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 #641 Weekly Writing Challenge
Rain, hail or industrial action It's wild wet weather outdoors around here, and equally tempestuous in my internal world. Winter is the time of year when my thoughts gallop wildly and untamed and I struggle to marshal them into anything coherent. The weather's...
YeahWrite #640 Weekly Writing Challenge
Set It & Forget It I'm going to keep this short and sweet. You should be writing. Hear that a lot? I do, and my usual response is 'Easier said than done, bruh. I've got stuff to do.' But this morning, I told myself that stuff can wait. I told myself to pick a time...
YeahWrite #639 Weekly Writing Challenge
Comfort food, anyone? I have a friend who got married at the end of May. I'd promised to make her chuppah, out of cloth that her other friends had sent. Cue me cutting out 128 hexagons (and then there's the partial hexes) and sewing for... well. A while. Fortunately,...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Latitude Check
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 #638 Weekly Writing Challenge
Right Here, Right Now So I recently went to an amusement park with my kids. Now, I'm not a roller coaster person, but I love my kids and they have remarkable puppy dog eyes when they want me to do something, so roller coasters it was. As I sat there waiting for the...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #28
Unraveling As we mentioned in our guide to genre prompts a while back (cue the "it's been 84 years" meme) there are some genres that are checklists of things to be included, and some that ask you to change your style or narrative voice. Both kinds, however, ask you to...
YeahWrite #637 Weekly Writing Challenge
Now is the Winter of my discontent Anyone who knows me even passingly knows how much I dislike the cold, grey days of Winter. In this hemisphere of the world, Winter is just setting in, and while the days are (mercifully) getting longer, the weather is still...
YeahWrite #636 Weekly Writing Challenge
Summer Time (and the living is decidedly not easy) As summer creeps ever closer, I can't help but be jealous of kids being released out of school for a few months of freedom from responsibility and homework. As a kid, I couldn't wait to grow up, and now I realize what...
YeahWrite #635 Weekly Writing Challenge
Suck it in suck it in suck it in if you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn The hook. The gotta. The lede. The so what. Whatever you call it, it's the reason your readers keep reading. And guess what? It's probably not the same reason that you keep writing. To succeed as a...
The final round of Super Challenge #28 is underway!
So you've got 48 hours... to finish a story. From plot to pinnacle. That's not a lot of time. So while you're mulling over our mixed-genre prompt and trying to find your way into the story you'll submit, take a few minutes and make yourself a little housekeeping...
