You read that right.
Today, I’m not asking for 1000 words of fiction.
I’m asking for a 1000 word essay (meaning, blog post).
And I want it on this subject:
WHY I WRITE.
That’s it. I wanna know why you write. What it is that makes you want to tell stories and write them down. What drives you? Something biographical? Something internal? Dig deep. Be thoughtful. Write it out like the bad-ass that you know you are.
The standard rules apply, otherwise:
Write it at your online space. Drop a link to it here in the comments.
Due in one week: 7/31.
Your time is now: tell us why you write.
229 responses to “Today’s Flash Fiction Writing Challenge Is Not About Fiction”
Why I write:
http://dissentwithin.blogspot.com/
The post is called Look at Me.
I like you very much after reading this. 🙂
That’s in an admiring-your-honesty-and-general-awesomeness way though, not a creepy-stalker way.
Thank you for the kind words. Hearing anything from anybody is fantastic. It often feels as if I am writing letters to myself. 🙂
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Why I Write in Between Pancake Flips.
http://ashley-kagaoan.com/2015/07/28/why-i-write-in-between-pancake-flips/
I enjoyed your post quite a bit. Felt like a poem comprised of vignettes. Completely related to writing in between other activities.
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I flashed some non-fiction about writing, too! Why I Write – a flash fiction challenge from Chuck Wendig
Here’s my effort.
https://ckendsley.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-i-write/
[…] Wendig sets his readers weekly writing challenges. This week’s challenge was to write an essay on why you write. To me, this is one of the most challenging writing […]
Here’s my piece: http://pop-verse.com/2015/07/29/why-i-write/
Full of self-hatred and other good things.
[…] week he issues a writing challenge and while I should accept more of them, today is my first in which he asks us to share why we […]
Thanks for the nudge.
Here is why I write….
http://www.cc-chapman.com/2015/why-i-write/
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Here’s my piece on why I write: “Departures and Arrivals”.
Thanks!
http://www.doodle-doodle.com/writing/departures-and-arrivals-why-i-write/
Why I Write, something I didn’t think about until I actually, you know, wrote about it.
http://word-savant.com/2015/07/29/why-i-write/
Okay then, I been went and did it. I am now mortally afraid of sounding like a total tool, with my high-falutin’-ness. Shouting at my skin to grow thicker as I type this.
http://wendychristo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/why-i-write.html
My effort to explain it all is here:
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2015/07/writers-musings-why-i-write.html
Thank you for giving me a reason to get this off my chest and I feel like there is more to say (and I didn’t use all my words) but this will do for now.
http://sarahwatches4u.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-i-started-writing.html?spref=tw
Gratifying others with my stories is a drug. Also, it’s fun and exciting:
http://fistfulofwits.com/2015/07/29/flash-non-fiction-why-i-write/
[…] this week’s challenge at Terrible Minds was to do just that, to say why you […]
A simple question that’s quite difficult to answer
https://thepazsperaexperience.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-do-i-write/
Here goes…
http://suzannebrazil.com/why-i-write-confessions-of-an-attention-whore/
[…] and…. Look, the point is, I don’t partake of his flash fiction challenges generally. But! This week his challenge was to write a blog post about “Why I write”. He said the piece should be 1000 words… I failed. Like a […]
[…] Wendig has a rare non-fiction-flash-challenge up this week – 1,000 words about Why I Write. It occurs to me that I haven’t addressed this topic […]
Been looking through all these awesome entries. So many different reasons! I have quite a few, mine turned into a sort of litany-of-reasons, but it was a good exercise. http://catsandchocolate.com/2015/07/29/why-i-write/ – hope someone enjoys it.
Here’s my rambling mess of a post:
http://fredgyost.com/2015/07/29/flash-nonfiction-writing-challenge-why-i-write/
I fell into a bit on an existential hole with this prompt, and went WAY over the word count. But I enjoyed writing it
http://www.chaptersinflux.com/thinking-about-why-i-write/
WHY I WRITE http://lauraakers.com/2015/07/29/why-i-write/
Finished early in a fit of…well, you’ll see:
http://writingcyborg.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-do-i-write.html
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My thoughts on the matter–
https://douglasdanieldotcom.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/a-non-fiction-challenge-from-chuck-wendig-why-i-write/
[…] was the latest prompt by the wonderful Chuck Wendig over at terribleminds.com. (Instead of the usual flash fiction, he asked his followers to write an essay on why they […]
I wrote a thing. https://write1st.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/why-do-i-write/
Odd, my comment has been awaiting moderation for the last 12 hours. I’m going to try posting one more time, apologies if it winds up being a double. http://fredgyost.com/2015/07/29/flash-nonfiction-writing-challenge-why-i-write/
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Here’s why I write and it has something to do with a lady called Wonder Woman.
http://www.thesilverninja.com/2015/07/30/why-i-write-chuck-wendig-challenge/
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Thank you for posting this challenge. This is why I write. https://auraeadon.com/writing/reflection/why-i-write/
Here’s mine:) Hopefully it’s not too late. (I just got back from a trip to England.)
http://strangeandcuriousthings.blogspot.fi/2015/07/terribleminds-challenge-why-do-you-write.html
[…] Dear Mr. Wendig, […]
http://www.lunisea.com/2015/07/1000-words-why-i-write/
[…] Chuck Wendig asks this over at Terrible Minds. It’s his non-fiction flash-fiction challenge. I enjoy that idea, so I thought I’d try to tackle the subject. […]
Thanks. This was tougher, for a lot of reasons, than I realized to put out on the page. But once I did, I kind of liked it.
http://www.metacookbook.com/2015/07/why-do-you-write/
I’m a bit late to dinner on this one, but here’s why I write
https://guspurdywrites.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/why-i-write/
If this entry was beer, it probably would be aging for a while, certainly past the rapidly approaching deadline. That said, drink up, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
http://normalisjustasettingonmyclothesdryer.blogspot.com/p/why-i-write.html
[…] Let’s see what this week’s flash fiction challenge is, I think as I open my email. Chuck Wendig’s charge is this: write an essay about why you write. […]
I only needed 500 words.
http://allisonmaruska.com/2015/07/30/why-i-write/
gulp. https://tonij.net/2015/07/30/why-i-write/
The Fight to Be Heard: https://adanramieblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/the-fight-to-be-heard-why-i-write-essay-challenge/
Writing is who I am.
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-i-write.html
Why I write: https://writerlyscrawls.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/why-i-write/
Erm… posting this again because my previous post of the link is still ‘awaiting moderation.’ What did I do, Chuck? :0 There’s no porn on there, I promise…
http://wendychristo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/why-i-write.html
Let’s see if that works…