by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 15, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Teatro ZinZanni Spoiler alert: If you have any interest in seeing this show, skip this intro. Or read and forget it immediately. Part of the fun was not knowing what to expect. The writing was a big platter of cheese. The actor/performers wandered around the hall...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 8, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Puzzle pieces I’ve been struggling with putting complete thoughts together in writing this week. My mind’s been full of snippets of stories; beginnings and middles and endings that don’t play nicely with each other. Combined with a series of rejections and...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 11, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Hurdle I guess it’s happened before. Words With Friends was a thing for a while, wasn’t it? And Codewords, maybe. But neither led to my Facebook feed being a never-ending register of game results. I joked that sometime in the future alien beings would...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
It’s the (not so) little things The world can feel overwhelming sometimes. The twenty-four-hour news cycle doesn’t do much to assuage that; leaping from one story of disaster and suffering to the next, with only advertisements to buy more, bigger, shinier...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Everything Old Is New Again For me, there was nothing like the YeahWrite grids* to motivate me to write every week. The grids provided everything I needed: a hard deadline, a built-in audience, and friendly competition to challenge me to submit my very best work. Not...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 28, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Eating an elephant The old adage goes; how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. When the task of writing and submitting work for publication feels too daunting, breaking that down into more manageable chunks helps me immensely. I can tackle each smaller task...
