Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The last refuge of pedantry Tired of people lording it over you because you used "less" where you should have used "fewer?" Fear no more, reader! I've got your back. It's confusing, because the opposites of both words, are the same: MORE. The YeahWrite Super Challenge...
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Switching Seasons Fall is in the air. I'd be ok with that except for the "winter is coming" part. I hate winter as much as Rowan hates summer. We'd be a terrible couple except for the part where she knits hats for me; that part would be awesome. I will admit though,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #388
The Most Important Thing You can have all the tools in the world, but they mean nothing if you're missing one critical element every writer needs: snacks. I live in a house with an 11-year-old, so there's no shortage of snacks here. However, trapped in a...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
But first, a shameless plug Y'all, with less than two weeks left in the registration timeline, we've hit a $200 prize pot for Super Challenge 10. If you haven't signed up yet, what are you waiting for? In the meantime, of course, you can practice your prompted fiction...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hampered by Hamstrings My yoga class restarted this morning after the usual summer break. Boy am I going to be sore tomorrow. Also, it's amazing how quickly I lost what little flexibility I had gained during the year. I knew I should have kept up with at least the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #387
The Perils of Being a Writer Some years ago, I coined the phrase "Blogger's Neck." This is what I called it when my neck was stiff from looking down. I'm sure there's a more technical name for it and that other people have neck troubles. Still, it's one of...
YeahWrite #386 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Looking Forward to Winter Look, anyone can tell you I'm Team White Witch. Neverending winter is my idea of a perfect climate. But fall is pretty great, too, and we've got a lot to look forward to this fall. So even though temperatures where I live were well into the...
YeahWrite #386 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Stay Calm Everyone is back to school now here which means a greater hassle factor to do just about anything. I am not a fan of more traffic and long lines at the grocery store. I am not a very patient person and get easily annoyed when people aren't efficient....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #386
I Love September Even though summer for me is pretty much the same as the other months, I always love September. It just screams new start. Personally, I'm the walking embodiment of a new start, as today marks one month I've been living in California after...
Who do you think you are
I'm sorry in advance for all the earworms this post is about to contain. We're going to be talking through some potentially scary and also potentially boring material and this is going to help us get through. OK? Fine. Well, as the song says, Come on and...
