Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #19
It's time Like our prompt phrase, the headline for this post can have a lot of meanings. First, "it's time" to make our announcements. But also, you know what contributed to the success of a lot of these essays? That's right: "it's time." The best seasoning for an...
YeahWrite #520 Weekly Writing Challenge
Too much My job is precarious, like much of the world today. I get assignments to teach classes based on student enrollment numbers. This semester, the numbers were just not on my side, and I joined many others in the unemployment lines. Without classes to teach, I...
YeahWrite #519 Weekly Writing Challenge
One is the loneliest number This week, I've been thinking a lot about community and how to get more involved with local (to me) writing groups. Writing can be a woefully lonely business, or at least a woefully alone business. It can feel like you're shouting into a...
YeahWrite #518 Weekly Writing Challenge
Are you ready? I sure am. Ready for it to be anything but winter, that is. If you've been reading YeahWrite's weekly posts for long, you may know that I walk my dogs in the woods near my house every morning. I'm so tired of the scarf-coat-hat-gloves routine that when...
The final round of Super Challenge #19 is underway!
The Chair-y On Top We've all had bad weeks. Weird ones. Hard ones. The cherry on top of this week, in which it seemed everything spilled, broke, broke down, or some diabolical combination of the above, was my desk chair breaking. Because I leaned over to pick up a...
YeahWrite #517 Weekly Writing Challenge
WFHiversary Next week will mark one full year that I have been working from home and self-quarantining. And while mentally, I'm holding up, it's hard not to look back on the past year and wonder what came of it. Or rather, what didn't. It would be so easy to come down...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #19
I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here... Apparently my pandemic binge-watch is going to be every mystery movie and series that I've got access to. Or at least that's what it looks like this month. So in that spirit, allow me to present you with a...
Navigating Prompts: Landscapes and Landmarks
A picture is worth a thousand words It's a nice aphorism, isn't it? But in the case of a photo prompt, this could be a completely literal statement. A single photo—with or without people—can contain a multitude of stories both inside and outside the frame. So how does...
YeahWrite #516 Weekly Writing Challenge
Putting it off I've had this intro open for five hours now and these are the first words I've put in it. A lot of us have felt lately (well, in the past literally a year) that our writing practice has suffered. Like it's the thing we can put off. And in many cases,...
YeahWrite #515 Weekly Writing Challenge
Refresh yourself I was reminded, this week, that sometimes it's worth taking a break. Not necessarily from writing altogether (although I did spend an entire day or two playing Animal Crossing this weekend, don't judge), but from what you're writing. For the last few...
