by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 15, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I See the Lights If you ask me to be completely honest, I’m still riding high on this week’s Scarlet Quill meeting. Our panel delivered almost an hour of analysis of the tropes of Hallmark Christmas Movies, and then they turned around and gave us the plot...
by Asha Rajan | Dec 8, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The sun’s shining, let’s make hay! After what feels like a year full of rejections and defeats, I’ve had some big wins recently. There have been some shortlists, a second place, and several acceptances for publication. I’m trying not to breathe...
by Arden Ruth | Dec 1, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Bon Voyage When this post goes live, I’ll be less than two weeks away from leaving on an epic adventure to Spain with my better half to celebrate his 40th trip around the sun. It wasn’t until this final countdown began that I realized how much stress and...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Scarlet Quill Society, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! In 2023 YeahWrite’s free workshop is going back to the basics with a focus on tropes, the sometimes imperceptible and often underrated building blocks of writing. Check out the bottom of this post (and every post) for...
by Rowan | Nov 24, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Goooooooal! I have friends doing NaNoWriMo. I love my friends. I do not love NaNo. And not just because, as an editor, I end up seeing tooo many sloppy projects (honestly, save your editor time and you money and check out last year’s Scarlet Quill series on...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 17, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Short fiction is in trouble If you’ve been running around in the short fiction writing community for any length of time, you know that there has been a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. The onslaught of AI-generated story submissions, an increase in scams and...