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!
Welcome to the 5-7-5
If you grew up in the USA, the odds are pretty good that at some point you were required to write a haiku in class. Your teacher probably sat you all down and gave you a little lecture on the history and culture of Japan that may or may not have been accurate at all,...
yeah write #255 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Let's start at the very beginning Or not. Every time I write a story I hit a point where I want to just skip through to the end. And sometimes the ending writes itself, and I'm stuck figuring out how to get there. Writing the...
yeah write #254 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open So I've got a busy weekend planned for us. Ski-ball, mountain biking, spelunking, the works. The weather is finally beginning to lighten up in much of the U.S., and I think we should...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #254: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday, roses; today, lilies. More specifically, a charming little phrase that has fallen somewhat out of vogue in recent times: "Don't gild the lily." What does it mean, to gild the lily? Well. Here's the thing. You have a lily,...
yeah write #254 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 What's in a name? Our ultimate question this week sent a lot of folks off in this direction, on all three grids. So as long as I've got your ear for a second, let's...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! I'm a fantasy writer, more or less. In my world(s), names have power. I put a lot of thought into choosing and even creating names that mean something--to me, if not to the reader. But we all do this to some...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burn and fizzle Sunday was my two year blog anniversary. I remember that night after my first post. I couldn't sleep; I kept thinking of better ways to phrase my sentences or fretting that I'd missed a typo. Even after spending 13...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Tina of Not Just Another Mother Blogger
[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 of Arden Ruth Writes interviewing Tina of Not Just...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to learn...
yeah write #254 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's in a name? Names are important—not just for people and places, but for things. Are you using the right word at the right time? Rowan talked about this in her voting post last week—which you all read, of course—but it bears...
