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 #317 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF! We made it through another great week here at YeahWrite, thanks to all of you. Congrats to the winners of our weekly writing challenges this week, and good luck to all our Super Challenge participants who are currently...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Work with me here See that picture up there? For the last three days, that was my office. I mean, not the ocean. But I took that picture from my "desk chair" with my laptop firmly planted across my legs and the novel I'm editing onscreen. Sometimes all it takes is a...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Quiet time My son, the recent victim of a fairly prolific spring virus, has missed school for the last two days. He has a field trip on Friday to Six Flags (I know), so I'm sure he'll be better by then. In the meantime, it's quiet here, perfect for reading the grids....
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge for Fiction | Poetry is open!
I've Heard It All Before I'm gonna ask all of you to indulge me a moment while I fess up to a writing pet peeve. Out of all the thousands of clichés in all of writing history there is one that almost always makes me grit my teeth: Tears. (You couldn't hear it, but the...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Before You Hit Publish, Read This Are you all reading Rowan’s exceptionally thoughtful Nonfiction Know-How pieces each month? Her posts offer incredibly generous free writing assistance from a high caliber professional writer and editor. In case you haven’t read May’s...
YeahWrite #317 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
So What're You Gonna Do? You've heard the advice about getting out of your comfort zone to help your writing. We all know that submitting work opens you up to rejection, and that alone can be enough of a deterrent. It's hard to find time to write. Life gets in the way...
Super Challenge #4 Round 2 is Underway!
Eighteen writers enter. Ten writers leave. While my part of the world is certainly starting to feel like a blisteringly hot dystopia, I'm not quite ready to go full Mad Max yet. Instead, I'm looking for a distraction, and I've got eighteen great writers lined up in...
YeahWrite #316 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! It's been a long week here for me, and I'm ready to sit back with a big ol' glass of red wine and read your wonderful stories. Did you miss the microprose grid this week? Write one anyway and post it here, or...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cinco De Mayo or Revenge of the Fifth? Whatever your reason for celebrating today - maybe just "It's Friday" - over here at YeahWrite we're celebrating our popular vote winners and editorial staff picks. See, while there’s a popular vote winner every week, we don’t...
YeahWrite #316 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Look, ducks! My college roommate used to say "Look, ducks!" while pointing in the opposite direction as a distraction when she wanted to steal food from my plate. Distraction might be a useful strategy for culinary orgasms, but it's not so good for writing. While not...