by Meg | Feb 8, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Swim My dad helped me move into my first college dorm. He then took me to lunch at the uptown Frische’s. After lunch, we got into the car so he could drive me back to the dorm. We would say our goodbyes and he would drive the...
by Meg | Feb 7, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We’re all winners It’s Superbowl Sunday. But you’re here at yeah write, which means you win at writing. Yay, you! It’s a friendly competition While I love me some sports, I’ll spare you the metaphors....
by Meg | Feb 1, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Beware the overbearing adjective The large, fluffy cat walked down the dark, dank alley and sniffed the filthy, gray garbage can. What’s wrong with this sentence? Could it be the annoying, prolific adjectives? I’ve...
by Meg | Jan 25, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Find your story beneath the surface I could write a rant this week about how a certain insurance company, whose spokesperson is a woman named Flo, is trying to stick me with partial responsibility for a car accident I didn’t...
by Meg | Jan 18, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen carefully. Voice is essential to making your writing your own. If you write a creative nonfiction piece on the same subject as another person, your voice is what makes it distinctive. It isn’t the style of writing;...
by Meg | Jan 11, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The very small thing The so what is the holy grail of writing that earns editor’s picks at yeah write. It’s the yeast that makes your writing rise above all else. For our creative nonfiction challenge, the so what puts the creative...
