by Cindy R | May 15, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
All Good Things… This is my last missive as YeahWrite’s nonfiction editor. Well, for now. We joke on the staff that YeahWrite is the “Hotel California” of online writing communities – you know, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I’ve...
by Cindy R | May 8, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Before You Hit Publish, Read This Are you all reading Rowan’s exceptionally thoughtful Nonfiction Know-How pieces each month? Her posts offer incredibly generous free writing assistance from a high caliber professional writer and editor. In case you haven’t read May’s...
by Cindy R | May 1, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
What is Creative Nonfiction? Sometimes it’s helpful to get back to basics. So what do we mean when we talk about writing creative nonfiction, particularly in its first person essay form? The “nonfiction” part is pretty simple – here at YeahWrite we’re looking for your...
by Cindy R | Apr 24, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Stop Being Boring. I want to open this week’s nonfiction grid by talking about something both Rowan and I have discussed before: Narrative hooks. Rowan hit on this in her nonfiction round-up last Friday, and I touched on it when I urged you to “start when your story...
by Cindy R | Apr 17, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
What’s Blocking You? I couldn’t think of anything to write about for this week’s opener so probably I need to write about writer’s block, no? How can we write when we can’t write? When you’re feeling blocked, poke around in your psyche a little bit and see...
by Cindy R | Apr 10, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
A Time to Not Write I’ve missed you, YeahWriters! I took two weeks off for a once-in-a-lifetime whitewater rafting/wilderness camping/hiking trip in the Grand Canyon. I brought several journals, certain I’d knock out 10,000 words toward a literary journal’s prompt...
