Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
[Ed's note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with you for...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #486
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I've had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in history...
20/20 Hindsight – Seventh Variation
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you're at a party. You're telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death and you got...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Just? It's probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now "just" and "justice" are super-fraught words, but because they're weaponized in other ways. "Just write," says Neil Gaiman, who has two assistants and no...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn't think so. But you don't need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment - don't forget, even if you didn't...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #485
Vacationing from the pandemic Yeah, it's weird, but it's happening. I take a break every year around now to hang out with my family and friends in northern Michigan. There's usually about 30 of us in assorted cabins around a lake, but this year it's just me and a...
YeahWrite #484 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Important I've sat down to write this post about five times now, and tapped out every time. Because part of me is like "look, Rowan, you need to write the [censored] post, ok?" and part of me is like "yes, we know, but like, there's a civil war kicking off close...
YeahWrite #484 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
In the Weeds Every day, I hike with my dogs along a wooded trail which in two places opens up into a meadow. The weeds have gotten so tall on either side of the trail that I can no longer see my dogs if they choose to venture in there. Heck, in some places the brush...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #484
TV and Movies I love TV and movies. Like, really love them. There are times when I think I should read more often and watch less. (I mean, I *should* read more.) I was watching a movie last weekend (Palm Springs on Hulu. You should check it out.) and it did the thing...
YeahWrite #483 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
The little things Sometimes it feels like writing is all you've got left, the one thing that will always be there for you. Through thick and thin the words spill out. Good? Bad? Who knows. Write another poem. Other times, one little thing can make it completely...
