Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #647 Weekly Writing Challenge
Soup It's the first rainy day in my fire-scraped state in a *very long time* and I'm reveling in it. I didn't have to water the garden this morning! The grass might grow back someday! The smoke is... well, it's still there, but the rain is rinsing it out of the sky....
The Scarlet Quill Society: Hurt/Discomfort
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #646 Weekly Writing Challenge
All's well that ends well As I'm writing this, summer is drawing to a close. My family has been surprisingly busy over the last couple of months and it's been hard to fit writing into my schedule. I keep saying, just wait till summer ends and the kids are back in...
YeahWrite #645 Weekly Writing Challenge
August is the yellowest month It's the Noongar season of Djilba where I live and all the yellow flowers are in bloom. Little golden orbs nod their heads happily, bobbing and swaying with the wind. You'd think that would bring me untold joy. I mean, what could be more...
YeahWrite #644 Weekly Writing Challenge
Back in the Saddle I'm still not quite sure what happened, but a few years ago, I finished the draft of my novel -- a novel I'd worked on for 6+ years -- and I just... quit. Perhaps I was simply tired, perhaps it was imposter syndrome, but no matter how proud I was of...
YeahWrite #643 Weekly Writing Challenge
But why is it there in the first place? One of this month's panelists for the Scarlet Quill Society talk (on SUNDAY, that's coming RIGHT UP!) was hosting a discussion on social media this week about, well, unexamined tropes. Specifically, the talk turned to the...
The Scarlet Quill Society: This Time It’s Personal
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #642 Weekly Writing Challenge
Looking for love - or inspiration - in all the right places It's a common problem we all have as writers: you're itching to write something, but you're having trouble getting started. Maybe you have an idea, or maybe you just have this ineffable urge to write. How do...
YeahWrite #641 Weekly Writing Challenge
Rain, hail or industrial action It's wild wet weather outdoors around here, and equally tempestuous in my internal world. Winter is the time of year when my thoughts gallop wildly and untamed and I struggle to marshal them into anything coherent. The weather's...
YeahWrite #640 Weekly Writing Challenge
Set It & Forget It I'm going to keep this short and sweet. You should be writing. Hear that a lot? I do, and my usual response is 'Easier said than done, bruh. I've got stuff to do.' But this morning, I told myself that stuff can wait. I told myself to pick a time...