Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite Super Challenge 8
Got a touch of cabin fever after this long winter? How about we get your creative ideas springing forth (see what I did there) with some juried flash fiction with cash prizes! That's right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's eighth Super Challenge! We're taking...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #358
Speaking of Dialogue... The Write Life is a great resource for all things writing. I get their emails so I often have some words of wisdom waiting for me when I finally get around to cleaning up my email. They recently sent out some information about...
YeahWrite #357 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Go ahead. Ask me anything. We get a lot of questions around here. How long does your post have to be? (750 words or fewer) OK, so what's the lower limit? (There isn't one, but finish what you have to say) Does it have to be grammatically perfect? (That's a trickier...
YeahWrite #357 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Leaving on a Jet Plane My brain is already in South Florida even though I don't leave until Friday. Normally, when we vacation during Presidents' week, we are escaping the bitter bitter cold for shorts weather. This year, New England's February has been relatively...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #357
The First Book Like many writers, I grew up reading. My mom loved to read and she later worked in a library where I got to spend many afternoons just reading. I think I took out How to Be Funny, a book I cannot find proof of on the internet so you'll have...
YeahWrite #356 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Whatever the Reason Stacie's got her fitbit. I've got Pokemon GO. Don't judge; I bet I'll walk more steps than her today, since the next wave of Pokemon are being released. My dog has never gotten so much exercise in her life. It doesn't matter, in the end, what gets...
YeahWrite #356 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Color Me Fit I bought a new fitbit this week because the band on my old one broke and is not fixable since the model I had was old, from the pre-exchangeable-band days. My new one came with two bands and one is purple, so obviously I love it as much as I love the idea...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #356
Perseverance My 11 year old has embarked on several months of rigorous training leading up to a test to receive his black belt. He's nervous, and rightfully so, as the training, qualification, and testing are all pretty intense. As I write, he's 36 hours...
YeahWrite #355 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Schedules are hard I'm sitting here waiting for a Hot Pocket (tm) to cool down from "molten with a lump of still-frozen filling at the center" to "yeah you could eat that" and I suspect I'm going to miss the edibility window and end up chewing my way through congealed...
Fun With Words – Complete
If you've been hanging around YeahWrite for a while, you've probably picked up on the fact that I dig poetry. I started writing poems in elementary school after devouring my first Shel Silverstein book. I loved the playfulness and creativity I discovered in every line...
