Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #375
Penny for Your Thoughts? You know how we roll around here, so before we embark on more changes, let me ask you this: What do you love about the YeahWrite posts? I'm talking kickoff, voting, winners, weekend - all of them! What could you do without? Send...
YeahWrite #374 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Finished! I've been rebuilding an old scooter all summer (or at least that's what it feels like, although summer hasn't technically started yet). First it was just a matter of siphoning out the old gas and adding new. Then it was replacing the battery. By the time I...
YeahWrite #374 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
The Little Bandit that Could Did you hear about the little raccoon that scaled one of the tallest buildings in Minnesota, presumably to look for a pigeon dinner? After surmounting this improbable climb, it was captured by animal control, who stated they'd release it...
Deconstructing Prompts – Complete
Prompts. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're at the center of most flash fiction writing. Whether you're dealing with a genre (or two), character, object, image, or something else entirely, the competition or anthology you're submitting to expects you to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #374
Are You a Member? Just over a week ago, we unveiled our new membership program. Did you see it? If not, it's right here. We think this is a great chance to not only be a part of something fun and exciting at YeahWrite, but your membership also helps us be...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Losing is just a statistic I was at the gym yesterday doing a timed workout with a small class. We had to do a certain amount of work on the stationary bikes, and then a set of movements with dumbbells, three times. One guy was struggling a little, and the class was...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nate the Great I was in Chicago earlier this week and I got to meet Nathan James in real life! We've been working together for a long time now, so of course we already know each other. Still, it was so much fun! Later he messaged me that the Palmer House in Chicago...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #373
Shout Out to the Best Team Ever Around 3am I woke up thinking, "Oh darn*, I forgot to write the intro!" (*It wasn't really "darn.") I am chronically overscheduled, I work too much and only remember to do things that I write down and that's only when I...
YeahWrite #372 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Lucky Seven I'm drafting what will be the seventh post or page we publish today. That's our June poetry slam, the new Technique Toolbox (don't miss this one), registration for our ninth (!!) Super Challenge, the post reminding you that you want to register for our...
Writing About Writing – Part II
Ready, set.... read. Last month, we added some basic writer's vocabulary to our Technique Toolbox. You know that as you read a story or essay you've been asked to critique, you should be prepared to ask the three big questions: What was the writer trying...
