Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
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Let's take a mid-season break! Where I'm sitting, it's almost midsummer. Editor Asha, in Australia, is watching midwinter approach. But no matter where in the world you are, it's a season of song. Some of us are singing around beach bonfires, others are caroling or...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet treat Happy National Macaroon Day! Yes, really. I can't think of anything I'd rather do right now than munch on macaroons while voting on the grids. [Ed's note: do you have any idea how hard it is to find a stock photo of a macaroon rather than a macaron?...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
It Is Easier To Give Than Receive Yesterday, I went to an Australian Rules Football game. Bear with me, I’ll talk about writing. I really will. Without going into the details of scoring, which can be obtuse if you’ve never encountered an AFL game before, my team lost...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sunshine Day. As I was driving earlier, I noticed the sun was shining. This may not be a big deal where you are, but here in NJ, it's huge. I feel like it's been raining for months. It's been chilly and dreary - not at all like spring. So today, cruising along with...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's practically Solstice So of course spring has finally sprung where I live. My tardy dogwood is blooming (a month after every other dogwood here has lost its petals) and the lavender is budding up. I've moved my home office out to the porch and hung the sun...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Weed or flower? One person's weed is another person's flower. Which pieces bloomed for you this week? Let us know in the vote! Popular voting for the yeah write #319 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Counting eggs Have you ever reread one of your stories and realized you forgot to include a key detail? I so do this all the time. My brain is so focused on the details of a story I forget to mention the setting or describe a character. Just this weekend I almost...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
What's Your Excuse? Every time I have to correct my 10 year old, he has some kind of excuse. "I was just gonna..." "But, I was {doing this other thing}..." "That's not what I was doing..." "Sigh. Eye roll." (Okay, he doesn't actually say that.) He can't do the thing I...
The Final Round of Super Challenge #4 is Underway!
Well, here we are. It's the final round of YeahWrite's fourth Super Challenge. We're down to ten fantastic writers and we can't wait to see what they come up with! This round, our writers will be combining tropes from two genres to make a blended-genre story. A few...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
My SEO tracker says I should say "winner" here There's a weird liminal space between writing for formal publication and writing journals, and a lot of our online writing falls into that space. Is it a blog? A writer's personal website? What? Depending on how you view...
