Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #376
Setting Writing Aside As I begin to pack up my house to move, I'm trying to first set aside the things I know I won't need until we reach our new home in early August. It's pretty easy to tell what I'll use (flip-flops, mugs) and what I definitely will not...
YeahWrite #375 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it's the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. "We need writers because we need someone to...
YeahWrite #375 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Growing Season Summer has finally hit the Pacific Northwest - just in time for the solstice. WINTER IS COMING, Y'ALL. As usual, I can hardly wait. Still, we've got, I guess, our whole summer ahead of us, which will hopefully be long enough to grow all the things I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #375
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YeahWrite #374 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Finished! I've been rebuilding an old scooter all summer (or at least that's what it feels like, although summer hasn't technically started yet). First it was just a matter of siphoning out the old gas and adding new. Then it was replacing the battery. By the time I...
YeahWrite #374 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
The Little Bandit that Could Did you hear about the little raccoon that scaled one of the tallest buildings in Minnesota, presumably to look for a pigeon dinner? After surmounting this improbable climb, it was captured by animal control, who stated they'd release it...
Deconstructing Prompts – Complete
Prompts. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're at the center of most flash fiction writing. Whether you're dealing with a genre (or two), character, object, image, or something else entirely, the competition or anthology you're submitting to expects you to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #374
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YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Losing is just a statistic I was at the gym yesterday doing a timed workout with a small class. We had to do a certain amount of work on the stationary bikes, and then a set of movements with dumbbells, three times. One guy was struggling a little, and the class was...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nate the Great I was in Chicago earlier this week and I got to meet Nathan James in real life! We've been working together for a long time now, so of course we already know each other. Still, it was so much fun! Later he messaged me that the Palmer House in Chicago...
