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 #492 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Moth Meal My new bags of birdseed that I ordered online arrived today. When I went to put them in the garage cupboard, I first moved the last bag from the previous order, so that I could relocate it to the front. In the process, I noticed that the seed was infested...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #492
Never Say Never When I left my last full time job about two years ago, I swore I'd never take another. Being in business for myself seemed like the best idea. I mean, who wants someone else telling them what to do, when to do it, and all that? I certainly don't. But...
YeahWrite #491 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Apocalypse when? I'm not writing this post from inside an evacuation zone. But it's close. Close enough that my go bag is packed and I'm sleeping in my clothes tonight. This week, writing is more of an escape than a succor. Also I stress-painted the ceiling? I don't...
YeahWrite #491 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Small Pleasures I'm watching the news about the fires in my home state of California, and in Oregon, where so many people I love live. I'm seeing friends and family post on Facebook and Instagram. It's terrifying. [Ed's note: The sky is very red and it looks like the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #491
Spring is springing September's here and it's the beginning of Spring in my part of the world! I love this time of year; the days are warmer, the nights are still cool, there's enough rain to keep everything watered, but not so much that it feels bleak, and the sun is...
YeahWrite #490 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Trading places Michelle--our EIC--and I are frequently the same person. We have similar opinions on an awful lot of things from food (ugly is fine as long as it's tasty; more cheese, please) to people (we prefer a few close friends). One of the big differences,...
YeahWrite #490 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Noodle This I do the NYT crossword (and other NYT puzzles) every day. Sometimes, they take liberty with certain clues or words. Today, for example, one clue was "the epitome of limpness." I know. Get your mind out of the gutter! It was a two word answer and the first...
It’s Personal
Imagine me and you, and you and me... One of the standard exercises for fiction writers is to write a story from the point of view of an inanimate object. It's rather hard to do well, honestly, largely because so many new writers can't resist the temptation to hide...
20/20 Hindsight – Eighth Variation
It was a dark and stormy night ... the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the...
The final round of Super Challenge #17 is underway!
The sky's the limit Well, actually Sunday night's the limit. That's how long you've got to complete an essay using the prompt that you're about to read. The good news is, you don't have to answer a question or constrain yourself to a topic. The bad news is that you've...