by Meg | Mar 21, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Go with the flow Writer’s block is my bête noire. My first experience with it happened last summer after attending a transformative writing workshop. Ironic, I know. But I found myself staring at a blank page, pen in hand,...
by Meg | Mar 14, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring forward I hate losing an hour to Daylight Saving Time but if that’s the exchange that is needed to move from winter to spring, I’ll take it. Of course, I’m writing this from the flat center of Ohio where...
by Meg | Mar 7, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Balancing work/life writing I write for a living. It isn’t the kind of writing I would like to do—it isn’t terribly creative or exciting, though I try to inject life into dull topics. I am a grants writer. For the last...
by Meg | Feb 29, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we’re here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can’t remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online...
by Meg | Feb 22, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to...
by Meg | Feb 15, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Courage Does writing take courage? Maybe you aren’t charging into “the misty mist or the dusky dusk” (depending on where you live), but you are exposing your inner world to a sometimes judgmental, often distracted outer world....
