Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #456 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Attitude is key Kidding. I hate that crap. Attitude won't improve your pay scale (except perhaps, assuming your workplace is committed to fairness and not at all affected by systemic misogyny or racism even unconsciously), your access to healthcare, or your odds of...
YeahWrite #456 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Brrrrr My heater broke. For three days, no heat. It's winter here in New England. Needless to say, this development was not much fun. But I'm happy to report that as of this morning, all is well and the house is slowly warming up, one degree at a time, so I should be...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #456
What Are You Going to Do? I'm going to be blunt: What are you going to do with your 2020? When I ask you at the end of the year what you're most proud of and what you want to brag about (assuming I remember to ask), what do you want to say? Knowing what you want is...
YeahWrite #455 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
I need a break to recover from my break This can be a rough time of year to be a writer, what with the apocalyptic fires and the assassinations. What, you thought I meant the holidays? Those are over. But the world keeps tumbling on, and one of my jobs is to stay...
Registration is open for Super Challenge #15!
Ready to get a head start on your New Year's resolutions? Was one of them "write more?" Then have we got a deal for you! Writing, reading, and... winning cash prizes? Sounds good to me. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's 15th Super Challenge. We're taking it...
YeahWrite #455 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Happy 2020! They (those people) say that hindsight is 2020. Well, I have a lot of hindsight into 2019 now, and I'm so glad to be ringing in the new year. I wish you all a happy and healthy year, one also full of writing and reading! Popular voting for the YeahWrite...
20/20 Hindsight
Stay awhile, and listen. That's a line from a character in one of my most-played (I have no idea if it's my favorite but WOW did I play it a lot) (that's a pun, shoutout to the five people who got it) video games. Besides being a scratchy little soundbite from ages...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #455
The last person on Earth This is my favourite time of year to walk the dogs. Not because of the absurd 27ºC/81ºF temperatures by 7 am, not because the sun is up at 4 am and so am I. No, it's my favourite time because when I take the dogs out in the morning, the...
YeahWrite #454 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Habari gani? Kujichagulia It's the second day of Kwanzaa, where I am. Depending on your time zone and country, it might be something else for you. I'm sitting here writing the last winners' post of the year and thinking about the ways we celebrate each other right...
YeahWrite #454 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nothing Says Holiday Like a Fake Fire Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Holidays, whichever you celebrate, to the rest of you! I hope you are enjoying time off from work and school! We have a habit of watching the Yule Log on Christmas Day, because it's...