Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write weekly writing challenge #249: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Voice. It's what's in our heads this week. From our nonfiction opener to Christine's realization that she now talks like her main character, we've been paying attention this week to the ways we choose to convey information, as well...
yeah write #249 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 I took a break last week. Yeah, ok, if you're looking back at my posts and the fact that it's been so long since I made it onto a grid that my icon has fallen off my...
yeah write #249 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen carefully. Voice is essential to making your writing your own. If you write a creative nonfiction piece on the same subject as another person, your voice is what makes it distinctive. It isn't the style of writing; style...
yeah write #249 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Still waters There's a lot that goes on under the surface around here. Some things are easy enough to spot, and others sink deep down into the silt. You see the posts go up every week, and the grids and the coffeehouse discussions,...
yeah write #248 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 So, what's your punctuation pox? I never met a pair of sentences I couldn't cram together with a semicolon. Christine's commas breed like tribbles. Nate's got a little...
yeah write #248 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The very small thing The so what is the holy grail of writing that earns editor’s picks at yeah write. It’s the yeast that makes your writing rise above all else. For our creative nonfiction challenge, the so what puts the creative...
yeah write #248 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hooray! We made it through another week. That's something to celebrate, isn't it? Before you pop that champagne cork or gorge yourself on cake and ice cream, let's talk business. This week I am giving you two assignments: Don't try...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #247: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes it's hard to turn off the editorial bit of my brain.Not that it's the worst thing ever, critical reading and listening. Heaven knows I advocate for it here often enough. But it can also make you do things like watch Mad...
yeah write #247 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 Whoa. It looks like the first moderated week of 2016 took a few of you by surprise. Don't worry if you didn't make it onto the grid this week, though- we do this every...
yeah write #247 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Say hello to the world Twenty-three years ago today, my father died. I didn’t get to say goodbye to him. He was shoveling snow and suffered a massive heart attack. Life and death happen like that. We never know, really, what to...