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 #307 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Proofreading: The Final Polish We made it to the end of our February nonfiction knowhow! We’ve looked at editing all the way from high-level story ideas through line-level copyediting. Up this week? The polish. Yep, it’s time to...
yeah write #307 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Little Voices Do you have a little voice inside your head? I do. The one I hear the most is the one that tends to give me a hard time, trying to instill doubt at every turn. What's worse, I think, is that every time something is...
super challenge #3 final round kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Form doesn't always follow function. The final round of our super challenge is focused on writing. Weird, right? The round three prompt is a sentence. Each writer will incorporate that sentence into an essay about... well, about...
yeah write #306 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! How is everyone doing today? I'm pumped to kick back and relax after a stressful week at work. And you know what would really soothe me? Your stories. You know the drill. Bring me your best writing this weekend. You got...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #306: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The last round of the super challenge opens tonight, and I'm looking forward to having the weekend off. That's the funny thing about workflow, isn't it? If I'm writing, probably the rest of the community isn't, and vice versa. It's a...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #306 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #306 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...
Congratulations to the Round 2 winners at yeah write super challenge #3
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Who's ready for the super challenge final round? We are, and we hope our ten finalists are, because it kicks off this Friday! Round 2 writers, if you don't have your feedback, please send us an email at superchallenge@yeahwrite.me,...
yeah write #306 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
scraping out your insides with a knife I’ve been tussling with a short story this week. The prompt for it came from a conversation with my in-laws on Christmas Day. Christmas dinner was at our place this year, two days after we moved into a new house. I’m a committed...
yeah write #306 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Running Lines: Editing on the Micro-Level Let’s talk about sentences and the words that make up your sentences. Because y’all have now mastered the high-level editing we talked about in the first two installments of our February...
yeah write #306 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Winter doldrums I'm over it. The snow, the ice, the cold. I've hit my breaking point. That's why Rowan was kicking things off last weekend - I was sulking. To be fair, this weekend it's supposed to be nice in New Jersey where I...