Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #222 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 Quick, make a wish! That's what my sister and I used to tell each other, when all the numbers on the digital clock matched. You pesky kids probably haven't ever seen...
yeah write #222 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Are you a writer who blogs or a blogger who writes? At yeah write, we actually don't care. You can be the more introverted, cerebral writer who submits your posts to us each week, or you can be the more natural marketer,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #221: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]"It's a fine essay, but you buried the lede," I told my mentee earlier this week. What does that mean, buried the lede? It means the heart of your story or essay is so far removed from the places a reader looks for...
yeah write #221 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 Do you ever worry that your browser history has you on so many secret watch lists that you can't go to the corner grocery without a Man in Black following you? Oh, I...
yeah write #221 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Distraction-free writing: is there such a thing? I close my bedroom door. I plug in my earbuds. I listen to, on loop, music so familiar, it's like spooning the cuddliest dog in the world. Yet, sometimes, I cannot get...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #220: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Canada Day. The Fourth of July. Heck, even Bastille Day. There's just something vaguely revolutionary and patriotic about this month in the Western half of the world. For example, did you know that on July 3, 1863, the...
yeah write #220 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 But first, a brief announcement: WINTER IS COMING. That's right. My summer vacation is over, the Solstice has passed, and here in the Northern Hemisphere the days have...
yeah write #220 weekly writing challenge is open for nonfiction submissions
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Reading in my brain. How long has it been since you've read a book you just can't put down? You know, that one book in thirty that makes you stay up all night to find out the next earth-shattering event or beautifully...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #219: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]What you do matters. Writing matters. It may seem like you're blogging to an audience of three (at least it feels that way for me); there is no shame in that because you are giving something of yourself to the world. You...
yeah write #219 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 that time again! Another week has flown by and it's time to vote here at yeah write #219! We had another great unmoderated week. We're staying this way all summer...