Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Get the picture? Interestingly, I've now been writing the weekly winners' post for so long that the thing that takes the most time is picking out the header picture. Not because I hate looking at pictures, but because I love it. There are so many pictures out there,...
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot Mess Is it hot where you are? It sure is here. Rowan hates that. [ed's note- she is so right. so right. bring me a winter. /rbg] I don't love it but also, being COLD is so much worse for me that I try not to complain too much. Except this week. I found a dead...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #487
Who knew Did you ever write a story that won't leave you alone, proof it, give it to beta readers, and then weeks or months (lolsob) later, after you've submitted it to a bunch of places and received rejections, you notice that there's a huge structural inconsistency?...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Dona Nobis Pacem It took a long time to write this post. Not because 2020 is still out there 2020'ing, although you're forgiven if you thought that because it is a totally reasonable thing to think, but because I started picking out a header image and got absolutely...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
[Ed's note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with you for...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #486
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I've had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in history...
20/20 Hindsight – Seventh Variation
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you're at a party. You're telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death and you got...
Pros and Consonance
It all hangs together When I was a kid, my dad would take us down to the river, or the lake, and he'd go fishing. In the days when I was still too little to hold even my own downsized pole (the one that sits in a corner here now, in case my niece is ever...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Just? It's probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now "just" and "justice" are super-fraught words, but because they're weaponized in other ways. "Just write," says Neil Gaiman, who has two assistants and no...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn't think so. But you don't need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment - don't forget, even if you didn't...
