Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #485
Vacationing from the pandemic Yeah, it's weird, but it's happening. I take a break every year around now to hang out with my family and friends in northern Michigan. There's usually about 30 of us in assorted cabins around a lake, but this year it's just me and a...
YeahWrite #484 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Important I've sat down to write this post about five times now, and tapped out every time. Because part of me is like "look, Rowan, you need to write the [censored] post, ok?" and part of me is like "yes, we know, but like, there's a civil war kicking off close...
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In the Weeds Every day, I hike with my dogs along a wooded trail which in two places opens up into a meadow. The weeds have gotten so tall on either side of the trail that I can no longer see my dogs if they choose to venture in there. Heck, in some places the brush...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #484
TV and Movies I love TV and movies. Like, really love them. There are times when I think I should read more often and watch less. (I mean, I *should* read more.) I was watching a movie last weekend (Palm Springs on Hulu. You should check it out.) and it did the thing...
YeahWrite #483 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
The little things Sometimes it feels like writing is all you've got left, the one thing that will always be there for you. Through thick and thin the words spill out. Good? Bad? Who knows. Write another poem. Other times, one little thing can make it completely...
YeahWrite #483 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Elsewhere It's sweltering where I am. I don't know about you, but that's not my favorite feeling. I'm coping by looking at pictures of cold places, whether on the Internet or in video games. And stories. So many stories. If I can't go away with my body, at least I'll...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #483
Who knew? According to R.E.M. at the end of the world as we know it we're supposed feel fine (you're welcome for that earworm). I don't know how fine you're feeling, but I'm about fair to middling. It's interesting how those simple lyrics evoke such depth of memory...
YeahWrite #482 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Lost thyme That's not even a pun. A couple weeks ago, in a fit of gardening, I planted thyme in my front yard. And promptly forgot about it, because all the food plants and the herb garden are out back. So I've been diligently watering the crookneck squash, the...
YeahWrite #482 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Pop Nostalgia Apparently today is national freezer pop day! My sisters and I ate a lot of Otter Pops growing up, so I'm feeling a but nostalgic about this day. Ahhh Sir Isaac Lime, Strawberry Short Kook, Little Orphan Orange, Louie-Bloo Raspberry...We couldn't get...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #482
Celebrate YOU Many USAmericans will be celebrating the 4th of July this weekend, albeit not likely in the usual big social way of the pre-covid past, unless they're in a location that hasn't issued rules or guidelines, or where people aren't taking those rules...
