Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #410 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Snow Problem My Facebook memories are flooded with photos of me and my family escaping the cold during school vacation, which normally makes me happy, only this year we stayed home so instead I'm jealous of my past. It doesn't help that we are getting up to seven more...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #410
Sad Memoir I recently had a self-published memoir foisted on me by someone close to the author. After reading the first page, I couldn't help but groan, which is a shame because I love well-written memoirs. I find it fascinating to read about the lives of strangers...
YeahWrite #409 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
But how do you do it? I used to refer to fostering retired greyhounds as "serial pet dating" when people asked me how I could stand to just, you know, not keep them all. "I would have 50 dogs," they laughed ruefully. But it's not like that: while Mister, or Dioggi...
YeahWrite #409 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Dog Gone I realize it's not fall, but when I saw this photo, I had to choose it because the dog reminds me of the first shelter dog I fell in love with when I started volunteering last August. Chiclet wove his way into the fabric of my heart and nearly became my third...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #409
Mold I am a practical person. I am often teased in my family for including things like new sheets, a humidifier, a new pair of rubber boots on my Christmas wish list, and never anything fun. I also adhere pretty strictly to a routine. So much so that my cat Link...
YeahWrite #408 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
All I can think of is bird jokes and it's all Stacie's fault Well, it's looking like my little piece of the world is finally about to get some winter, and I'm here for it. Sorry to the folks in Seattle with the sold out grocery stores (seriously, it's gonna be like, a...
YeahWrite #408 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Finish Line How do I become one of those people who just stops reading books they aren't into? I have this odd sense of duty to finish what I start. I know that's misguided, but I can't help myself. When I am in a slower period of devouring books, like now, the reason...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #11
Math is hard; you reap the benefits One of the things we pride ourselves on at YeahWrite is the quality and consistency of our judging. To give you the best and fairest results, we don't scatter your group's stories among a bunch of judges; each judge reads, scores,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #408
The Timing Is Never Right I don't have time to write. I don't have a good place to write. If I'm going to write, I need a dedicated day to do it. I need to have a perfect setup with nice pens and a cup of tea and, I don't know, a cookie or something. Not this cookie,...
YeahWrite #407 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Haters gonna hate It's literally a HUNDRED DEGREES FAHRENHEIT warmer where I am than where my friends are... and it's still not warm. That's ok; they've promised me snow next week, which means I'll see four or five anemic flakes before the temperature rises 6 degrees...
