by Rowan | Oct 30, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hurtling toward… 500. That’s right, it’s been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it’s been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that...
by Rowan | Oct 23, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Can’t can Or, rather, I can can, and I’m so tired of canning that the five back to back 12-hour days I just worked felt like a respite. I have apple butter, plum butter, sauerkraut (that’s not canned, if you’re keeping score; it’s...
by Rowan | Oct 16, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Falling for… fall. It’s finally here: weather that makes me want tomato soup with rosemary in it, and grilled cheese cut into soldiers for dipping. Nutmeg in everything (yes, in my coffee this morning) and cardamom and ginger and thick socks and piles of...
by Rowan | Oct 9, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s Octobruary Mayly? Jugumber? Whatever month of 2020 it is, it must be the first weekend, because there’s a micro grid on this post. If that wasn’t enough micro for you, though, you can totally sign up for our first micro Super Challenge before it...
by Rowan | Oct 2, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Discrepancies I used to have an entire Tumblr that was just pictures like the one in the header image for this post. Beds, rumpled, white sheets, fluffy duvets. Almost always shades of taupe and light grey. Big windows, no curtains (or just sheers). Sunlight streaming...
by Rowan | Sep 25, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Everything but writing… I’ve sat down to write this post at least five times today. Instead, I’ve: Gone for a motorcycle ride Picked apples Baked a fig cake Invoiced (ok that needed doing, though, I really like eating food and living under a roof)...