by YeahWrite Editor | May 21, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What’s Your Excuse? Every time I have to correct my 10 year old, he has some kind of excuse. “I was just gonna…” “But, I was {doing this other thing}…” “That’s not what I was doing…” “Sigh. Eye...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 16, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
The Summary Of All Its Parts Many years ago, I worked at a university. Part of my job was to write and edit academic papers and reports. Anyone who’s ever written such a report knows that often the only part of it anyone actually reads is the executive summary. So,...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 15, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
All Good Things… This is my last missive as YeahWrite’s nonfiction editor. Well, for now. We joke on the staff that YeahWrite is the “Hotel California” of online writing communities – you know, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I’ve...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 14, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I’m Throwing Down a Challenge Why do we write? I suppose there are many reasons, but I think all of them can get traced back to one simple idea: we want to be read. Whether it’s that we hope to publish a book, or get our short story picked up in a journal,...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 10, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Quiet time My son, the recent victim of a fairly prolific spring virus, has missed school for the last two days. He has a field trip on Friday to Six Flags (I know), so I’m sure he’ll be better by then. In the meantime, it’s quiet here, perfect for...
by YeahWrite Editor | May 9, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
I’ve Heard It All Before I’m gonna ask all of you to indulge me a moment while I fess up to a writing pet peeve. Out of all the thousands of clichés in all of writing history there is one that almost always makes me grit my teeth: Tears. (You...
