Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #434 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Rough re-entry Some people (cough*Nate*cough) take a break from writing and return invigorated. They have new ideas, new energy, new passion for their work. And if that's you, I'm jealous, because when I take a break from writing it's like ... going to the gym. See, I...
YeahWrite #434 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Rest in Power "If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." --Toni Morrison The world lost an amazing, influential writer this week. So many of us are heartbroken by the death of Toni Morrison. But...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #434
Do Your Research So if you read last week's voting post, you already know I went whale watching last week. What you don't know is that when I searched a free photo website for a breaching humpback whale, like the one I saw, I got a whole lotta BAD whale...
YeahWrite #433 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Day Three It's my third day alone in the house and I've gone the genteel kind of feral that has me subsisting on liver-pate-and-egg burritos and rum raisin ice cream bars. Protip: microwave the takoyaki before toasting (don't @ me, I don't have a kitchen right now and...
Year of Fearless Writing – Pitch Perfect
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
YeahWrite #433 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Whale of a Time Earlier this week, I took my son and nephew on a whale watching trip! Last time I went, I saw three different types of whales, plus dolphins. The time before, I saw four types of whales, plus dolphins. This time, we saw only two species: humpbacks and...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #433
Polishing Up It's that time of year again. Vacation time! For the past 11 years, I've spent the last week of July with my college friends and our families at a resort in northern Michigan. This year, we're expecting over 35 people! We make community dinners, play...
Super Challenge #13 Round One is Underway!
There's a phrase often used in talking about journalism and essays: burying the lede. It means to ramble on and on without giving the reader enough information to tell what the piece is really about. I won't bury this one though: we'll be moving twelve (not ten)...
YeahWrite #432 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
I'm baaaaaaack Didja miss me? That was a heck of a road trip, y'all, but we made it. Came back with some stories to tell, and some that we're not ready to tell yet, and some that we may never tell. That's the nature of stories, right? I even made it back in time to...
YeahWrite #432 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Under Water I am mildy clautrophobic, meaning I'm uncomfortable in enclosed spaces, but it's not debilitating. Long tunnels make me nervous, especially if they go underwater, like the Ted Williams that travels under Boston Harbor to Logan Airport or the Lincoln and...
