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 #395 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: MetaphorsMetaphors can take...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #10
In the drawing-down of the year As the year creeps to an end, so too does Super Challenge 10. The judges' results are in and tallied and we're ready to announce the winners of our fourth Super Challenge! Winners, you'll also get an email confirming your details so...
YeahWrite #395 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cats, amirite? When I sat down to write this post, one of the keys on my fancy ergonomic keyboard was stuck. So I pried it up. MISTAKE, Y'ALL. I mean, not a mistake to pry up the key, you should do that periodically and clean out your keyboard. Yes, even if you blow...
YeahWrite #395 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Busy Busy I've been gone since Sunday but am home now. That means I need to cram five days of errands into just two. Plus, I'm volunteering for my local dog rescue. And my car suddenly has a warning light on so I have to deal with that too. Should be interesting....
YeahWrite #395 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Abracadabra These days, I'm trying to find a healthy balance between reality and fantasy. Sometimes I watch the news and I think: this has got to be fiction. How can this be real life? And sometimes I read a story, and think wow–the author was clearly prophetic....
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #395
Behind Already? Well, I had planned on writing every day in November, but at around 11PM on the 2nd, I realized I had forgotten about that commitment. Or maybe I just forgot it was November. Either way, I guess I'm behind. The great thing about the...
YeahWrite #394 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: MetaphorsMetaphors can take...
YeahWrite #394 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
It's raining, it's pouring The rain held off until after Halloween here, which is great cause it's my favorite holiday. I love it so much that I'm considering all of November a trick or treat extension with our scavenger hunt of writing challenges,...
Let’s get meta!
Metaphors! (and similes, which are metaphors using the words "like" or "as") Metaphors are great. They can help us describe the indescribable, connect the dots between reader and character (or author), and give tone and shape to a story or essay. They can...
Un-sestina-ble!
It's my birthday and I'll poem if I want to. Um, and you can join me if you want to. November is one of my favorite months, for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons. But this year it's even more favoriter (I can make up words if I want, too) because our...