Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #645 Weekly Writing Challenge
August is the yellowest month It's the Noongar season of Djilba where I live and all the yellow flowers are in bloom. Little golden orbs nod their heads happily, bobbing and swaying with the wind. You'd think that would bring me untold joy. I mean, what could be more...
YeahWrite #644 Weekly Writing Challenge
Back in the Saddle I'm still not quite sure what happened, but a few years ago, I finished the draft of my novel -- a novel I'd worked on for 6+ years -- and I just... quit. Perhaps I was simply tired, perhaps it was imposter syndrome, but no matter how proud I was of...
YeahWrite #643 Weekly Writing Challenge
But why is it there in the first place? One of this month's panelists for the Scarlet Quill Society talk (on SUNDAY, that's coming RIGHT UP!) was hosting a discussion on social media this week about, well, unexamined tropes. Specifically, the talk turned to the...
The Scarlet Quill Society: This Time It’s Personal
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #642 Weekly Writing Challenge
Looking for love - or inspiration - in all the right places It's a common problem we all have as writers: you're itching to write something, but you're having trouble getting started. Maybe you have an idea, or maybe you just have this ineffable urge to write. How do...
YeahWrite #641 Weekly Writing Challenge
Rain, hail or industrial action It's wild wet weather outdoors around here, and equally tempestuous in my internal world. Winter is the time of year when my thoughts gallop wildly and untamed and I struggle to marshal them into anything coherent. The weather's...
YeahWrite #640 Weekly Writing Challenge
Set It & Forget It I'm going to keep this short and sweet. You should be writing. Hear that a lot? I do, and my usual response is 'Easier said than done, bruh. I've got stuff to do.' But this morning, I told myself that stuff can wait. I told myself to pick a time...
YeahWrite #639 Weekly Writing Challenge
Comfort food, anyone? I have a friend who got married at the end of May. I'd promised to make her chuppah, out of cloth that her other friends had sent. Cue me cutting out 128 hexagons (and then there's the partial hexes) and sewing for... well. A while. Fortunately,...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Latitude Check
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #638 Weekly Writing Challenge
Right Here, Right Now So I recently went to an amusement park with my kids. Now, I'm not a roller coaster person, but I love my kids and they have remarkable puppy dog eyes when they want me to do something, so roller coasters it was. As I sat there waiting for the...
