Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #391 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Countdown to... Well, if you're on our fiction|poetry grid, that's a little nervewracking. If you're in the Super Challenge, though, you're counting down to your next prompt tonight. GOOD LUCK. While you're trying to stave off that impending ulcer, why not...
YeahWrite #391 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Back From Wining I spent all last week in my happy place, Wine Country, CA, ignoring all things YeahWrite thanks to Rowan and Michelle stepping in for me. Instead, I indulged in amazing food and tasty wine. This trip was a much needed break, and I'm now reenergized...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #391
Are Routines the Answer? Since up-ending my entire life a few months ago, I've found that every routine I had has fallen apart. I go to the grocery store almost every day. I don't leave the house for work anymore, so sometimes I don't get dressed until I...
YeahWrite #390 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Spin spin, sugar I rearranged my office this week. Got the club chair that turned into an oubliette for projects out and moved the spinning wheel in. I used to think I hated spinning, but that was when I only had a drop spindle. If you love a drop spindle, more power...
YeahWrite #390 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Read and Be Read This is Michelle, filling in for Stacie who is off this week and most likely drinking wine right now. One of the earliest slogans at YeahWrite was "Read and Be Read." It sounds perfect, right? We love to read great work, but we also want eyes on our...
Joy Writing
I don't know about you, but I get bored no matter what I'm doing, if I do it long enough. Even if it's writing. My favorite characters start staggering drunkly across the page, my intricate plots begin to dissolve, and my settings go cardboard-flat. But I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #390
Writing as Respite When things are difficult, write. For many, it's a rough time right now. Write, my friends, and let it heal you. Whether it be something extremely personal that you never show a soul, a response to what you see around you, a scathing...
YeahWrite #389 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Dystopian Fiction I dunno, y'all, do you still read dystopia? It's starting to lose its charm when I can just open up the Washington Post. In other news, a giant meteor missed us, so those of you on Team Giant Meteor 2020 need to work harder if this is all you can get...
YeahWrite #389 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Something Old? Something New? After having written the voting post weekly for quite some time, I fear that one day I might revisit a story I've already told. It's not out of the question. My brain is aging, after all. So if I ever do that, you have a few options. You...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #389
Where Have I Heard This Before? There's a very fine line between relatable and trite. In fact, it's so fine I think it's actually blurred more often than not. If you've heard one toddler tantrum tale, you've heard them all, right? On many occasions of...
