Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #465 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Souper Thursday It's national pack your lunch day, which is kinda funny to me since I've eaten lunch at home for the past eleven years. Am I supposed to do anything different? What does it even mean? I think maybe it means I'll grab a grilled cheese and tomato soup...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #465
Drop a Line Have you ever not received a comment on an essay, story, or poem you wrote for a YeahWrite challenge? Did you assume the reason you didn't get any comments was because your writing was subpar? Your writing wasn't subpar. You know how I know? If it was...
YeahWrite #464 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Come on Eileen I feel like it's kind of remiss to not mention that you should wash your hands and your phone and your keyboard. Because even if COVID-19 can be sung to the tune of Come On Eileen that doesn't mean it's not scary. Related: folks, remember not to say "it...
YeahWrite #464 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Very important editor's note: I'm going to let Stacie talk in just a second, but I want to have a word with you about the grids. Are you missing having 3 votes on each grid? Me, too. You get more consistent, nuanced results in the popular vote, and people are less...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #464
Long-winded Writing Tips This is going to be a two-fold lesson, so bear with me here. Anyone who knows me know that I am majorly irked by people repeating trite phrases. When everyone is saying a thing, it gets on my nerves. (Yes, I know that I say common things, too....
20/20 Hindsight – Second Variation
What have I done? Look, February's 20/20 was heckin' hard. We almost died trying to get our story down to wordcount. The good news is, that's the tightest wordcount you're going to have all year. The bad news is... we're still taking away your words, just in a whole...
YeahWrite #463 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Time keeps marching on I know it's not March yet but it sure feels like March. All the bikers were out today, me-powered and otherwise. And I'm impatiently waiting for my seeds to do their thing. If you're bored by the idea of me planting cotton and dye flowers and...
YeahWrite #463 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
I Wish I wish for so many things to be different right now: in my private world, in THE world. Sometimes it feels like everying is spiraling out of control. But the ten-day meditation retreat I attended last December taught that this very thing--the wishing--is a...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #15
I say this every time, but judging the Super Challenge is one of the hardest and most rewarding parts of running the competition. So: let's talk about math for a minute, ok? Mathematically, we can only advance 12 writers to the final round. (Ok, technically it's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #463
A cast of thousands Yesterday I went to see Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and as I type this I've got Netflix's They've Gotta Have Us playing in the background (have you seen it? Hurry, go queue it up in your list or borrow a...
