Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #409 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
But how do you do it? I used to refer to fostering retired greyhounds as "serial pet dating" when people asked me how I could stand to just, you know, not keep them all. "I would have 50 dogs," they laughed ruefully. But it's not like that: while Mister, or Dioggi...
YeahWrite #409 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Dog Gone I realize it's not fall, but when I saw this photo, I had to choose it because the dog reminds me of the first shelter dog I fell in love with when I started volunteering last August. Chiclet wove his way into the fabric of my heart and nearly became my third...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #409
Mold I am a practical person. I am often teased in my family for including things like new sheets, a humidifier, a new pair of rubber boots on my Christmas wish list, and never anything fun. I also adhere pretty strictly to a routine. So much so that my cat Link...
YeahWrite #408 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
All I can think of is bird jokes and it's all Stacie's fault Well, it's looking like my little piece of the world is finally about to get some winter, and I'm here for it. Sorry to the folks in Seattle with the sold out grocery stores (seriously, it's gonna be like, a...
YeahWrite #408 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Finish Line How do I become one of those people who just stops reading books they aren't into? I have this odd sense of duty to finish what I start. I know that's misguided, but I can't help myself. When I am in a slower period of devouring books, like now, the reason...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #408
The Timing Is Never Right I don't have time to write. I don't have a good place to write. If I'm going to write, I need a dedicated day to do it. I need to have a perfect setup with nice pens and a cup of tea and, I don't know, a cookie or something. Not this cookie,...
YeahWrite #407 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Haters gonna hate It's literally a HUNDRED DEGREES FAHRENHEIT warmer where I am than where my friends are... and it's still not warm. That's ok; they've promised me snow next week, which means I'll see four or five anemic flakes before the temperature rises 6 degrees...
Arting about art
Welp, it's February again, which means I'm locked into my annual quest to find something that's not a frickin sonnet for our poetry slam. Not that there's anything wrong with sonnets (and in fact, I'm going to let you write a sonnet this month if that's your jam) but...
YeahWrite #407 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Brrrrr YeahWrite voting day is so cold here in New England, but I'm not complaining after reading about -20°F temperatures in the US Midwest (and that's without the windchill). Wait, yes I am. I hate being cold and just because my 3°F cold isn't as bad as their cold...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #407
Story Time It's almost February (where did January go?) and time to refocus on writing and telling stories. The end of January brings with it the Society for Storytelling's National Storytelling Week in the UK. Officially starting on January 26 and ending February 2,...
