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!
YeahWrite #657 Weekly Writing Challenge
One is the loneliest number Do you collaborate with other writers or other artists? I'm in several writers' groups (both online an in person), and I've contributed to anthologies, beta read for others, and edited fairly extensively, but I'd never really collaborated...
YeahWrite #656 Weekly Writing Challenge
Goodbye Spooky, Hello Cozy Living in Seattle, I shouldn't complain, but it took longer than usual for the inevitable gray to settle down over our city. But this morning, I woke up to dreariness, fog, and a light drizzle. Unlike many who may groan at this change, I...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Just Between You & Me
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 #655 Weekly Writing Challenge
There goes the sun And I don't miss it one bit. As a person with the spring SADs, this is my joyful season. Everywhere around me is greening up for Second Spring because I live in a flippin desert now I guess, I'm bringing in the last of the harvest from my garden and...
YeahWrite #654 Weekly Writing Challenge
FINALLY I love the photo Arden chose for this week's post. The light slanting through the trees, the hint of frost (or rain, if you're in the Pacific Northwest) in the air, the swooshing sound of the leaves as you wade through them: these are some of the most...
YeahWrite #653 Weekly Writing Challenge
Running hot and cold While the weather's cooling and the leaves are turning in the northern hemisphere, things are hotting up here in the world's south. We're careening into warmer weather with all the decorum and coordination of a toddler taking their first steps --...
YeahWrite #652 Weekly Writing Challenge
It's Spoopy Season aka Prep Season Happy Friday, yeahwriters! As we move into October, the temperatures cool even further, and the leaves begin to change. Perhaps you indulge in your first pumpkin spice latte of the season or pull out your favorite sweaters and...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Cryptidkeepers
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 #651 Weekly Writing Challenge
It's decorative gourd season, motherwhatzits. Fall has fallen and we are moving into the (USAmerican normative) holiday season. The good news for you is we have a tropetacular lineup headed your way. Honestly that's also the good news for me. Whether it's a decorative...
YeahWrite #650 Weekly Writing Challenge
On the menu My younger child has been experimenting in the kitchen lately. He's playing around with frozen treats. He loves to try different egg dishes. Lately a lot of his choices are Asian-inspired, and I have to say I'm not complaining. His specialty is condiments:...
