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 #339 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! Nonfiction Know-How: Foreshadowing “No spoilers”...
YeahWrite #339 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Are you ready for the weekend? Yeah, me too. Not that my weekend's less busy than the week: I've got three deadlines and I'm in a wedding. You know what I'd rather be doing with my weekend? That's right: the first round of Super Challenge #6, the best writing...
YeahWrite #339 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Just Do It Today I found myself at the mall buying shoes again for my 13-year-old son. Weren't we just there last week buying the pair that no longer fits? I know what these bigger feet mean: Next time I blink, he will surpass me in height (it's close). I've always...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #339
Look out below! Last week we launched a new format for the Weekly Writing Challenges. Instead of hunting all over for your grid to submit your work or having to remember what day it is to know if your challenge is open, we've put everything into one streamlined...
YeahWrite #338 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! Nonfiction Know-How: Foreshadowing...
YeahWrite #338 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Deadlines Do they motivate or terrify you? I've got a few major ones this week for my own job, and we've got a couple more at YeahWrite: today is the last day to sign up for Summaries class, and next Wednesday registration closes for Super Challenge #6...
YeahWrite #338 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hot Spot My dog Buster has a hot spot. Again. He simply cannot leave anything alone. This time, a bee stung him as far as I know since I pulled one out of his hair near that spot. I saw no visual evidence of a sting, but all the same he licked and chewed until his...
YeahWrite #338 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
The Story's Told With Facts And Lies Hey y'all! It's Asha. I'm excited to be filling in for Christine this week. It's been a tumultuous week around the world. When events and emotions feel overwhelming, I take comfort in little things. My dog snoring softly beside me,...
What’s Your Point… of View?
It's Techtober! With so many folks gearing up for NaNoWriMo and the fall writing competition season (including our own Super Challenge #6), I thought we'd skip our usual poetry slam this month and talk about a fiction (or nonfiction) technique instead....
Spoilers
Yes, spoilers! Look, as someone who, along with their friends, watches a number of shows, I can appreciate the idea that it's important to have surprises in our life. I mean, who wasn't surprised that Snape killed Dumbledore, or that Soylent Green was...