Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
It Takes a Village to Write a Book I’ve been joining things over the last week. Writing groups, blogging challenges, regular meetings with writer friends. If you sat still with a cup of coffee, I’d very likely join you too. It began as an attempt to revive my sagging...
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Writers Need to Talk I'm the stuckest of stucks in my writing. I have two major WIPs: First is a memoir I'm supposed to be editing. Second is this thing I've dubbed The Fiction Project (TFP) because I don't know what it is (or maybe I do, but I'm scared to say it out...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Warning: Weekend Approaching And it's a holiday weekend, too. Whichever holiday - if any - you're observing, I hope you have a meaningful one, with as much solemnity or joy as your heart needs to find in the occasion. Also, I thought I was gonna make it through the...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Cheesy opening line goes here It's National Grilled Cheese Day. Which I celebrated by having half my grocery delivery lost in transit, including the cheese. Writing's like that too sometimes: we think we know where we're going with a story or essay, but we might end...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
I found a poem in my clothes hamper yesterday So maybe you've heard that it's National Poetry Month. To celebrate I've committed to writing a poem a day in April. This is the first time I've ever blocked out a specific time every day in which to write, and it's...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
So, You're a Writer? Earlier today, I was volunteering with some people from my Day Job. One of them, a woman I don't have occasion to speak to very often said to me, "So, you're a writer? Do you have a book or something?" Now, I do marketing, social media, and blog...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
cough. cough. cough. The only thing worse than having bronchitis for two weeks is trying to edit what you wrote during those two weeks. One hit of cough syrup and every defense I have against overblown metaphor, word overuse, and over.. you know what, I was gonna do a...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Go for the gusto! "Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal." --Ava DuVernay I will admit, I've been so distracted for nearly a year that I feel like I can't even remember what my goals are. I'm not the...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Happy Birthday To Me! I love April. I was born in April and I got married in April, so this month is already one of my favourites. On top of that, I share my birthday month with YeahWrite, so I feel like all the exciting things happening around here are joyous...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
March is the Worst and Other Complaints My therapist told me I need to look for the good things when I'm feeling troubled. Here's the good thing about March: it's over. March around here was filled with sickness, rain, snow, more sickness, too much work, that ominous...
