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 #300 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
She pissed on my lap I was sitting on my friend's couch in the middle of a crowded birthday party when the cat jumped up on my lap. The woman next to me stopped her conversation to smile at me and say, "You must be a cat person." Iris the cat purred loudly and nestled...
yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing as Coffee Shop Conversation All this month Rowan and I are teaming up to provide nonfiction know-how on this essential topic for bloggers and essayists: How to transform your posts from something only you’d want to read into...
yeah write #300 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing is Life I was thinking about how I have my specific writing goals for 2017 but that I also have my life goals. One of these - one I make annually - is to simplify things. All the things. I don't know if I'm the typical...
yeah write #299 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! Happy New Year, everyone! I was pumped to kick off a new set of days in 2017. I've got resolutions galore (even ones I can actually keep), and the motivation I was lacking in 2016 has finally revealed itself. What are your...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tag! You're it. Working in a team really isn't my thing; it's mostly like herding kittens. But working in pairs? Yeah, baby. See, when there's two of you, you're never really out of ideas and there's always someone to pick up if you...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #299 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Wish there was a competition with no popular vote but all the editorial feedback you can eat? Check out...
yeah write super challenge #3 kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] New year, new challenge Is your 2017 resolution "write more, win more?" Then come on down to the third yeah write super challenge! The super challenge is a six week, three-round competition that will help you stretch your muscles as...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Good things come to those who wait I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am for 2017, starting with our January writing challenges. I'll admit it; I did a little happy dance when we finally settled on this month's poetry slam: couplets. As Rowan put it,...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It's Not You, It's Them Blogging sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s seen by some as a navel-gazing cry for attention, a pathetic way of reaching out and saying “I feel alone” or “I did this” without regard for the reader. This month in...
Less is more
It's not the size that matters... It's whether you start your post with a semi-appropriate joke. Actually, what I did just there is what you'll be doing this month: wrote a couplet. Although we usually think of couplets as building blocks for longer poems, they can be...