by Erica Mullenix | Jul 27, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Writing post-hell week I ain’t gon’ lie: last week was a rough one, and I am nowhere near recovering from it. Events in the news, family-related stress, and, now, as I’m writing this,...
by Erica Mullenix | Jul 13, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Are you a writer who blogs or a blogger who writes? At yeah write, we actually don’t care. You can be the more introverted, cerebral writer who submits your posts to us each week, or you can be the more...
by Erica Mullenix | Jul 6, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Distraction-free writing: is there such a thing? I close my bedroom door. I plug in my earbuds. I listen to, on loop, music so familiar, it’s like spooning the cuddliest dog in the world. Yet,...
by Erica Mullenix | Jun 22, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Who’s your muse? For me, this summer, I cannot lie, it’s been Netflix. The last book I actually completed since my first child (I have three) was born in 1995 was The Immortal Life of Henrietta...
by Erica Mullenix | Jun 15, 2015 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Still summer, still open submissions Wouldn’t you like to fast forward to a time and space where you felt safe and free? Where pain existed solely to remind you of what you left behind? In this place, there is nothing before you, and the fields are abundant....
by Erica Mullenix | Jun 8, 2015 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Revisiting the Resistance For the first time since 2011, yeah write will be plowing through the summer without taking a break for a summer writing series. The editors have been doing a great job teaching as they go, and there are ongoing workshops in our Google forum...