by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 3, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I totally already stole candy from the dish on your end table It’s February 1st. If 2023 were a house, we’d be through the breezeway and stepping into the living room.If you wanted to do something differently with your writing, have you started? What can a writing...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 27, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Hard reset I’m not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions or intentions or words. I start off enthusiastically enough, but fold pretty quickly under the pressure to conform to some imaginary standard. You know, that goal that’s just a little too...
by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 30, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
New Year, New View So we’re all looking down the barrel of 2023. I’ll tell you right now I do not believe in resolutions. If I want to change, I will. If it doesn’t stick, it must not be working for me. I don’t see the use in nagging myself for a month or two to make...
by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 23, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Happy Merry Bah Humbug Whether you observe religious celebrations at this time of year or not, it’s still a busy time. The end of the calendar year is often when contests are winding up, submissions windows are closing, and rejections or acceptances are flying...
by YeahWrite Editor | Nov 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Accountability I joined a writing accountability group made up of some IRL friends. They’ve cancelled both meetings that I said I could make. I offered to host a makeup session later in the week. Crickets. This isn’t the first group that started with good intentions...
by YeahWrite Editor | Nov 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Rejection collection Every writer has heard the advice of collecting a hundred rejections, right? I don’t know what your Rejection Collection [trademark pending] is looking like, but mine’s… burgeoning. The rejections pile up and I feel increasingly...