Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #283 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #283 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 #283 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this moment Sometimes, if you just sit and listen, you'll hear something magical. At this moment, I'm sitting on the couch, laptop at the ready, trying to write this week's intro. I've just realized my husband, who is practicing...
yeah write #283 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's your excuse? I was talking to a friend recently and he mentioned he'd been stalling on a project because he was waiting to speak to someone on a particular detail. Sounds reasonable, but then he noted the truth was he didn't...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #282: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
It's a big week at yeah write, and our fictioneers are the real winners - all of them. We opened the week with a special microstories challenge, and a lot of you took us up on it! Then we gave you a sneak preview of the fiction super challenge that's coming up....
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! NOTE: This week, you get three votes on fiction and one vote on nonfiction. We adjust the number of votes...
yeah write super challenge #2 kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can I get a fanfare? Yeah write's first super challenge is over, leaving our essayists tired but triumphant in its wake, and our fictioneers saying... what about me? Well, fiction folk, yeah write's super challenge #2 is just for...
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Open a door Last week, I wrote about paying attention, seeing the world afresh, and how that helps heighten your creativity. Today, I'm thinking about ways to inspire our writing more concretely but in keeping with this exercise in...
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's inspiring you? I love books and movies. They've always served as inspiration for my own writing. Seeing the way another writer crafted a story not only helps me learn, but can push me a little when I'm not sure how I want to...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #281: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]They say the devil's in the details. Sometimes that's details like the textiles depicted in a Safavid manuscript (why did I take this commission, this might be the fiddliest piece of reproduction I've ever fiddled with), and...
Quitters are Winners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For this month's nonfiction knowhow we're going to focus on two conflicting aphorisms. The first is "winners never quit; quitters never win" and the second is "quit while you're ahead." I'm not talking about quitting writing...
