Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #497 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Can't can Or, rather, I can can, and I'm so tired of canning that the five back to back 12-hour days I just worked felt like a respite. I have apple butter, plum butter, sauerkraut (that's not canned, if you're keeping score; it's fermenting), cider, cider vinegar,...
YeahWrite #497 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Geese Gone Most of the New England geese have already migrated south for the winter, and I'm so jealous that I can't just fly south too, although not now, definitely not now. I wouldn't miss the most spectacularly beautiful time of year; I can't get enough of the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #497
Gimme that Bread According to an article I read recently, the top eight things people have bought during the pandemic are in order from lowest: manicure accessories, jigsaw puzzles, kiddie pools, exercise machines, computer enhancements (microphones, stand up desks,...
YeahWrite #496 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Falling for... fall. It's finally here: weather that makes me want tomato soup with rosemary in it, and grilled cheese cut into soldiers for dipping. Nutmeg in everything (yes, in my coffee this morning) and cardamom and ginger and thick socks and piles of quilts and...
YeahWrite #496 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Up all night (to keep writing) I don't know about you, but I have a finite window of productive writing time. Oh, not in terms of how many hours there are in the day, but in terms of even if I had all the hours in the world, I can only really write for a few in a row...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #496
Dance Whether Someone's Watching or Not I'm sure you've seen the posts on Facebook where one person (and then about 35-55% of your feed) posts a question on a cute background so everyone can answer and play along. I saw one not too long ago asking people to name a...
YW #495 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
It's Octobruary Mayly? Jugumber? Whatever month of 2020 it is, it must be the first weekend, because there's a micro grid on this post. If that wasn't enough micro for you, though, you can totally sign up for our first micro Super Challenge before it sells out - and...
YeahWrite #495 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Broken Webs My (adult) son's girlfriend, who lives with us, wanted to go all out on the Halloween decorations this year, which is particularly fun since who knows if kids will even trick-or-treat. If not, at least they can marvel at our spooky house. If so, I plan to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #495
Same but different The last few weeks have felt especially hectic and exhausting to me. Or perhaps it's just the accumulated weight of watching the world literally and figuratively burn, combined with the weird survivor's guilt of living in a place where it doesn't...
YeahWrite #494 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Discrepancies I used to have an entire Tumblr that was just pictures like the one in the header image for this post. Beds, rumpled, white sheets, fluffy duvets. Almost always shades of taupe and light grey. Big windows, no curtains (or just sheers). Sunlight streaming...
