Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm EDT 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 won’t know what...
yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Convince me If you've been following along with or participating in the yeah write super challenge, you know that the remaining 16 competitors had to submit a persuasive essay last night for round two. A persuasive essay does just...
yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Whys and hows. I'm working on a book proposal. I've been giving much consideration to why I'm writing a memoir and what makes me different from anyone else with a similar story. Without that specific end goal, the book risks...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #275: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
Look, I never thought I'd quote Tom Cruise outside the bounds of irony, but I was looking for some words on "winning" to start today's post and I just.... nah. Not even for the sake of coming up with a post idea, ok? Still, it's been a great week for winning here at...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm EDT 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 won’t know what...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Flow Merriam-Webster defines an "essay" as "a short piece of writing that tells a person's thoughts or opinions about a subject." Here at yeah write, we view the essay as this and more: it is a story that is mostly true, focused on...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Your writing practice You're exploring what writing means to you. You're calling yourself a writer. This is good. What's next? What's next is you write. You need to practice. You need to try new things, some of which will work and...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #274: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the first super challenge judge with my scores turned in, I'm entitled to be smug, right? Of course, being first isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it means you didn't take the time to look at your work again. Other times it's...
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
The popular vote is now open at the yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge! Vote by 10pm ET for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry. Good luck! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we won’t know what...
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hallelujah The seas of humankind have been choppy of late. When I am overwhelmed with fear and sorrow, when I am overwhelmed with grief, I try to make my way back to art, a metaphorical life raft where others gather to restore...