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!
Leggo my Echo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Echo myth might be one of my least favorite stories of Greek mythology, but it lends its name to one of my new favorite poetry forms. In the myth, the nymph Echo falls in love with the worthless manbaby Narcissus who basically is...
Home is where the stories are
It's pretty much That Time of Year again. Yeah, you guessed it: the season of family holidays. When the biggest thing on your mind is how your family is driving you absolutely freakin' nuts and you can't think of anything else to blog about but you swore that with...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Hurry up and wait. I love the first day of November. It's the day the gates open and thousands of writers around the world storm onto the novel-writing racetrack for NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo after expending so much time prepping and outlining. It's the day hope lingers...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sticking the Landing Ever write an amazing post, but then find yourself stymied by how to get out of it? Endings are hard. As writers, it's difficult to resist the temptation to finish up with a paragraph summarizing the story we...
yeah write #290 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Distractions I've always hated when people would rag on young people and their obsession with their phones and/or Facebook. I can multitask! I am awesome! I am not easily distracted! Yeah, so it turns out I actually am pretty easily...
yeah write #289 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Halloween weekend, everyone! I hope you all had a great week and are ready to celebrate the next few days with some spookiness! I love a good scary story so feel free to bring me your best monsters, ghouls and ghosts this...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #289: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everybody else wrote something really thoughtful this week so I'm just gonna say IT SNOWED ON ME TODAY AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER. I know winter's not everyone's jam, but it's definitely mine and I'm ready for it. I embrace the...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #289 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 #289 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
It happens to everyone. The widespread internet problems this past weekend really put a crimp in our style. But did we crash and burn? No, because we had backups in place (and some quick-thinking team members ready to jump in). Raise your hand if you've ever...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Ruby Bastille
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Ruby...