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 #279 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
When is a weekend not a weekend? When you spend it at a conference. In my case, the Willamette Writers annual conference - my first ever, and a truly affirming experience. It's easy to forget that there are people behind the words. Behind every short story, every...
yeah write #279 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Words matter If you've been paying attention to U.S. politics, you know how much attention is being paid to words. We are accustomed to hearing that actions speak louder than words, which is true when action is required. But words,...
yeah write #279 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Melting... You know those super annoying people who complain about the weather all the time? It's too hot. It's too cold. It's too windy. It's allergy season. There are too many bees or flies or mosquitos. It's snowing. It's...
yeah write #278 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Hi again! Unfortunately, you're all still stuck with me while Natalie is away nurturing the early days of her newborn baby boy. She'll be back eventually, but until then, grab a glass of wine or whatever tickles your...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #278: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My writing partner and I changed things up this week. Usually I drive the plot and she does the character feelings. Usually I talk about the book to strangers and she cheerleads. But right now she's off at a writing conference...
yeah write #278 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #278 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 #278 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
yeah, that's kinda what it felt like I just came back from a blogging convention. It's probably no secret that crowds, networking, and giving speeches aren't really my thing. I'm not exactly an introvert; I just live mostly in my head (in there I'm the life of the...
yeah write #278 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In praise of weeding We have a garden bed that extends out beyond the raised backyard deck. My plan was to use this bed as a screen to hide the mulch-covered area under the deck. As luck would have it, the bird feeders also extend...
yeah write #278 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Something about life and lemons I'm sure it's actually based on a series of choices I've made, but I like to blame the universe for my current predicament: No one pays me to write only what I want to write. That means that my...
yeah write #277 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open More importantly, NATALIE HAD HER GORGEOUS BABY BOY! Sorry to yell. I just get really excited when I think about that cute lil' nugget. The arrival of the little one means it's time for Natalie to take a short break from...