Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #576 Weekly Writing Challenge
Connections I reconnected today with a friend from my hometown. We weren't super close growing up, but we've known each other since kindergarten and we ran in the same friend groups. We sang in the school choir together, we both did musicals. It's entirely likely that...
YeahWrite #575 Weekly Writing Challenge
Teatro ZinZanni Spoiler alert: If you have any interest in seeing this show, skip this intro. Or read and forget it immediately. Part of the fun was not knowing what to expect. The writing was a big platter of cheese. The actor/performers wandered around the hall...
YeahWrite #574 Weekly Writing Challenge
Puzzle pieces I’ve been struggling with putting complete thoughts together in writing this week. My mind’s been full of snippets of stories; beginnings and middles and endings that don’t play nicely with each other. Combined with a series of rejections and...
YeahWrite #573 Weekly Writing Challenge
April Fools I loathe April Fool's Day. Even as a kid, where a harmless whoopee cushion prank would send most into fits, I was the ol' curmudgeon snarling at anyone who dared try and play a prank on me. Someone must have got me good in a past life. But maybe you can...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Pitfalls and Traps
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #23
I got an ulcer waiting for this post! People have asked us why we release feedback the way we do. It's because we want you to sit with it. That's the short answer. The long answer is that both positive and negative feedback lands more gently if you don't know yet if...
YeahWrite #572 Weekly Writing Challenge
What's in a name? There's a kid with the same name as me. Maybe this happens to you all the time. Maybe your name is Christine, or Jessica, or Ram, or Sunita, or Akeyla. But it doesn't happen to me. And I find myself watching this kid for similarities (lots, they have...
YeahWrite #571 Weekly Writing Challenge
Person, place, thing I'm reading Fonda Lee's Jade City right now. It's a modern second-world urban fantasy, where jade bestows near-magical gifts on its wearers and rival clans jockey for position and power. One of the things I love about this book is how Lee blurs...
YeahWrite #570 Weekly Writing Challenge
Word Hurdle I guess it's happened before. Words With Friends was a thing for a while, wasn't it? And Codewords, maybe. But neither led to my Facebook feed being a never-ending register of game results. I joked that sometime in the future alien beings would digitally...
The final round of Super Challenge #23 is underway!
Did you miss us? The final round of YeahWrite's 23d Super Challenge starts, well, now. Our judges are waiting with bated (not baited, ew, check those homophones) breath for your essays. I have a hunch it's going to be a close one, based on the great essays in the...