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 #332 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Total solar eclipse? Check! I know this has nothing to do with writing or reading or voting. BUT I am a science geek so I feel compelled to tell you that, as someone who has seen quite a few annular (partial) solar eclipses, a total solar eclipse is the most amazing...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Changing Times It's been a tumultuous week. My eldest child turned 18 years old. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a big change, but technically, legally, he's now an adult. It is weird for me, as his mother, to come to grips with the change. I've spent all his...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
So, In Conclusion Endings. Y'all. ENDINGS. We've talked about this recently, but since it comes up time and time again, I wanted to bring it up one more time. Indulge me, would ya? It's hard to end an essay, no doubt. If you end with a cliffhanger, you leave...
YeahWrite #332 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Oof It's been one hell of a week. I can only hope that in the midst of all the terrible things happening in the world, writing and YeahWrite in particular can be of solace to any of you who are suffering. As writers, our words are powerful. They can be the voice of...
YeahWrite #331 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Another week has come and gone. Did you make it onto the grids this week? If so, what worked for you? What didn't? If not, what got in the way, and what changes can you make to ensure you make it...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
I'm back, did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? I just spent a week in the mountains with no internet but lots of storytelling (and bears there were bears real live bears they were right next to us). My dad and I still go backpacking together...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Heading towards totality I'm flying to Oregon this weekend to visit my parents and see a total eclipse of the sun for the first time. My nerd genes are quivering with excitement. What are you excited about? Reading and voting on the grids? Good! Popular voting for the...
Fictioneers, start your engines: Registration for YeahWrite’s 6th Super Challenge is OPEN
If money grew on trees, would it fall into my hands in the autumn? Money doesn't, tragically (or actually when you consider how inflation works, that's probably a good idea), grow on trees. But it does grow with each additional registration in the YeahWrite Super...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Under Pressure I don't know about you, but I put a lot of pressure on myself to produce exquisite work. If what I create is less than stellar, I mentally flog myself. This is not necessarily a useful mental habit, but hey, I'm working on lightening up on myself. In...
YeahWrite #331 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
The Road to Hell You know how Stephen King famously said that he believes the road to hell is paved with adverbs? Well I think it's paved with adjectives. (Actually, I think it's probably just black top, but that's neither here nor there.) His point about adverbs is...