Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks Phew. Microprose, amirite? I'm not kidding when I say it's our hardest challenge, both from the writer's end and ours. Like every week, we keep an eye on the grid. We read (yes, even when we don't comment...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
It's the most wonderful time of the year About once a year, I get to steal my favorite writing partner (and second-favorite editor) and go out for happy hour. Of course, all we end up doing is talking about work; I'd say that's how much we love this job but let's be...
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In Misery, Stephen King wrote [Paul] understood what he was doing now as TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA. TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA wasn't the same thing as GETTING AN IDEA. GETTING AN IDEA was a more humble way of saying I am inspired, or Eureka! My muse has spoken!...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Reorienting I can count on one hand the number of times I've written anything in the last year. See, a year ago last Sunday I had a baby. I am not the sort of person to do anything by halves, so every ounce of my energy has gone into keeping him alive and clinging to...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Here's a Random Question Last week was Migraine Week here at YeahWrite. A bunch of us had them. I'm personally on Day 5 myself. I'd tell you the exact percentage of editors with migraines this week, but that's a lot of mathing, and I just don't have it in me. As a...
YeahWrite #328 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Bear with me It's a pun, get it? Sorry, my sense of humor isn't what it might be: I'm coming off a three-day migraine punctuated by texts from my dad asking if I've finished the bear bells for our camping trip yet. See, bear bells are... they're bells. You...
YeahWrite #328 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Flying high I'm in pre-vacation running around like a headless chicken mode. Whether or not I'll have time to read the grids is up in the air, but I hope everyone else takes the time to read, leave thoughtful comments, and vote! Popular voting for the YeahWrite #328...
YeahWrite #328 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Putting Pen To Paper I have begun this week by physically putting my words down on paper using a pen. I've mostly fallen out of the habit of writing out my stories, or anything longer than a shopping list or birthday card, but I owed a few people some lengthy letters....
YeahWrite #328 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Editors Are People Too Hi! As you know, I'm the Editor-in-Chief here at YeahWrite. Of all the editors, I've been hanging around these parts the longest (though I haven't been editor as long as one other - bonus points* if you know who has been editor here longer than...
YeahWrite #327 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Making the grade Most teachers get at least part of the summer off (supposedly; I see you, teachers, working on your syllabi on unpaid time, and I want to thank you for it). But here at YeahWrite we've been busy all week "grading" Super Challenge essays!...
