by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 22, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open In a fit of boredom with my weeknight go-to meals, I’m trying to up my food game here at home. This weekend, I will be poring over my small stack of cookbooks, and maybe browsing...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 19, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen When I don’t access my creativity for a while, it starts to atrophy. It’s still there, but it definitely needs reviving after a long sleep. After a long break from writing, painting, music, drawing, I can feel it...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 18, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen carefully. Voice is essential to making your writing your own. If you write a creative nonfiction piece on the same subject as another person, your voice is what makes it distinctive. It isn’t the style of writing;...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 15, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Shoot, it’s been a hard week. Losing so many British icons, starting a new semester of school, and coming down with my second cold in a month this week alone has made me want to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 12, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Say what? Unlike what Meg eloquently said about the needs of a good nonfiction essay, we here at the fiction|poetry challenge are more interested in the So What’s cousin, the Say What? What do I mean? Well, I think we can...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 11, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The very small thing The so what is the holy grail of writing that earns editor’s picks at yeah write. It’s the yeast that makes your writing rise above all else. For our creative nonfiction challenge, the so what puts the creative...