by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 6, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Finish Line How do I become one of those people who just stops reading books they aren’t into? I have this odd sense of duty to finish what I start. I know that’s misguided, but I can’t help myself. When I am in a slower period of devouring books,...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 2, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The Timing Is Never Right I don’t have time to write. I don’t have a good place to write. If I’m going to write, I need a dedicated day to do it. I need to have a perfect setup with nice pens and a cup of tea and, I don’t know, a cookie or...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 30, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Brrrrr YeahWrite voting day is so cold here in New England, but I’m not complaining after reading about -20°F temperatures in the US Midwest (and that’s without the windchill). Wait, yes I am. I hate being cold and just because my 3°F cold isn’t as...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 26, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Story Time It’s almost February (where did January go?) and time to refocus on writing and telling stories. The end of January brings with it the Society for Storytelling’s National Storytelling Week in the UK. Officially starting on January 26 and ending...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 23, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Howling Disappointment I missed the super blood wolf moon because of a storm system, so I feel deprived. I hope some of you got to see it. [ed’s note: the clouds broke here for JUST LONG ENOUGH ? /rbg] The pictures look amazing. I’ve seen lunar eclipses...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 19, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
My Brain on Brevity Last year, I hardly wrote at all. I read a lot–more than sixty books–but I can count the number of stories I wrote on one hand (okay, it was six, but you get what I mean). Since I’ve already written three stories in 2019,...