Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #339
Look out below! Last week we launched a new format for the Weekly Writing Challenges. Instead of hunting all over for your grid to submit your work or having to remember what day it is to know if your challenge is open, we've put everything into one streamlined...
YeahWrite #338 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Deadlines Do they motivate or terrify you? I've got a few major ones this week for my own job, and we've got a couple more at YeahWrite: today is the last day to sign up for Summaries class, and next Wednesday registration closes for Super Challenge #6...
YeahWrite #338 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot Spot My dog Buster has a hot spot. Again. He simply cannot leave anything alone. This time, a bee stung him as far as I know since I pulled one out of his hair near that spot. I saw no visual evidence of a sting, but all the same he licked and chewed until his...
What’s Your Point… of View?
It's Techtober! With so many folks gearing up for NaNoWriMo and the fall writing competition season (including our own Super Challenge #6), I thought we'd skip our usual poetry slam this month and talk about a fiction (or nonfiction) technique instead....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #338
You're Really Going to Want to Read This I love to tell you quirky things about myself, so here's another one: I'm totally freaked out by change and yet I crave it constantly. That means I am often looking for new and different experiences and then I make...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Sunday SUNDAY Sundayyyyyy! It's one of those posts, folks. I'm announcing the winners, but I'm also giving you a heads up about so much more. Or you could, you know, scroll straight to the bottom. I don't care. I don't put any work into these posts or...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Social Butterfly I've had social obligations every evening for the past week, which has been both fun and exhausting (even for an extrovert). I really want to spend the next few days under a blanket with a good book but alas I have 8th grade back-to-school-night to...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Sensational I just read an interesting article about sense words in fiction. You know, saw, heard, felt, smelled, touched. The author, Kathy Steinemann, pointed out that sense words filter imagery through a character instead of allowing the reader to experience the...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Seasonal Thoughts It's officially autumn here in the US, which means I'm officially depressed that in three months it will officially be winter. In the meantime, we have a few months of people either talking about or making fun of pumpkin spice. On the bright side, in...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now" Louisa May Alcott said that first, or so the Internet tells me, but I'm feeling it right now. My espresso machine has been broken for a month and I've been spending my mornings hunched over the stove,...
