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 #438 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
I don't like Mondays This is going to be the refrain around my house for the next ten months. My boys are back in school, and while I'm personally excited for the return to a routine, the kiddos are dragging their feet every morning—especially my third-grader, who...
Year of Fearless Writing – MFA? OMG.
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
Sing me a song
Poetry is music is poetry It's kind of a no-brainer, right? Music and poetry go hand in hand: they are both designed to appeal to the emotions. More precisely, a poet or musician is attempting to manipulate your emotions so that you feel what they want you to feel....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #438
Keep on Writin' This might sound odd, but one way to improve your writing is to try not to care what other people think. Of course, this is easier said than done, but effectively it keeps you writing more and the more you write, the greater your chances of improving....
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #13
Another Super Challenge is in the bag... And I'm sorry to see it end. But kind of excited to be back in the Coffeehouse, and looking forward to our fall lineup with the next (fiction!) Super Challenge and another exciting surprise or two. Speaking of...
YeahWrite #437 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Let your creativity soar Stacie's off on an adventure, and I'm still trying to install a sink. But the great thing about writing is that we're both able to visit the same wonderful worlds between the covers of a book. And if the book we want to read doesn't exist,...
YeahWrite #437 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Busy, Busy What a week! My son started tenth grade, and I'm leaving for Iceland tomorrow so it's been a bit busy, to say the least. In addition to packing and buying things for school and my trip, I felt compelled to make sure everthing was in order, since Mom being...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #437
While the cat's away... My kids were away at camp last week, giving me almost seven glorious hours to myself each day. I had plans, people. Plans. Big writing plans. Unfortunately, those plans didn't take into account the couch cover that needed washing, the forms I...
YeahWrite #436 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Surprise! One of my favorite parts of collaborating with other writers is handing them little surprises. Nothing big, just a moment or two in the story that's designed to delight them. Most of those end up on the cutting room floor, of course, being darlings that...
YeahWrite #436 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Six of One... I've been having trouble uploading photos to these posts lately. What that means, practically speaking, is that I don't always end up with the first image (or even the second) that I choose. So this week, you get eggs instead of the bird I originally...