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 weekly writing challenge #297: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Depending on where you were on our spinning ball of rock, the shortest or longest night of your year just slipped past. No matter what your faith - if any - these seasonal markers, the systolic and diastolic pulse of the planet we...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #297 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #297 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 #297 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Unfinished business There's nothing that bugs me more than an unfinished project. Unfinished pieces tend to loom over me like that guy at the party whose name I can't remember, the one who stands too close to ignore, but just outside the circle of conversation. It's...
yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Power of the Perfect Verb Never underestimate the power of the perfect verb. One reason it’s so important to edit and revise our drafts at least twice is because when we’re dashing off draft one, we tend to pull out the most...
yeah write #297 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oh, December So the thing I love about December is it's right before January which is a great month for resets. I have to be honest with you: November was terrible for a variety of reasons and December has been one of those "hang on...
yeah write #296 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! I'm off to my firm's holiday party as this post goes live, and I'm just hoping I don't become 'that employee' after too many glasses of wine, you know? In the meantime, how about you bring me your best...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #296: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I'm trying to figure out what to do with nine stale chocolate cupcakes. That's not a setup for a joke (nine stale cupcakes walk into a bar...). It's an actual dilemma. Do I throw them away? Try to turn them into a trifle? Make...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #296 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #296 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 #296 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
boxed in Lately my creativity has been boxed up like a black lab in an empty house full of leather furniture. I've only had the energy to write a quick sentence in a Christmas card or build a half scene in a writing exercise. I'm gonna blame my short attention span...
yeah write #296 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Making Your Holiday Stories Matter If you celebrate December holidays, perhaps you’re drawn this month to writing holiday-themed essays and stories. If you’re planning some holiday posts, I have a simple ask: Make them matter. Don’t...