by Louise Ducote | Jun 25, 2013 | 31dbbb, Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Cocktails, seersucker and exotic travel: all yours at yeah write I’ve been reading Homer’s The Iliad aloud to my kids and, mercy, it’s violent. I don’t know what else I expected from the story of the Trojan War, but what I’m getting is a...
by Louise Ducote | Jun 18, 2013 | 31dbbb, Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Greek goddess or pain in the neck? In the moldy old classroom with high windows and a table that accommodated only the twelve young wanna-be-writers chosen for the fiction workshop, everyone showed up and tried so hard we were exhausted afterwards; we had to stuff...
by Louise Ducote | Jun 10, 2013 | 31dbbb, Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Old whores, little dogs and the yeah write way The other day I read an old short story by Gabriel García Márquez, one I had somehow missed in a collection I’ve owned a long time and have read from at random. It’s called “Maria Dos Prazeres” and...
by Louise Ducote | Jun 4, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Where’s the action? Is it happening in your post? Years ago when I wrote mostly fiction, I used to ask my friend Tom to read my drafts because he was about as far from my imagined audience of literate women as I could get: no preaching to the choir for me. He...
by Louise Ducote | May 28, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Getting out of the way I’m still thinking about Michelle Longo’s double-winning post from last week. If you missed it, go ahead and take a minute; I’ll wait. Did you notice how she leaves the reader alone to figure things out? How she lets the...
by Louise Ducote | May 7, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Learning from each other My friend Karen once took a semester-long writing workshop with a teacher who used this method: every week each student brought in a short piece of fiction to read aloud. The moment the teacher lost interest or felt offended by a run-on...
