Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing is Life I was thinking about how I have my specific writing goals for 2017 but that I also have my life goals. One of these - one I make annually - is to simplify things. All the things. I don't know if I'm the typical...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tag! You're it. Working in a team really isn't my thing; it's mostly like herding kittens. But working in pairs? Yeah, baby. See, when there's two of you, you're never really out of ideas and there's always someone to pick up if you...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Wish there was a competition with no popular vote but all the editorial feedback you can eat? Check out...
yeah write super challenge #3 kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] New year, new challenge Is your 2017 resolution "write more, win more?" Then come on down to the third yeah write super challenge! The super challenge is a six week, three-round competition that will help you stretch your muscles as...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It's Not You, It's Them Blogging sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s seen by some as a navel-gazing cry for attention, a pathetic way of reaching out and saying “I feel alone” or “I did this” without regard for the reader. This month in...
Reach out and touch someone
There's nothing like reading through the grid (or your articles feed, or...) and coming across an essay that makes you say "Ugh, another navelgazing pile of word vomit."And yet, there are also personal essays you'll read that change the way you frame your life, make...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gratitude If you had told me back in 2012, back when I was thinking about submitting something to yeah write, that someday I'd be the editor in chief here, I'd have never believed you. And if you'd told me that the people I'd meet...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2016 is drawing to a close (don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya, as my Southern grandmother used to say) and most of us are thinking about time, and how it runs out. Time ran out for a lot of our heroes this year....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Essential Reading for Nonfiction Writers So you got an Amazon gift card for the holidays. Lucky you! You know what you should do? Beef up your writer’s library with these five essentials—my favorite books on writing for nonfiction...
