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 #311 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Snooty Words Have you ever tried to define poetry? It's not easy, and I learned recently that grabbing a dictionary doesn't help much. Here is Merriam-Webster's word-soupy definition of the word: "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginitive awareness of...
Who’s on Fourth: YeahWrite Interviews Tara of Laissez Faire
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 Tara of Laissez Faire. YeahWrite on YeahWrite: Arden interviews Tara...
YeahWrite #311 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Write Around the Outside I spend a lot of time talking about how everyone's stories are unique to them, even if they're about the same kinds of things that happen to everyone else. The trick is how to distinguish and highlight what makes your story unique. Let's...
YeahWrite #311 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Bits and Pieces Sometimes it feels like that's all the time we have: the time before work, or school. The time between shower and shoes. Fitting big writing into little pieces of time is a huge challenge. Some days we struggle to even fit a paragraph into those...
YeahWrite #310 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! We've made it through another week, and I think we all deserve a couple days of relaxation. So kick up your feet, grab a drink, and let's get to it. You know the drill. Bring me your best stories this...
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Smells like victory Just like one of the best parts of writing is seeing someone with your book in their hand (essay onscreen, etc.), one of the best parts of design is seeing your images in use. And just like I've been thrilled to see the new grid badges on...
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #310 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Concrit is here! One of the best ways to improve your writing is giving and receiving constructive...
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
The Collector I'm a word collector. I gather them like other people press flowers, catalog stamps, or collect coins. They're ordered, described and curated with care, then shepherded into books that dot my shelves. When I was in grade 4 the teacher, Miss Phillips, who...
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Finding your writing voice Students often ask me how to find their voices as writers. Voice, right? It’s the Holy Grail of writing, that mysterious quality we all seek to attain without really knowing how to get there. Some people will simply tell you to write like...
YeahWrite #310 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
Sprucing Up the Joint You've probably noticed by now that we slapped a fresh coat of paint on the walls of YeahWrite. We may have changed the look, and even how we write the name (two caps, no space), but we also updated the site's navigation and threw in a few fun...