Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
yeah write #166 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster voting is open
Greetings, Earthlings! The gargleblasters have been flowing freely. Now it’s time to put your ear to the wall and listen -- really listen -- for the words that made you feel something. What’s that sound? Pay attention to structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation....
yeah write #166 weekly writing challenge: the gargleblaster challenge is open
Greetings, Earthlings! Do you hear that? Yeah, me too. Maybe it’s just that the kids are in bed, but there’s a certain something I’m hearing in the [relative] silence. If I concentrate really hard, I think I can pick out the scritch-scritch-scritch of a hundred...
yeah write #165 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster winners
Greetings, Earthlings! How are you all doing? Feeling full of grace? I have to say, I love what you all did with this week’s ultimate question: Did Grace say that, too? It was a hard one. You were working with a question around which it was difficult to create...
yeah write #165 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster voting is open
Greetings, Earthlings! This was a particularly tricky question; we know it. That was on purpose. We wanted to push you a bit to see how you handled it. The question forced us to think about context, but also about structure. How did you approach the question?...
yeah write #165 weekly writing challenge: the gargleblaster challenge is open
Greetings, Earthlings! Summer is almost here, and our thoughts are turning towards barbecues, vacations, and that ever-growing pile of books on our bedside tables. To be a writer is to be, above all, a reader, and yet it seems like there’s never enough time to do...
yeah write #164 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster winners
Greetings, Earthlings! It was a crazy couple of days over at the gargleblaster! We closed the grid in record time - 10 hours - and a few people were taken by surprise, myself included. Those of you who were more on the ball than I was managed to hitchhike, which is...
yeah write #164 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster voting is open
Greetings, Earthlings! A little bird told me you had fun with this prompt. I logged on at 6:30 AM Pacific time, and the grid was hopping. By about 7:00 (10:00 AM Eastern), the grid was full. That's 10 hours, people. This editor never had a chance! I even gave up on...
yeah write #164 weekly writing challenge: the gargleblaster challenge is open
Greetings, Earthlings! This week we’re talking about freedom. As you all know by now, we lost a unique voice this week. Maya Angelou was a champion of freedom in all of its forms: freedom from fear, freedom from bias, freedom of self-expression, and freedom to follow...
yeah write #164 weekly writing challenge kickoff: farewell Maya Angelou, challenge winners round-up, gargleblaster prompt, badges are ready
Remembering a phenomenal woman We say farewell this week to one of the world’s most revered poets, essayists, and storytellers, Maya Angelou. (Read her astounding biography at poetryfoundation.org.) Whether we know it or not, her work has touched us all. She was a...
yeah write #163 weekly writing challenge: gargleblaster winners
Greetings, Earthlings! So it turns out this week’s ultimate question (“Where does it hurt?”) was more apropos than I even intended. I sat in the doctor’s office today, gritting my teeth as she checked my shoulder and neck, fretting about the grid and how I hadn’t yet...