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 #461 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Orange You Glad? I know, I know. I AM that kind of person. But orange you glad that Sumos are back in season? And before you get on my case, yes, I know the oranges in the photo are not Sumos, but sometimes a person has to make do. Also, orange you glad it's time to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #461
Tick Tock I participated in a writing contest a few weeks ago. The first three days of the contests was MLK Day weekend, and I didn't write; I told myself I was "planning." Tuesday rolls around and work explodes with deadlines and stress. I came home that night and...
Super Challenge #15 Round 1 is Underway!
Have you ever had to find an image for an article? I can't recommend choosing "start" as the word to search on stock photo sites, because those images are terrifying. Blank pages, open computers with no words on the screen, empty journals... I'm getting stressed out...
YeahWrite #460 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Irony Y'all, I wrote the best intro paragraph. About saving your work, and momentum, and the popular vote, and then I don't know what I hit but it's gone and I'm such a consummate professional that I'm not even going to try to retype it, I'm just going to be your...
YeahWrite #460 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sweet Treat I wasn't going to write about sweets but this photo is so pretty that I'm just going with it. I don't have much of a sweet tooth anymore, which is a big change from when I was younger, but small beautiful treats like this are always very tempting. One of...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #460
All around me are familiar faces Weird thing about me number one thousand four hundred fifty-three: I love finding faces on things. Whether it's a sad fruit, an angry rock, or a really happy telephone pole, I find objects with personality wherever I go. And you know...
20/20 Hindsight – First Variation
Tough love February is the month of love. Or lurrrrrrve, as we like to say it. So what better way to celebrate than to make you hate us just a little? Don't say you're not going to hate us. We hate us already. This is a hard one The good news is that this is probably...
Fact Simile
Cliche One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to new writers is to avoid cliche. Of course, we also tell them to learn the rules of grammar and syntax, structure their persuasive essays "Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion," and avoid long sentences. You'll...
YeahWrite #459 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Come through And y'all did. I don't know if it was the shoutout last week or just an upsurge of late January energy, but I love being able to give everyone every vote on the grids. And it's just mathematically better, making your wins more meaningful. Or is that me?...
YeahWrite #459 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
New story energy It's funny, the things that inspire you to write. In my case, it was the January 20/20 Hindsight assignment. A short story turned into a novella and then into something that promises to be even bigger and better, and now that new story energy is...