by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 29, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we’re here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can’t remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 26, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open So I’ve got a busy weekend planned for us. Ski-ball, mountain biking, spelunking, the works. The weather is finally beginning to lighten up in much of the U.S., and I think we...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burn and fizzle Sunday was my two year blog anniversary. I remember that night after my first post. I couldn’t sleep; I kept thinking of better ways to phrase my sentences or fretting that I’d missed a typo. Even after...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 22, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 19, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Right around this time of year, I start fantasizing about vacation. A tropical beach somewhere, a cappuccino in a European square, it doesn’t really matter where as long...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 16, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Afresh I’ve had to do a lot of rereading for work lately. Any time I teach a book I haven’t read in the last five years, I give it another read to make sure it’s all fresh in my brain–characters, plot, style,...
