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!
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s FINAL Super Challenge for Flash Fiction
L'esprit de l'escalier It's a French colloquialism for coming up with the perfect response to something well after the moment to say it has passed. We're here to save you from that feeling, but don't let our moment pass you by. After seven years, YeahWrite is hosting...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Welcome to 2024
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2024 YeahWrite's free workshop is taking you all the places you want to be published -- or at least helping you have the best chance possible at getting there. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #664 Weekly Writing Challenge
The world had moved on Yeah, it's a line from a Stephen King book. But that doesn't make it less poignant or true. The world has moved on, and is moving on, and you and we are moving with it. A lot has changed since Erica posted the first lovelink (don't know what...
YeahWrite #663 Weekly Writing Challenge
Time keeps on slipping, slipping We’ve talked about how the pandemic has made time feel strange: months feel like days, weeks feel like years, and who even knows what day of the week it is today. It almost makes the annual holiday season time slip feel comfortable, a...
YeahWrite #662 Weekly Writing Challenge
I See the Lights If you ask me to be completely honest, I'm still riding high on this week's Scarlet Quill meeting. Our panel delivered almost an hour of analysis of the tropes of Hallmark Christmas Movies, and then they turned around and gave us the plot for a...
YeahWrite #661 Weekly Writing Challenge
The sun's shining, let's make hay! After what feels like a year full of rejections and defeats, I've had some big wins recently. There have been some shortlists, a second place, and several acceptances for publication. I'm trying not to breathe too hard, trying not to...
YeahWrite #660 Weekly Writing Challenge
Bon Voyage When this post goes live, I'll be less than two weeks away from leaving on an epic adventure to Spain with my better half to celebrate his 40th trip around the sun. It wasn't until this final countdown began that I realized how much stress and anxiety I've...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Small Towns and Smaller Minds
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite's free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for a...
YeahWrite #659 Weekly Writing Challenge
Goooooooal! I have friends doing NaNoWriMo. I love my friends. I do not love NaNo. And not just because, as an editor, I end up seeing tooo many sloppy projects (honestly, save your editor time and you money and check out last year's Scarlet Quill series on editing...
YeahWrite #658 Weekly Writing Challenge
Short fiction is in trouble If you've been running around in the short fiction writing community for any length of time, you know that there has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. The onslaught of AI-generated story submissions, an increase in scams and predatory...
