Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #400 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Baby, it's warm outside Back in the Pacific Northwest (or the "specific northwest" as my little sister used to say) it's 20 degrees warmer. Makes me feel a little closer to Asha and my other Antipodean friends, I guess, but it's not very "end of year." What is end of...
YeahWrite #400 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet December I've been eating too much sugar this month, which seems to happen annually with everyone in my house having birthdays on top of the holidays. Because I don't normally eat a lot of sugar, my body doesn't like it: I feel sluggish and icky. My mouth really...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #400
Notice Anything? Hey hey!! Welcome to our streamlined kickoff post! You wanted shorter kickoffs and we wanted you to have all the information you need whether it's your first time or your 400th, so it took us a minute to figure out what that would look like. We hope...
YeahWrite #399 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Windy City I know Chicago got its nickname from its politics, but I'd like to vouch for the power of the wind coming off Lake Michigan. Not that I'd know: I've been holed up in a room writing the whole time, with occasional trips out to get a food or hug a SFF...
YeahWrite #399 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hippo Birdie Did I tell you it's my birthday week? Of course I did, in the kickoff post, and today I brought cupcakes to share! And thanks to everyone who posted to the grids this week. Such nice gifts and I look forward to reading them, with a side of cake. Popular...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #399
Don't Skip This Paragraph Y'all. I don't know if your 2018 has been like my 2018, but if it has, then it's been all over the place, super good, also not so great, stalled and faltering while rushing through at breakneck speed. If you think that makes no...
Prologue: The Year of Fearless Writing
To be a writer is to be fearless. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But let’s face it: how many of us really write without fear? Mhm, thought so. Writing - whether it's a personal essay or a fantasy story - makes us vulnerable, and that’s terrifying. There is...
YeahWrite #398 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Oh there's no place like home for the holidaysWhich is clearly why this is the season when all our editors take vacations. Between packing, unpacking, baking, and, um, I think I'm supposed to be working, who has time to shop, or even make a holiday gift...
YeahWrite #398 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Deep Breath...Get Busy As I mentioned earlier, the next two months are my busy time with five birthdays in the house plus the holidays. This week, my oldest son turns 22, and how am I even that old? All I can say is thank goodness for online shopping. I remember when...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #398
The Home Stretch This is it! You're almost there! For anyone participating in any kind of November writing challenge, these last few days can either be torture where you're just phoning it in to prove a point or it can be your last little sprint at the...
