Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Playing to strengths I'm not really good at being a substitute. I never quite know what I'm doing and there really isn't time to figure it out or, more appropriately, stress and build anxiety about it while procrastinating. I just...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2017 starts now One of the things I'm tasked with at my Day Job is to help with strategy development for 2017. The main goal is easy: do better, get ahead, succeed. It's those micro goals that are at issue, meaning we need to know...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #287: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes things don't go as we planned. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us are not full-time, living-wage-earning writers. Most of us have day jobs (or night jobs), families, friends, other...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #287 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 #287 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hey, what's Michelle doing here? Hi there, it's Michelle, editor-in-chief here at yeah write. You may recognize me from such posts as "kickoff" or "nonfiction of the past" or, if you've been hanging around long enough "moonshine."...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Things are heating up Here in the northeastern US, we're starting to lose our grip on warm air and sunshine. Usually this gets me down as I truly hate the cold weather, but things are heating up so much here at yeah write that it's...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #286: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My calendar has been covered in different-colored pen marks all week. Sure, I use a variety of calendar apps, but when your schedule's as busy as mine is right now, sometimes there's just no substitute for being able to see it all at...
yeah write #286 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Announcements first: This is the LAST DAY to sign up for our super challenge, so what are you waiting for? Check out our announcements page if you missed it for special news about our celebrity guest judges. In the meantime.... Popular voting for the yeah write #286...
yeah write #286 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Speaking up Last week, I lost a reader for the first time—in public anyway. I was disappointed, of course, but I can say that it was easier than I thought to let it go and not feel my usual sense of guilt or shame. I wrote what I...
yeah write #286 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The business of unpleasant things I ruined my son's life today. I made him go to the dentist and get a haircut. I'm used to being terrible; I make him do all sorts of things like chores and eating and such. I take a "too bad, so...
