Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Navigating Prompts: You Are Here
You are here There it is: the perfect prompt. A prompt that appeals to you in every way. A prompt that excites you so much that you can only hope to do it justice. Or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe you've got 24 hours to respond to this prompt and no idea where to...
YeahWrite #507 Weekly Writing Challenge
Thwack We have the stump of a dead tree in our backyard that has to come out. Its roots extend pretty deeply into our clay soil, and we've dug up as much of the earth around it as possible. So last week, I went at the stubborn roots with an axe. Feet hip-width apart,...
YeahWrite #506 Weekly Writing Challenge
Tune in I took myself out for a coffee yesterday. I didn't take a book, I didn't check my social media accounts on my phone, I didn't take a notebook and pen. I had no distractions, no camouflage. In the midst of a busy coffeeshop, filled with cool jazz, hot...
YeahWrite #505 Weekly Writing Challenge
Touch Up I got my tattoo touched up today. It was included in the original price, but I tipped accordingly because whoa that was a lot of work. You see, the color wasn't deep enough, so it faded too much, too fast. And the color was supposed to make a particular point...
YeahWrite #504 Weekly Writing Challenge
It's a Mood. I've been taking long walks lately to clear my head, get some exercise, and quell the cabin fever. Last night, in a rush to get out before sunset, I just poked at a Spotify playlist and took off. Turns out the playlist I chose was exclusively movie...
20/20 Hindsight – Putting it all together
The final piece This is it: the culmination of a year of work! We've looked at your stories and essays inside out and upside down; we've changed their shape, size, and even point of view. Whether you participated every month or you decided to pick and choose the...
YeahWrite #503 Weekly Writing Challenge
Stranger Things 2020 is the year of strange, and as we enter the holiday season, that strangeness only intensifies. When this post goes live, many Americans will be recovering from the gluttonous feast we call Thanksgiving. And while I'm hopeful that most of us will...
YeahWrite #502 Weekly Writing Challenge
Everything Old is New Again Hello there. Welcome to the first week of YeahWrite's new prompt timing and format! We're dropping prompts on midday Friday now to benefit anyone who's short-timing this week and wants to start early, as well as those who need the weekend...
YeahWrite #501 Weekly Writing Challenge
Your words matter My writing bag has a Ray Bradbury quote on it: You must stay drunk on writing so reality doesn't destroy you. People would see it and ask, "Are you a writer?" I used to answer, "Well, I like to write." At the heart of it, YeahWrite is about moving...
YeahWrite #500 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
In the end I've put off writing this until the last minute. I know. It turns out nobody, including me, writes better like that. But in a way, as long as I put off writing this post, the last grid didn't close for me. And for more than half a decade, that's been my...
