by Michelle Longo | Apr 8, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Short and Sweet As I write this, I’m cramming to get four days worth of work done in one while also packing to head out to our first ever YeahWrite Corporate Retreat in Seattle this weekend. For example, I normally write this on Friday, but it’s only...
by Michelle Longo | Apr 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
We’re 7!!! Can you believe it? I hardly can, and yet I feel like I barely remember life before YeahWrite! Rather than get all nostalgic on you, I’ll jump right into all the special stuff we have planned to celebrate our birthday. We came up with too many...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 25, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
How to Write Finishing stuff is hard. I have lots of great ideas and plenty of terrific starts, but I’m terrible at finishing. The reason is simple: Hard work is, well, a lot of hard work. Ideas and starts are fun and exciting and successes and finishes are so...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 18, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED KICKOFF Rowan here, with the most exciting news I’ve had in a while. How exciting? Y’all? YeahWrite swag. That’s right. We’ve got our shop up and running with the tees, tanks, totes, t’sweatshirts,...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 11, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
You Can Do It! I’m a sucker for a good motivational speech. Yesterday, I was listening to someone I know on FB Live talking about how he grew up in a really bad area but wanted to be successful and get out. He was told numerous times that for a number of reasons...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 4, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Do Over So, January was 172 days long and February lasted only about 172 minutes. In all of that, I definitely lost sight of my writing resolutions and goals. How about you? Are you plugging along or in need of a reboot? I think it’s probably more fair to say...