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 #324 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Pardon my soapbox I'm going to take a minute off from writing about writing, and even writing about winning, to give everyone an important reminder. It's almost Canada Day, and the 4th of July, and it's midsummer, and next week is a microprose week, and there's...
YeahWrite #324 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Lightning strikes! Massive thunderstorms rolled into the Boston area last night and boy did I have my share of excitement when a lighting bolt zapped our transformer, leaving us in the dark without power for nearly 5 hours. The fallout kept me busy all day today but...
YeahWrite #324 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Time Keeps On Ticking, Into The Future We’re almost at the middle of the school year here in Australia, and this seems like a good time to check in with everyone on their writing goals for the year. I started the year wanting to do another edit and expansion of my...
Who’s on Fourth: YeahWrite Interviews Danielle Dayney
Welcome to Who’s on Fourth where we interview one member of the YeahWrite community, and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Danielle Dayney. YeahWrite on YeahWrite: Arden interviews Danielle...
YeahWrite #324 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Vacation: All I Ever Wanted As you read this, I am on vacation, spending a few days at the beach with my family. We've been to this place (Wildwood, NJ, if you really care) many times over the years - as a family of three, in our earlier dating and married life, and...
YeahWrite #324 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
I'm Giving You an Assignment My son just finished up the school year, and he was given a packet of homework - math - to complete over the summer. Me, being the super cool mom that I am, have been joking around that he needs to do the packet by next week, that he'll...
YeahWrite #323 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Another week has passed us by, and as I'm currently on the job hunt after moving across the country, this week has me thinking about one thing and one thing only: doubt. Looking for a job (well, getting turned...
YeahWrite #323 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
It's National Take Your Dog To Work Day! In my life, it's always take your dog to work day, since my office is in what used to be the living room back when I still had the illusion that I had friends who might come over and sit on the couch and drink a glass of wine....
YeahWrite #323 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Life's a beach Happy summer to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! Summer's my favorite season, so naturally I'm thrilled. Not everyone feels that way though. Rowan prefers winter. Please cheer her up this summer by writing for our grids, reading, and voting. You can...
YeahWrite #323 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
The dreaded phrase I've been reading a lot of writing advice lately and I've noticed that most columnists assume that their readers know what "show, don't tell" means, how to fix it, and when not to fix it. We hear that phrase over and over again, but we pick up a...