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 #296 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Do you ever get stuck? Of course you do. We all do. But I would guess that we all get stuck in different way s and in different places. For me, it's often the start of a new kind of project or a change in the the routine of my...
yeah write #295 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! The holidays are getting closer each and every day, and I have yet to even pull down my decorations from the attic. Scrooge much, you say? I'm not sure, but I just can't seem to get into the holiday spirit...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #295: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Probably the best thing about living in Portlandia is that you get snow days even when you're a grownup. That's right, folks, an inch of snow and the whole city shuts down. That's why I'm sitting in a comfy chair in my jammies...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #295 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 #295 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
hello? is this thing on? Sometimes I plan my fiction and poetry, and sometimes I just jump in with both eyes closed and both feet forward and hope for the best. That's what I'm doing this week, standing in for fiction editor Christine while she juggles raw eggs,...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Sense of Place Sometimes we’re so concerned about the forward motion of our stories—the plot, the dialogue, the characters’ growth—that we forget about the fourth element of great storytelling: Setting. Writing great setting is...
yeah write #295 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why do today... What you can put off until tomorrow? Procrastination... when I hear the word, I automatically start singing it to the tune of "Anticipation" by Carly Simon. If you're not familiar, look it up. It's not actually that...
yeah write #294 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! Can you believe it's December already? I, for one, am grateful this year is almost over. It's been a long, tough one, and I'm excited to dust myself off in 2017 and conquer the world! Who's with me? But for...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #294: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Timing is everything. Or at least it's a lot. I mean, no sooner did I wrap up talking about how to use editors' picks and roundups to build your own master class in this month's nonfiction knowhow post than we ended up with this...
Class is in Session
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What do you remember from learning to write in school? Did you have a particular teacher who made writing interesting? Did you read a story or article and think "oh, I wish I could write like that?" We get so used to the structured...