Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #500 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Bittersweet I'm not gonna lie. I have some big mixed emotions about writing this last voting post. I've been involved in the weekly grids in various capacities, starting as a participant, since 2012. That's a lot of grids over an 8 year period, and I feel a bit misty...
Cut the Strings: A Puppetmaster’s Guide to Characters – Complete
Do what I tell you! Do you ever find yourself yelling that at the computer screen or notebook page, while your characters resolutely refuse to participate in the plot? Do your stories feel wooden when you're done, even if the characters go where you tell them to? Is...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #500
(R)Evolution Before I make anyone nervous, let me start by saying one thing: We're not going anywhere. YeahWrite hasn't missed a week in 500 weeks, and we're not starting now. On the other hand, changes are in the air. We've got some big announcements to make, and we...
YeahWrite #499 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
That breathless moment The stage is set. The theater is full. The curtain is still drawn and the lights haven't--quite--dimmed. Are you ready for what's coming? Find out tonight in the kickoff for YeahWrite's 500th week. To kill time while you're waiting for that (or...
YeahWrite #499 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Pins and Needles I think it's fair to say that nearly everyone is on pins and needles regarding the US election. Being constantly stuck in the news cycle is stressful, vacillating between hope and despair even more so. But we might not know for a couple of days, so...
20/20 Hindsight – Tenth Variation
What if? 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and we're sure we're not the only ones wondering if we've slipped into an alternative timeline or parallel universe—or maybe wishing we had. "What if" sounds like the stuff of speculative fiction—what if Hitler had...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #499
Are you all sugared up on Halloween candy? Are houses in your street all decked out in spider webs and spooky finery? It's not a big celebration in Australia, and I really miss it. I miss the tiny children who'd come to the door, dressed as a superhero or a ghost or a...
YeahWrite #498 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Hurtling toward... 500. That's right, it's been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it's been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that we've got a few...
YeahWrite #498 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Gimme All The Blanklets It's been rainy and cold all day here, with more of that tomorrow and maybe even some SNOW on Friday and I just cannot with early snow. In particular, my beef is that I have to go outside anyway because dogs. But what I really want to do is...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #498
Mycelium I used to think mushrooms were whole plants. Now when I see them on my walks in the woods I know what they are: fruiting bodies of a much bigger system. See, the mushroom is more like an apple than a tree. That's how they can pop up so quickly: there's a huge...
