Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
The Scarlet Quill Society: What and Why are Tropes?
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 #612 Weekly Writing Challenge
New Year, New View So we’re all looking down the barrel of 2023. I’ll tell you right now I do not believe in resolutions. If I want to change, I will. If it doesn’t stick, it must not be working for me. I don’t see the use in nagging myself for a month or two to make...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #26
A few of my favorite things No, it's not raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. OK the kittens thing maybe. I don't have a cat problem, and I'm not a cat lady, I swear. But besides kittens, what I love is feedback from our judges that goes like this: Every story...
YeahWrite #611 Weekly Writing Challenge
Happy Merry Bah Humbug Whether you observe religious celebrations at this time of year or not, it's still a busy time. The end of the calendar year is often when contests are winding up, submissions windows are closing, and rejections or acceptances are flying through...
YeahWrite #610 Weekly Writing Challenge
Healthy Habits I'm sure we've all heard the ol' saying that "Real writers write every day." I used to ascribe to this, dragging myself to the keyboard each and every day, forcing terrible words out of me even though it was the last thing I wanted to do that day. As I...
YeahWrite #609 Weekly Writing Challenge
Let it snow It snowed at my house this week. Before anyone jumps up to say that that's nothing special and I'm only excited because I live in the Pacific Northwest where it's more likely to rain than either snow or be sunny, I need you to know that I was also this...
The final round of Super Challenge #26 is underway!
Put a bow on it We're wrapping up the year (see what I did there) with our last Super Challenge round of 2022. We apologize in advance for making you go through pretty much any holiday you might be celebrating this month while waiting to see who won, and...
YeahWrite #608 Weekly Writing Challenge
A light in the dark My neighbors have all already hung their holiday lights [ed's note: if you've been watching the Scarlet Quill Society meetings, you know I never took mine down. /rbg] . Me, I'm behind the ball on this one. It was raining on the day I'd set aside...
The Scarlet Quill Society: DIY? Why Not?
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #26
Why we're all here I'm going to keep this short and sweet - we all know you're really here for the results! As YeahWrite's Editor-in-Chief, I don't usually get the chance to comment on the Super Challenge stories. But I do make a point to read as many as I can, during...
