Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Super Challenge #16 Round 1 is Underway!
Who's ready to think about something else for 48 hours? Oh my gosh, I am. Even spending time thinking up prompts to spark your imagination and send you into made-up worlds for the weekend has been a nice break. We hope you're safe, sound, and in a location where there...
YeahWrite #473 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's been challenging But has it been ... SUPER CHALLENGING? That's right, the 16th (whoa) Super Challenge kicks off tonight. Good luck to all our writers (and their beleaguered beta readers), and Coffeehouse? I'll see you in a month. I'll miss you all! In the...
YeahWrite #473 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
New Bird, My word! I saw a new bird today, which is not very common since I don't actively bird right now. On my regular dog hike, a great crested flycatcher perched on a branch right in front of me. I wanted to show you this bird in the post image, but when I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #473
Risk Assessment Some of you may know I'm in the middle of a career change. It's been scary to pull myself out of my comfort zone for a career that I'm not even sure I'll like or be good at. The leap between writing textbooks and designing eLearning courses isn't...
YeahWrite #472 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
May Day I thought about writing something long-winded about our global colonized history of oppression by elevation, about how the "noble, silent worker/slave/servant" mythos has been used to penalize anyone who spoke out about their oppression. About how I see that...
20/20 Hindsight – Fourth Variation
Where do you stand? In April we took away a lot of ways to add information to your story. In May, we're giving them back... and then some, with a shift in your point of view.Ready? May's assignment is: rewrite your story from a different point of view. (Maximum...
Echo chambers
Roger. Copy that. Let's talk tech. Technique, that is. Technique is about more than just copying a poem's form, although we've been having a lot of fun doing that and building muscle memory while we're at it. Technique is the building blocks to make your own poetry,...
YeahWrite #472 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Not So Far One of the interesting side-effects, at least for me, an extrovert, of social distancing is that my out-of-town friends don't feel as far away. I can't see my in-town friends, so my interactions with all of my friends is similar, meaning they all feel...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #472
Taking What I Can Get If there's one area of my life this COVID situation hasn't upended, it's my inability to write. I was having trouble before this started and I continue to struggle. On the rare occassion that I'm not super busy with work (really thankful to even...
YeahWrite #471 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Just lucky, I guess Look, I know I'm one of the lucky ones. I've got a job that people need me to do, and I can do it from the comfort and safety of home. On the other hand, there are times I resent still having a job. The flooring for my bedroom sits waiting for me...
