by Nathan James | Feb 8, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Tick Tock I participated in a writing contest a few weeks ago. The first three days of the contests was MLK Day weekend, and I didn’t write; I told myself I was “planning.” Tuesday rolls around and work explodes with deadlines and stress. I came home...
by Nathan James | Jan 11, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Guilt Whenever my therapist asked me how my week went, I would always mumble to him about how I hadn’t written anything. He found it interesting that I measured my week by the words I DIDN’T write. He asked me how many words I thought I had generated...
by Nathan James | Dec 14, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wandering Into the Cornfields Yeah, I wasn’t even close to making my 2019 writing goals, but that’s okay. I made them before I knew what the year had in store for me and sometimes health, career, and relationships need to take precedence. I’m...
by Nathan James | Nov 16, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Waiting for the Fairy I used to think I was the kind of writer who needed to ruminate on my ideas in order to convey them properly, but then I started participating in writing contests and found myself completing finished short stories within 48 hours. Are they...
by Nathan James | Oct 19, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Sketch Me If You Can I was just reading an article about the inception of the television show Schitt’s Creek. In it Dan Levy, the writer, producer, director, and actor of the show, talked about the experience of collaborating with his father, comedian Eugene...
by Nathan James | Sep 21, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Hospitality So last week I found out I was born with an extra electrical pathway in my heart. To fix it, they put me on the table, shoved cameras and lasers into me, and scarred my heart tissue to stop it from racing uncontrollably whenever it damn well pleased. I’m...
