by Meg | May 2, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Psst–hey, you Yes, you—yeah write writer. I’ve seen you posting those 42 words over on the microstory grid for the last couple of months. Come on over here. Here’s your chance to kick off the week with a new challenge: creative nonfiction or, as we like to...
by Meg | Apr 25, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Variety is the spice Lisa at Pryvate Parts blog submitted two winning nonfiction pieces to yeah write recently. In both she experimented with unconventional structures—in shifting chronology (Unmentionables) and in creating tension by interrupting the narrative with...
by Meg | Apr 18, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] OK, I lied Last week, I said that I was ready to jump back into writing, reading and commenting here at yeah write—I had the week off from work, giving me the perfect no-excuses opportunity to resume the writing life. Instead, my...
by Meg | Apr 11, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Returning I’ve been a little distant from yeah write lately—not out of choice but due to an overwhelming work schedule that has kept me from writing, reading others’ posts, and voting. Today kicks off a week-long...
by Meg | Apr 4, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Five trips around the sun Five years. That’s how long yeah write has been spinning tales. All this time, we’ve been floating in space, tethered to the sun, one part poetry and one part physics. The year I was born, 1960,...
by Meg | Mar 28, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The extraordinary in the ordinary I grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. I have a writer friend who is very accomplished, published several books through big-name publishing houses, and he urges me to write about my childhood,...
