Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Vote, vote, like a baby stoat! If you're in the USA like me, chances are you voted on Tuesday. But it's Wednesday now, so if you've still got that voting fever, have I got an opportunity for you: Popular voting for the yeah write #318 weekly writing challenge is now...
Congratulations to the Round 2 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #4
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Round Two of the Super Challenge took that literally, giving eighteen writers a chance to tell us a thousand words and include that gorgeous visual prompt. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge for Fiction | Poetry is open!
The Summary Of All Its Parts Many years ago, I worked at a university. Part of my job was to write and edit academic papers and reports. Anyone who’s ever written such a report knows that often the only part of it anyone actually reads is the executive summary. So,...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
I'm Throwing Down a Challenge Why do we write? I suppose there are many reasons, but I think all of them can get traced back to one simple idea: we want to be read. Whether it's that we hope to publish a book, or get our short story picked up in a journal, or have our...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Work with me here See that picture up there? For the last three days, that was my office. I mean, not the ocean. But I took that picture from my "desk chair" with my laptop firmly planted across my legs and the novel I'm editing onscreen. Sometimes all it takes is a...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Quiet time My son, the recent victim of a fairly prolific spring virus, has missed school for the last two days. He has a field trip on Friday to Six Flags (I know), so I'm sure he'll be better by then. In the meantime, it's quiet here, perfect for reading the grids....
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge for Fiction | Poetry is open!
I've Heard It All Before I'm gonna ask all of you to indulge me a moment while I fess up to a writing pet peeve. Out of all the thousands of clichés in all of writing history there is one that almost always makes me grit my teeth: Tears. (You couldn't hear it, but the...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
So What're You Gonna Do? You've heard the advice about getting out of your comfort zone to help your writing. We all know that submitting work opens you up to rejection, and that alone can be enough of a deterrent. It's hard to find time to write. Life gets in the way...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cinco De Mayo or Revenge of the Fifth? Whatever your reason for celebrating today - maybe just "It's Friday" - over here at YeahWrite we're celebrating our popular vote winners and editorial staff picks. See, while there’s a popular vote winner every week, we don’t...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Look, ducks! My college roommate used to say "Look, ducks!" while pointing in the opposite direction as a distraction when she wanted to steal food from my plate. Distraction might be a useful strategy for culinary orgasms, but it's not so good for writing. While not...
