Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #17
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Or not, if you don't eat chicken for one reason or another. I've got chickens on the mind today because a friend just had to evacuate their home, which is threatened by the fires in California, and I'm hoping they were able to make...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #489
Boundaries I used to be good at this—at using the small breaks between tasks to write, or at least to think about writing. I carried a little notebook with me wherever I went (okay, I still do that, but usually I just use my phone nowadays). Give me fifteen minutes,...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
What kind of stories do you tell? Like a lot of people, I've been playing more Animal Crossing this year than I expected to. Not because I particularly love pulling weeds and terraforming (although I'm enjoying recreating Hyrule on my island) or because I get to visit...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Summer Swan Song Summer is nearly over. School, whatever that means, is about to start. How can that be when none of us feel as if we've had a real summer at all? I haven't even read any books, and that is for sure something I could be doing in the isolation of my...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #488
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss If you've been around here for a bit, you know that two years ago I moved from NJ to CA. I knew we weren't going to stay in this apartment forever but I put off moving again for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is that it...
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Get the picture? Interestingly, I've now been writing the weekly winners' post for so long that the thing that takes the most time is picking out the header picture. Not because I hate looking at pictures, but because I love it. There are so many pictures out there,...
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot Mess Is it hot where you are? It sure is here. Rowan hates that. [ed's note- she is so right. so right. bring me a winter. /rbg] I don't love it but also, being COLD is so much worse for me that I try not to complain too much. Except this week. I found a dead...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #487
Who knew Did you ever write a story that won't leave you alone, proof it, give it to beta readers, and then weeks or months (lolsob) later, after you've submitted it to a bunch of places and received rejections, you notice that there's a huge structural inconsistency?...
Super Challenge #17 Round 1 is Underway!
Don't stress yourself out. Look, we know that's big advice right now, but hear me out: don't stress yourself out. There's plenty of stuff stressing you out right now without your help. We know. We're stressed too! The judges are stressed! My cat is stressed! My large,...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Dona Nobis Pacem It took a long time to write this post. Not because 2020 is still out there 2020'ing, although you're forgiven if you thought that because it is a totally reasonable thing to think, but because I started picking out a header image and got absolutely...
