by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 21, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
The Collector I’m a word collector. I gather them like other people press flowers, catalog stamps, or collect coins. They’re ordered, described and curated with care, then shepherded into books that dot my shelves. When I was in grade 4 the teacher, Miss...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 20, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Finding your writing voice Students often ask me how to find their voices as writers. Voice, right? It’s the Holy Grail of writing, that mysterious quality we all seek to attain without really knowing how to get there. Some people will simply tell you to write like...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 19, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Sprucing Up the Joint You’ve probably noticed by now that we slapped a fresh coat of paint on the walls of YeahWrite. We may have changed the look, and even how we write the name (two caps, no space), but we also updated the site’s navigation and threw in...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 15, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Popular voting for the yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 14, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
dangly bits In my series of posts on copy editing, I wanted to discuss those grammar mistakes with a sense of humor: dangling participles. Before I go into dangling participles, I need to tell you about participial phrase first. A participial phrase includes a...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 13, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Coming Out of Hibernation The sun returned this week and, with it, a renewed urge to document everything around me. For some, the winter months are a time to hunker down and write. For me, the dark season turns my mind sluggish, my thoughts uninspired. But now, as the...
