Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Springing Into Action Spring is doing its very best to stage an appearance in the southern hemisphere. The days are getting longer and warmer, wildflowers are blooming, and my legs are finally emerging from the jeans that have been my winter uniform. It's also the...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
It's Way Too Early for This As I write this, it's Wednesday. It's only 2-cups-of-coffee-so-far o'clock, which means barely 7am. This post won't go live for about 89 hours and, if the way things have been going is any indication, literally anything can happen in the...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Ch-ch-ch-changes! While our antipodean contingent heads into spring and the US and Canada burn to the ground everywhere there's not 5 feet of standing water ease into autumn, change is on everyone's minds. So it shouldn't be a surprise to see the September...
Sijo what I did there?
I can’t believe it’s back-to-school time already. Whether you’re in school yourself or just providing taxi services to small schoolbound humans, you probably just lost a certain amount of free time in your schedule. That’s ok. This month’s poetry slam has...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Early fall? I spied a maple shedding pink leaves across the trail where I hike. It's very early for fall colors, but the sudden burst of color at my feet brightened my day. I hope reading and voting on the grids brightens yours! Popular voting for the YeahWrite #333...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
New Horizons Today is the first day of school for me, and going back this fall is hard, even harder than returning after maternity leave back in February. Part of it is that the relationship with my son is deepening. He is approaching my favorite age, that magic space...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Are You Just Dreaming? Now, I'm not one to go posting inspirational messages and whatnot, but I guess I was having a sappy moment when I first read about Norma Heath so I made a note to write about her in an upcoming kickoff. Norma was, at one time, homeless, a drug...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's been a week. What do you do for a writer's birthday? Well, if you're Claire Willett, former celebrity guest judge in our Fiction Super Challenge, you get the Kitchen Overlord to show up at your house and cook a The 100 themed meal. So that's where I...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Total solar eclipse? Check! I know this has nothing to do with writing or reading or voting. BUT I am a science geek so I feel compelled to tell you that, as someone who has seen quite a few annular (partial) solar eclipses, a total solar eclipse is the most amazing...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Changing Times It's been a tumultuous week. My eldest child turned 18 years old. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a big change, but technically, legally, he's now an adult. It is weird for me, as his mother, to come to grips with the change. I've spent all his...
