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 #329 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks Phew. Microprose, amirite? I'm not kidding when I say it's our hardest challenge, both from the writer's end and ours. Like every week, we keep an eye on the grid. We read (yes, even when we don't comment...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
It's the most wonderful time of the year About once a year, I get to steal my favorite writing partner (and second-favorite editor) and go out for happy hour. Of course, all we end up doing is talking about work; I'd say that's how much we love this job but let's be...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Good Things Come In Threes Surprise! It's Asha again with this month's Microprose Challenge. We're pushing boundaries a little in this challenge. The number of prompts you have to include has increased, and the word limit is under 50 words. This month, you have...
Look deep into my eyes
Nothing strikes fear into the creative soul of a writer like being asked to write a persuasive essay. At least, that's what it looks like every time we check our Super Challenge inbox. We get more questions, comments and concerns about the persuasive essay...
Your prompt response requested
In Misery, Stephen King wrote [Paul] understood what he was doing now as TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA. TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA wasn't the same thing as GETTING AN IDEA. GETTING AN IDEA was a more humble way of saying I am inspired, or Eureka! My muse has spoken!...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Reorienting I can count on one hand the number of times I've written anything in the last year. See, a year ago last Sunday I had a baby. I am not the sort of person to do anything by halves, so every ounce of my energy has gone into keeping him alive and clinging to...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Is Free Writing Your Friend? It's happened a few times that I've gone to a writing workshop and the instructor encouraged us all to do a quick free write session. Maybe it was 15 minutes, 20, or 30, but it was just enough time to get an idea out of my head and on to...
YeahWrite #329 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Here's a Random Question Last week was Migraine Week here at YeahWrite. A bunch of us had them. I'm personally on Day 5 myself. I'd tell you the exact percentage of editors with migraines this week, but that's a lot of mathing, and I just don't have it in me. As a...
Super Challenge #5 Round 2 is Underway!
There are 48 Ptolemaic constellations. There are also 48 hours remaining in which our Round Two writers will produce a work of nonfiction. Coincidence? Yes. Entirely. In Round Two, we'll be looking for persuasive essays. A persuasive essay utilizes logic and reason to...
YeahWrite #328 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! With my big move officially complete (besides a hella amount of unpacking), I am more than ready to refocus my life after the chaos of a cross-country move, especially in regards to my writing. I...