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 #379 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Crowded House Things are about to get nutty around my house, what with parents, sister, nieces and nephews all crashing here for five days. I did the obligatory Costco run so I'd have huge volumes of fruits and snacks. I don't know how to be more ready than that! I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #379
The Great Book Debate In the process of moving house and moving toward a more minimalist lifestyle, I've found books to be a real sticking point for me. On the one hand, they're BOOKS. On the other hand, they are really heavy. Anyone who has moved before...
Super Challenge #9 Round 1 is Underway!
Hey, crew, welcome to Super Challenge #9! We've got thrills, chills and spills headed your way, so hang tight and... and you know what? Actually we don't. We've mostly got good, solid prompts, followed by feedback you can actually use. You know: the stuff that matters...
YeahWrite #378 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: Writing About Writing (Part...
YeahWrite #378 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Low Fidelity If you weren't a music nerd back in the day, the high fidelity / low fidelity (hifi) split probably doesn't ring any bells. On the other hand, it might in your writing. Are you a high fidelity writer, focused on one piece at a time, polishing and...
YeahWrite #378 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
When Am I? I'm on summer break with no kids in school and also a husband who has taken a couple of weeks off. Practically speaking, that means it's hard to even remember what day of the week it is. Every day is sleep until you wake up. This is good but also...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #378
Schedules Are Sacred I am one of those people who live and die by their schedule. Everything needs to happen when it's supposed to happen or I end up losing all sense of timing. Case in point: This past week was Independence Day in the US. It fell on a...
YeahWrite #377 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: Writing About Writing (Part...
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Well, heck, it's time for our annual uncomfortable talk Back in the day, when YeahWrite was yeah write and we did a summer teaching series instead of the Super Challenge (ask me how that went, while everyone wanted to take a summer vacation) (kidding, it was great,...
YeahWrite #377 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
I'm Baaaaack I'm back from ten days in California Wine Country and boy was that a much-needed break! Great wine, exceptional food, beautiful scenery; everything was amazing there, as usual. Also, I was barely online at all, which was just what I needed. And now I'm...