Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #271 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 You love it, you love it not? We don't want to base our voting on daisy petals though. Ignore the daisy and vote for your three favorite stories on the nonfiction grid and your absolutely...
yeah write #271 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Who do you want to be? When I was six, I would take our Little Pictures of Japan: My Travelship book from the shelf and copy the haiku onto big lined kindergarten paper. I was practicing my handwriting but I also absorbed a love for...
yeah write #271 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Near miss on a cluster-whoops So there I was, in bed with a book, exhausted. My phone buzzed with a message from fellow editor Arden letting me know my kickoff post was all proofed and ready to go... so I just need to write my...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #270: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Well, my kid sister one-upped me in a big way by having a baby last weekend, but the joke's on her - yeah write has a new baby too! We're the real winners! Keep an eye out right here at 2pm today for the announcement that's got me...
yeah write #270 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 Roses are red, violets are blue. I am voting and so are you! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without your personal touch we won't know what we're doing right...
yeah write #270 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When words fail Some days you just can't. You can't think, write, feel more than you've already felt. Today--Sunday, June 12, as I write this--is one of those days. Instead, I'm trying to think of something that gives me strength...
yeah write #270 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Patience is a virtue I know it's been a minute since we told you exciting things were coming. And... it's going to be about one minute more. Seriously though, more like an actual minute. Later this week, we will be unveiling a new...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #269: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here in the Pacific Northwest, summer can't make up its freakin mind if it's coming or going. Two days ago it was an actual hundred degrees out; today it's cool and raining. Makes no difference to my commute, though. Folks either...
yeah write #269 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! Who hatched the best stories this week? It's time to vote for your three favorites! Before you vote though The feedback from the vote is fantabulous but without your personal touch we...
yeah write #269 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Taking stock Here's a simple exercise for your Monday: take a look at your writing from five years ago, from one year ago, and compare it to your writing today. Has it improved? Are you surprised by how far you've come? Very few...