Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
YeahWrite #420 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
O I spy a cuckoo, a cuckoo, a cuckoo It's the merry month of May, although quite a few folks in the USA and Canada can be forgiven for wondering if they woke up in the wrong hemisphere this week! But where I am (and, I hear, where Rowan and Christine are) it's sunny...
YeahWrite #420 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
I've got sunshine I've been accused of being an optimist. A unicorns-and-glitter kind of girl. It's not untrue, especially when the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the sky is blue. Autumn might be my favorite season, with its crisp mornings and bright...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #420
Do Not Waste Time Y'all. I know you've all seen the inspirational memes out there that tell you to go for your dreams, you have to take action to get what you want, success takes work, and so on. In fact, if you're anything like me, you've seen them so often they mean...
YeahWrite #416 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
You may say I'm a dreamer... It's Friday, and once again I didn't get enough sleep during the week. But it's for a good reason: I spent some of those extra hours chasing a real-life dream of mine. If you dream of being a writer, that dream may seem so far off. But if...
YeahWrite #416 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
For Shame My dog Buster split his toenail last Sunday and has been wearing the "cone of shame" and on antibiotics for the past week. I finally de-coned him today, and he's much happier, obviously. I'm happier too, since it's pretty sad to see him banging around in...
YeahWrite #416 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
The sublimity of language Words are beautiful things, don't you think? And language is an incredible tool, capable of describing the ineffable and translating one person's experience into something more universal by putting the right words in the right place at the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #416
{Insert Clever April Fools Joke Here} So how did your first part of the year go? Did you accomplish what you want or is April Fool's Day just another day for your goals to taunt you? Sometimes I see my friends and aquaintances launching their books, attending events,...
YeahWrite #412 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Heck off, sun. Stacie may be ready for Daylight Saving Time, but I'm staying in bed and NOT GETTING UP EVER EVER. I'm putting up the blackout curtains, and tunneling in until November or whenever it stops being light not only after work but after dinnertime and...
YeahWrite #412 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Spring Forward! Longer days elevate my mood even more than warmer temperatures, and that is saying a lot. And this weekend we set the clocks ahead for daylight saving time, so the light will stay with us later in the day. [Ed's note: NO. no nonononono no no no...
YeahWrite #412 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Once upon a time... Okay, so it was really only last week. Asha and I stumbled across a fun little Twitter contest from the Fairy Tale Review, where participants were asked to tell a complete fairy tale in a single tweet. (You can read some of the results by searching...
