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!
Look deep into my… navel?
In the span of a breath, everything changes. We all have our moments of epiphany. Cataclysmic shifts in personality, thought structure, aha or eureka moments. We also all change slowly, over time, as we develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Beware the overbearing adjective The large, fluffy cat walked down the dark, dank alley and sniffed the filthy, gray garbage can. What's wrong with this sentence? Could it be the annoying, prolific adjectives? I've referred to this...
yeah write #251 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Love, love me, do I make no apologies: I'm a romantic. And February is a great month to be one, all full of valentines, budding flowers and chilly weather. (Which is totally romantic, you guys, because what's the best way to get...
yeah write #250 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open So last weekend I vowed to up my food game, and it went...okay. Meaning, I didn't really make any new meals, but I DID get a new madeleine pan. You know madeleines, right? Those...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #250: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please hold: we are currently experiencing technical difficulties. I'm writing this in a Notepad window (yeah, whatever, you can keep your fancy programs, this one pastes without trying to add formatting. I'm looking at you, MS Word)...
yeah write #250 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 Soooooo 2016 is apparently "the year Rowan watches all the Mad Max movies back to back as many times as possible." It's for science, guys. Science! So there I was,...
yeah write #250 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! We've been exploring every corner of the galaxy searching for answers to the ultimate question. This month we thought we'd take a little break, sit for a while by the roadside and admire the view. In short,...
yeah write #250 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nothing to be concerned about Our 250th week of yeah write fun is as good a week as any to talk about trying new outlets. We've already shaken things up on you by offering up for inspiration a photo prompt in place of an ultimate...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Rowan of CrossKnit and Textwall
[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 our very own...
yeah write #250 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Find your story beneath the surface I could write a rant this week about how a certain insurance company, whose spokesperson is a woman named Flo, is trying to stick me with partial responsibility for a car accident I didn't cause....
