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!
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hop to it! Bunnies love my yard. Right now, outside of my window, I see three bunnies munching on the grass and eyeballing the sliding glass door as if at any moment two rambunctious dogs might rush out. Their caution is well-founded; my dogs enjoy a good chase almost...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Yarns Of Wool And Words Winter is a really unproductive season for me. I find the dark, cold days affect my energy and enthusiasm, and I struggle to maintain a reasonable schedule. When I'm in a writing slump like this, I try to exercise other creative muscles....
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Everyone starts at the beginning This is (somehow) the 5 year anniversary of my first ever editor's pick at YeahWrite for my post about latte foam which honestly I thought was a silly piece without much merit. As I recall, it didn't do all that well in the vote, but I...
YeahWrite #336 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Going for the Gut We are about to start renovating our kitchen. We've lived here a little over seven years, and the kitchen has needed to be renovated for at least the last 20. At first, we thought we might be able to do it piecemeal. Update one thing here, another...
YeahWrite #335 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let's make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Fiction|Poetry Prompt Up: This...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Fall in! If you know me at all, you know fall is my favorite season. Well, and winter. But mostly fall cause it means winter's coming. I got to wear a sweater most of the day yesterday and I was thrilled. See, for me, fall is a season not just of beauty...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Unplanned Family Time For those of you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear whether my son successfully escaped Miami prior to Irma unleashing her wrath on South Florida: he did. I was both relieved and thrilled to have my family intact. Irma was a rough ride for...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
The mind sludge and the don't-wannas After a long break to refill my creative wells and fine tune some existing work, I'm starting to shift back into the mindset of generating new writing. Trying to dedicate 30 minutes of writing a day after 32 days of editing,...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect When I can't think of what to write, I generally don't stare at a blinking cursor. I know everyone says they do that, but I don't. No blank pages, either. Instead, I just scroll through Facebook endlessly. The result is usually that I...
YeahWrite #335 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Good Grief, Y'all As I write this, more hurricanes are swirling and things are still burning. It's kind of hard to do anything right now without acknowledging all that's happening. It's hard to do anything because of all that's happening. We hope you and yours are...