by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 18, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Everyone starts at the beginning This is (somehow) the 5 year anniversary of my first ever editor’s pick at YeahWrite for my post about latte foam which honestly I thought was a silly piece without much merit. As I recall, it didn’t do all that well in the...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 17, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Going for the Gut We are about to start renovating our kitchen. We’ve lived here a little over seven years, and the kitchen has needed to be renovated for at least the last 20. At first, we thought we might be able to do it piecemeal. Update one thing here,...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 13, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Unplanned Family Time For those of you on the edge of your seat waiting to hear whether my son successfully escaped Miami prior to Irma unleashing her wrath on South Florida: he did. I was both relieved and thrilled to have my family intact. Irma was a rough ride for...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 12, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
The mind sludge and the don’t-wannas After a long break to refill my creative wells and fine tune some existing work, I’m starting to shift back into the mindset of generating new writing. Trying to dedicate 30 minutes of writing a day after 32 days of...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 11, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect When I can’t think of what to write, I generally don’t stare at a blinking cursor. I know everyone says they do that, but I don’t. No blank pages, either. Instead, I just scroll through Facebook endlessly. The...
by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 10, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Good Grief, Y’all As I write this, more hurricanes are swirling and things are still burning. It’s kind of hard to do anything right now without acknowledging all that’s happening. It’s hard to do anything because of all that’s happening....
