Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Unplanned Family Time For those of you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear whether my son successfully escaped Miami prior to Irma unleashing her wrath on South Florida: he did. I was both relieved and thrilled to have my family intact. Irma was a rough ride for...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect When I can't think of what to write, I generally don't stare at a blinking cursor. I know everyone says they do that, but I don't. No blank pages, either. Instead, I just scroll through Facebook endlessly. The result is usually that I...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Good Grief, Y'all As I write this, more hurricanes are swirling and things are still burning. It's kind of hard to do anything right now without acknowledging all that's happening. It's hard to do anything because of all that's happening. We hope you and yours are...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
I don't mean to sound alarmist, but I'm pretty sure this is the actual apocalypse. Everything that isn't on fire is underwater, and everything else is having earthquakes. Take care of yourselves and your families out there, people. You mean something. One...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Not Again Hurricane Irma, the strongest storm in the recorded history of the Atlantic Ocean, is currently decimating islands in the Caribbean and on track to hit Miami, where my son is a student. My heart goes out to everyone already suffering and those in Irma's...
Summaries for Pitch and Page – Complete
Hey, gang. If you’ve been around a while, you’ve watched us grow from a small group of bloggers who wanted to take their writing to the next level, to a thriving community of writers engaged in a little friendly competition to grow their skills, to our...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Show Me Some Love As Michelle mentioned last week, she coerced me into helping out around here in the land of mostly true stories. Not really; I'm happy to lend a hand, even if she's trying to undermine my popularity. Under no circumstances should you listen to...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
It's Way Too Early for This As I write this, it's Wednesday. It's only 2-cups-of-coffee-so-far o'clock, which means barely 7am. This post won't go live for about 89 hours and, if the way things have been going is any indication, literally anything can happen in the...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Ch-ch-ch-changes! While our antipodean contingent heads into spring and the US and Canada burn to the ground everywhere there's not 5 feet of standing water ease into autumn, change is on everyone's minds. So it shouldn't be a surprise to see the September...
A tutor who tooted the flute…
Fiction, as a genre, gets broken down pretty easily. If you think of “fiction” you know there’s horror, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, and so on and so forth. But when most people think of nonfiction, they tend to lump it all together into one amorphous category. Even...
