Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sprucing Up the Joint You've probably noticed by now that we slapped a fresh coat of paint on the walls of YeahWrite. We may have changed the look, and even how we write the name (two caps, no space), but we also updated the site's navigation and threw in a few fun...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #309: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
After you read this, this post will self-destruct. No, just kidding, but the site might. Keep your fingers crossed. As part of our sixth birthday celebration (YW #312 is coming up fast!) we're doing a little maintenance today. Hopefully it will be seamless....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #309 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
dangly bits In my series of posts on copy editing, I wanted to discuss those grammar mistakes with a sense of humor: dangling participles. Before I go into dangling participles, I need to tell you about participial phrase first. A participial phrase includes a...
yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge kickoff
The complexity of time Forgive me for giving you another intro based on my geographic location, but this is Daylight Saving Time weekend. At 2:00 AM it magically turns into 3:00 AM, taking away a precious hour. I don't know about you, but I need more hours in my day,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #308: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
You're all winners. Just kidding. No, I'm not. Because there's a lot of ways to "win" here at yeah write. Whether you're at the top of the crowd vote this week or whether you won our super challenge (winners will be announced at 10pm tonight, folks, so stay tuned),...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #308 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
write what you know You’ve probably heard this advice before. On the face of it, it seems so obvious. What else are you going to write? But what does it actually mean? Can you only ever write of things you have personal experience, expertise or knowledge of? If so,...
yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge kickoff
It's always more than you think I think we've mentioned here a time or two that there are some changes coming down the line here at yeah write. Well. The closer we get to unveiling them, the more I know you're going to love them. I still can't quite tell you what they...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #307: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some things are a mystery: who's going to win our super challenge; the location of the Holy Grail; why I can't have nice things. Others aren't: maintaining a regular writing practice where you hear and incorporate useful feedback...
