Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #295 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 #295 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Sense of Place Sometimes we’re so concerned about the forward motion of our stories—the plot, the dialogue, the characters’ growth—that we forget about the fourth element of great storytelling: Setting. Writing great setting is...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why do today... What you can put off until tomorrow? Procrastination... when I hear the word, I automatically start singing it to the tune of "Anticipation" by Carly Simon. If you're not familiar, look it up. It's not actually that...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #294: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Timing is everything. Or at least it's a lot. I mean, no sooner did I wrap up talking about how to use editors' picks and roundups to build your own master class in this month's nonfiction knowhow post than we ended up with this...
Class is in Session
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What do you remember from learning to write in school? Did you have a particular teacher who made writing interesting? Did you read a story or article and think "oh, I wish I could write like that?" We get so used to the structured...
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #294 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 #294 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Start When Your Story Starts. In her roundup last Friday, yeah write’s submissions editor Rowan made an important point that merits follow-up: Begin at the beginning. Too often as personal essayists we begin before the beginning....
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What can I do for you? As editor-in-chief of yeah write, my job is to make yeah write grow and flourish. We've been around for over 5 years, so we must be doing something right, but I believe we can always do better. We have some...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #293: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]History feels immediate this week. Whether you're following the news or fighting with your relatives over a supper table, it's impossible to ignore that at least here in the U.S. of A. we're in the middle of stuff that's going to end...
yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Whether you are in the US in a turkey-induced coma or somewhere else going about your business, popular voting for the yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you...
