Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #661 Weekly Writing Challenge
The sun's shining, let's make hay! After what feels like a year full of rejections and defeats, I've had some big wins recently. There have been some shortlists, a second place, and several acceptances for publication. I'm trying not to breathe too hard, trying not to...
YeahWrite #660 Weekly Writing Challenge
Bon Voyage When this post goes live, I'll be less than two weeks away from leaving on an epic adventure to Spain with my better half to celebrate his 40th trip around the sun. It wasn't until this final countdown began that I realized how much stress and anxiety I've...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Small Towns and Smaller Minds
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #659 Weekly Writing Challenge
Goooooooal! I have friends doing NaNoWriMo. I love my friends. I do not love NaNo. And not just because, as an editor, I end up seeing tooo many sloppy projects (honestly, save your editor time and you money and check out last year's Scarlet Quill series on editing...
YeahWrite #658 Weekly Writing Challenge
Short fiction is in trouble If you've been running around in the short fiction writing community for any length of time, you know that there has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. The onslaught of AI-generated story submissions, an increase in scams and predatory...
YeahWrite #657 Weekly Writing Challenge
One is the loneliest number Do you collaborate with other writers or other artists? I'm in several writers' groups (both online an in person), and I've contributed to anthologies, beta read for others, and edited fairly extensively, but I'd never really collaborated...
YeahWrite #656 Weekly Writing Challenge
Goodbye Spooky, Hello Cozy Living in Seattle, I shouldn't complain, but it took longer than usual for the inevitable gray to settle down over our city. But this morning, I woke up to dreariness, fog, and a light drizzle. Unlike many who may groan at this change, I...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Just Between You & Me
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #655 Weekly Writing Challenge
There goes the sun And I don't miss it one bit. As a person with the spring SADs, this is my joyful season. Everywhere around me is greening up for Second Spring because I live in a flippin desert now I guess, I'm bringing in the last of the harvest from my garden and...
YeahWrite #654 Weekly Writing Challenge
FINALLY I love the photo Arden chose for this week's post. The light slanting through the trees, the hint of frost (or rain, if you're in the Pacific Northwest) in the air, the swooshing sound of the leaves as you wade through them: these are some of the most...
