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!
yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
write what you know You’ve probably heard this advice before. On the face of it, it seems so obvious. What else are you going to write? But what does it actually mean? Can you only ever write of things you have personal experience, expertise or knowledge of? If so,...
yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
Reading and Writing as Workshop I’ll admit it. I hate to be edited. Whenever I send a piece out for feedback, I cringe inside waiting for comments. It’s not easy to let others read our work. But it’s not always easy to be on the other side either, in the role of...
yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge kickoff
It's always more than you think I think we've mentioned here a time or two that there are some changes coming down the line here at yeah write. Well. The closer we get to unveiling them, the more I know you're going to love them. I still can't quite tell you what they...
yeah write #307 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! How are all you lovely people doing today? It's food & wine festival time here in Charleston so I'm looking forward to some good food and red, red wine. However, when all that's said and done, I want to come back home to...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #307: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some things are a mystery: who's going to win our super challenge; the location of the Holy Grail; why I can't have nice things. Others aren't: maintaining a regular writing practice where you hear and incorporate useful feedback...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #307 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #307 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
Under construction
Enough about writing; let's talk about reading. For this month's nonfiction knowhow, I want you to take a little break from your own writing. I'm always harping on how being a better reader will make you a better writer. But how do you become a better reader, and what...
Drawing a blank
Big changes are in the air for yeah write. That's why I want to get back to the basics this month. The basics of poetry, that is. It's been almost two years since we first delved into blank verse for a poetry slam, and while I'd like to pretend all the new folks go...
yeah write #307 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
this post is yet to be birthed In my last few fiction|poetry kickoff posts I've been giving away my secrets as a copyeditor. The copyeditor takes care of the superficial editing, such as typos, grammar issues, and punctuation issues, but my biggest task as a...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Ellen Behm of Baby on a Raft
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Ellen Behm of Baby on a...