Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring forward I hate losing an hour to Daylight Saving Time but if that's the exchange that is needed to move from winter to spring, I'll take it. Of course, I'm writing this from the flat center of Ohio where winter is slushy and...
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is it Sunday again? I swear, the weeks get shorter and shorter. And suddenly, here we are getting ready for another round of challenges and creativity. Are you in? Welcome! We've seen a number of new faces around here the last...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #256: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some idiot is building four houses across the road from me. In March, in Oregon. Yeah it's been raining into those houses since they dug the foundation. I have no idea how or why they would think that's not a recipe for a moldy...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Guys, I know I usually start these posts off with a little bit of advice based on some trend I saw during the week at yeah write, but my dude and his buddies took...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Balancing work/life writing I write for a living. It isn't the kind of writing I would like to do—it isn't terribly creative or exciting, though I try to inject life into dull topics. I am a grants writer. For the last month, I've...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Just what the doctor ordered We talk a lot about how hard writing is, how difficult it is to find the time, how disheartening it is to stare at a blank page or screen, how nothing is ever, ever good enough. So why do we do it? Just...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #255: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thursdays can be rough here in the yeah write secret moon base. We editors read, reread and discuss (and hopefully comment; Nate is the best and I am the worst about this) every piece on every grid. The hardest Thursdays, though, are...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Hullo from the coffeeshop across the street from my house, where there is power and internet and all sorts of lovely convenient things. Unlike my house, which is...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we're here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can't remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online friendship thanks...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Let's start at the very beginning Or not. Every time I write a story I hit a point where I want to just skip through to the end. And sometimes the ending writes itself, and I'm stuck figuring out how to get there. Writing the...