Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is this thing on? Hello! Just making sure you can hear me. I've got a ton of things to tell you and I don't want you to miss a single thing. September is all about journeys. We'll be talking about the monomyth, or hero's journey,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I'd been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast. She's one of those people who...
yeah write #228 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'm the master of the Last Minute. I specialize in 7 minute sonnets, 24 hour thesis papers (j/k it was at least 32 and I was awake for all of them) and...
yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"] [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Back to school: it's not just for students Our summer here at yeah write has been extended a week or two since most of our editors will be afk hosting a panel on the...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #227: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's always a little weird to sit down and write the winners' post on a week when I've had a bunch of rejections. You know the ones: you submit a story or poem, wait for just long enough to think "well, if they were going...
yeah write #227 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 had my first forkful of kimchi when I was twenty-two. And I hated it. On the surface, kimchi is everything I should like. It's spicy, it's fermented, it's cabbage....
yeah write #227 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Mind mapping the week If I were to brainstorm this week's personal essay or mostly true story, on my white board in the middle, I would write "toothache." Then around toothache would be the words soft foods and lack of...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #226: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]I know we've been talking about coffee all week, but let's take a break with another liquid, ok? One of my personal favorites: wine. Specifically, let's talk about the phrase in vino veritas. Truth, found in wine. But...
yeah write #226 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 It's Thursday, y'all. Or maybe it's Wednesday night for a few more hours where you are. The point is, we've all been trying to figure out why there's no coffee for...
yeah write #226 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Yeah write on the road: Long Beach Comic Con That’s right, community. For the first time ever, yeah write is taking its show on the road! On September 12-13, we will be at Long Beach Comic Con promoting digital...