Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
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I love fiction. Left to my own devices I'll read and write it all day... unless someone's left an Ann Rule book sitting out where I can see it. See, it's not just that the true crime genre is fascinating in its sensationalist (and, okay, often problematic) way, it's...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
All Good Things... This is my last missive as YeahWrite’s nonfiction editor. Well, for now. We joke on the staff that YeahWrite is the “Hotel California” of online writing communities – you know, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I’ve been...
YeahWrite #318 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
I'm Throwing Down a Challenge Why do we write? I suppose there are many reasons, but I think all of them can get traced back to one simple idea: we want to be read. Whether it's that we hope to publish a book, or get our short story picked up in a journal, or have our...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Work with me here See that picture up there? For the last three days, that was my office. I mean, not the ocean. But I took that picture from my "desk chair" with my laptop firmly planted across my legs and the novel I'm editing onscreen. Sometimes all it takes is a...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Quiet time My son, the recent victim of a fairly prolific spring virus, has missed school for the last two days. He has a field trip on Friday to Six Flags (I know), so I'm sure he'll be better by then. In the meantime, it's quiet here, perfect for reading the grids....
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Before You Hit Publish, Read This Are you all reading Rowan’s exceptionally thoughtful Nonfiction Know-How pieces each month? Her posts offer incredibly generous free writing assistance from a high caliber professional writer and editor. In case you haven’t read May’s...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
So What're You Gonna Do? You've heard the advice about getting out of your comfort zone to help your writing. We all know that submitting work opens you up to rejection, and that alone can be enough of a deterrent. It's hard to find time to write. Life gets in the way...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cinco De Mayo or Revenge of the Fifth? Whatever your reason for celebrating today - maybe just "It's Friday" - over here at YeahWrite we're celebrating our popular vote winners and editorial staff picks. See, while there’s a popular vote winner every week, we don’t...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Look, ducks! My college roommate used to say "Look, ducks!" while pointing in the opposite direction as a distraction when she wanted to steal food from my plate. Distraction might be a useful strategy for culinary orgasms, but it's not so good for writing. While not...
Resuscitating your darlings
"It's not a journal entry, it's a personal essay." That's something I say a lot when I'm making edits. Also this: "Your essay needs to be more than a list of events interspersed with your feels." What's the difference, really, though? And why does it matter? For this...
