Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON There's a lot of swearing in that link in the header. Almost as much swearing as I did when the handles ripped off my decorative gourd transportation bag. IT'S FINE, THIS IS FINE. My steps are COVERED in absurd looking pumpkins. Warty ones...
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Seeing the Light My orchid is blooming again! Once upon a time, four homes ago, I had about a dozen orchids and they rebloomed year after year, even sometimes twice per year. When I moved, they didn't bloom anymore. Eventually I figured out it's all about the light,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #440
When Other People Are Right I was talking with a friend a few weeks back about writing, among other things. Somehow, we got onto the subject of my book and some things that happened as a result of me not yet finishing it. Essentially I was complaining, blaming, making...
YeahWrite #439 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
BYE FOR NOW Kidding. Sort of. The video game I've been waiting all year for is FINALLY HERE and I'm about to disappear into the computer for the weekend. I'm stocked up on cola and crumpets, my friends know they're not going to hear from me for 72 hours and not to...
YeahWrite #439 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Calming Beauty My week in Iceland last week was spectacular. I've never been anywhere so beautiful, with such varied geography! Being contantly surrounded by such breathtaking beauty is so good for the soul. And soaking in the geothermal spas wasn't half-bad either....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #439
Baby On Board! It's okay, I haven't launched headlong into midlife crisis, there's no wistful longing for some whimsical memory of raising small children. No, we got a new puppy. Frank. I didn't name him. He was Frank when we got him, and when I suggested a name...
YeahWrite #438 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Sinking feelings Oh yeah, folks, if you've been following the Great Remodel saga, I have some good news for you: I can do the dishes. Well, my spouse can. Well, the dishwasher we bought because life is too short to fight over the dishes can. I'm so excited to stop...
YeahWrite #438 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Take a minute We've got some new folks hanging out here on the grids and in the Coffeehouse. Take a minute or two to say hello, whether that's a comment on a post or a kind word on Facebook. And new folks, don't be shy! Even if you didn't write this week, we'd love to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #438
Keep on Writin' This might sound odd, but one way to improve your writing is to try not to care what other people think. Of course, this is easier said than done, but effectively it keeps you writing more and the more you write, the greater your chances of improving....
YeahWrite #437 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Let your creativity soar Stacie's off on an adventure, and I'm still trying to install a sink. But the great thing about writing is that we're both able to visit the same wonderful worlds between the covers of a book. And if the book we want to read doesn't exist,...
