Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #620 Weekly Writing Challenge
Rut Roh I'm in a rut, what feels like a fairly substantial one. Lately it seems like any progress I make in any part of my life, the universe comes for me, shoving me backward. Two steps forward, fourteen steps back. Focusing on my writing, time is my issue. My 'real...
YeahWrite #619 Weekly Writing Challenge
Talk to the duckie For some reason, when I went to law school, people were bewildered. "Why wouldn't you do something with computers, you're always on the computer," they said. Aside from the fact that just because you might be good at something doesn't mean you owe...
YeahWrite #618 Weekly Writing Challenge
In the doldrums Doldrums is one of those words that sounds to me like exactly what it is: a dreary, sluggish, stagnant state of mind. It's easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day (especially for this Pacific Northwest writer in February) and lose sight of the clear...
YeahWrite #617 Weekly Writing Challenge
I totally already stole candy from the dish on your end table It’s February 1st. If 2023 were a house, we’d be through the breezeway and stepping into the living room.If you wanted to do something differently with your writing, have you started? What can a writing...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Building Blocks to Bridges
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #616 Weekly Writing Challenge
Hard reset I'm not a big believer in New Year's resolutions or intentions or words. I start off enthusiastically enough, but fold pretty quickly under the pressure to conform to some imaginary standard. You know, that goal that's just a little too high, a little too...
YeahWrite #615 Weekly Writing Challenge
New Year, New Offerings Our community has been begging us to put out an anthology for years, and though it's been high on our list, we knew we had to wait until the perfect time so that we had the resources and knowledge to do it right. Well, that time is now,...
YeahWrite #614 Weekly Writing Challenge
Building blocks I can't tell you how excited I am for this year's workshop series. It's near and dear to my heart, as a writer and reader of ... well, everything. We've taken you through how to deal with prompts. With how to edit your work. And now we're cycling back...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 27th AND 28th Super Challenges
Enticing? It's a new year, and we're enthused. We hope you're as enraptured as we are by the news that YeahWrite is putting together our first ever anthology, and that you're... you know what, I designed this whole paragraph around a bunch of "en" words and now I'm...
YeahWrite #613 Weekly Writing Challenge
New news for a new year I know I said it in our January email, but happy New Year, YeahWriters! I don't generally do resolutions, but this year I'm hoping to rediscover the joy of writing. I'm going to write what makes me happy (or satisfied - sometimes my favorite...
