Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
YeahWrite #451 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Glitter Season Sure, everyone has a favorite season. Pumpkin Spice season (hint: it's not spiced pumpkin)? Beach season? Me, I like Glitter Season. It starts at Halloween (or Diwali in years when Diwali comes first) and ends right around the Lunar New Year. In the...
YeahWrite #451 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Fa-la-la I can't help it: I'm a sucker for holiday carols. I'm not particularly religious and truth be told, I hate the snow, but no matter how Grinch-like I feel, all it takes is a cheerful rendition of Sleigh Ride or a four-part arrangement of In the Bleak...
YeahWrite #451 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
The jury is out I don't know about you, but November was a little of a bust for me in terms of writing. Between the holidays, a camping trip, and school-related activities for the kids, it was all I could do to keep up with YeahWrite, let alone my personal projects....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #451
The dudes stories are emerging Who got my Tropic Thunder reference in the title? Only me? Oh, okay then. Fine, I'll get on with it. I did a week long online workshop on flash/micro writing last week, which got me thinking about the story behind the story. The workshop...
YeahWrite #447 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Bodies in motion stay in motion Hello from the Windy City, where it almost, kinda, sorta snowed this week. You know who I get to see tonight? THAT'S RIGHT, it's a YeahWrite party for not just me but Nate. We're splitting our birthdays and going out. And it's been good...
YeahWrite #447 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Massahhhhhhge I feel like this woman right now. Why, you ask? Because I just had a massage and I feel so amazing. This time of year I often get the blues but I find if I treat myself to things that make me feel good, it takes the edge off of the colder, darker days....
YeahWrite #447 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Little talks It happens. You're at a party, at work, at the bus stop, and somebody launches into a fifteen minute version of a story that all boils down to something like, "the neighbor's cat stole my laundry," and you wonder, did they really need to put in all the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #447
Wait, hang on... I know it's Asha's turn to write the intro, and I'll let her do that in just a second, but have you heard about NaNoDoMore yet? It's YeahWrite's annual challenge to you. Well. To all of us who look at NaBloPoMo or NaNoWriMo and say... um... have you...
YeahWrite #442 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
IT IS MY SEASON AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS HOW HAPPY I AM It's pouring rain outside. I just ate grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. The sun goes down at a reasonable @#!$!@# hour. And I have more energy than at any time of the year. Which is good, because it's...
YeahWrite #442 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Let's Taco Bout It Oh hey, Friday is NATIONAL TACO DAY and I couldn't be more excited. Can you tell? Except I can't get quality tacos in Massachusetts the way I can in my home state of California. MA is more of a lobsta state, which is good in its own way. I still...
