Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Warning: Weekend Approaching And it's a holiday weekend, too. Whichever holiday - if any - you're observing, I hope you have a meaningful one, with as much solemnity or joy as your heart needs to find in the occasion. Also, I thought I was gonna make it through the...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Cheesy opening line goes here It's National Grilled Cheese Day. Which I celebrated by having half my grocery delivery lost in transit, including the cheese. Writing's like that too sometimes: we think we know where we're going with a story or essay, but we might end...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
A Time to Not Write I’ve missed you, YeahWriters! I took two weeks off for a once-in-a-lifetime whitewater rafting/wilderness camping/hiking trip in the Grand Canyon. I brought several journals, certain I’d knock out 10,000 words toward a literary journal’s prompt...
YeahWrite #313 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
So, You're a Writer? Earlier today, I was volunteering with some people from my Day Job. One of them, a woman I don't have occasion to speak to very often said to me, "So, you're a writer? Do you have a book or something?" Now, I do marketing, social media, and blog...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
cough. cough. cough. The only thing worse than having bronchitis for two weeks is trying to edit what you wrote during those two weeks. One hit of cough syrup and every defense I have against overblown metaphor, word overuse, and over.. you know what, I was gonna do a...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Go for the gusto! "Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal." --Ava DuVernay I will admit, I've been so distracted for nearly a year that I feel like I can't even remember what my goals are. I'm not the...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
What's Nonfiction? Okay, so that header sounds kind of silly - obviously nonfiction is writing based on fact or real events, people, and things. It can serve many purposes, however, ranging from informative, persuasive, personal, and more. It can be memoir or it can...
YeahWrite #312 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
March is the Worst and Other Complaints My therapist told me I need to look for the good things when I'm feeling troubled. Here's the good thing about March: it's over. March around here was filled with sickness, rain, snow, more sickness, too much work, that ominous...
It’s Better to Give Than Receive: Concrit Part II
Ever hear "it's better to give than receive?" Well, in the case of criticism, it's certainly easier to give than receive. For part two of what turned into a two part post because when have I ever not been long-winded, I'm going to dive into receiving criticism....
YeahWrite #311 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Happy Birthday Eve To... US! It's been a big week here at YeahWrite: we opened registration for Super Challenge #4 (what are you waiting for? go sign up! winners get cash prizes and everyone gets great feedback!) and we're closing out this month's poetry slam and...
