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 #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet treat Happy National Macaroon Day! Yes, really. I can't think of anything I'd rather do right now than munch on macaroons while voting on the grids. [Ed's note: do you have any idea how hard it is to find a stock photo of a macaroon rather than a macaron?...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
It Is Easier To Give Than Receive Yesterday, I went to an Australian Rules Football game. Bear with me, I’ll talk about writing. I really will. Without going into the details of scoring, which can be obtuse if you’ve never encountered an AFL game before, my team lost...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Get to the Point When writing flash nonfiction, as we discussed last week, you do not have the luxury of either time or words. We talked about not going off on tangents, not wasting time on every single detail, and avoiding backstory overkill. But how do you do that,...
YeahWrite #320 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sunshine Day. As I was driving earlier, I noticed the sun was shining. This may not be a big deal where you are, but here in NJ, it's huge. I feel like it's been raining for months. It's been chilly and dreary - not at all like spring. So today, cruising along with...
YeahWrite #319 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! Happy Friday, YeahWriters! While my week has been filled with moving boxes and enough bubble wrap to distract me for hours, I hope that your weeks have been filled with words. So as I gear up for my last week in the beautiful city...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's practically Solstice So of course spring has finally sprung where I live. My tardy dogwood is blooming (a month after every other dogwood here has lost its petals) and the lavender is budding up. I've moved my home office out to the porch and hung the sun...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Weed or flower? One person's weed is another person's flower. Which pieces bloomed for you this week? Let us know in the vote! Popular voting for the yeah write #319 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Counting eggs Have you ever reread one of your stories and realized you forgot to include a key detail? I so do this all the time. My brain is so focused on the details of a story I forget to mention the setting or describe a character. Just this weekend I almost...
Who’s on Fourth: YeahWrite Interviews Melony of The Write Melony
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 Melony Boseley of The Write Melony. YeahWrite on YeahWrite: Arden...
YeahWrite #319 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Where's Cindy? In case you missed it last week, Cindy has left the building. (Fun fact: YeahWrite does not have an actual building.) She's working on some stuff that requires her full attention, so she had to bid us farewell. Now that I'm back opening the nonfiction...