by Nathan James | Feb 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Everything Old Is New Again For me, there was nothing like the YeahWrite grids* to motivate me to write every week. The grids provided everything I needed: a hard deadline, a built-in audience, and friendly competition to challenge me to submit my very best work. Not...
by Nathan James | Dec 31, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Germ-free One of the (many) weird things about the times we’re living through is balancing our need for social interactions while managing our comfort level of exposure to the Covid variant du jour. Nothing highlighted that need more than deciding to go to...
by Nathan James | Nov 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
But My Panic Room Is Nice I don’t know about you but society seems to be picking back up lately. This week before Thanksgiving has been the busiest I’ve been since the pandemic started. My tolerance for being busy has lowered, I’ve noticed. Days when...
by Nathan James | Oct 22, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings I love October. The wool jackets and the falling leaves. Little kids in costumes, freaky movie marathons. It just doesn’t get any better. But about two-thirds of the way through my wheels screech and I veer off...
by Nathan James | Sep 10, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Shiny objects and bullish men Continuing the trend, I am also a huge fan of retellings. One of my first stories to get in the Top Three at YeahWrite back when we had a blog share was a retelling of Ariadne, who fell in love with the hero Theseus and helped him escape...
by Nathan James | Jul 30, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Writing Together, Alone Writer friends had invited me to work together in the past, but I never took them up on it. I always thought “My problem with writing is focus. Why would I meet a person for a writing date and add yet another distraction to the...
