Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive

yeah write #230 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Off we go! Seven of us are heading to Long Beach Comic Con September 12-13. Are you making the trip? Come find us at our booth and be sure to sit in on our panel, The Future of Digital Storytelling, Sunday at 4:00 PM. Just think,...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #229: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's finally getting cold and dark where I live, and I couldn't be happier. While I know it'll be plenty warm in Long Beach next week, for now I'm enjoying the crispness of the air. I even had a spiced pumpkin latte...

yeah write #229 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 I have a friend who never publishes a first draft. When she bakes cupcakes for work functions, she does a trial run of the recipe the week before. When she sews, she...

yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Hello? Sometimes it feels like we're shouting into a void. The internet is huge. HUGE, people. How do you know there's anyone out there listening to your words? We're here; we're listening. I...

yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is this thing on? Hello! Just making sure you can hear me. I've got a ton of things to tell you and I don't want you to miss a single thing. September is all about journeys. We'll be talking about the monomyth, or hero's journey,...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I'd been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast. She's one of those people who...

yeah write #228 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 I'm the master of the Last Minute. I specialize in 7 minute sonnets, 24 hour thesis papers (j/k it was at least 32 and I was awake for all of them) and...

yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! School starts this week in my little corner of the galaxy. With one kid in pre-kindergarten and the other in first grade, this has the potential to bring either order or chaos to my life. I'm not...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #227: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's always a little weird to sit down and write the winners' post on a week when I've had a bunch of rejections. You know the ones: you submit a story or poem, wait for just long enough to think "well, if they were going...

yeah write #227 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 I had my first forkful of kimchi when I was twenty-two. And I hated it. On the surface, kimchi is everything I should like. It's spicy, it's fermented, it's cabbage....