by Natalie DeYoung | Oct 15, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Who goes there? This season of life has been especially harrowing, calling me to transform at a moment’s notice. A month ago, I had no work. Now, I have been thrown two compressed writing classes, with a week to prepare for each of them. Two months ago, my...
by Natalie DeYoung | Sep 3, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Mirror, mirror No joke, but I started reading a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood last week. When I saw what this month’s prompt was, I felt delighted at this bit of serendipity. Retellings are some of my favorite types of stories because reading one is like...
by Natalie DeYoung | Jun 18, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Surf’s up Every summer, my little family escapes the heat with near-daily trips to the beach. California is built to be lived in outside, but as the years grow hotter and hotter, staying in the water is the only palatable option available. My kids are finally...
by Natalie DeYoung | May 7, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Too much The mountain of laundry to be folded on my bed. How much podcasting content I cram into my head. Layer upon layer of dust on the piano. The two-year-old chattering softly in the background of my life’s soundtrack. Life is really full at this stage, so I...
by Natalie DeYoung | Mar 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Too much My job is precarious, like much of the world today. I get assignments to teach classes based on student enrollment numbers. This semester, the numbers were just not on my side, and I joined many others in the unemployment lines. Without classes to teach, I...
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Click click click click I am not really a New Year’s resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to...
