomplish during the session, and spend an hour or so working quietly on our individual...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #20
On fire Not literally, as in living in Oregon during this 114F/45C heatwave, but figuratively, as in the fires of love, or "your story is on fire." We are feeling inappropriately smug about this prompt combo, which yielded one of our best crops of final-round stories...
YeahWrite #533 Weekly Writing Challenge
Dah Brees-way Our apartment is unique for Chicago because it is both large and comparably inexpensive. In the back of the line of rooms, like a caboose, there's a large, covered...well, in Michigan we'd call it a back deck but our landlord in his thick Chicago accent...
