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 #259 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2-4-6-8 I have the best team in the world. Seriously, folks. I work with the best people. I'm taking advantage of this week's microstory prompt to give them a shout-out. There's nothing better than knowing that somebody has your...
yeah write #258 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open It's been a rough week for a lot of us. Between the world news cycle and a grueling week at work, I thought we could use a celebration to ring in the weekend. Kick off your shoes,...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #258: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I talk a lot about fiction. It's my genre, my jam, it's near and dear to my heart. But let's take a second to think about nonfiction, ok? Nonfiction writing costs something. It's not easy. You have to reach into yourself and pull out...
yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Spring is a time of beginnings, but also of endings. As the season opens, I am always reminded of the closings: I am leaving snow behind, and lights in the darkness,...
yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Every day I ride my bike to work, rain or shine. That's not so bad. But every day I have to ride my bike home again, which means struggling up a long, steep incline trying not to fall over or pass out. My...
yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Structure Maybe it's because of the recent green holiday, but this picture reminds me so much of my time studying in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. More specifically, it reminds me of the days my classmates and I would hop aboard a bus on...
yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Go with the flow Writer's block is my bête noire. My first experience with it happened last summer after attending a transformative writing workshop. Ironic, I know. But I found myself staring at a blank page, pen in hand, waiting,...
yeah write #258 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The way things are Sometimes the morning comes and you just hate everything. The kids woke you up a dozen times in the night. It's still dark and the heat hasn't come on. When you go to write your next blog post, your computer is...
yeah write #257 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open There is nothing worse than being sick, unless you're sick and it's spring break. Or, worse yet, you're sick, it's spring break, and you still have mountains of work looming over you....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #257: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's been a long week, folks. A looooong week. But it's almost over. Just one more day between me and yardwork. Wait, that didn't sound so good. No matter how interesting a project is, when you've been doing it a while it gets to be...
