Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #387
The Perils of Being a Writer Some years ago, I coined the phrase "Blogger's Neck." This is what I called it when my neck was stiff from looking down. I'm sure there's a more technical name for it and that other people have neck troubles. Still, it's one of...
YeahWrite #386 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Looking Forward to Winter Look, anyone can tell you I'm Team White Witch. Neverending winter is my idea of a perfect climate. But fall is pretty great, too, and we've got a lot to look forward to this fall. So even though temperatures where I live were well into the...
YeahWrite #386 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Stay Calm Everyone is back to school now here which means a greater hassle factor to do just about anything. I am not a fan of more traffic and long lines at the grocery store. I am not a very patient person and get easily annoyed when people aren't efficient....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #386
I Love September Even though summer for me is pretty much the same as the other months, I always love September. It just screams new start. Personally, I'm the walking embodiment of a new start, as today marks one month I've been living in California after...
Can you dig it?
This month's writing prompts are all about opening lines, but I'm still on my terminal words kick. Tritinas, diminishing poems, what's an editor in need of a poetry slam to do? Our September poetry slam takes a page out of Terrance Hayes' book - literally,...
Who do you think you are
I'm sorry in advance for all the earworms this post is about to contain. We're going to be talking through some potentially scary and also potentially boring material and this is going to help us get through. OK? Fine. Well, as the song says, Come on and...
YeahWrite #385 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Ugh, deadlines. If you're like me, you don't start writing until, well, the day the new Technique Toolbox is due. Or two hours before the grids close. I like to joke that I do some of my best writing on a tight deadline... but I'm lying. I do my most inspired writing...
YeahWrite #385 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Don't Blink My youngest baby started high school this week! How does time march so quickly? I remember when he was little as if it were yesterday and suddenly I must look up in order to meet his eyes. I'm trying not to blink right now because that's probably about how...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #385
Words of Wisdom There's a saying: Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. I know that writers often suffer from imposter syndrome, and sometimes we write something and think, "Wow, that is good!" Don't pretend you don't. If you didn't think...
YeahWrite #384 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Here comes the rain I'm a sucker for words. Precise, delicate words are all winners in my book: petrichor, liminal, coruscate, even diatribe. But this week I think my two favorite words in the English language are marine layer, the cool, blessed wad of damp air that's...
