Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
YeahWrite #325 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Every New Beginning Comes from some other beginning's end. (You've probably noticed I often think in song lyrics.) I don't know if I hate endings so much because I'm not a fan of change or the sadness that comes with the finality of things being over. It's probably...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
When it rains, it pours It's been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I'm 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it's only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours, frantically trying to...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Tea for three Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a tasty snack, and settle down to read and vote on three writing challenge grids this week. Yes three! The microprose challenge returns the first week of every month. Happy reading! Popular voting for the yeah write #321...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
One Isn't The Loneliest Number Hoorah! It's microprose time again. I'm filling in for Christine through the northern hemisphere summer, and I'm so excited. Microprose holds a very special place in my heart. For the past three years, I've participated in a weekly flash...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Is it Sunday again already? Memorial Day, a federal holiday here in the US, was last Monday, so most people had the day off from work. That made it a short week at my day job. I don't know about you, but short weeks somehow always feel longer than regular weeks (which...
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...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Love 'em and leave 'em I'm in love with my own words. I admit it. There are times I look at a page and I cannot quite fathom cutting a single syllable. But my job as a writer is to figure out what's at the heart of my words and to whittle away everything around that....
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
It's Not New, But It's Good I was recently reading an article about how to get started writing. It wasn't necessarily genre-specific, but the advice was pretty solid, if nothing new. (A better person would have remembered where she saw this article and would have...
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...
