Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #327 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot hot hot! After a few cool days late last week, summer has returned with a vengeance here in New England. Therefore, I'm offering virtual ice cream to anyone who would like some before settling in to read the grids. I'm eating two scoops! Popular voting for the...
YeahWrite #327 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
They'll Read Your Story But Not Your Mind I recently wrote about trusting your readers. I said you didn't have to wrap your essay up neatly or bash them over the head explaining how you felt about the thing you just wrote. Here's the part I left out: You do have to...
YeahWrite #327 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
One is the Loneliest Number I've had this whole day to myself to write. I was supposed to get so many things done. But about half way through the day, I lost my steam. Now, that could have been for a number of reasons, but I think it was due in some part to...
Super Challenge #5 Round One is Underway!
Fanfare, please! Fun fact: the word "fanfare" comes from... well, nobody can really seem to pin it down. It shares common phonemes with French fanfarer and fanfaron, as well as Arabic farfar. Overall, it's a sort of onomatopoeia that ends up...
YeahWrite #326 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
cough cough IS THIS THING ON? When I went to Outdoor Ed in whatever grade that was, the counselors had a little song they'd sing in the morning at breakfast to shut all the kids up. The theory was that if we all sang along we'd be quiet for thirty seconds...
YeahWrite #326 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Quiet Time Suddenly my house seems quiet, with all of my visiting extended family, save one of my nephews, gone as of yesterday. I love having my parents and sisters around but my reading takes a fairly big hit since we tend to spend our time chatting. I missed...
YeahWrite #326 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Knowing When to Call It Quits When the editors are reading the grids looking for the best of the best, one of the things we often find ourselves saying is, "That essay is great, but I wish it ended two paragraphs earlier." Maybe it's just two sentences, or one, or...
YeahWrite #326 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
I Think I Feel a Lesson Coming On I have some writing hang ups, just like everyone else. A few professional editors have read my manuscript, and they've all said the same thing: the overabundance of thought verbs is really annoying. One particular editor noted that I...
YeahWrite #325 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Rated C for Courtesy "Okay, but is it R for violence or for sex?" my mom asked, frustrated. She wanted to take us to a movie - I can't remember which one - because it was well over 100 degrees outside (38+ for my Celsius-reading peeps, and it was probably...
YeahWrite #325 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Just add sparkle I hope my fellow U.S residents had a great holiday weekend and that everyone else had something to smile about too. If not, reading the grids should brighten your week! Popular voting for the YeahWrite #325 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote...
