Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive
yeah write weekly writing challenge #307 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #307 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...
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Enough about writing; let's talk about reading. For this month's nonfiction knowhow, I want you to take a little break from your own writing. I'm always harping on how being a better reader will make you a better writer. But how do you become a better reader, and what...
Drawing a blank
Big changes are in the air for yeah write. That's why I want to get back to the basics this month. The basics of poetry, that is. It's been almost two years since we first delved into blank verse for a poetry slam, and while I'd like to pretend all the new folks go...
yeah write #307 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
this post is yet to be birthed In my last few fiction|poetry kickoff posts I've been giving away my secrets as a copyeditor. The copyeditor takes care of the superficial editing, such as typos, grammar issues, and punctuation issues, but my biggest task as a...
yeah write #307 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Little Voices Do you have a little voice inside your head? I do. The one I hear the most is the one that tends to give me a hard time, trying to instill doubt at every turn. What's worse, I think, is that every time something is...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #306: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The last round of the super challenge opens tonight, and I'm looking forward to having the weekend off. That's the funny thing about workflow, isn't it? If I'm writing, probably the rest of the community isn't, and vice versa. It's a...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #306 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #306 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 #306 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
scraping out your insides with a knife I’ve been tussling with a short story this week. The prompt for it came from a conversation with my in-laws on Christmas Day. Christmas dinner was at our place this year, two days after we moved into a new house. I’m a committed...
yeah write #306 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Winter doldrums I'm over it. The snow, the ice, the cold. I've hit my breaking point. That's why Rowan was kicking things off last weekend - I was sulking. To be fair, this weekend it's supposed to be nice in New Jersey where I...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #305: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everything old is new again. And for once I'm not talking about fascism. No, I fell down my own staircase Wednesday morning. It's like I haven't lived in this house for over a decade, y'know? Waved my foot over the first stair and...
