Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Think Outside the Thesaurus
A Glancing Blow Do you ever notice, when you're editing, that you have a "favorite word?" Mine, apparently, is "glance." In the rough draft of the novel I'm editing, "glance" occurs on average once every 1.98 pages. In the second draft, it occurs once every 6 pages....
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet treat Happy National Macaroon Day! Yes, really. I can't think of anything I'd rather do right now than munch on macaroons while voting on the grids. [Ed's note: do you have any idea how hard it is to find a stock photo of a macaroon rather than a macaron?...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Get to the Point When writing flash nonfiction, as we discussed last week, you do not have the luxury of either time or words. We talked about not going off on tangents, not wasting time on every single detail, and avoiding backstory overkill. But how do you do that,...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sunshine Day. As I was driving earlier, I noticed the sun was shining. This may not be a big deal where you are, but here in NJ, it's huge. I feel like it's been raining for months. It's been chilly and dreary - not at all like spring. So today, cruising along with...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's practically Solstice So of course spring has finally sprung where I live. My tardy dogwood is blooming (a month after every other dogwood here has lost its petals) and the lavender is budding up. I've moved my home office out to the porch and hung the sun...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Weed or flower? One person's weed is another person's flower. Which pieces bloomed for you this week? Let us know in the vote! Popular voting for the yeah write #319 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Where's Cindy? In case you missed it last week, Cindy has left the building. (Fun fact: YeahWrite does not have an actual building.) She's working on some stuff that requires her full attention, so she had to bid us farewell. Now that I'm back opening the nonfiction...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
What's Your Excuse? Every time I have to correct my 10 year old, he has some kind of excuse. "I was just gonna..." "But, I was {doing this other thing}..." "That's not what I was doing..." "Sigh. Eye roll." (Okay, he doesn't actually say that.) He can't do the thing I...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
My SEO tracker says I should say "winner" here There's a weird liminal space between writing for formal publication and writing journals, and a lot of our online writing falls into that space. Is it a blog? A writer's personal website? What? Depending on how you view...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Vote, vote, like a baby stoat! If you're in the USA like me, chances are you voted on Tuesday. But it's Wednesday now, so if you've still got that voting fever, have I got an opportunity for you: Popular voting for the yeah write #318 weekly writing challenge is now...
