Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #437 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Busy, Busy What a week! My son started tenth grade, and I'm leaving for Iceland tomorrow so it's been a bit busy, to say the least. In addition to packing and buying things for school and my trip, I felt compelled to make sure everthing was in order, since Mom being...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #437
While the cat's away... My kids were away at camp last week, giving me almost seven glorious hours to myself each day. I had plans, people. Plans. Big writing plans. Unfortunately, those plans didn't take into account the couch cover that needed washing, the forms I...
YeahWrite #436 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Surprise! One of my favorite parts of collaborating with other writers is handing them little surprises. Nothing big, just a moment or two in the story that's designed to delight them. Most of those end up on the cutting room floor, of course, being darlings that...
YeahWrite #436 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Six of One... I've been having trouble uploading photos to these posts lately. What that means, practically speaking, is that I don't always end up with the first image (or even the second) that I choose. So this week, you get eggs instead of the bird I originally...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #436
Time for School! School is back in session here in my little corner of SoCal. I'm proud of myself for resisting the urge to buy a thousand new notebooks and all of the colorful Post-Its. For me, the first day of school is tantamount to January 1. In fact, I think I...
The final round of Super Challenge 13 is underway!
Well, here we are. The final round of Lucky Number 13, YeahWrite's nonfiction Super Challenge. We don't have 13 writers, of course, but 12, and they'll be competing for those sweet cash prizes. This round you're free to write personal or persuasive essays,...
YeahWrite #435 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Dying of deadlines It's the last week of the Super Challenge, and last round's winners are waiting for their prompt. It's the last day of this week's grids, and those winners wanna know, too. In the meantime, all I've won is three sets of deadlines. And a new kitchen...
YeahWrite #435 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Easy Breezy August, the end of summer here in the greater Boston area, is amazing. Sure, it can be hot. But people clear out. It's so easy to do stuff. No lines at the stores, walking into restaurants without reservations, and much less traffic are just a few of the...
Congratulations to the first round winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #13
Winning - or advancing in - a writing competition should be a matter of skill, not luck. But I'll be very real with y'all: this time it almost came down to luck. In more than one of our groups, despite our distributed judging method, there were multiple-way ties. So I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #435
Thunderstruck As I write this, a small dog shivers on my lap, burying her head into the fold between my belly and my thigh. Thunder claps overhead, rattling the windows. It's Djilba; the fifth of six seasons in the Noongar (or Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah,...
