Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #443
South Central YeahWrite One of the most amusing things about moving back to Australia has been keeping up with the grids at YeahWrite - and I know I'm not alone in this. As my morning walks weave past flowers and nesting birds, the headers on the posts turn to fall...
YeahWrite #442 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
IT IS MY SEASON AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS HOW HAPPY I AM It's pouring rain outside. I just ate grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. The sun goes down at a reasonable @#!$!@# hour. And I have more energy than at any time of the year. Which is good, because it's...
YeahWrite #442 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Let's Taco Bout It Oh hey, Friday is NATIONAL TACO DAY and I couldn't be more excited. Can you tell? Except I can't get quality tacos in Massachusetts the way I can in my home state of California. MA is more of a lobsta state, which is good in its own way. I still...
Alas, poor Yorick
... the five of you who know that the next line is "I knew him, Horatio" not "I knew him well" are feeling pretty smug right now, aren't you? Laugh while you can, because this month's poetry slam is no joking matter. Like Hamlet, we're going to elegize. eulogize?...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #442
For Science! When I first started writing for the grids, it took me a long time to lose some of the habits I'd developed writing scientific papers for years. Passive voice? BYE BYE. Long, convoluted sentences? I'm working on it. But one thing I refuse to let go....
YeahWrite #441 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work I'm not sure I've ever said that without sarcasm before? But it's true. Getting good writing into your eye holes takes more than just an idea and a computer. It takes a team. Whether you're headed into the world of traditional publishing,...
YeahWrite #441 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Southbound The geese are flying south and I'm sad that I can't run away from winter too. At least Rowan will be happy as the Northern Hemisphere moves into her favorite season! Today is also National Lobster Day so at least there's that, although I don't think I'll be...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #441
Hospitality So last week I found out I was born with an extra electrical pathway in my heart. To fix it, they put me on the table, shoved cameras and lasers into me, and scarred my heart tissue to stop it from racing uncontrollably whenever it damn well pleased. I’m...
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON There's a lot of swearing in that link in the header. Almost as much swearing as I did when the handles ripped off my decorative gourd transportation bag. IT'S FINE, THIS IS FINE. My steps are COVERED in absurd looking pumpkins. Warty ones...
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Seeing the Light My orchid is blooming again! Once upon a time, four homes ago, I had about a dozen orchids and they rebloomed year after year, even sometimes twice per year. When I moved, they didn't bloom anymore. Eventually I figured out it's all about the light,...
