by Louise Ducote | Mar 12, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
What to write All day for two days I wanted to write something. I didn’t know what, just that I hadn’t posted anything in a week and my six readers plus Mom must be getting antsy. I thought about it while walking my dogs, washing dishes, before sleep....
by Louise Ducote | Mar 5, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Writing stuff down and reading it aloud Lucky me grew up in Dallas at a time when poet Tim Seibles (nominated for the National Book Award last year) lived there and did a lot of free readings at a long-dead bar called the 500 Cafe. The bar owner loved my underaged...
by Louise Ducote | Feb 26, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
I had a teacher who used to say of our messy short stories, “It’s never done until it’s in print.” Blogging wasn’t a thing back then so “in print” meant an editor had to say, “Hey! Let’s print this!” Her...
by Louise Ducote | Feb 19, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
While driving around the hills of central Texas, I try to listen to things that make my mind feel shored-up rather than soupy. Spanish podcasts, news in Spanish, sometimes Spanish pop stations until the brain-soup effect sets in with the repetition of certain...
by Louise Ducote | Feb 11, 2013 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Pork, anyone? If you’re telling a nonfiction anecdote (and if you’re not, sidle on over to the speakeasy with your fiction and poetry), you know the ending. You know your uncle lofted the burned pork tenderloin across the dining room and, for months, the...
by Louise Ducote | Jan 29, 2013 | invitational, Open, YeahWrite
One-sentence pitch After spending a couple of years writing a novel, you either give it a proper burial in the lowest drawer of the tilting metal file cabinet, or you come up with a one-sentence pitch that describes your masterpiece. Then you start repeating that...
