Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #363 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
ARE YOU READY? I know I'm supposed to talk about this week's winners, and I'll get to that in a second, but y'all, I am SO excited for our birthday. Birthmonth. We're making it a whole month, what the heck. Keep an eye on Sunday's kickoff each week for special news,...
YeahWrite #363 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Talking Turkey A turkey walked beside me in the parking lot as I was heading to my yoga class this morning. He was singing a muted, pleasant song, and I wondered why he was alone. Typically, turkeys travel in rafters. Perhaps he was searching for his friends. Or maybe...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #363
How to Write Finishing stuff is hard. I have lots of great ideas and plenty of terrific starts, but I'm terrible at finishing. The reason is simple: Hard work is, well, a lot of hard work. Ideas and starts are fun and exciting and successes and finishes...
YeahWrite #362 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cantstopwontstop Our birthday week is creeping up on us. Can you believe it's been seven years since the first YeahWrite post? We've seen a lot of changes in that time: who remembers the brief period in history when we were called "lovelinks?" We've added grids: first...
YeahWrite #362 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Distracted I have a friend staying with me this week while her son checks out colleges in the area. Visitors are fun, but I almost forgot to write this post! Now I have no idea what to even say, unless you want me to complain about the 4th March nor'easter we are...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #362
WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED KICKOFF Rowan here, with the most exciting news I've had in a while. How exciting? Y'all? YeahWrite swag. That's right. We've got our shop up and running with the tees, tanks, totes, t'sweatshirts, t'pants and...
YeahWrite #361 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
In like a lamb, you mean? Stacie may be snowed in, but over here on the Best Coast we're having such an unbroken run of good weather that editor Christine and I met up for lunch and a long walk in a local garden... in tshirts. Usually we try to squeeze in a few extra...
YeahWrite #361 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
In Like A Lion Here in New England, March is living up to its reputation, with three nor'easters in less than two weeks. This is my fourth winter here and the lion has never been displaying such force during my limited experience. By the time you read this, I'll be...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #361
You Can Do It! I'm a sucker for a good motivational speech. Yesterday, I was listening to someone I know on FB Live talking about how he grew up in a really bad area but wanted to be successful and get out. He was told numerous times that for a number of...
YeahWrite #360 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Maybe it's the weekend. Maybe not. I got a surprise weekend in the middle of my week when a client blew a deadline by two days. The corollary is that I now no longer get a weekend on the weekend itself, but it was glorious to have those midweek days to write and edit...
