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 #256 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Balancing work/life writing I write for a living. It isn't the kind of writing I would like to do—it isn't terribly creative or exciting, though I try to inject life into dull topics. I am a grants writer. For the last month, I've...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Just what the doctor ordered We talk a lot about how hard writing is, how difficult it is to find the time, how disheartening it is to stare at a blank page or screen, how nothing is ever, ever good enough. So why do we do it? Just...
friends of yeah write: David Gallaher and Steve Ellis
Let's get in the wayback machine Lately I've been reminiscing about this time last year. Then, we were planning our trip to Long Beach Comic Con, the first major appearance of yeah write outside of the Internet. By August, when we announced here that we'd be at the...
yeah write #255 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open It's Employee Appreciation Day in the U.S. This morning I was greeted at work by smiling and shiny cakes, danishes and cookies with a nice little note from my boss that said that I...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #255: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thursdays can be rough here in the yeah write secret moon base. We editors read, reread and discuss (and hopefully comment; Nate is the best and I am the worst about this) every piece on every grid. The hardest Thursdays, though, are...
yeah write #255 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 Hullo from the coffeeshop across the street from my house, where there is power and internet and all sorts of lovely convenient things. Unlike my house, which is...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Inspiration can come from anywhere: a children's game, a grain of sand, an ordinary button, the feel of a word or a phrase in your mouth. Seize it. Just because an idea starts small doesn't mean it can't grow...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burn out or fade away? I have vacation on the brain. All I can think about is my own private wilderness with plenty of snacks and no work to think of. Naps, too--plenty of naps. I am overworked and overtired and I just. Need. A....
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we're here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can't remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online friendship thanks...
If it doesn’t work for William Shatner, it won’t work for you
When I was sitting down to write this post, I thought of some ideas I could use to introduce the subject. When I think of phrasing, I tend to think in terms of music. Because I wasn't sure of a nonmusical way to describe phrasing, I asked a friend. She thought for a...
