by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 12, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What are you afraid of? This past week, I spent some time in the yeah write coffeehouse* trying to encourage more nonfiction submissions. The biggest barrier for most was a lack of time. I totally get that – by the time...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 9, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Ready for the weekend? I sure am. I’ve been working my tail off lately, and it seems that the load will not lighten soon. But on the weekend? I’m calling off any work...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 6, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Where ever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly.” Henry David Thoreau, arguably America’s first tree-hugger, wrote that in Walden. I memorized the quote the very moment I read...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 5, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What trimming my bush taught me about writing I have a giant rhododendron in front of my house. It has grown so high that the top leaves reach up to the second story. The back is touching the house and, when it’s windy, the...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 4, 2015 | badges, Kickoff, Microprose, ultimate question, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our newest feature: literary techniques at nonfiction Fiction|poetry and microstory have long had themes and devices and technique associated with their challenges, and this month, we are introducing literary techniques on...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 2, 2015 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open I’m ready for some time off: how `bout you? The world can be too much sometimes, and when it is, you’ve just got to take a break from...
