Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 13th Super Challenge
What goes around, comes around There's nothing like a fast deadline to really get a writer's adrenaline pumping. But why should the fiction writers have all the fun? YeahWrite started eight years ago with creative nonfiction, and we're still committed to the genre. So...
YeahWrite #425 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
That was easy. You might or might not have seen that commercial. The office supplies one? The one where at the end a character hits a big red button and a voice booms THAT WAS EASY. That's how I feel about some conversations we've been having lately in our little...
YeahWrite #425 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
All together now I went to my second grader's school play today. It wasn't much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn't pull it out on his own. So the old man called the old...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #425
The Answer is Iowa For at least a decade now, I've been trying to figure out who one of my 2nd great-grandfather's parents are. Long story short: No one in my family could ever find a paper trail on where he came from. So I've been digging and collaborating and...
Year of Fearless Writing: Networking On- and Offline
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 #424 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Not ready yet This picture is my protest against the summer that is happening to me against my will. I refuse. Don't wanna. I've had the AC on for a week and it's not even June (although at least we're past Memorial Day). Just let me hang onto my rain for a minute or...
YeahWrite #424 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Stormy weather All over the US we've been having some pretty wild weather: tornadoes, thunderstorms, excessive heat—and it's only June. I know it's a sign of the times (climate change, anyone?) and I should anticipate it by now, but I just can't get used to the sky's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #424
Quit Procrastinating Now (or don't) I was chatting with another YeahWrite editor the other day about how hard it can be to find the time to write. I said I needed a wealthy benefactor so I didn't have to work and she added that I'd also need a nanny, housekeeper,...
YeahWrite #423 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Shambling towards.... Stacie wasn't wrong when she picked the turtle for this week's vote picture. I've felt like I was dragging all day today. Well. It'll be "yesterday" by the time you read this, but you get the picture. It's one of those days when even my bone...
YeahWrite #423 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Talking Turtle I have an "if animals could talk" calendar. Yes, the old-fashioned paper kind. And apparently May 23 is World Turtle Day! Who else is excited? Just me and all the turtles of the world? Well, hopefully for the nonturtle folk, reading and voting on the...
