Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #519 Weekly Writing Challenge
One is the loneliest number This week, I've been thinking a lot about community and how to get more involved with local (to me) writing groups. Writing can be a woefully lonely business, or at least a woefully alone business. It can feel like you're shouting into a...
YeahWrite #518 Weekly Writing Challenge
Are you ready? I sure am. Ready for it to be anything but winter, that is. If you've been reading YeahWrite's weekly posts for long, you may know that I walk my dogs in the woods near my house every morning. I'm so tired of the scarf-coat-hat-gloves routine that when...
YeahWrite #517 Weekly Writing Challenge
WFHiversary Next week will mark one full year that I have been working from home and self-quarantining. And while mentally, I'm holding up, it's hard not to look back on the past year and wonder what came of it. Or rather, what didn't. It would be so easy to come down...
Navigating Prompts: Landscapes and Landmarks
A picture is worth a thousand words It's a nice aphorism, isn't it? But in the case of a photo prompt, this could be a completely literal statement. A single photo—with or without people—can contain a multitude of stories both inside and outside the frame. So how does...
YeahWrite #516 Weekly Writing Challenge
Putting it off I've had this intro open for five hours now and these are the first words I've put in it. A lot of us have felt lately (well, in the past literally a year) that our writing practice has suffered. Like it's the thing we can put off. And in many cases,...
YeahWrite #515 Weekly Writing Challenge
Refresh yourself I was reminded, this week, that sometimes it's worth taking a break. Not necessarily from writing altogether (although I did spend an entire day or two playing Animal Crossing this weekend, don't judge), but from what you're writing. For the last few...
YeahWrite #514 Weekly Writing Challenge
Click click click click I am not really a New Year's resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to myself. I...
YeahWrite #513 Weekly Writing Challenge
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It's Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It's the middle of Summer, there's a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky's a deeply worrying shade of orange, and ash is floating...
Navigating Prompts: Hit the road
Take this word and shove it Or rather—don't. As we've mentioned before, judges and editors want to see you incorporate a prompt, not just include it. They want to see where you go with your own story, told in your own unique style and voice, with pieces they give you....
YeahWrite #512 Weekly Writing Challenge
The Reboot The days are getting longer; I can feel my mood improving, even though we had five inches of snow last night. I'm still trying to figure out how to send all the snow to Rowan; there's got to be a way. Snow's pretty though, and I can imagine inspiring for...
