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 #305 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! I'm looking forward to another long weekend here in the US, and I know our super challenge participants are eagerly awaiting their results! How about we soothe those nerves with some writing this weekend, eh? You know the...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #305: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everything old is new again. And for once I'm not talking about fascism. No, I fell down my own staircase Wednesday morning. It's like I haven't lived in this house for over a decade, y'know? Waved my foot over the first stair and...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #305 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #305 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...
yeah write #305 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
more restrictive than Christian Grey It's hard to guess what someone else is thinking. In relationships, getting it right can yield great benefits; but getting it wrong can result in spending the night alone pretty quick. For sadomasochists, that predicament resulted...
yeah write #305 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Structural Editing: How your story unfolds Our February nonfiction know-how is all about editing – from the highest level of story concept all the way down to the most specific level of individual word choice. Last week I wrote...
yeah write #305 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oh my god you guys this is harder than it looks Rowan here. Michelle left me in charge of writing the opening paragraphs for this week's kickoff. Sometimes I can just sit down and start typing and the words flow. Other times I'm...
super challenge #3 round two kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Convince me. Round two of our nonfiction super challenge is all about persuasive essays. A persuasive essay utilizes logic and reason to show that one idea or position is more legitimate than another. It attempts to persuade a reader...
yeah write #304 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! Cheers to the weekend, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week. I’m looking forward to a couple of days of relaxation. I hope our round 2 super challenge participants are ready for another long weekend of writing! As...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #304: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Winners and tigers and bears, oh my! Folks, the grids were gorgeous this week. Does that mean everyone's all warmed up and ready to go for tonight's persuasive essay prompt at the super challenge? Also, now that I know what you can...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #304 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #304 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...