Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #392
Ideas, Relatability, and So What Audre Lorde* said, "There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt." Your story about this, that, or the other has been told before. It's also been felt a million different ways before. What you bring...
Super Challenge #10 Round Two is Underway!
Welcome back for Round Two of Super Challenge TEN! Well, you survived. That negative feedback you broke your heart over didn't knock you out of the competition. You've got your group assignment, you've stocked up on caffeine, and you're ready for the next round. Round...
YeahWrite #391 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Countdown to... Well, if you're on our fiction|poetry grid, that's a little nervewracking. If you're in the Super Challenge, though, you're counting down to your next prompt tonight. GOOD LUCK. While you're trying to stave off that impending ulcer, why not...
YeahWrite #391 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Back From Wining I spent all last week in my happy place, Wine Country, CA, ignoring all things YeahWrite thanks to Rowan and Michelle stepping in for me. Instead, I indulged in amazing food and tasty wine. This trip was a much needed break, and I'm now reenergized...
Congratulations to the Round One winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #10
Y'all, it's a Monday night, I'm trying to watch a movie, the dog is Making That Noise, and you really just want to know who's moving on, right? Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team's untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #391
Are Routines the Answer? Since up-ending my entire life a few months ago, I've found that every routine I had has fallen apart. I go to the grocery store almost every day. I don't leave the house for work anymore, so sometimes I don't get dressed until I...
YeahWrite #390 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Spin spin, sugar I rearranged my office this week. Got the club chair that turned into an oubliette for projects out and moved the spinning wheel in. I used to think I hated spinning, but that was when I only had a drop spindle. If you love a drop spindle, more power...
YeahWrite #390 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Read and Be Read This is Michelle, filling in for Stacie who is off this week and most likely drinking wine right now. One of the earliest slogans at YeahWrite was "Read and Be Read." It sounds perfect, right? We love to read great work, but we also want eyes on our...
Joy Writing
I don't know about you, but I get bored no matter what I'm doing, if I do it long enough. Even if it's writing. My favorite characters start staggering drunkly across the page, my intricate plots begin to dissolve, and my settings go cardboard-flat. But I...
Casting Call
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month's poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people's poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
