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!
Writing About Writing
So you're ready to be a writer, eh? You've got your drafts, you've met a beta reader or two, and you're ready to hear criticism. You've found a writing group, online or off, and you think they're a great fit for you. Now it's your big day: you've traded...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #368
Did You Get Your Swag Yet? I would have a picture of me in my swag for you, but I spilled yogurt on the shirt yesterday and now it's in the laundry (don't judge me for how backed up the laundry is). The pants are in there as well because I wore them for...
Super Challenge #8 Round 2 is Underway!
All right, folks, here we go! It's time to kick off Round Two of the YeahWrite Super Challenge, with another two-prompt pairing for your writing pleasure. In this round, our writers will be working with an opening phrase and a scene. A few tips and pointers about this...
YeahWrite #367 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: What’s in the Box? Every time...
YeahWrite #367 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
UFOs and YOU I'm a knitter. Anyone who knows me in person, however tangentially, has seen me with needles and yarn in my hands. My yarn stash is at the point where i have to have rules like "the pretty yarn is allowed to be in the living room and the ugly yarn lives...
YeahWrite #367 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sign Here I have such bad timing luck when packages requiring an adult signature are delivered. Normally, I come home to the first notice, followed by the second notice and then have to pick up my package at the holding station. This week, unusually, two packages...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #8
I love prompt combos, don't you? (Kidding, but the results from our last survey say you do, so I'm going to go ahead and assume.) You know what I love even more, though? Sneak peeks into the judges' group. Overall, our crew had two general comments to make about the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #367
Surprise! Okay, so remember way back in the beginning of April I told you that you definitely wanted to be here with us this last week of April? (It's fine if you don't, I barely remember where I am anymore.) Well, it's time for me to finally announce the...
YeahWrite #366 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: What’s in the Box? Every time...
YeahWrite #366 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... Asha. I wouldn't tell, but she's been pretty open about how totally cool it is that YeahWrite's seventh birthday and her seven-times-seventh birthday fall in the same month. As a present for Asha, why not drop by the coffeehouse after you check...