by Michelle Longo | May 7, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
So What’re You Gonna Do? You’ve heard the advice about getting out of your comfort zone to help your writing. We all know that submitting work opens you up to rejection, and that alone can be enough of a deterrent. It’s hard to find time to write....
by Michelle Longo | Apr 30, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
It’s Not New, But It’s Good I was recently reading an article about how to get started writing. It wasn’t necessarily genre-specific, but the advice was pretty solid, if nothing new. (A better person would have remembered where she saw this article...
by Michelle Longo | Apr 23, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Gotta Walk the Walk Remember last week when I said writers have to talk to each other? How connecting with others who share our passion can help keep us writing? Well, next weekend, I’ll be walking the walk: I’m heading out of town to a little writing...
by Michelle Longo | Apr 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Writers Need to Talk I’m the stuckest of stucks in my writing. I have two major WIPs: First is a memoir I’m supposed to be editing. Second is this thing I’ve dubbed The Fiction Project (TFP) because I don’t know what it is (or maybe I do, but...
by Michelle Longo | Apr 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
So, You’re a Writer? Earlier today, I was volunteering with some people from my Day Job. One of them, a woman I don’t have occasion to speak to very often said to me, “So, you’re a writer? Do you have a book or something?” Now, I do...
by Michelle Longo | Apr 3, 2017 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
What’s Nonfiction? Okay, so that header sounds kind of silly – obviously nonfiction is writing based on fact or real events, people, and things. It can serve many purposes, however, ranging from informative, persuasive, personal, and more. It can be memoir...
