by Rowan | May 25, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Earworms Our winner on the nonfic grid may be singing lullabies, but the only song I’ve got stuck in my head right now is Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week.” It feels like everything is on a countdown timer and I’m clinging to each second. In...
by Rowan | May 18, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Scooter Trash I have this plan for the summer, if I could just get everything to cooperate. But having 1) good weather; 2) free time; and 3) a working scooter, all at the same time, is just not coming together for me. On the plus side, I’m becoming a passable...
by Rowan | May 11, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Flashback Friday While Stacie’s getting nostalgic for the days when her grad was little, I’m getting nostalgic for the old YeahWrite summer series workshops. But unlike her kid, those workshops and more are still available over at our writing help section...
by Rowan | May 9, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Round Two Roundup Time! When you’re writing for a prompted competition, do you ever take the time to sit back and ask yourself what the competition is trying to “test” in your writing? For example, Round One and Round Two both were two-prompt rounds,...
by Rowan | May 4, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
May the Fourth be with you Except you, Poe Dameron. But hey, you get to be the subject of my narrative rant this week. Mild TLJ spoilers to follow: If you have a character who relentlessly refuses to participate in the plot except to actively work against what your...
by Rowan | Apr 27, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
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...