Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #490 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Trading places Michelle--our EIC--and I are frequently the same person. We have similar opinions on an awful lot of things from food (ugly is fine as long as it's tasty; more cheese, please) to people (we prefer a few close friends). One of the big differences,...
YeahWrite #490 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Noodle This I do the NYT crossword (and other NYT puzzles) every day. Sometimes, they take liberty with certain clues or words. Today, for example, one clue was "the epitome of limpness." I know. Get your mind out of the gutter! It was a two word answer and the first...
It’s Personal
Imagine me and you, and you and me... One of the standard exercises for fiction writers is to write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object. It's rather hard to do well, honestly, largely because so many new writers can't resist the temptation to hide...
20/20 Hindsight – Eighth Variation
It was a dark and stormy night ... the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #490
Slowing Down A few weeks ago, I started intensive immunotherapy for my bee and wasp allergy. I sailed through the first two weeks, but as the doses of poison increased, my body had other ideas, so I've had to slow way down. My default way to be tends towards "go go...
YeahWrite #489 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Arf Arf! Greetings from my dogs on National Dog Day! Actually, I doubt they even know. They are pretty much equally spoiled on any given day. Plus, they can't read, and who am I to tell and give them a reason to act entitled today? You, on the other hand, can read and...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #489
Boundaries I used to be good at this—at using the small breaks between tasks to write, or at least to think about writing. I carried a little notebook with me wherever I went (okay, I still do that, but usually I just use my phone nowadays). Give me fifteen minutes,...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
What kind of stories do you tell? Like a lot of people, I've been playing more Animal Crossing this year than I expected to. Not because I particularly love pulling weeds and terraforming (although I'm enjoying recreating Hyrule on my island) or because I get to visit...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Summer Swan Song Summer is nearly over. School, whatever that means, is about to start. How can that be when none of us feel as if we've had a real summer at all? I haven't even read any books, and that is for sure something I could be doing in the isolation of my...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #488
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss If you've been around here for a bit, you know that two years ago I moved from NJ to CA. I knew we weren't going to stay in this apartment forever but I put off moving again for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is that it...
