Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
What is Creative Nonfiction? Sometimes it’s helpful to get back to basics. So what do we mean when we talk about writing creative nonfiction, particularly in its first person essay form? The “nonfiction” part is pretty simple – here at YeahWrite we’re looking for your...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
It's Not New, But It's Good I was recently reading an article about how to get started writing. It wasn't necessarily genre-specific, but the advice was pretty solid, if nothing new. (A better person would have remembered where she saw this article and would have...
YeahWrite #315 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Let it... rain Here in the Pacific Northwest we're locking down our windows and pulling on our wellies as the 'mega moisture plume' makes a mockery of the passing of the vernal equinox. Even that last Easter egg waiting to be found in someone's yard is damp and...
YeahWrite #315 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Rain, rain, go away We've been having a rainy few days here in New England and that makes me grumpy. Fortunately, I have some reading and voting to distract me! Even if you have a sunny day where you are, I hope you will take time to read and vote too. Popular...
YeahWrite #315 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Stop Being Boring. I want to open this week’s nonfiction grid by talking about something both Rowan and I have discussed before: Narrative hooks. Rowan hit on this in her nonfiction round-up last Friday, and I touched on it when I urged you to “start when your story...
YeahWrite #315 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Gotta Walk the Walk Remember last week when I said writers have to talk to each other? How connecting with others who share our passion can help keep us writing? Well, next weekend, I'll be walking the walk: I'm heading out of town to a little writing retreat and...
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Who's ready for the weekend? Especially, who's ready for this weekend, and the super challenge? I'm still a lot in love with our newest challenge, and not just because we get to hand out cash prizes to the winners. We've got great prompts and great judges all lined up...
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Keep taking shots “Why do you write like you’re running out of time? Write day and night like you’re running out of time?" —Burr, “Nonstop” —Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton, An American Musical" I had the incredible privilege of bringing my 13-year-old son to see...
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
What's Blocking You? I couldn’t think of anything to write about for this week’s opener so probably I need to write about writer’s block, no? How can we write when we can’t write? When you’re feeling blocked, poke around in your psyche a little bit and see what’s...
YeahWrite #314 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Writers Need to Talk I'm the stuckest of stucks in my writing. I have two major WIPs: First is a memoir I'm supposed to be editing. Second is this thing I've dubbed The Fiction Project (TFP) because I don't know what it is (or maybe I do, but I'm scared to say it out...
