Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
I'm Baaaaack I'm back from ten days in California Wine Country and boy was that a much-needed break! Great wine, exceptional food, beautiful scenery; everything was amazing there, as usual. Also, I was barely online at all, which was just what I needed. And now I'm...
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Lazy days I'll admit it; I haven't been writing much. I've been editing like crazy, but I haven't been writing. I like editing just fine, but editing and writing activate different parts of my brain. I may get a great deal of satisfaction from improving something I've...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #377
Holidays, Micros, and Whatnot So, here in the US, July 4th is a holiday. As a nation, we'll be celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques and stuff. Frankly, I'm just grateful for a day off from my day job. In the rest of the world, I...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nate the Great I was in Chicago earlier this week and I got to meet Nathan James in real life! We've been working together for a long time now, so of course we already know each other. Still, it was so much fun! Later he messaged me that the Palmer House in Chicago...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Tricks or treats Hi everyone, it's Asha. I'm hosting the Microprose Challenge this month. Grab a canapé and a beverage of your choice and come on in! Microprose is one of the most challenging forms to write. You have a short word limit to capture your reader's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #373
Shout Out to the Best Team Ever Around 3am I woke up thinking, "Oh darn*, I forgot to write the intro!" (*It wasn't really "darn.") I am chronically overscheduled, I work too much and only remember to do things that I write down and that's only when I...
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YeahWrite #368 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
May the Fourth be with you Except you, Poe Dameron. But hey, you get to be the subject of my narrative rant this week. Mild TLJ spoilers to follow: If you have a character who relentlessly refuses to participate in the plot except to actively work against what your...
YeahWrite #368 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sun Kissed The bulbs are up, the flowering trees blossoming. Many of the other trees still appear bare, with small leaf buds only visible if you look carefully. It looks like spring but the temperature is full-on summer today. I'm happy, even though it doesn't yet...
YeahWrite #368 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
It's my party No really, it is! May is my birthday month. and so this month's challenge is all about me. I have been accused by some - and not without some basis in fact - of letting my writing slip from the lyrical into the florid. I pile lovely phrase upon lovely...