Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #434
Do Your Research So if you read last week's voting post, you already know I went whale watching last week. What you don't know is that when I searched a free photo website for a breaching humpback whale, like the one I saw, I got a whole lotta BAD whale...
YeahWrite #429 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's complicated Some of my complicated relationship with fireworks comes from growing up in the desert, where we routinely had wildfires that would result in friends staying with you for a week or two while they waited to see if their house would burn down. Some of...
YeahWrite #429 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
She's Baaaack Did you guys miss me? I took a few weeks off, in case you didn't notice, and spent the last ten days in Northern California wine country! Ahhh, it's so nice there, I already want to go back. Of course, it's exciting to be back at YeahWrite, especially...
YeahWrite #429 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Surprise! Hi everyone, it's Asha. I'm excited to be back at the micro desk this month while Christine takes a well earned break. It's been a den of disease at my place recently, with one person after another floored by the 'flu. Aside from the aches and pains, the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #429
The Bard and the King Long ago, there was a kingdom with an insecure king. Oh, dear. The king hated to be shown as a fool, so he commanded a young and clever bard to gift all the writings in the town to a fire or suffer the consequences of his jealousy. The bard...
YeahWrite #425 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
That was easy. You might or might not have seen that commercial. The office supplies one? The one where at the end a character hits a big red button and a voice booms THAT WAS EASY. That's how I feel about some conversations we've been having lately in our little...
YeahWrite #425 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
All together now I went to my second grader's school play today. It wasn't much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn't pull it out on his own. So the old man called the old...
YeahWrite #425 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Welcome to the jungle I may live in the city now, but I grew up steps away from the woods. Our backyard was full of all sorts of charismatic critters—and a bunch of less charismatic ones, too. (Don't ask about the night I mistook a skunk for our black cat...) From...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #425
The Answer is Iowa For at least a decade now, I've been trying to figure out who one of my 2nd great-grandfather's parents are. Long story short: No one in my family could ever find a paper trail on where he came from. So I've been digging and collaborating and...
YeahWrite #420 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Sumer is icumen in And I'm not ready for it. The quince is flowering, the dogwoods are getting ready to do their thing, and that darn currant is already setting fruit. It's going to be a good year for blueberries, too. But it's been a rough spring, in a lot of ways...
