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!
YeahWrite #583 Weekly Writing Challenge
If you want to learn, teach When the world was young and dinosaurs roamed the Earth (only ever so slightly hyperbolic), I did a teaching degree. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I was eager and energetic and young. I didn't teach in schools for very long --...
The final round of Super Challenge #24 is underway!
Everything old is new again When you've read quite a few things, you start to notice patterns. Stories that are told over and over again, plus or minus a few tweaks. Hamlet and the Lion King, for example. If you're as enamored of yourself as Joseph Campbell was, you...
YeahWrite #582 Weekly Writing Challenge
Finish something As writers we're always tempted by new ideas. By inspiration. By the next book around the corner. By that pile of unread books on the nightstand. We like to start things. This week I'm dropping a new challenge, inspired by a conversation I had with a...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #24
I HATE EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WRITTEN AND I SHOULD STOP FOREVER It's hard not to to feel like that sometimes, right? Especially when you get your feedback. And especially when it looks like you got a lot more negative than positive. But think about it: to write good...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Pulling Weeds
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
YeahWrite #581 Weekly Writing Challenge
Building better worlds As many of you know, I write science fiction and fantasy. I read science fiction and fantasy, and I prefer to watch it on TV. I have friends who don't get it - they'd rather read and write about real people, places, and events. That's just fine,...
YeahWrite #580 Weekly Writing Challenge
Heightened senses I’ve heard of writers needing to listen to a specific genre of music to get into the writing zone. I’ve heard of writers creating playlists to listen to in order to get into the mindset of a specific character. I’ve even heard of writers assigning...
YeahWrite #579 Weekly Writing Challenge
New highs - case numbers and procrastination For the first time during this pandemic, the state I live in is beginning to feel the pinch of high case numbers. We've been incredibly fortunate to date, and the combination of excellent management and natural geographical...
Super Challenge #24 Round 1 is Underway!
Read the whole post Subtle, aren't we? But no. We do mean it. Read the whole post. One of the things we pride ourselves on as we kick off the TWENTY FOURTH Super Challenge is that we never hide the ball. We're not here to trick you or give you impossible prompts. We...
YeahWrite #578 Weekly Writing Challenge
You Can't Handle The Truth I am a paralegal by day, and in a couple of weeks, I head off to Portland for my very first trial. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous, but luckily I'm too busy preparing to really feel anxious about it. I'm not sure what to expect...
