by Cindy R | Feb 6, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Developmental Editing: Finding your Story You should be editing your work. Yes, I know you’ve gotten great comments and even been published and hell, maybe you’ve even won awards for essays that you dashed off, skimmed once, and hit...
by Cindy R | Jan 30, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] January Nonfiction Know-how Round-up Rowan and I were on fire this month, if I do say so myself, giving you nonfiction knowhow lessons at the front and back end of every week’s challenge grid in January. Our goal: To help you write...
by Cindy R | Jan 23, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Letting Your Readers Do Some Work I’m having so much fun this month playing tag team with Rowan teaching you ways to use your writing to connect with your readers so that your essays allow them to say “me too” after reading. You...
by Cindy R | Jan 16, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Art of the Single Scene Story A great way to better understand what we’re looking for in editor’s picks here at yeah write is to closely read the essays we select for that honor, together with our comments. Last week, in the...
by Cindy R | Jan 9, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing as Coffee Shop Conversation All this month Rowan and I are teaming up to provide nonfiction know-how on this essential topic for bloggers and essayists: How to transform your posts from something only you’d want to read into...
by Cindy R | Jan 2, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s Not You, It’s Them Blogging sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s seen by some as a navel-gazing cry for attention, a pathetic way of reaching out and saying “I feel alone” or “I did this” without regard for the reader....
