Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write weekly writing challenge #290: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just flew in from Toronto and boy are my arms tired. That joke wasn't funny even the first time I heard it, but right now I'm giggling madly at the dog, which is a good sign that maybe I might conceivably have Halloweened just a...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sticking the Landing Ever write an amazing post, but then find yourself stymied by how to get out of it? Endings are hard. As writers, it's difficult to resist the temptation to finish up with a paragraph summarizing the story we...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Distractions I've always hated when people would rag on young people and their obsession with their phones and/or Facebook. I can multitask! I am awesome! I am not easily distracted! Yeah, so it turns out I actually am pretty easily...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #289: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everybody else wrote something really thoughtful this week so I'm just gonna say IT SNOWED ON ME TODAY AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER. I know winter's not everyone's jam, but it's definitely mine and I'm ready for it. I embrace the...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Back to Basics: Elements of Creative Nonfiction Hey! It's Cindy, and I'm returning to yeah write's editorial team this week after a long hiatus. It's been two years since my last editing stint here, when I was in charge of the...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Are you scared? In just over a week, a day will arrive that strikes fear in the hearts of so many. No, not Halloween. November 1! Whether it's NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo or some other configuration of shortened words to say you're...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #288: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I know it doesn't feel like it, but October's drawing to a close. The end of the month means a lot of things to me. Mostly it means Hallowe'en, my very favorite holiday in the entire universe of potential and actual holidays. Right...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
