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!
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #490
Slowing Down A few weeks ago, I started intensive immunotherapy for my bee and wasp allergy. I sailed through the first two weeks, but as the doses of poison increased, my body had other ideas, so I've had to slow way down. My default way to be tends towards "go go...
YeahWrite #489 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The dog ate my homework Well, Wordpress did. I don't know what this update is (ALSO LOOKING AT YOU, FACEBOOK) but can we not? This is my third stab at an intro and I'm just gonna save and exit as fast as I can so that you can find out who won the popular vote! Besides...
YeahWrite #489 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Arf Arf! Greetings from my dogs on National Dog Day! Actually, I doubt they even know. They are pretty much equally spoiled on any given day. Plus, they can't read, and who am I to tell and give them a reason to act entitled today? You, on the other hand, can read and...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #17
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Or not, if you don't eat chicken for one reason or another. I've got chickens on the mind today because a friend just had to evacuate their home, which is threatened by the fires in California, and I'm hoping they were able to make...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #489
Boundaries I used to be good at this—at using the small breaks between tasks to write, or at least to think about writing. I carried a little notebook with me wherever I went (okay, I still do that, but usually I just use my phone nowadays). Give me fifteen minutes,...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
What kind of stories do you tell? Like a lot of people, I've been playing more Animal Crossing this year than I expected to. Not because I particularly love pulling weeds and terraforming (although I'm enjoying recreating Hyrule on my island) or because I get to visit...
YeahWrite #488 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Summer Swan Song Summer is nearly over. School, whatever that means, is about to start. How can that be when none of us feel as if we've had a real summer at all? I haven't even read any books, and that is for sure something I could be doing in the isolation of my...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #488
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss If you've been around here for a bit, you know that two years ago I moved from NJ to CA. I knew we weren't going to stay in this apartment forever but I put off moving again for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is that it...
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Get the picture? Interestingly, I've now been writing the weekly winners' post for so long that the thing that takes the most time is picking out the header picture. Not because I hate looking at pictures, but because I love it. There are so many pictures out there,...
YeahWrite #487 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot Mess Is it hot where you are? It sure is here. Rowan hates that. [ed's note- she is so right. so right. bring me a winter. /rbg] I don't love it but also, being COLD is so much worse for me that I try not to complain too much. Except this week. I found a dead...