Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
The Road to Hell You know how Stephen King famously said that he believes the road to hell is paved with adverbs? Well I think it's paved with adjectives. (Actually, I think it's probably just black top, but that's neither here nor there.) His point about adverbs is...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sharing Is Caring I feel like I've used that heading title before but I can't remember. Oh well. Regardless, the sentiment remains. The Weekly Writing Challenges rely on you, our audience and participants, to spread the word. When you tweet, share links on Facebook,...
The Final Round of Super Challenge #5 is Underway!
Congratulations on making it to the final round of the YeahWrite Super Challenge! This round you'll have a new kind of prompt: a sentence. Each writer will incorporate that sentence into an essay about... well, about wherever that sentence takes them for inspiration....
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
There's a First Time for Everything I'm fairly certain that this is the first winners' post I've ever written. But Rowan went and left the building* and now I'm here writing a winners' post. My calendar tells me she'll be back next week** so maybe this...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Whining I just returned from a week in wine country and now I'm whining because I want to live there right now! Even so, it's good to be home and sleep in my very own bed. It's also good to jump back in to YeahWrite! Let's do it. Popular voting for the YeahWrite #330...
Congratulations to the Round 2 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #5
Whew. That's over. If personal essays are a creative nonfictioneer's meat and milk, it's still important to know how to persuade your audience. That's what Round Two tested. If you, like many of our writers, felt a little out of your depth, check out this tutorial we...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Go Beyond a Day in the Life If you read last week's winners post, you might already know what I'm going to say. (You did read it, right?). In her Roundup, Rowan talked about how a personal essay must go beyond a diary entry. Since it's such good advice, I thought I'd...
YeahWrite #330 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
How Much Do You Want to Win? When I first started participating at YeahWrite, I kept a spreadsheet of what post I submitted, how many were on the grid, where I ranked and if I got an Editor's Pick (note: that column was almost always blank). I studied those who did...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks Phew. Microprose, amirite? I'm not kidding when I say it's our hardest challenge, both from the writer's end and ours. Like every week, we keep an eye on the grid. We read (yes, even when we don't comment...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
It's the most wonderful time of the year About once a year, I get to steal my favorite writing partner (and second-favorite editor) and go out for happy hour. Of course, all we end up doing is talking about work; I'd say that's how much we love this job but let's be...
