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 #441
Hospitality So last week I found out I was born with an extra electrical pathway in my heart. To fix it, they put me on the table, shoved cameras and lasers into me, and scarred my heart tissue to stop it from racing uncontrollably whenever it damn well pleased. I’m...
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON There's a lot of swearing in that link in the header. Almost as much swearing as I did when the handles ripped off my decorative gourd transportation bag. IT'S FINE, THIS IS FINE. My steps are COVERED in absurd looking pumpkins. Warty ones...
YeahWrite #440 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Seeing the Light My orchid is blooming again! Once upon a time, four homes ago, I had about a dozen orchids and they rebloomed year after year, even sometimes twice per year. When I moved, they didn't bloom anymore. Eventually I figured out it's all about the light,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #440
When Other People Are Right I was talking with a friend a few weeks back about writing, among other things. Somehow, we got onto the subject of my book and some things that happened as a result of me not yet finishing it. Essentially I was complaining, blaming, making...
YeahWrite #439 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
BYE FOR NOW Kidding. Sort of. The video game I've been waiting all year for is FINALLY HERE and I'm about to disappear into the computer for the weekend. I'm stocked up on cola and crumpets, my friends know they're not going to hear from me for 72 hours and not to...
YeahWrite #439 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Calming Beauty My week in Iceland last week was spectacular. I've never been anywhere so beautiful, with such varied geography! Being contantly surrounded by such breathtaking beauty is so good for the soul. And soaking in the geothermal spas wasn't half-bad either....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #439
Baby On Board! It's okay, I haven't launched headlong into midlife crisis, there's no wistful longing for some whimsical memory of raising small children. No, we got a new puppy. Frank. I didn't name him. He was Frank when we got him, and when I suggested a name...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 14th Super Challenge
Now that school is in full swing and we're heading straight for the equinox, it's time to gear up for the next Super Challenge! That's right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's fourteenth Super Challenge! We're taking it back to fiction this time around, with...
YeahWrite #438 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Sinking feelings Oh yeah, folks, if you've been following the Great Remodel saga, I have some good news for you: I can do the dishes. Well, my spouse can. Well, the dishwasher we bought because life is too short to fight over the dishes can. I'm so excited to stop...
YeahWrite #438 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Take a minute We've got some new folks hanging out here on the grids and in the Coffeehouse. Take a minute or two to say hello, whether that's a comment on a post or a kind word on Facebook. And new folks, don't be shy! Even if you didn't write this week, we'd love to...