Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #532 Weekly Writing Challenge
Surf's up Every summer, my little family escapes the heat with near-daily trips to the beach. California is built to be lived in outside, but as the years grow hotter and hotter, staying in the water is the only palatable option available. My kids are finally old...
YeahWrite #531 Weekly Writing Challenge
Cold enough for ya? Every summer, random strangers ask if it's hot enough, and every winter, without fail, some passing person will pull their coat a little tighter closed around themselves and ask if it's cold enough. What do they expect in response? "Why no, Brenda....
The final round of Super Challenge #20 is underway!
Inventive Headline Goes Here It's the final round of the 20th Super Challenge and is your brain as tired of coming up with ideas as mine? Probably. The good news is, your story doesn't have to be the most innovative thing ever written. In fact, trying too hard to do...
YeahWrite #530 Weekly Writing Challenge
Pride in action Happy June, YeahWriters! Pride is now in full swing, and we here at YeahWrite hope to forever foster a space where everyone can gather, be their true selves, and better their craft. We're so glad you're here. A new month also means a new prompt style...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #20
A token of our affection As the token gamer of the team, I've been playing a lot of, well, stuff lately. Some to relax, some to catch up (first of all, the Hugos have a video game category this year; second of all, I have a lot of Zelda to replay before all the...
Navigating Prompts: Action Prompts
Aaaaand.... ACTION! In the Western tradition - which most competitions follow - a story isn't a story unless something happens. Decisions need to be made, actions need to be taken, characters need to undergo transformations emotional or literal. Otherwise, what you've...
YeahWrite #529 Weekly Writing Challenge
Candy I used to stock my shelves with books and music without really paying much attention to if I liked them or not. Instead, I acquired things that the person I thought I'd like to be--the person I wanted people to think I was--would enjoy. I watched Movies with...
YeahWrite #528 Weekly Writing Challenge
Risks, rewards, and regrets There's an inspirational poster on the wall of the Taekwondo studio where my kids and I take classes. It reads: "If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it." And you know what? I'm really bad at jump...
YeahWrite #527 Weekly Writing Challenge
Purple, red, and shocking white Natalie's post last week reminded me of a gift I inadvertantly gave myself. Last year this time, when anxiety was high and everything was a question, I started taking photos of blooming plants I'd see on the get-out-of-the-house walks I...
Super Challenge #20 Round 1 is Underway!
April showers bring May... Allergies. Also flowers, I guess. I had no idea until I started wearing masks and not getting sick how many of my seasonal colds were exacerbated by having moved away and back and given up any tolerance at all I had for my local pollen....
