Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive

yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Every day I ride my bike to work, rain or shine. That's not so bad. But every day I have to ride my bike home again, which means struggling up a long, steep incline trying not to fall over or pass out. My...

yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The way things are Sometimes the morning comes and you just hate everything. The kids woke you up a dozen times in the night. It's still dark and the heat hasn't come on. When you go to write your next blog post, your computer is...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #257: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's been a long week, folks. A looooong week. But it's almost over. Just one more day between me and yardwork. Wait, that didn't sound so good. No matter how interesting a project is, when you've been doing it a while it gets to be...

yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here First off, it's dark when I wake up again and I hate it. HATE IT. 'K, there's my allcaps rant about Daylight Saving Time knocked out for another year. It doesn't help...

yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Time's a-flying. Would you believe it's been nearly two years since we started the microstory challenge at yeah write? That's right: the very first microstory challenge--originally called the...

yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is it Sunday again? I swear, the weeks get shorter and shorter. And suddenly, here we are getting ready for another round of challenges and creativity. Are you in? Welcome! We've seen a number of new faces around here the last...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #256: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some idiot is building four houses across the road from me. In March, in Oregon. Yeah it's been raining into those houses since they dug the foundation. I have no idea how or why they would think that's not a recipe for a moldy...

yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Guys, I know I usually start these posts off with a little bit of advice based on some trend I saw during the week at yeah write, but my dude and his buddies took...

yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! A long time ago in a galaxy... You know the rest. But I'm not here to talk about Star Wars; I'm here to talk about The Only Living Boy. Remember how a long time ago (September) when yeah write took the galaxy...

yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Just what the doctor ordered We talk a lot about how hard writing is, how difficult it is to find the time, how disheartening it is to stare at a blank page or screen, how nothing is ever, ever good enough. So why do we do it? Just...