by Michelle Longo | Mar 30, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Finding inspiration Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed. The world is huge. There is inspiration coming in from every angle. Everything could be something to write about if I can find the story in it. Similarly, I know that the best way to improve my writing is to...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 23, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Show me why you’re a special snowflake One of the things I love about the yeah write weekly challenges is that we don’t make you conform to a prompt, so you have plenty of time to work out your essay before submitting it here. You can take as long as you...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 16, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
I’m about to get real. Real-deal real. Life has a funny way of pulling us in multiple directions at once. Between work, family and various other extracurriculars, it’s hard, sometimes, to carve out time for everything. But writing is the sort of thing that...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 9, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Yeah write is good for your health We’ve already shared this article on our twitter feed (which you’re all following right? RIGHT?) but I think it’s such a good one that I’m going to share it here, too. In a nutshell, since I still want you to...
by Michelle Longo | Mar 2, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Welcome Meg! Okay, fine, you already know Meg. She’s been editoring it up over on the fiction|poetry challenge for quite some time now and before that she was sharing her lovely writing here and there and other places, too. But now, my friends, she’s...
by Michelle Longo | Feb 23, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
Exploration is good for the soul By show of hands, how many of us are suffering from general malaise that may or may not be related to winter doldrums, flu, and/or miscellaneous unpleasantness? For me, the cure for this seems to be having a project or twelve...