Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #390
Writing as Respite When things are difficult, write. For many, it's a rough time right now. Write, my friends, and let it heal you. Whether it be something extremely personal that you never show a soul, a response to what you see around you, a scathing...
Super Challenge #10 Round One is Underway!
Welcome to the Super Challenge! If it's your first time here at this competition designed by writers and for writers (seriously we'd like to quit our jobs and enter, do you want to run this thing for a while) welcome. We hope you'll have as much fun writing to the...
YeahWrite #389 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Dystopian Fiction I dunno, y'all, do you still read dystopia? It's starting to lose its charm when I can just open up the Washington Post. In other news, a giant meteor missed us, so those of you on Team Giant Meteor 2020 need to work harder if this is all you can get...
YeahWrite #389 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Something Old? Something New? After having written the voting post weekly for quite some time, I fear that one day I might revisit a story I've already told. It's not out of the question. My brain is aging, after all. So if I ever do that, you have a few options. You...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #389
Where Have I Heard This Before? There's a very fine line between relatable and trite. In fact, it's so fine I think it's actually blurred more often than not. If you've heard one toddler tantrum tale, you've heard them all, right? On many occasions of...
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The last refuge of pedantry Tired of people lording it over you because you used "less" where you should have used "fewer?" Fear no more, reader! I've got your back. It's confusing, because the opposites of both words, are the same: MORE. The YeahWrite Super Challenge...
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Switching Seasons Fall is in the air. I'd be ok with that except for the "winter is coming" part. I hate winter as much as Rowan hates summer. We'd be a terrible couple except for the part where she knits hats for me; that part would be awesome. I will admit though,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #388
The Most Important Thing You can have all the tools in the world, but they mean nothing if you're missing one critical element every writer needs: snacks. I live in a house with an 11-year-old, so there's no shortage of snacks here. However, trapped in a...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
But first, a shameless plug Y'all, with less than two weeks left in the registration timeline, we've hit a $200 prize pot for Super Challenge 10. If you haven't signed up yet, what are you waiting for? In the meantime, of course, you can practice your prompted fiction...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hampered by Hamstrings My yoga class restarted this morning after the usual summer break. Boy am I going to be sore tomorrow. Also, it's amazing how quickly I lost what little flexibility I had gained during the year. I knew I should have kept up with at least the...