Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #460
All around me are familiar faces Weird thing about me number one thousand four hundred fifty-three: I love finding faces on things. Whether it's a sad fruit, an angry rock, or a really happy telephone pole, I find objects with personality wherever I go. And you know...
20/20 Hindsight – First Variation
Tough love February is the month of love. Or lurrrrrrve, as we like to say it. So what better way to celebrate than to make you hate us just a little? Don't say you're not going to hate us. We hate us already. This is a hard one The good news is that this is probably...
Fact Simile
Cliche One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to new writers is to avoid cliche. Of course, we also tell them to learn the rules of grammar and syntax, structure their persuasive essays "Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion," and avoid long sentences. You'll...
YeahWrite #459 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Come through And y'all did. I don't know if it was the shoutout last week or just an upsurge of late January energy, but I love being able to give everyone every vote on the grids. And it's just mathematically better, making your wins more meaningful. Or is that me?...
YeahWrite #459 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
New story energy It's funny, the things that inspire you to write. In my case, it was the January 20/20 Hindsight assignment. A short story turned into a novella and then into something that promises to be even bigger and better, and now that new story energy is...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #459
Mastering your craft Last week there was a live-on-stage interview with David Suchet in my city that my lovely husband had acquired tickets for. Suchet is probably best known for his television and film portrayal of Hercule Poirot, but like so many of his compatriots...
YeahWrite #458 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
What year is it anyway? I spent this week panicking because I thought all my February stuff needed to be done for YeahWrite. TURNS OUT, I've got a whole nother week to do that. Maybe it's because the Year of the Rat actually starts tomorrow? WHO KNOWS. Anyway, new...
YeahWrite #458 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Manatee Me When I saw this photo, I knew I had to choose it. I have always wanted to see manatees but the few times I've been to Florida, I wasn't in the places they frequent. In March, I'm going with my sister to West Palm Beach, which is right where...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #458
See a Movie, then Write I have been going to a lot of movies over the past few months, after years of rarely seeing any. Writing a screenplay is obviously different from writing a short story, but you can get some interesting ideas from watching movies, like how time...
YeahWrite #457 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Rituals Every morning I get up at way-too-early-for-the-West-Coast, because I have East Coast clients that want to have meetings at a reasonable time by their schedule. I hit snooze exactly once. The second time Lizzo informs me that she just took a DNA test, I turn...
