by Rowan | Feb 16, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Go ahead. Ask me anything. We get a lot of questions around here. How long does your post have to be? (750 words or fewer) OK, so what’s the lower limit? (There isn’t one, but finish what you have to say) Does it have to be grammatically perfect?...
by Rowan | Feb 9, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Whatever the Reason Stacie’s got her fitbit. I’ve got Pokemon GO. Don’t judge; I bet I’ll walk more steps than her today, since the next wave of Pokemon are being released. My dog has never gotten so much exercise in her life. It doesn’t...
by Rowan | Feb 2, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Schedules are hard I’m sitting here waiting for a Hot Pocket ™ to cool down from “molten with a lump of still-frozen filling at the center” to “yeah you could eat that” and I suspect I’m going to miss the edibility window and...
by Rowan | Jan 26, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Priorities The book I spent the final quarter of last year editing just came back from the publishers (with! my! name! in! the! credits! (that will never, ever, get old)). I mean, obviously the author did some work too. The novel I’m editing needs a scene moved...
by Rowan | Jan 19, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Time keeps on ticking The Christmas kitten is more than twice as big now as she was a month ago; she’s had two rounds of kitten shots and it’s starting to be actively unpleasant when she tries to sleep draped over my throat. She’s also making a break...
by Rowan | Jan 12, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Mindful Practice A couple years ago, out of the blue, my dad sent me a practice chanter set. He’d found it at a thrift store and thought of how many times I’d said I wanted to learn to play the bagpipes when I was a kid, and, well, one thing led to...