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 #398
The Home Stretch This is it! You're almost there! For anyone participating in any kind of November writing challenge, these last few days can either be torture where you're just phoning it in to prove a point or it can be your last little sprint at the...
YeahWrite #397 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Technique Toolbox: Metaphors Metaphors can take...
YeahWrite #397 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
How to have a problematic fave Boy, the United States sure does love making holidays about murder. And when murder's not enough, there's always genocide. But you know what? There's probably nothing you love that doesn't have a problematic history. Nothing....
YeahWrite #397 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Thankful Happy American Thanksgiving to those of you partaking. I hope you have a relaxing day full of good food and people you like. Of course, I wish the same for everyone else too. I am thankful I will be with family and that I don't have to travel. I am also...
Super Challenge #11 is OPEN for registration!
Here we go again! It seems like we just announced the winners of our latest fiction Super Challenge, and we're already gearing up for nonfiction. That's right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's ELEVENTH Super Challenge. Like all our odd-numbered competitions,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #397
Thankful This week is Thanksgiving here in the US. It's a time to be grateful for what we have (or not, I'm not going to tell you what to do). It might be a happy time for you and your crew or maybe it's not so easy. Either way, here at YeahWrite, we are...
YeahWrite #396 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Technique Toolbox: Metaphors Metaphors can take...
YeahWrite #396 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
SNOW. (I know, I know) Friends in the Midwest and on the East Coast have been sending me snow pictures like "did you ask for snow for your birthday BECAUSE HERE IS SNOW AND NOW I HAVE TO SHOVEL SNOW AND I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY." I am, friends. I am happy. I...
YeahWrite #396 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sink or Swim I'm about to duck underwater until late January. As if the holidays and resultant crowding in all the stores weren't enough, all five people living in my house also have birthdays between Thanksgiving and the end of January. It's fun in many ways, but...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #396
How's It Going? We're chugging along steadily toward the middle of November - how are you holding up? Are you hitting those word counts and daily goals? How many of the NaNoDoMore challenge items have you crossed off the list? Wherever you are on your...