by Nathan James | Jul 22, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Fellow Earthlings! Our CMO (Chief Microstory Officer) Christine is off galavanting in other galaxies this week. She left me the keys to the gargleblaster. I sure hope the Intergalactic Police...
by Nathan James | Jul 21, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tamer of lions One of my college writing professors—either the man who styled his hair like Alice from Dilbert or the woman who always wore a bandanna low on her forehead á la Bruce Springsteen circa 1987— made some analogies about...
by Nathan James | Jul 7, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Empathic connections “Obviously I don’t know how it feels to be a feral child, but I know how it feels to be an outsider, to want to be something you’re not, to be uncomfortable in your own skin. You just have to...
by Nathan James | Jun 29, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Reading in my brain. How long has it been since you’ve read a book you just can’t put down? You know, that one book in thirty that makes you stay up all night to find out the next earth-shattering...
by Nathan James | Jun 23, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Where did that come from? Writing-wise I’m not a planner. I know writers that start their plotting with simple outlines, or with storyboards of key scenes, or even with full PowerPoint presentations. That’s not me. Most...
by Nathan James | Jun 9, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Thankfully, they weren’t wearing bikinis Last week I went to the dog beach with a friend. It’s been a while since I’ve been around such unbridled joy. Pups of all shapes and sizes were kicking up sand and playing...
