Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Hello, darlings! This morning a friend challenged us to post a single sentence or paragraph from something we were working on. Trying to do that - to pick out that one perfect sentence among many - is almost the opposite of the old advice to "kill your darlings." It...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Summer reading My summer officially starts next week, with the end of my son's school year. I don't know when I'll manage to write again, but I do know I'll read more during my less structured schedule. I love to read! Speaking of reading, popular voting for the...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
When Flash Goes Rogue I've made a rod for my own back. Several weeks ago, I wrote a flash speculative fiction piece that centred around the theme word revenge. In a nutshell, the main character goes all Lorena Bobbitt on her boyfriend, in revenge for a presumed...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Crookneck Squash When I'm pressed for time and deadlines loom, I like to procrastinate by reading random things I wrote years ago. While casually wasting time yesterday, I found a charming sentence I concocted involving crookneck squash. I haven't thought about...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
When it rains, it pours It's been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I'm 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it's only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours, frantically trying to...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Tea for three Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a tasty snack, and settle down to read and vote on three writing challenge grids this week. Yes three! The microprose challenge returns the first week of every month. Happy reading! Popular voting for the yeah write #321...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Word Mice I think of them as word mice hiding in little pockets of my stories. These mice are filler words such as seem, turn, and reach with tails and little claws that burrow into the insulation of a story I'm building. They're tricky. Sometimes writers need these...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Is it Sunday again already? Memorial Day, a federal holiday here in the US, was last Monday, so most people had the day off from work. That made it a short week at my day job. I don't know about you, but short weeks somehow always feel longer than regular weeks (which...
Congratulations to the winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #4!
This is the end, my friend The judges' results are in and tallied and we're ready to announce the winners of our fourth Super Challenge! Winners, you'll also get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you. We hope you've had as much fun...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
OK, but was it made of cheese or not? 51 years ago today, the first US spacecraft soft-landed on another world. Well, ok, on the Moon. It's a whole nother round thing out there in space, though, you know? Moments like these spark our imagination in so many ways....
