by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 6, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Developmental Editing: Finding your Story You should be editing your work. Yes, I know you’ve gotten great comments and even been published and hell, maybe you’ve even won awards for essays that you dashed off, skimmed once, and hit...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 5, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Death by 4th grade biography project My kid has to write a report about Nelson Mandela and then make an absurd poster where he will cut out holes for his face and arms and then “become” Mr. Mandela to present his report....
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Popular voting for the yeah write #303 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 | Jan 31, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
to comma(,?) or not to comma I gotta tell you: when I first started working as a professional editor I was so confused about commas. It seemed like between high school and college I’d been told a lot of conflicting things about those nasty buggers and when to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 30, 2017 | YeahWrite
Like many of you, the editorial staff has been watching with horror the events that have been unfolding in the United States. We stand in strong opposition to the immigration ban and we support the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and the press as they are...
by YeahWrite Editor | Jan 30, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] January Nonfiction Know-how Round-up Rowan and I were on fire this month, if I do say so myself, giving you nonfiction knowhow lessons at the front and back end of every week’s challenge grid in January. Our goal: To help you write...