by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 17, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
What’s Blocking You? I couldn’t think of anything to write about for this week’s opener so probably I need to write about writer’s block, no? How can we write when we can’t write? When you’re feeling blocked, poke around in your psyche a little bit and see...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Writers Need to Talk I’m the stuckest of stucks in my writing. I have two major WIPs: First is a memoir I’m supposed to be editing. Second is this thing I’ve dubbed The Fiction Project (TFP) because I don’t know what it is (or maybe I do, but...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 11, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
I found a poem in my clothes hamper yesterday So maybe you’ve heard that it’s National Poetry Month. To celebrate I’ve committed to writing a poem a day in April. This is the first time I’ve ever blocked out a specific time every day in which...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 10, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
A Time to Not Write I’ve missed you, YeahWriters! I took two weeks off for a once-in-a-lifetime whitewater rafting/wilderness camping/hiking trip in the Grand Canyon. I brought several journals, certain I’d knock out 10,000 words toward a literary journal’s prompt...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
So, You’re a Writer? Earlier today, I was volunteering with some people from my Day Job. One of them, a woman I don’t have occasion to speak to very often said to me, “So, you’re a writer? Do you have a book or something?” Now, I do...
by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 5, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Go for the gusto! “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.” –Ava DuVernay I will admit, I’ve been so distracted for nearly a year that I feel like I can’t even remember...
