Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #323 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
How to Write I'm a big believer in beginning where you are. If you know where you are and where you want to be, you can set forth on a path to reach that goal. Even when you have the same end goal as everyone in the room, your current position - based on past...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Hello, darlings! This morning a friend challenged us to post a single sentence or paragraph from something we were working on. Trying to do that - to pick out that one perfect sentence among many - is almost the opposite of the old advice to "kill your darlings." It...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Summer reading My summer officially starts next week, with the end of my son's school year. I don't know when I'll manage to write again, but I do know I'll read more during my less structured schedule. I love to read! Speaking of reading, popular voting for the...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
We are who we are Think about the most difficult thing you've ever written. What was hard about it? Why was it outside your comfort zone? For me, I tend to have an easier time writing emotional content - feeling hurt, sad, or scared. I can also write impersonal copy...
YeahWrite #322 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Crookneck Squash When I'm pressed for time and deadlines loom, I like to procrastinate by reading random things I wrote years ago. While casually wasting time yesterday, I found a charming sentence I concocted involving crookneck squash. I haven't thought about...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
When it rains, it pours It's been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I'm 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it's only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours, frantically trying to...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Tea for three Pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a tasty snack, and settle down to read and vote on three writing challenge grids this week. Yes three! The microprose challenge returns the first week of every month. Happy reading! Popular voting for the yeah write #321...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Write for your purpose. There's this email archive that's been haunting me for months now and I finally decided this weekend I'd try to tame it. Somewhere in the thousands of emails I found a three-year-old discussion among some editors about someone's post being not...
YeahWrite #321 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Is it Sunday again already? Memorial Day, a federal holiday here in the US, was last Monday, so most people had the day off from work. That made it a short week at my day job. I don't know about you, but short weeks somehow always feel longer than regular weeks (which...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
OK, but was it made of cheese or not? 51 years ago today, the first US spacecraft soft-landed on another world. Well, ok, on the Moon. It's a whole nother round thing out there in space, though, you know? Moments like these spark our imagination in so many ways....
