Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #528 Weekly Writing Challenge
Risks, rewards, and regrets There's an inspirational poster on the wall of the Taekwondo studio where my kids and I take classes. It reads: "If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it." And you know what? I'm really bad at jump...
YeahWrite #527 Weekly Writing Challenge
Purple, red, and shocking white Natalie's post last week reminded me of a gift I inadvertantly gave myself. Last year this time, when anxiety was high and everything was a question, I started taking photos of blooming plants I'd see on the get-out-of-the-house walks I...
YeahWrite #526 Weekly Writing Challenge
Too much The mountain of laundry to be folded on my bed. How much podcasting content I cram into my head. Layer upon layer of dust on the piano. The two-year-old chattering softly in the background of my life's soundtrack. Life is really full at this stage, so I have...
Navigating Prompts: Element-Based Genres
Sneaking a peek If you're anything like me, you're given to sneaking a peek into the market basket of the person ahead of you in line. Sure, it's gotten a bit more difficult with social distancing, but I can still make out a lot of the contents. I usually try to...
YeahWrite #525 Weekly Writing Challenge
Masquerade balling We're right in the middle of Djeran in my part of the world. The days are getting shorter, and cooler for the most part, though we still get the occasional "surprise, it's shorts weather!" days. Flying ants are getting into everything; gardens,...
YeahWrite #524 Weekly Writing Challenge
Migration Spring is in the air, and change is coming. The hummingbirds will arrive back in Massachusetts shortly, followed by the orioles. I'll be putting out feeders for both, bird nerd that I am. Change can be hard, but it also often signals a rebirth, small or...
YeahWrite #523 Weekly Writing Challenge
Party time! Excellent! It's YeahWrite's TENTH BIRTHDAY, OFFICIALLY! You're still welcome to join us for the party this Friday and Saturday, just hit us up for the Zoom link to join our actual faces and the Discord party chat. Yeah, you need to RSVP, but we promise...
YeahWrite #522 Weekly Writing Challenge
Last week, our community lost one of its most steadfast members, Margaret Shafer. Margaret first started posting her essays on the YeahWrite weekly grids in December of 2016, and she hardly missed a single week since then. She was an active participant in the...
YeahWrite #521 Weekly Writing Challenge
Permission Lately I've found myself in the position of having to say "no" a lot—no, you can't have more screen time; no, we can't go out for burgers; no, you can't go play until you're done with your homework. And then, last week, we decided to give the kids a "yes"...
Navigating Prompts: Characters
Who goes there? It's possible to tell a story with no characters. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" comes to mind, although even that sinks to anthropomorphism a bit. (CW: animal death) The first paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House is practically a...
