Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #429
The Bard and the King Long ago, there was a kingdom with an insecure king. Oh, dear. The king hated to be shown as a fool, so he commanded a young and clever bard to gift all the writings in the town to a fire or suffer the consequences of his jealousy. The bard...
YeahWrite #428 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Challenges Ever since Christine took over the voting post she's been messing with me. She knows I like to follow up the voting post featured pic with a related picture for the winners' post. So this week she snuck in and put this weird, vaguely obscene, mountain...
YeahWrite #428 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
What's up My kids have me listening to "oldies" lately—you know, songs from the '80s and '90s. (Ouch.) I find it remarkable a) how many songs I can still sing along with, word for word, and b) how relevant certain songs still are, even twenty-five or thirty years...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #428
Silver Linings I've been working from the California Science Center in downtown LA all week (or from the nearby Starbucks) while my son attends a science camp. I'm not a "work-out-in-public" kind of person. I'm far too easily distracted and, knowing this, I've been...
YeahWrite #427 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Breathing room My writing partner is thousands of miles away. My editor is in a hot spring. The authors I'm editing are talking amongst themselves. For the first time in weeks I have the breathing room to work on my own projects and I have no idea what I want to do....
YeahWrite #427 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Leaving on a jet plane As I'm writing this, I'm also trying to pack for a family trip across the country to visit the in-laws. I've been doing laundry all day, and somehow the pile beside my suitcase keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's almost like the more time I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #427
Say it loud I was chatting with my playwright friend in Germany this week. (Isn't the internet marvellous?) I've known this friend for nearly ten years--we met because our children were at school together--and our friendship has lasted moves to different continents,...
YeahWrite #426 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Quack. Whine. Quack. Anyone who knows me, knows I hate summer. Today I remembered what I hate more than summer: being sick in the summer. I had this whole "ducks" metaphor thing laid out in my head to share with you, and now my head's so stuffy I can't even tell if it...
YeahWrite #426 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
School's out (for the summer) It's my kids' last day of school before summer break, and for the first time in, well, ever, I don't have a nine-to-five job. They won't be home all day every day, but I'm looking forward to some long lazy days where they have time to run...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #426
Is it summer yet? It's June, but the weather isn't cooperating. One day it'll be in the 80's (around 30C) and the next it's 20 degrees colder and raining. The rain soothes my sunburn, though, so I guess I can't complain. Besides, it gives me an excuse to stay inside...
