Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write weekly writing challenge #254: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday, roses; today, lilies. More specifically, a charming little phrase that has fallen somewhat out of vogue in recent times: "Don't gild the lily." What does it mean, to gild the lily? Well. Here's the thing. You have a lily,...
yeah write #254 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 What's in a name? Our ultimate question this week sent a lot of folks off in this direction, on all three grids. So as long as I've got your ear for a second, let's...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to learn...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's in a name? Names are important—not just for people and places, but for things. Are you using the right word at the right time? Rowan talked about this in her voting post last week—which you all read, of course—but it bears...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #253: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I don't often post-mortem the grids. Not publicly, I mean. It's not fair, right? I have access to all the inside information. J/K there's no inside information- the editors read every piece with an eye to skill, technique,...
yeah write #253 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 Balance. It's not just what keeps you from falling over (well, most of the time), it's an important ingredient in writing. For example, I love things like the color...
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Courage Does writing take courage? Maybe you aren’t charging into "the misty mist or the dusky dusk” (depending on where you live), but you are exposing your inner world to a sometimes judgmental, often distracted outer world....
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [Insert witty introduction here] So I'm sitting here on my lunch break trying to come up with something new and interesting and compelling to say, and it's just not happening. Instead I start a sonnet, scratch out 400 more words on...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #252: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Got big plans for the weekend? Yeah, me too. I'm going to do some yardwork and start writing the posts for next month's technique and poetry slam. There, now you're all my accountability buddies. Hard to believe I've been doing that...
yeah write #252 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 With Valentine's Day coming up this weekend, love is in the air. Some folks are writing love songs, others are writing love poems. Me, I'm writing love letters - the...