Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #252 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Swim My dad helped me move into my first college dorm. He then took me to lunch at the uptown Frische's. After lunch, we got into the car so he could drive me back to the dorm. We would say our goodbyes and he would drive the hour...
yeah write #252 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We're all winners It's Superbowl Sunday. But you're here at yeah write, which means you win at writing. Yay, you! It's a friendly competition While I love me some sports, I'll spare you the metaphors. (Whisper note: I'm writing this...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #251: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday I was eating popcorn and reading comments as a friend of mine was removed from an internet community. The rough part about this is, I can see both sides of the story. The community has a "no photos, no selfies" rule and is...
yeah write #251 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 Well, there you have it. One of those days where you genuinely think you're going to be productive but instead you make a spreadsheet and then answer an email, pay...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Beware the overbearing adjective The large, fluffy cat walked down the dark, dank alley and sniffed the filthy, gray garbage can. What's wrong with this sentence? Could it be the annoying, prolific adjectives? I've referred to this...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Love, love me, do I make no apologies: I'm a romantic. And February is a great month to be one, all full of valentines, budding flowers and chilly weather. (Which is totally romantic, you guys, because what's the best way to get...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #250: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please hold: we are currently experiencing technical difficulties. I'm writing this in a Notepad window (yeah, whatever, you can keep your fancy programs, this one pastes without trying to add formatting. I'm looking at you, MS Word)...
yeah write #250 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 Soooooo 2016 is apparently "the year Rowan watches all the Mad Max movies back to back as many times as possible." It's for science, guys. Science! So there I was,...
yeah write #250 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Find your story beneath the surface I could write a rant this week about how a certain insurance company, whose spokesperson is a woman named Flo, is trying to stick me with partial responsibility for a car accident I didn't cause....
yeah write #250 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Milestones Two-hundred fifty. It's just a number, right? Sure, but did you realize that yeah write is one of the longest-running writing challenges on the 'net? With an all-volunteer editorial staff and a committed rejection of the...