Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #338
You're Really Going to Want to Read This I love to tell you quirky things about myself, so here's another one: I'm totally freaked out by change and yet I crave it constantly. That means I am often looking for new and different experiences and then I make...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Sunday SUNDAY Sundayyyyyy! It's one of those posts, folks. I'm announcing the winners, but I'm also giving you a heads up about so much more. Or you could, you know, scroll straight to the bottom. I don't care. I don't put any work into these posts or...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Social Butterfly I've had social obligations every evening for the past week, which has been both fun and exhausting (even for an extrovert). I really want to spend the next few days under a blanket with a good book but alas I have 8th grade back-to-school-night to...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Tense Person I am a tense person. I like to tell people I'm high strung. I'm not sure why I like to tell them. It's not exactly a positive trait. I guess it's so that when they sneak up behind me, and I jump to the ceiling I can say, "Well, I told you I was high...
YeahWrite #337 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Seasonal Thoughts It's officially autumn here in the US, which means I'm officially depressed that in three months it will officially be winter. In the meantime, we have a few months of people either talking about or making fun of pumpkin spice. On the bright side, in...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now" Louisa May Alcott said that first, or so the Internet tells me, but I'm feeling it right now. My espresso machine has been broken for a month and I've been spending my mornings hunched over the stove,...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hop to it! Bunnies love my yard. Right now, outside of my window, I see three bunnies munching on the grass and eyeballing the sliding glass door as if at any moment two rambunctious dogs might rush out. Their caution is well-founded; my dogs enjoy a good chase almost...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Everyone starts at the beginning This is (somehow) the 5 year anniversary of my first ever editor's pick at YeahWrite for my post about latte foam which honestly I thought was a silly piece without much merit. As I recall, it didn't do all that well in the vote, but I...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Going for the Gut We are about to start renovating our kitchen. We've lived here a little over seven years, and the kitchen has needed to be renovated for at least the last 20. At first, we thought we might be able to do it piecemeal. Update one thing here, another...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Fall in! If you know me at all, you know fall is my favorite season. Well, and winter. But mostly fall cause it means winter's coming. I got to wear a sweater most of the day yesterday and I was thrilled. See, for me, fall is a season not just of beauty...