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 #252 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Sometimes what seems simple is actually the most complicated. Take our 42-word microstory challenge, for example. Just because the question is straightforward doesn't mean the answer will be any easier to...
yeah write #252 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In summary My project at work lately has been reading kids books and writing two summaries for them. The first summary is sparkly and zippy with exclamation points and loose ends. Hey, did you know? Have you ever? It's purpose is to...
yeah write #252 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Swim My dad helped me move into my first college dorm. He then took me to lunch at the uptown Frische's. After lunch, we got into the car so he could drive me back to the dorm. We would say our goodbyes and he would drive the hour...
yeah write #252 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We're all winners It's Superbowl Sunday. But you're here at yeah write, which means you win at writing. Yay, you! It's a friendly competition While I love me some sports, I'll spare you the metaphors. (Whisper note: I'm writing this...
yeah write #251 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open According to people in the know, there's supposedly a big sports thing happening this weekend. I am not an American football person. I played soccer for many years, and that's a game...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #251: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday I was eating popcorn and reading comments as a friend of mine was removed from an internet community. The rough part about this is, I can see both sides of the story. The community has a "no photos, no selfies" rule and is...
yeah write #251 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 Well, there you have it. One of those days where you genuinely think you're going to be productive but instead you make a spreadsheet and then answer an email, pay...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! How do you tell a compelling story in 42 words? My #1 piece of advice: don't be cheesy. We know: there is no story that has not been told in some manner or shape. Tropes are useful things, especially when your...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Liar liar It's no secret that we're natural storytellers. All I have to do to confirm this within myself is remember the amount of lying I did as a child. I don't know where these stories came from, but they made life more...
Get it? Got it? Sonnet!
It's February, and you know what that means: sonnets. Has it really been a year since I wrote that how to write a sonnet post? Whoa. Well, I still don't want to write it all again, so I suggest you open that little link in a separate window. This year...
