by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 28, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
this post is yet to be birthed In my last few fiction|poetry kickoff posts I’ve been giving away my secrets as a copyeditor. The copyeditor takes care of the superficial editing, such as typos, grammar issues, and punctuation issues, but my biggest task as a...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 27, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Proofreading: The Final Polish We made it to the end of our February nonfiction knowhow! We’ve looked at editing all the way from high-level story ideas through line-level copyediting. Up this week? The polish. Yep, it’s time to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 26, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Little Voices Do you have a little voice inside your head? I do. The one I hear the most is the one that tends to give me a hard time, trying to instill doubt at every turn. What’s worse, I think, is that every time something...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 22, 2017 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Popular voting for the yeah write #306 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 | Feb 21, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
scraping out your insides with a knife I’ve been tussling with a short story this week. The prompt for it came from a conversation with my in-laws on Christmas Day. Christmas dinner was at our place this year, two days after we moved into a new house. I’m a committed...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 20, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Running Lines: Editing on the Micro-Level Let’s talk about sentences and the words that make up your sentences. Because y’all have now mastered the high-level editing we talked about in the first two installments of our February...
