Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #412 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Heck off, sun. Stacie may be ready for Daylight Saving Time, but I'm staying in bed and NOT GETTING UP EVER EVER. I'm putting up the blackout curtains, and tunneling in until November or whenever it stops being light not only after work but after dinnertime and...
YeahWrite #412 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Spring Forward! Longer days elevate my mood even more than warmer temperatures, and that is saying a lot. And this weekend we set the clocks ahead for daylight saving time, so the light will stay with us later in the day. [Ed's note: NO. no nonononono no no no...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #412
Way Back When We're coming up on seven years since I submitted my first post* to YeahWrite. It was terrible. On the surface it was about a box of crackers, but it was actually about my relationship with a former coworker. I don't remember exactly how the two were tied...
YeahWrite #411 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Magic beans? Stacie may have her bean soup, but I prefer bean tea. Or as you plebians probably call it, coffee. It lets me go about my day without killing anyone, although those 40+ research tabs I have open in my browser for this story have convinced me I could get...
Tech Talk: Synesthesia
I see. It's a phrase most of us use frequently, and it has nothing to do with eyesight. What other common ways do we explore and play with sense in our writing? This month, instead of delving into a new poetry form, we're going to dial it back a notch (see?) (wait,...
YeahWrite #411 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Cool Beans I'm making heirloom bean soup tonight and if that isn't exciting, I don't know what is. Seriously, ever since I bought my Instant Pot (pressure cooker), I am digging how easy it is to make beans from scratch. And they taste SO much better. Plus, then I can...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #411
Repairing my pants Those of you who have encountered NaNoWriMo will be familiar with the terms planner and pantser in reference to writing style. Planners, as the name implies, tend to map out the parameters of their story and have a clear idea of who their characters...
YeahWrite #410 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
To hail in a handbasket While literally everywhere else (it seems) in the US has record snow, I'm sitting at home watching our third hailstorm in two days. The hailstones are as big as my pinky fingernail, and are piling up in drifts trying to pretend they're snow....
YeahWrite #410 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Snow Problem My Facebook memories are flooded with photos of me and my family escaping the cold during school vacation, which normally makes me happy, only this year we stayed home so instead I'm jealous of my past. It doesn't help that we are getting up to seven more...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #410
Sad Memoir I recently had a self-published memoir foisted on me by someone close to the author. After reading the first page, I couldn't help but groan, which is a shame because I love well-written memoirs. I find it fascinating to read about the lives of strangers...
