Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #423
Democracy sausages As this kickoff post goes live, the majority of votes in Australia's federal election will have been counted. We may have a new leadership; fresh-faced, enthusiastic, exuding that new government smell of hope and change. After six years of socially...
YeahWrite #422 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Whither the weather? I have no idea what season it is anymore. My dogwoods are sunburnt and they haven't even bloomed yet. Last week I was sweating to death and today I'm in a sweater. Still, I'm not unhappy about a few more days where hot tea and hot soup sound like...
YeahWrite #422 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Spring Cold I was healthy all winter but now I have a spring cold. The weather's been terrible though, rainy and dismal, so at least Mother Nature is commiserating with me, I guess. I've been popping the zinc cough drops, and I think they might be working? My head...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #422
TLC I volunteer at a dog rescue place, and one of the puppies was sad today. Normally, this particular shelter is a happy place, unlike the ones in those heart-breaking television commercials [ed's note: I will never hear a Sarah McLachlan song the same way again oh...
YeahWrite #421 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Liquid sunshine Hey YeahWriters, Christine here! Rowan is taking a short—but well-deserved—vacation to the rainy midwest while I've been enjoying an early summer at home, so I'm covering the winners post this week. It looks like this week's fiction prompt in...
YeahWrite #421 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Rain, Rain, Go Away The first winter I lived in the greater Boston area, Mother Nature delivered the most snow in recorded history. Now, we've had the wettest month in recorded history. I am really tired of breaking all-time weather records. I just want some sun! I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #421
slash-and-burn The last few months have been tumultuous for me. In January, I quit both running and attending the book club I've helmed for 14 years. I significantly dialed back other groups I'm heavily involved in. I seriously considered at times quitting my job,...
YeahWrite #420 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Sumer is icumen in And I'm not ready for it. The quince is flowering, the dogwoods are getting ready to do their thing, and that darn currant is already setting fruit. It's going to be a good year for blueberries, too. But it's been a rough spring, in a lot of ways...
YeahWrite #420 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
O I spy a cuckoo, a cuckoo, a cuckoo It's the merry month of May, although quite a few folks in the USA and Canada can be forgiven for wondering if they woke up in the wrong hemisphere this week! But where I am (and, I hear, where Rowan and Christine are) it's sunny...
Year of Fearless Writing: Your Bio and Website
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...
