Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #247 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Happy New Year! I, for one, am happy to put 2015 behind me. How about you? I'm not saying there weren't some great things that happened last year. I got to meet some amazing people and go to some amazing events - sometimes at the...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #246: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My very large dog had surgery two days ago. She'll be taking a variety of medications for the next fourteen days, some of which make her both needy and incontinent. What I'm saying is 2016 is off to a squishy, warm start this...
yeah write #246 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 Part of me feels like I should ask you if you've made any resolutions for the new year. The rest of me is like "nah, you're under enough pressure." So instead of...
yeah write #246 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Pay attention It is easy, so very easy, to go through life with blinders on—you're in a hurry, trying to find a parking place, late for work or sending kids off to school, and you don't see the old woman pick a flower out of a...
yeah write #246 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Say goodbye to yesterday Hard as it is to believe, 2015 is almost over. Don't worry, we're not going to ask you to share your New Year's resolutions or your writing goals for 2016. Nobody needs that kind of pressure. But we are...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #245: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wow, Christmas already? There's only one week left in 2015? Welp. I guess this is a perfect chance for me to talk about word order and typos, amirite? See, here's one of my favorite Christmas stories. In the Greek text of the...
yeah write #245 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 OK, y'all. This is my official announcement that I'm probably not taking my Christmas tree down until Daylight Saving Time starts. It's not really for Christmas...
yeah write #245 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The big picture My birthday coincides with this season of giving (a good thing/bad thing as December babies know) and this week I received a fancy iPhone 6. I use my phone more for photos that anything else and this one has a...
yeah write #245 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Holiday traditions When I was a kid, I used to give my dad a squeegee and a box of Andes Candies every year for Christmas. There was only so much you could buy for five dollars at K-Mart, after all, and he seemed to appreciate it. I...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #244: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What's on your mind? I like to play a little game sometimes when I'm reading through posts, especially from some of our more prolific or consistent writers: what are they thinking about that isn't this post? What are they reading, or...