Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #477 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Editor's Note As I write this, thousands of people are in the streets in cities nationwide. Worldwide. The US President is calling for the use of military force against citizens. As writers, readers, and editors we know how a story is told matters. "Protesters were...
20/20 Hindsight – Fifth Variation
Bigger is better? We've been pretty stingy with words over the last few months. This month, we're feeling a little more generous! Like, so generous! And it's not just because our sample story originally came in at 2,700 words, at least 2,100 of which are "darlings."...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #477
Carpe Liam I've been thinking a lot about this year's high school senior class. A friend's son, Liam, graduated with honors last week. He won't get a ceremony or the chance to toss that frisbee hat into the air, but none of that will matter as much when he's a college...
YeahWrite #476 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Enough As I write this, George Floyd is dead. As I write this, Regis Korchinski-Paquet is dead. As I write this, Tony McDade is dead. As I write this, Minneapolis is burning. It's tempting to say, "I'm a writer, I can write about what I want. What makes me feel good....
YeahWrite #476 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Return of the Vermin Everywhere I look, at least if I'm looking out of a window in my house, I see chipmunks. They've been digging vast tunnel-networks underneath my lawn, apparently. And I have SO many rabbits, I'm just waiting to discover some nests. Rabbit nests...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #476
I'm Sure I'm Not the Only One I think it's fair to say that most of us get envious of others from time to time. What I think happens often though, and we don't talk about it, is that feeling of envy for things othes have achieved when we are not willing to put in the...
YeahWrite #475 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Time, time time... see what's become of me. I have no idea what day it is. KIDDING. It's Thursday night. Days of the week are kind of getting away from me this week, though, what with quarantine and this project I'm doing. It's a worthwhile project, but hyperfocus is...
YeahWrite #475 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Still Brain Dead Look, I know I was brain dead last week but here I am again, forgetting the day of the week. I just don't know when I am going to be able to process this very basic information again. I think it doesn't help that my days are totally unstructured since...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #475
The unbridled beauty of words I've been reading a lot of poetry recently. I find that when the world is unfathomable, when people confound me, poetry contains joy, beauty, and sometimes answers for me. I've also been trying my hand at writing poetry -- something I...
YeahWrite #474 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Don'Wanna Have I mentioned lately that the combination of being freelance plus everyone ELSE suddenly working from home has made days impossible to day? For example, I have a project that's supposed to drop today, so I took my weekend on Tuesday and Wednesday, and now...
