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 #377 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Lazy days I'll admit it; I haven't been writing much. I've been editing like crazy, but I haven't been writing. I like editing just fine, but editing and writing activate different parts of my brain. I may get a great deal of satisfaction from improving something I've...
Writing About Writing – Part III
What a feeling Okay, folks. We've hit the third part of our Writing about Writing series, so it's time for a few quick flashbacks. First, we reminded you that as you read through the story you're about to critique, you should keep three questions in mind:...
Bearing the Burden
It's music to my ears How often have you heard that? Especially in reference to poetry? Well, poetry and music are pretty closely related. We'll discover how closely in this month's slam, when you write a poem-within-a-poem using a few rules cribbed from...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #377
Holidays, Micros, and Whatnot So, here in the US, July 4th is a holiday. As a nation, we'll be celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques and stuff. Frankly, I'm just grateful for a day off from my day job. In the rest of the world, I...
YeahWrite #376 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 #376 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Speechless "Do something." That's what everyone around us is saying, isn't it? Do something. And people are "doing something." As terrifying as it is. And when you see news about people in the street, about mass shootings, mass arrests, when you see speeches, and...
YeahWrite #376 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Whoooooooboy. It's been one heck of a week, and nonfiction writers I don't blame you a bit for being a little stunned. Heck, I dug up an old half-written draft and dusted it off, tidied it up a little bit, and then felt bad because it didn't address how [I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #376
Setting Writing Aside As I begin to pack up my house to move, I'm trying to first set aside the things I know I won't need until we reach our new home in early August. It's pretty easy to tell what I'll use (flip-flops, mugs) and what I definitely will not...
YeahWrite #375 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 #375 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it's the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. "We need writers because we need someone to...