Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #378
Schedules Are Sacred I am one of those people who live and die by their schedule. Everything needs to happen when it's supposed to happen or I end up losing all sense of timing. Case in point: This past week was Independence Day in the US. It fell on a...
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Well, heck, it's time for our annual uncomfortable talk Back in the day, when YeahWrite was yeah write and we did a summer teaching series instead of the Super Challenge (ask me how that went, while everyone wanted to take a summer vacation) (kidding, it was great,...
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
I'm Baaaaack I'm back from ten days in California Wine Country and boy was that a much-needed break! Great wine, exceptional food, beautiful scenery; everything was amazing there, as usual. Also, I was barely online at all, which was just what I needed. And now I'm...
Writing About Writing – Part III
What a feeling Okay, folks. We've hit the third part of our Writing about Writing series, so it's time for a few quick flashbacks. First, we reminded you that as you read through the story you're about to critique, you should keep three questions in mind:...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #377
Holidays, Micros, and Whatnot So, here in the US, July 4th is a holiday. As a nation, we'll be celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques and stuff. Frankly, I'm just grateful for a day off from my day job. In the rest of the world, I...
YeahWrite #376 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Speechless "Do something." That's what everyone around us is saying, isn't it? Do something. And people are "doing something." As terrifying as it is. And when you see news about people in the street, about mass shootings, mass arrests, when you see speeches, and...
YeahWrite #376 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Whoooooooboy. It's been one heck of a week, and nonfiction writers I don't blame you a bit for being a little stunned. Heck, I dug up an old half-written draft and dusted it off, tidied it up a little bit, and then felt bad because it didn't address how [I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #376
Setting Writing Aside As I begin to pack up my house to move, I'm trying to first set aside the things I know I won't need until we reach our new home in early August. It's pretty easy to tell what I'll use (flip-flops, mugs) and what I definitely will not...
YeahWrite #375 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it's the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. "We need writers because we need someone to...
YeahWrite #375 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Growing Season Summer has finally hit the Pacific Northwest - just in time for the solstice. WINTER IS COMING, Y'ALL. As usual, I can hardly wait. Still, we've got, I guess, our whole summer ahead of us, which will hopefully be long enough to grow all the things I...
