Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Oof It's been one hell of a week. I can only hope that in the midst of all the terrible things happening in the world, writing and YeahWrite in particular can be of solace to any of you who are suffering. As writers, our words are powerful. They can be the voice of...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
I'm back, did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? I just spent a week in the mountains with no internet but lots of storytelling (and bears there were bears real live bears they were right next to us). My dad and I still go backpacking together...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Heading towards totality I'm flying to Oregon this weekend to visit my parents and see a total eclipse of the sun for the first time. My nerd genes are quivering with excitement. What are you excited about? Reading and voting on the grids? Good! Popular voting for the...
Fictioneers, start your engines: Registration for YeahWrite’s 6th Super Challenge is OPEN
If money grew on trees, would it fall into my hands in the autumn? Money doesn't, tragically (or actually when you consider how inflation works, that's probably a good idea), grow on trees. But it does grow with each additional registration in the YeahWrite Super...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Under Pressure I don't know about you, but I put a lot of pressure on myself to produce exquisite work. If what I create is less than stellar, I mentally flog myself. This is not necessarily a useful mental habit, but hey, I'm working on lightening up on myself. In...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sharing Is Caring I feel like I've used that heading title before but I can't remember. Oh well. Regardless, the sentiment remains. The Weekly Writing Challenges rely on you, our audience and participants, to spread the word. When you tweet, share links on Facebook,...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
There's a First Time for Everything I'm fairly certain that this is the first winners' post I've ever written. But Rowan went and left the building* and now I'm here writing a winners' post. My calendar tells me she'll be back next week** so maybe this...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Whining I just returned from a week in wine country and now I'm whining because I want to live there right now! Even so, it's good to be home and sleep in my very own bed. It's also good to jump back in to YeahWrite! Let's do it. Popular voting for the YeahWrite #330...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Accountability Check Hey y'all! Remember two weeks ago I said I was trying something new with my writing? My big plan was to spend ten minutes every day physically writing with a pen and a piece of paper. I was hopeful that this would kick start some creativity, or at...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
How Much Do You Want to Win? When I first started participating at YeahWrite, I kept a spreadsheet of what post I submitted, how many were on the grid, where I ranked and if I got an Editor's Pick (note: that column was almost always blank). I studied those who did...
