Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #454
A Little Peace and Quiet I just got back from a silent meditation retreat and boy are my words tired. We're accustomed to a constant flow of information - both in and out - but it turns out that sometimes we can use all that information to hide from things we're...
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Gimme a Break My biggest annual project for my biggest client just happens to fall right at the time of the year that everyone wants to hang out because they have... a break. I'm not sure what that is, actually, at this point, at the end of like my 20th consecutive...
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Indomitable So in August, my kids and I started taking Taekwon-do together. It's pretty physically intense, but before we were even allowed to start learning forms, attacks, and blocks, we had to memorize the five tenets of Taekwon-do: Courtesy, Integrity,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #453
Wandering Into the Cornfields Yeah, I wasn't even close to making my 2019 writing goals, but that's okay. I made them before I knew what the year had in store for me and sometimes health, career, and relationships need to take precedence. I'm confident I did the best...
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Always Winter, and Never Christmas The first book I remember analyzing was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, after my mother took it out of my hands -- I must have been all of nine, I think -- and said scornfully "You know Aslan is just Jesus, right?" Look, it...
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Cutting through the fog Between the weather, school commitments, and the inevitable blur of the holiday season, my brain is feeling particularly foggy right now. Every time I sit down to write, it feels like walking blindly into the mist, and I'm too worried about...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #452
Just Write Sometimes you want to write something and it's based on real events and to use what actually happened in your writing will have an adverse effect. Maybe it's a nonfiction essay where you can't directly call someone out because of repurcussions. Perhaps it's...
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Glitter Season Sure, everyone has a favorite season. Pumpkin Spice season (hint: it's not spiced pumpkin)? Beach season? Me, I like Glitter Season. It starts at Halloween (or Diwali in years when Diwali comes first) and ends right around the Lunar New Year. In the...
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Fa-la-la I can't help it: I'm a sucker for holiday carols. I'm not particularly religious and truth be told, I hate the snow, but no matter how Grinch-like I feel, all it takes is a cheerful rendition of Sleigh Ride or a four-part arrangement of In the Bleak...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #451
The dudes stories are emerging Who got my Tropic Thunder reference in the title? Only me? Oh, okay then. Fine, I'll get on with it. I did a week long online workshop on flash/micro writing last week, which got me thinking about the story behind the story. The workshop...
