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 #253 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Right around this time of year, I start fantasizing about vacation. A tropical beach somewhere, a cappuccino in a European square, it doesn't really matter where as long as it's...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #253: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I don't often post-mortem the grids. Not publicly, I mean. It's not fair, right? I have access to all the inside information. J/K there's no inside information- the editors read every piece with an eye to skill, technique,...
yeah write #253 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 Balance. It's not just what keeps you from falling over (well, most of the time), it's an important ingredient in writing. For example, I love things like the color...
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Time is what's weighing on my mind this week. How about you? I took a day off from work on Monday, and now I'm paying for it. My inbox is overflowing, my to-do list just keeps getting longer, I am supporting...
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Afresh I've had to do a lot of rereading for work lately. Any time I teach a book I haven't read in the last five years, I give it another read to make sure it's all fresh in my brain--characters, plot, style, theme, details. These...
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Courage Does writing take courage? Maybe you aren’t charging into "the misty mist or the dusky dusk” (depending on where you live), but you are exposing your inner world to a sometimes judgmental, often distracted outer world....
yeah write #253 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [Insert witty introduction here] So I'm sitting here on my lunch break trying to come up with something new and interesting and compelling to say, and it's just not happening. Instead I start a sonnet, scratch out 400 more words on...
yeah write #252 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Ah, breath of fresh air that is the weekend, how you delight us so. I've been reading lots of poetry lately, and I'd like to compose a haiku in honor of what will be for me a three day...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #252: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Got big plans for the weekend? Yeah, me too. I'm going to do some yardwork and start writing the posts for next month's technique and poetry slam. There, now you're all my accountability buddies. Hard to believe I've been doing that...
yeah write #252 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 With Valentine's Day coming up this weekend, love is in the air. Some folks are writing love songs, others are writing love poems. Me, I'm writing love letters - the...
