Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #274 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Maybe someday? Last week we were talking about how we identify ourselves. I often hear people say they want to be a writer. (Fine. FINE. I still say it, too.) The implication is that we are not writers now. It's just a someday. It's...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #273: popular vote winners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's Friday. I hope you've reached the end of your work week, if you're as tired as I am. Not too tired to wish a belated Eid Mubarak to those in our community celebrating, though! It was a subdued Eid for some of us. Our hearts and...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction and fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Voting for our two challenges is now open Voting. is. now. open. Woot!! NOTE: This week, everyone gets two votes on fiction|poetry and three votes on nonfiction. Before you vote The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Get a head start If you are registered for yeah write's super challenge—and as a participant in the creative nonfiction grid, I hope you are!—allow me to let you in on a secret: now is the time to practice. If you haven't written...
yeah write #273 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How do you identify? When it comes to your writing, how do you see yourself? Do you call it your hobby? If someone asks what you do, do you say your career first and then throw in that you "write sometimes?" Do you refer to yourself...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #272: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just had an idea for a nonfiction piece. Yay! But boo, it’s Friday, and the grids are done for the week. Should I wait until next week's grid opens to start writing? It is my usual practice to wait. Is that smart? Nooooo. I write...
yeah write #272 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction and fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Voting for our two challenges is now open Boom, bang! Let's get voting, shall we? Before you vote The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without your personal touch we won't know what we're doing right and what areas we can...
yeah write #272 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Plotting ahead I've been taking an online class with the wonderful Cindy Reed, a former yeah write editor, learning more about the mechanics of writing creative nonfiction. I have always struggled with the concept of "plot" in...
yeah write #272 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What time is it? My favorite time of day is between 2:00 AM and 6:00 AM. No one else is awake and the world is still. I can think without interruption. It's a beautiful thing. The worst part? I never see it. Life doesn't let me...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #271: popular vote winners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I've spent the last six days on two separate mountains, and I'm not sure which I love more. The first three days I spent on Mount Hood with my writing partner, sequestered in a cabin and putting in 17-hour days editing our novel. We...