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 #388 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: Pseudonyms Every writer wants...
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The last refuge of pedantry Tired of people lording it over you because you used "less" where you should have used "fewer?" Fear no more, reader! I've got your back. It's confusing, because the opposites of both words, are the same: MORE. The YeahWrite Super Challenge...
YeahWrite #388 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Switching Seasons Fall is in the air. I'd be ok with that except for the "winter is coming" part. I hate winter as much as Rowan hates summer. We'd be a terrible couple except for the part where she knits hats for me; that part would be awesome. I will admit though,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #388
The Most Important Thing You can have all the tools in the world, but they mean nothing if you're missing one critical element every writer needs: snacks. I live in a house with an 11-year-old, so there's no shortage of snacks here. However, trapped in a...
YeahWrite #387 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: Pseudonyms Every writer wants...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
But first, a shameless plug Y'all, with less than two weeks left in the registration timeline, we've hit a $200 prize pot for Super Challenge 10. If you haven't signed up yet, what are you waiting for? In the meantime, of course, you can practice your prompted fiction...
YeahWrite #387 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hampered by Hamstrings My yoga class restarted this morning after the usual summer break. Boy am I going to be sore tomorrow. Also, it's amazing how quickly I lost what little flexibility I had gained during the year. I knew I should have kept up with at least the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #387
The Perils of Being a Writer Some years ago, I coined the phrase "Blogger's Neck." This is what I called it when my neck was stiff from looking down. I'm sure there's a more technical name for it and that other people have neck troubles. Still, it's one of...
YeahWrite #386 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: Pseudonyms Every writer wants...
YeahWrite #386 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Looking Forward to Winter Look, anyone can tell you I'm Team White Witch. Neverending winter is my idea of a perfect climate. But fall is pretty great, too, and we've got a lot to look forward to this fall. So even though temperatures where I live were well into the...