Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #368 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sun Kissed The bulbs are up, the flowering trees blossoming. Many of the other trees still appear bare, with small leaf buds only visible if you look carefully. It looks like spring but the temperature is full-on summer today. I'm happy, even though it doesn't yet...
I Ode U
I'm still skipping sonnets But it's spring here in the Pacific Northwest, and I've been reminded that it's time to explore another classic form: the ode. Odes were once so numerous that their name became a synonym for "poem." And who hasn't heard an...
Writing About Writing
So you're ready to be a writer, eh? You've got your drafts, you've met a beta reader or two, and you're ready to hear criticism. You've found a writing group, online or off, and you think they're a great fit for you. Now it's your big day: you've traded...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #368
Did You Get Your Swag Yet? I would have a picture of me in my swag for you, but I spilled yogurt on the shirt yesterday and now it's in the laundry (don't judge me for how backed up the laundry is). The pants are in there as well because I wore them for...
Super Challenge #8 Round 2 is Underway!
All right, folks, here we go! It's time to kick off Round Two of the YeahWrite Super Challenge, with another two-prompt pairing for your writing pleasure. In this round, our writers will be working with an opening phrase and a scene. A few tips and pointers about this...
YeahWrite #367 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
UFOs and YOU I'm a knitter. Anyone who knows me in person, however tangentially, has seen me with needles and yarn in my hands. My yarn stash is at the point where i have to have rules like "the pretty yarn is allowed to be in the living room and the ugly yarn lives...
YeahWrite #367 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sign Here I have such bad timing luck when packages requiring an adult signature are delivered. Normally, I come home to the first notice, followed by the second notice and then have to pick up my package at the holding station. This week, unusually, two packages...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #8
I love prompt combos, don't you? (Kidding, but the results from our last survey say you do, so I'm going to go ahead and assume.) You know what I love even more, though? Sneak peeks into the judges' group. Overall, our crew had two general comments to make about the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #367
Surprise! Okay, so remember way back in the beginning of April I told you that you definitely wanted to be here with us this last week of April? (It's fine if you don't, I barely remember where I am anymore.) Well, it's time for me to finally announce the...
YeahWrite #366 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... Asha. I wouldn't tell, but she's been pretty open about how totally cool it is that YeahWrite's seventh birthday and her seven-times-seventh birthday fall in the same month. As a present for Asha, why not drop by the coffeehouse after you check...