Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
20/20 Hindsight – Tenth Variation
What if? 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and we're sure we're not the only ones wondering if we've slipped into an alternative timeline or parallel universe—or maybe wishing we had. "What if" sounds like the stuff of speculative fiction—what if Hitler had...
One good turn
Have you ever read a story, certain you know where it's going, only to have the author take a sharp turn at the end? It's like walking through the forest and suddenly coming upon a pristine mountain lake. A turn like this can open your eyes to an entirely different...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #499
Are you all sugared up on Halloween candy? Are houses in your street all decked out in spider webs and spooky finery? It's not a big celebration in Australia, and I really miss it. I miss the tiny children who'd come to the door, dressed as a superhero or a ghost or a...
YeahWrite #498 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Hurtling toward... 500. That's right, it's been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it's been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that we've got a few...
YeahWrite #498 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Gimme All The Blanklets It's been rainy and cold all day here, with more of that tomorrow and maybe even some SNOW on Friday and I just cannot with early snow. In particular, my beef is that I have to go outside anyway because dogs. But what I really want to do is...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #498
Mycelium I used to think mushrooms were whole plants. Now when I see them on my walks in the woods I know what they are: fruiting bodies of a much bigger system. See, the mushroom is more like an apple than a tree. That's how they can pop up so quickly: there's a huge...
YeahWrite #497 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Can't can Or, rather, I can can, and I'm so tired of canning that the five back to back 12-hour days I just worked felt like a respite. I have apple butter, plum butter, sauerkraut (that's not canned, if you're keeping score; it's fermenting), cider, cider vinegar,...
YeahWrite #497 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Geese Gone Most of the New England geese have already migrated south for the winter, and I'm so jealous that I can't just fly south too, although not now, definitely not now. I wouldn't miss the most spectacularly beautiful time of year; I can't get enough of the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #497
Gimme that Bread According to an article I read recently, the top eight things people have bought during the pandemic are in order from lowest: manicure accessories, jigsaw puzzles, kiddie pools, exercise machines, computer enhancements (microphones, stand up desks,...
YeahWrite #496 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Falling for... fall. It's finally here: weather that makes me want tomato soup with rosemary in it, and grilled cheese cut into soldiers for dipping. Nutmeg in everything (yes, in my coffee this morning) and cardamom and ginger and thick socks and piles of quilts and...
