Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #463 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
I Wish I wish for so many things to be different right now: in my private world, in THE world. Sometimes it feels like everying is spiraling out of control. But the ten-day meditation retreat I attended last December taught that this very thing--the wishing--is a...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #463
A cast of thousands Yesterday I went to see Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and as I type this I've got Netflix's They've Gotta Have Us playing in the background (have you seen it? Hurry, go queue it up in your list or borrow a...
YeahWrite #462 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Finish lines I'm trying to be a better adult this week, which means cleaning up around my desk. I'm not an inherently tidy person, and my desk (and the floor, and the little table) have a way of accumulating the dozens of things my spouse hands to me randomly over the...
YeahWrite #462 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
See Spot Run I saw a Dalmation in the woods today and it made me realize it's been a very long time since I've seen this particular breed. One of my classmates in graduate school had one, an extremely well-behaved dog named Jupiter, who would sit in the corner of the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #462
Quiet as Mice Ambient noise camouflages the ringing in my ears. Honestly, I don't know how long this has been going on since for over a decade, my husband has snored SO loudly that I can't hear anything else when my body decides to wake up at 3am. When he is away,...
YeahWrite #461 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
The actual worst I have written approximately zero words this week except for this paragraph. Instead, I'm editing. My work, other people's work, editing. So much edits. Do not make me look at more words please. Just scroll for the vote. Please. (If this paragraph was...
YeahWrite #461 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Orange You Glad? I know, I know. I AM that kind of person. But orange you glad that Sumos are back in season? And before you get on my case, yes, I know the oranges in the photo are not Sumos, but sometimes a person has to make do. Also, orange you glad it's time to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #461
Tick Tock I participated in a writing contest a few weeks ago. The first three days of the contests was MLK Day weekend, and I didn't write; I told myself I was "planning." Tuesday rolls around and work explodes with deadlines and stress. I came home that night and...
YeahWrite #460 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Irony Y'all, I wrote the best intro paragraph. About saving your work, and momentum, and the popular vote, and then I don't know what I hit but it's gone and I'm such a consummate professional that I'm not even going to try to retype it, I'm just going to be your...
YeahWrite #460 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet Treat I wasn't going to write about sweets but this photo is so pretty that I'm just going with it. I don't have much of a sweet tooth anymore, which is a big change from when I was younger, but small beautiful treats like this are always very tempting. One of...
