Weekly Writing Challenges Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s archives. Below, you’ll find all of our posts. We kick off each writing week on Friday (what?) with a new prompt for you. For 500 weeks YeahWrite hosted “weekly grids” which enabled writers to link their self-hosted responses, and to read and vote on each others’ work, as well as commenting. Check out our creative nonfiction, fiction|poetry, and microprose archives for a closer look at our nearly ten years of weekly writing competitions. While we no longer host weekly competition grids, we’re still delivering the prompts you love as well as our Super Challenge and classes. We also feature monthly instructional or challenge posts, which you’ll find collected here as well as in our writing help archive!
The final round of Super Challenge #26 is underway!
Put a bow on it We're wrapping up the year (see what I did there) with our last Super Challenge round of 2022. We apologize in advance for making you go through pretty much any holiday you might be celebrating this month while waiting to see who won, and...
YeahWrite #608 Weekly Writing Challenge
A light in the dark My neighbors have all already hung their holiday lights [ed's note: if you've been watching the Scarlet Quill Society meetings, you know I never took mine down. /rbg] . Me, I'm behind the ball on this one. It was raining on the day I'd set aside...
The Scarlet Quill Society: DIY? Why Not?
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #26
Why we're all here I'm going to keep this short and sweet - we all know you're really here for the results! As YeahWrite's Editor-in-Chief, I don't usually get the chance to comment on the Super Challenge stories. But I do make a point to read as many as I can, during...
YeahWrite #607 Weekly Writing Challenge
Accountability I joined a writing accountability group made up of some IRL friends. They’ve cancelled both meetings that I said I could make. I offered to host a makeup session later in the week. Crickets. This isn’t the first group that started with good intentions...
YeahWrite #606 Weekly Writing Challenge
Rejection collection Every writer has heard the advice of collecting a hundred rejections, right? I don't know what your Rejection Collection [trademark pending] is looking like, but mine's... burgeoning. The rejections pile up and I feel increasingly anxious that I'm...
YeahWrite #605 Weekly Writing Challenge
NaNoThankYou WHINE. That's all you're getting from me this week, sorry. While the NaNoWriMo folks pound out the words, the Movemberers stop shaving their lips, and... there's something about... testicular cancer? really? I'm just suffering through my first bout of...
Super Challenge #26 Round 1 is Underway!
This is not a long recipe post If you've met the Internet, you've met someone on it complaining that they had to read a 5,000 word blog post to get to a recipe. Leaving aside the underlying questions of recipe copyright (they're not) and anecdotes about grandmothers...
YeahWrite #604 Weekly Writing Challenge
Hustle and bustle If you hang out in the YeahWrite Coffeehouse on Discord, you've probably noticed that it's gotten a little busier than usual. In part that's thanks to National Novel Writing Month, but we're also running our own November writing challenge, which we...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Final Touches
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
